My First Game Mods Were SO BAD!
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
- A common sentiment I hear is "my first game didn't do well, I should just give up." Well, let me show you why failure is essential to the creative process: here are my terrible game dev experiments I made for the PC game Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight!
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What was your very first released game dev project? No judgment here, just post and share!
I'm in my last year of uni studying games design, and the game I'm making for my final project is finally going to be the first one I release, it's a match 3 game with some other mechanics from other games that make it pretty unique as part of our module we have to release it on the app store 😁
Haven't any put as a person who isn't really familiar with programming I put most of my time to doing art
It was a precision platformer I made with someone else for a game jam earlier this year yellowchihuahua.itch.io/cavern-drop
I haven't realised any of them I have ideas but I am looking for a game dev software that is working for my pc
My first game was a platformer called Adie's Dream. It had 4 world's with 3 levels each. I was super proud of it so I posted it on New Grounds and it got hammered by the comments haha. My second game had a better reception for sure.
10:53 Damn. I lived in a lie. I should have done research instead of believing some "documentary" on youtube. I'm glad that Stardew isn't his first game, because his case was breaking my worldview.
IT WAS YOU! lol
"Nobody is born cool" I think that is something that we have to remember when we start creating any kind of content. Sometimes we look at the creations of our idols and people that we admire and compare them with our own creations and we lost our self-confidence. But, getting good takes time, when you feel in that way, look one of your own creations from 6 months ago and compare them with your creations now. Keep working hard and NEVER GIVE UP!
Yes, that is why if you persist in your creation, you will see 6 months later that you have progressed well and that you cannot imagine that your creation made 6 months ago was yours.
"Inexperience is temporary, only if you keep going." I think you just changed my life man.
My first first first game was a tic-tac-toe game like :D
It was *Epic!* 😂
@@Sybyh For sure!
Your videos are motivating. After this video, I remembered my childhood when I made levels for Unreal Tournament. And the first ones were so ridiculous) Palm trees grew on the concrete, and jump pads teleport player over the edge of the map. It was so cool at the time. But now we have much more powerful tools in our hands. The main thing is to do what sincerely like to yourself. And people will definitely appreciate it.
Great job man :) Your super in touch with your own progress and past and it’s awesome that you can reflect on it like this. Super motivational and educating. Keep up the great work!
I am so happy to have found this channel! Although I'm not a game developer but as an aspiring programmer, your content is hugely inspirational! I'll be here for your future endeavors!
Thank you for taking me down memory lane with you. I really hope younger and more malleable minds take to heart the lessons your trying to teach about failure and not giving up. Your a great teacher and role model. thanks.
What an amazing video, with a HUGE amount of effort! 🔥 Well done as always. Here to support you and all your adventures moving forward 👍
So lucky to come across your channel. The perfect content needed for me. Thanks😁✌️
This video was so amazing thanks so much for everything you've doen for the game Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 that game is such a 10/10 masterpiece thanks to awesome modders like you!!! Are all the mods for the game still up? I Can't wait to start playing through all the amazing ones you and everyone else made!!!! You're doing Gods work!!!!
thanks for showing your fails really helps me, and your voice btw is awesome
This was great to watch, we all start somewhere! I think my first games were super simple ones I made in Adventure Game Studio that just me and my brothers played :D
Think i might of played that Space Colony map with the pool waaay back, really nice vid dude. It really is pretty usual for early levels etc not to get noticed much and its always the ones that youd think wouldnt do as well that people get interested in, in my experience lol.
Such a amazing history, love your progress.
I discovered your channel when searching game development channels. I've been doing web development for about 15 years. I was bored and I always wanted to develop games. I started to learn Unity3d. And your stories really helping me to keep going. I wish I started early to game development. (I'm 35 years old) But It's never too late. Thanks again.
"Embrace the failures" is definitely a good motto to go by. After all, that's where you learn the most.
This reminds me of making levels and textures for Counter-Strike and TFC back around the same era. Never took game design any further than that, but what great memories.
I remember doing mods for the sims 1 and how cool was see them on the game! great video
Thanks for your warm-hearted introspection and the time and love you put into your videos! My first "game" was the explorable hovercraft from The Matrix built with RPG Maker 2000. No one cared, by I loved it.
Great positive video man, I'm studying game design and I appreciate the encouragement, cheers!
More of this please, this was awesome.
Great video, great channel , great person, great game !!! Keep going !
I have to say, I really appreciate these kinds of videos. I've always wanted to make games ever since I was a kid playing on the PlayStation 1. "Someday I'll make a game like Spyro the Dragon, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, or even Silent Hill" I would think to myself almost daily while I was growing up. I remember I always spent more time in the level editor of any game that had one than I would actually spend in the game itself. I'd fill up entire memory cards with custom levels alone I was so obsessed. I remember when I first got my hands on MTV Music Studio or whatever it was called on the OG XBox too and what an experience it was to be able to make music too. I remember the years I wasted making custom maps for FarCry on that same system and after every song and level I made I realized more and more how much I wanted to do those kinds of things forever. Though I've never released anything, I've made numerous projects in RPGmaker and Unreal Engine. Part of me is just scared I guess. I have such a high level of standard I try to hold myself too but when I see people like you, Thomas Brush, and several others go back and show us all where it was you actually started it does 2 things. First, it makes me realise how far I've come since being that kid making Tony Hawk and FarCry levels and sloppy mixes in MTV Music Studio; second, it reminds me that I don't need to be perfect and that as long as I'm making progress and am improving then whatever I am currently working on will be worth the time and effort I put into it. Thank you.
Your video is inspiring , My 6yo and me have just started playing around with Unity, We''ll see how that goes. Thank you for making this video.
I agree, man, learning through failure is when/where you learn the most if you are willing to look at why it failed and how you can do it better next time.
Nice video dude. Although I'm nowhere near as successful as you are in your game dev journey, I'm still beginning and your videos give me hope. Also I feel the pain of looking at old game dev projects, it's rough but we all had to start somewhere :)
"Home is Where One Starts didn't do that well..."
Dude that game made 2500$, if you ask me that's very good for first steam game lol
btw great vid
It's is not that much cuz you can't quit your daily job and persuade indie games
@@etsuyax Still it's good payement, people on first games doesn't earn a penny..
@@bozidarvojinovic1420 mind u he had 20 years of experience backing him at that time.
This is a wonderful video dude, I REALLY enjoyed this
8:01 Phoenix SC... Where have I heard that before...
Every line you speak motivates me!
I am back to making games!!!
This channel is amazing so far. Keep doing what you do, man!
My motto is: "Accelerate your rate of failure". I like to imagine that a pen has a thousand bad drawings in it before a good one can come out. Focus on getting past those first thousand failures until you're good at something, then choose something else to fail at for a while!
i like this :)
Thank you for sharing!
I have to say...even if you're afraid to step your toe into the game world this video is just great for general motivation in anything you do. Thanks for much for sharing your origin story! lol
Great insight on how you've grown as a game developer!
Your first game will always be bad!
Thank you!
LOL. Love the fact you recreated it in 10 minutes. Brilliant.
Thank you for telling us this story it makes me feel better about my own work currently. I'm still a beginner too
Saw your massassi post. Very surprised you used JKEdit. Very impressive work with it later on. Phoenix city definitely inspired some of my city themed levels that I never released. JK Modding actually lead me down the field of web and mobile development. I've had a pretty decent career all thanks to that. I released my first game in 2016. Really cool to see this. I remember you back in those days. -zanardi
8:49 WOOT, I’m cheering for you dude, you’re an awesome story teller ^^
Also, holy shit you’re inspiring, I have an awesome laptop and I can use Unreal (as you did), so what’s stopping me!! ^^
Your amazing man an I'm inspired to continue going on the same way you did the funny thing is I post anime but some how inspired by you thank you this video it really gave me push I need an I do the same thing you did with ur uploads I would check it every day to see how its progressing
Needed this message tho starting my first game and I feel like its gonna suck Thanks David!
My first mod was an AWP skin with a simple gradient, i also thought it was a masterpiece but time passed and i felt it was bland but i did get 381 downloads for the skin
im really glad i found your channel, and i hope you keep posting more content. stay great dude!!
omg, I was searching for AGES to find this video again!
after days of searching, I FINALLY found it again.
ehh i'd say the video was pretty ok
My first game projects were Amnesia The Dark Descent custom stories...
I was inspired by other peoples stories and tried making my own. I didn't make anything good, just unfinished tests practically...
I think I ended up deleting them from my drive to save space.. I still have them on my pc though
What's interesting to me how you kept working on the maps even though Jedi Outcast but also Jedi Academy were already out haha :D
Can you make a video on how you went about obtaining your assets? 3D models, music, sound effects. Such as did you buy assets? Hire someone or make them yourself?
luv your vids
I'm developing my first game for Android and your words of motivation are inspiring me to keep going. Thanks bro!!!
this is a really cool video. This deserves more attention :)
From what I've seen, people think they are afraid to fail when they are actually afraid to succeed.
what
@@gamingbud926 It's a thing, i'm not making that up
www.google.com/search?q=afraid+to+succed&rlz=1C1CHBF_frFR871FR871&oq=afraid+to+succed&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l6.2597j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I use to do this type of stuff too but for Counter-strike 1.5, Valve also had some type of level editor that i worked with alot to make all kinds of stupid maps. I did not have anything to do on a computer that did not have an internet connection, and i felt really creative as a kid when i sat infront of a computer. Now i only play WoW Classic..
Thank you so much for this.
I used to make my own duke nukem 3D levels using the included software Build
The very first game I made in Unity was a text-based adventure game using arrays and scriptable objects 😅😁
Man, I really love your channel! So inspiring.
I used to make adventure maps in Minecraft some years ago. I felt every word you said in this video. :´)
Recently I've finished the university, I studied Computer Science, so my programming skills are pretty good, I just need to learn 3D modeling and music composition (which I'm studying right now) and I'll make my "first" game. Definitely your history has motivated me a lot, so thank you.
Just give it a try right now, buddy. Even after graduation you won't be a master, so try now - that's the true knowledge and wisdom! :)
If you know programming, get a good paying day job as a programmer then hire 3D artists and musicians to help you with your game. You will finish games much faster that way and have money to invest in the project. I spend 6-8 hours a day trying to do programming, 3D modeling, animation, level and environment design, etc..It's a ton of work and I'm now realizing I may never finish my game because I can't hire other people to help due to a lack of funds.
I wish I still had the tens of maps that I made for tony hawk games, but sadly it was all on consoles that would eventually die. I never published my Jazz Jackrabbit maps so those are hard to recover as well. Even my gamemaker games have disappeared in the rain ;_;
Awesome video.
How did you make the intro at 1:06? I would LOOOOOVE to know.
Hey JKGuy! Loved your video! Thanks for showing some of my stuff as well! Hope you are doing well! :)
I remember when im making warcraft 3 map since 5 or 6 i know how to modify the monster or hero but i don't know what is the event and action thing
My first completed game project was my entry to the 2020 Brackeys game jam called HighRoller. Im pretty happy with how the aesthetics turned out (though I used assets, Im not an artist) and my game managed to get top 100 in the jam but ultimately the thing that held me back from a higher score was level design. Definitely not something you can just do on a whim, it takes practice! The biggest thing I learned from that jam was to get player feedback on the gameplay before submitting. I won't make the same mistake for the next few jams
EDIT: Here's a link if anyone wants to try itch.io/jam/brackeys-3/rate/574111
Massively inspiring, thank you!
thanks for the encouraging video! Looks like back into Unity I go XD
my first game mod released actually are a tibia 7.8 altered server with new mobs and itens, it as a success in certain ways, sometimes i get it 20 plus players on in the same time! after that i make it bigger and learn how to decompile and edit executable from server and client, make it with weapons, cake crafter mechanic, add weapons like guns without rewrite the ones in base game. Then i make train system, changed all classes and it rockets out! my computer handle badly 50/50 connections with wait list over a hundred for a while, but my hdd burn before i make a penny from it, but is funny and take me years to do it right. Then i was to sad about my server failed that much, i stopped making editable content for while when i back i want to make games and did some small games never public as a space ship game, and battle arena multiplayer i was working on... until i reach college and into a programming job, i still making one or other game, but in the and is all to simple and never published stuff. Then my heitor call me asking, "Did you want make your TCC as a game?" he knows my passion about games, but not know a dot about games, i need to do a extra apresentation to allow me doing games, this apresentation need to show how i will link class content with game development soo i did. My TCC is a 9.3 of 10 and a kind of personal success, even without any fancy graphics or sound, still had a background music and sounds to enemies attack and stuff... is a arena survival with increase enemies power and amount of then each new wave... they drop weapons and heal potion and buffs. is a randonly generated island with sand grass rock and even spike bushes that deal damage to player and enemies. when players dies it save the score in a global solution and has global rank, you need access with login and password as others online game, but run entirly in you web browser fully javascript coded using threeJS i love it even with only 3 enemies 2 weapons and nothing here special. That is my game a TCC game, after that i enter 2D game dev class and 3D game dev class, but need to quit because of health issues, tried some times did small prjects, but failed to publish anything yet. i want make a small project and may just burn 100 dols (more than 10% of my paycheck) just to see if i finally got some good reviews, i know people loved my tibia ot server, but after that i never more published nothing, beucase i was worry about bad reviews, people become much hard do enjoy stuff and i already feel one success feel before... well, i just will know after try hehe may i set a really small goal and see how i go
So I got 4 scenes done for my first game. Is there a way I can share them to you? I'd love some feedback.
The best part of creating a game is when you play it with other people and having fun playing your own creation.
Yo!
JK has been my favorite game since I was but a small lad-
But I never had good net in the early 2000s and, well was frankly too young at the time to really participate anyway.
In the last year I've gotten into the JK Discord communities and am actually now making Maps, Skins and 3do's regularly. Somewhat living out a long dream of mine.
And until last year I had NEVER played JK online with anyone.
I saw people were playing a custom map, so downloaded it and hopped on, and it was--
You guessed it! Space Colony Inc! Even before I played Vanilla maps, yours was the first PVP JK experience I'd ever had!! And that was only around this time last year, yo!
Your later levels in JK were fantastic, especially the city and the camp.
The big question is not whether we will fail, but whether we can afford to do so and keep going on.
Most people would give up gamedev if their second game didn't have enough sales after 1.5-2 yrs of working on it.
Hey man, which render pipeline did you use for the creation of The First Tree? Please do reply
It looks like URP with post processing
hey! this helped me a lot
I am also making a game in unity
And i am also a 12 year old.
no idea how to make my first stand alone game but i'm working on a megawad for doom 2
0:06 what is that game with the neon lights in the market?
How you create characters for your games, please.
I'm a Japanese college student making games with Unity. Until now, I thought I wouldn't work in game production. But after watching your video, I realized my potential. Thank you.
I may not work in game production But I can challenge
Ahh I really want to make a game but you know I have a potato laptop, when I use my laptop for only 4 hours my laptop gets very hot
gave me the chills for sure
That is a nice motivation ever heard
I made "Imperial Armory" and shared it on Massassi in 2000. I got a single rating also, of 0! LOL. I loved my level, I played it many times with friends on modem games.
What do you use to make games?
Is it free to publish game on steam?
One game I think communicates this point well is "The Hex".
(spoiler alert)
Throughout most of the game, we're led to believe that the developer's first game was this well-made platformer with an anthropomorphic animal character. Then later, we find out that his actual first game was a terrible beer tapper game that he understandably tried to sweep under the rug.
Massasi temple! Those were the times haha
But did you add Rbots support?
what is the outro song name?
Please answer sir, are you working on any new game?? Right now i mean??
Holy shit that was scary xD 9:45
Hey guys can you suggest me a budget motherboard for 3700x
My first game is a a remake doodle jump ...and flappy bird
Yes my dream is also became thanks for this video
Hello, I greatly admire your work, you are very successful today and it would always be incredible if you talk about Axiom Verge, greetings from Mexico.
Please upload again
It's a shame he decided to leave youtube. There aren't any playlists anyone have any fav videos they could recommend specifically relating to learning game dev? especially Unreal
How much does your both games made...?
The Fans are so Sweet :D 🎃🔥🧡
How much effort should be put into a game in order to sell it and make a profit off of it?
I like you David sir
my first game is suppose to be a horror but it was goofy
I still cringe at my first games, but it was a learning experience. :)