Devlog: Aethernia - Pokémon-style RPG - Godot Engine
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2024
- Just a quick video of the latest progress on my Pokémon-style rpg game I develop using the Godot Engine.
Everything you see is done by me, from code and logic to monster designs, 3D assets, shaders, music and UI.
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It makes me so happy that open source in game dev will soon be explode in popularity!
Great work btw and great video! Good luck to you with the development.
Thank you so much :)
Animal combat looks great. Lots of work here!
Thank you.
The art style is just gorgeous!
Would love to see the creatures have day and night patterns. Like a bear creature will live in a cave at night and hunt for hunger and find water but not too frequent. Also birds that nest in trees. Spiders that climb. Creatures that live underground and can dig a hole under you. Looks awesome ❤
Thats an awesome idea. Simulating eco systems, inter-creature behaviour etc is something I really find interesting and would fit the goal of having a living environment.
im always impressed by people writing their own tools, as you said in the video - cool!
This is super cool! I saw your post on the Godot reddit too, that grass looks so good.
While controlling a monster, would be awesome to see the player character move around in the back, similar to the Pokemon trainer in smash bros, throwing out commands and such (maybe also trying to stay out of harms way in heated battle).
Thanks :) For now there is no ai for the player character. But when this will change, the character will participate in the fight. That's currently the idea.
Love the way it looks so full of character
Thank you :)
Awesome work man! Has a very nice polish to it. Love the terrain editor you made yourself.
Thank you :)
You can make some flying companions so you can ride them. Or you can take your player up if you are controlling it. Please keep developing this it has so much potential.
Remember Overlord? You can control the Overlord by left analog and the minions by right analog. Just a thought.
Its a cool option. But if they want more precise Action combat it could be better to stick with controlling one character at a time. The minions in overload were pretty much a death ball you threw at your opponents so the simultaneous control made sense there.
Switching between characters also lets each character have access to more buttons as they wouldn't need to share the same set of buttons.
Really it all depends on how they want the game to feel
Great work! I wish you the best of luck in this project of yours! :)
that is super cool! Can wait to see the final result. Congrats!
Please dont give up on this game, would be so fucking cool.
I try my best :) Thanks for your support
This is awesome, good work so far!
This is everything I have ever dreamed of from a pokemon/ like game. Keep it up!
It looks cool! Keep the great job :)
That looks very cool, well done! :)
I like the punching sounds
Really clean start!
God damn this game looks nice
i rlly loved the art style of ur game, and how simple it looks right now, very clean! the combat system also is very cool!
Thank you :)
looks nice keep going on king you will make it!
You get to play as the creature?? SICKKK!! btw I love the look of the grass
Awesome work ! Keep it up.
Very nice work !
Looks amazing!
Awesome work... truly inspiring for Godot engine users....
Oh thanks so much. :) Same to you, I love your scenes.
@@twntysvn9882 thank you 😊
Loving the look of this, subscribing for sure! The terrain editor reminds me of Age of Mythology's editor when making your own map/story. Loved that back in the day.
I know of that game but never played it myself. I'm glad you like it :)
looks wonderful!
Great work !!!
looks cool!
Very cool! keep up the good work
DAMM!!!!! its looks amazing!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
This is amazing!
this game is just hype
Love this project, this mobes defiately gonna put Godot on the map for CERTAIN,
Since it is still early I'm going to recommend making the font scalable. I'm visually disabled and need GIANT FONT to be able to read, even on a big TV. Something to consider when designing UI.
I have Xbox and if you find/read the non-childish reviews, font size is one of the biggest complaints.
something good to see
Rattattas big brother? Lol, cool game, its coming together 😊
Hello Sir, very nice work, when I'm thinking that you have done everything by yourself, really it's impressive !
You won a subscriber
Can you make tutorials about how to develop using Godot ? I'm sure that you can bring a lot to the community
Looks interesting!
Looking good
very cool!
Awesome!!!
So talented
Very nice seeing games that showcase Godot's versatile graphics. The art style is a little dark though.
beautiful
looks good
that's what I'm looking for ! I would love to learn how did u make it !
so amazing thank
Very cool. I'm working on a robot game in Godot, I'm a one man studio at the moment, doing all the art, modeling and animation myself as well as the coding. I love the visual style of your game, I was planning sometime similar to keep the game running smooth on 10-20 year old hardware. ✌️👏
Man that's nice to hear. I love when people take the time to learn the needed skills and try to execute their own vision.
I wish you great success and show some of it when you feel like it, I'm interested :)
@@twntysvn9882 Thank you! I'll check in from time to time, keep to the great content.
you’re genius
I just started using godot recently and just looking at what you made here says a lot about its potential! Can you make a tutorial on how you made the mini map?
Great work! Currently I am also working on my game on the env/terrain, and it is a pain - the level of detail and love you put in is not unnoticed great work :) It gives me Dragon Quest vibes, love the grass/outline shaders too.
How are you planning on financing your game dec? Will you apply for crowdfunding (e.g. Kickstarter etc.)? Or working in empty time until late hours after day job like me? (for your health try the plan A, with a good teaser trailer + this video + text pitch you should get a good funding to work full time)
Thanks :)
Honestly, I'm just chilling and making the game. I have a job as a game designer so I am good in that regard. :) I am financing this game with my free time basically and don't plan on changing that. I feel good and not exhausted or anything. If I have important stuff to do (like at the moment), I just slow down or take breaks.
I hope though your project won't affect your health, no one is forcing you to keep working on it constantly.
@@twntysvn9882 Yea, but I love it, and it is my dream to go full time one day, so when one runs for love all is valid :) I have a daughter so free time is a rare commodity nowadays from 23pm to 2 am (but double worth it).
Keep going, just looking at the prototype I felt desire to play it, so you are on great track.
youtube suggested this video and i am amazed! style is so nice!
do you make the 3d assets yourself? (upd. just saw the description :D )
keep on going!
Thanks
i loved the mickey mouse on drugs pal 🤣
OH SHIIID, A RAAAAAT
Jokes aside, yeah, this looks like a pretty solid start!
Thank you :)
i would rlly like if u add sea exploration with underwater deep sea with legendaries monster etc,like subnautica
That would be cool, yeah :) I already have the swimming and diving logic for the player character. But it depends on how the open world, the monsters etc. are handled. Would be definitely cool.
Hey man, this looks great. I like the creatures and the ability to control them directly. Personally, I would stop there.. map editors, custom boats and other such shinanigans have no business in this game and only disperse focus, even maybe the bow all together.. just a thought.. keep going!
Hey thanks :) Yeah focus will definitely be on creatures and their fighting + behaviour first. Everything else is just me playing with ideas and see what else could be or not could be. The project is still a developing playground. :)
I love the textures of the terrain, how did you make them?
Thanks :) I just hand-painted seamless textures in Photoshop. Using different brushes etc.
Wow
The switchable point of view for combat seems interesting and potentially fun. While you're paying one or the other character, you could give the computer controlled one some instruction to steer its behavior to assist you in a more desirable way. Something like "flank him", "take cover", "cease hostility".
What would be the game world's setting time period? Are motorized boats appropriate or maybe sailing boats or rowing boats should be used instead?
Yeah that is the idea. :) Or even Co-Op playing with a friend while one controls the other character.
My idea is to have a wheel menu when pressing middle mouse button, but I can imagine that this would be too tedious to do everytime. We will see.
The time period would probably be without technology per se (for now). But I like how Final Fantasy X did it with their Machina and how it is justified. I can imagine some hints of (ancient) Steam Punk for technology etc.
Looks smooth and sweet! What's the GPU you are using?
I'm using a GeForce GTX 1080. It's getting old but still does its job :P
Hello! Love your art style! Can you give me a quick rundown of how you made the grass look like that? kinda watercolor-ish with large strokes of different colors
Even better if you have/know a tutorial!
I don't have a tutorial yet for it, neither have I watched tutorials to achieve this, so I can't help you with that. But I will probably make one about the grass soon.
But I can give you a quick info about it, maybe it is already you can look into.
Basically the patched strokes are a seamless texture I did in Photoshop. Nothing fancy, just some natural looking green patches.
This texture is then applied to the terrain aswell as the grass shader, while both use the same coordinates for its scaling.
The terrain is just a mesh with heightmap displacement.
The grass is a GPUParticles3D with a custom process material shader. This shader takes the heightmap information to render patches of grass meshes onto the terrain, in a 200x200 particles grid around the player / camera.
The shading for those grass particles are the same shader settings for the terrain shader. That would be the same texture aswell as the same coordinates so that the colors at each position match.
Another tip for the grass to blend is to make the normals of the grass mesh face up, so they are aligned with the normals of the underlying terrain.
I hope this helps for now. :)
@@twntysvn9882 I appreciate a lot the response! Looking forward to see how you project evolves!
@@DavrilSenpaiThanks and no problem :)
not bad so far. :) will there be character creation and cats? :3
I am sure there will be cats :D And a character creator using stuff that you unlocked in-game (finding blueprints to create new clothes etc)
@@twntysvn9882 ok, cool
Me lembrou um pouco aquele fan game Pokemon Generations
That is amazing, did you write your own terrain tool or did you use an addon like terrain3d?
:) Thanks. It's self-written.
It's basically just checking for mouse input on the terrain, converting the 3D position to 2D texture position of my terrain maps and apply texture changes to them depending on brush settings.
I then just save those edited textures via the Save button and they replace the ones I use in my game scene.
Changing height is painting the heightmap in greyscale and changing ground/textures is just painting the splatmap (rgb), both which are used in the resulting terrain shader.
Very simple and nothing too fancy.
@@twntysvn9882 still, that is super awesome! I'm noob in that department, I haven't written any of my own tools yet, so it's like super high-level magic for me!
@@MeshVoid A very old legend says "Every master once was a total noob"
Good luck to you (:
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Hello! im new here! i think if u control the pet to fight, the character need to shoot or make some dps, or u lose dmg doing dmg whit only one source instead of 2.
Will the rats other other monsters evolve? Are they called monsters?
Currently no and I don't think they will. Maybe in a new way, but not like X evolves into Y.
The reason is that the evolution, which mostly implies getting stronger per stats, would most likely change the playstyle of the monster (maybe because of bigger size, etc).
I can imagine many people would not want to evolve their monster, because then they are for example not so agile anymore, don't have the ability that they used to have, etc.
As for progression of a monster itself, they will level up or progress in a way, to get stronger, learn new abilities, etc.
I am not sure yet whether I go for a level system or some other stat based system.
They are currently called monsters and will probably get a more fitting name later. Currently, I don't want to pin down on wording and naming yet.
Nice camera movement!
The creature combat looks great, but it makes you go from two damage sources to one, I wonder what your thoughts are on disabling player attack altogether?
Yeah, focus is mainly on the creatures and their combat at first. My idea with the player was to have some entity that is "above" the team of creatures, acting as protagonist the player can control while not in battle, to interact with people, etc.
It felt weird to run around as creatures only. The player being in combat was to give some variety to the combat and gameplay, but I can see it not being required. Still some testing is needed and maybe or maybe not, I'll scratch the player character altogether.
@@twntysvn9882 I think the player as a vessel is great, but maybe for combat it would just be monsters? I'm not entirely sure honestly, it would require a bit more theory crafting to solve I think
@@BruuagaYeah, I think it should feel right and fit into the gameplay out of battles. This is definitely something I need to work out though, but first I create some more monsters and make the fight itself more engaging. :)
@@twntysvn9882 something like this is a huge undertaking, I Believe in you!
Are you making a discord? I'm keen
Any advice for people starting now with godot? I'm trying to create something with a bunch of friends and i'm kinda new with godot. I am a full-stack developer with 8 years of experience on the "standard" world (not related to the gaming industry)
So, basically you should have a vision of what you want to do and don't to expect big results from the beginning but rather embrace the little steps you make towards your goal.
Other than that, try to understand how Godot handles stuff (Rendering meshes, materials, shaders, collisions, scene instancing, the node system, etc.) This will be a lot at first, but you can start small and build upon it.
Definitely check out the Godot documentation, there are nice beginner friendly examples and guides, you can also find some useful information regarding specific methods and properties of each of the built-in Godot classes.
What helped me a lot was to learn 3D design and programming and Godot simultaneously (or 2D design if you prefer). This will keep a nice balance of logical thinking (scripting, coding, etc) and art (3D modeling, painting, etc). But this depends on your goal. :)
Since you have a good experience in coding already, the coding part should be probably less intimidating and it just comes down to getting to know Godot and the design part.
Good luck to you :)
Wow! How did you make that grass???
I replied to some people asking me that in the comments. I'll probably make a tutorial or guide about it soon.
Check the comments if you can't wait :)
Which plug are you using to create the scene?
No plugin. All self-written in Godot.
is that vertex animation or skeliton animation on that bunny ?
Skeleton
What tools do you use for level/world design?
Blender for 3D stuff, Photoshop for textures, and my custom map editor for creating the texture maps (splatmap, heightmap, etc) and asset placement.
@@twntysvn9882 Thank you for the reply! It's absolutely stunning. I'm finding the hardest part of game dev to be the maps/levels. Could you go into a bit more detail? Thank you!
@@SS-gu2txYeah sure. So to allow for such a big map, I use the clipmap technic (its a wandering mesh with different LODs that follow the player). This clipmap uses a shader for the different maps of the terrain (splatmap, heightmap, normalmap). Those maps are applied to the shader in World coordinates (and not the mesh UV), so when moving the clipmap (or moving the player and the clipmap follows the player) the terrain stays in place, but the mesh itself will move. You probably can find stuff about clipmap technique on UA-cam or anywhere really.
My custom editor basically allows me to paint onto those splatmaps on-the-fly. This works by mapping the cursor position (when painting) to world-position and then to texture position of those maps and applying the color onto the texture.
Before I used blender to create those maps. For heightmaps I just rendered out the plane from top-view and colored in the mesh depending on height (lowest points = black; highest point = white).
There is no right or wrong way to do it. You can definitely do all of this without a clipmap, but it is a simple way of having different LODs for the terrain).
The objects (trees, bushes, rocks, etc) are then hand-placed onto the terrain using the Godot Editor.
If you're interested in learning more about this, you google for something along the lines of "splatmap technique", "heightmap vertex displacement", "clipmap technique".
How should I go about purchasing these map resources for study?
I'm not selling those, sorry 😅
Looks freaking awesome, but please dont fall into this new trend of having massive empty maps lol. Fill your areas with life and things to look at.
Oh yeah for sure :) Maps, world, etc are less of a priority at the moment. It was just some tests to path a way for me in the future, to see where this could lead to. Focus will be on the creatures and their fighting skills + their behaviour.
I'll be honest, fightning as the creatures seems a lot more fun than fightning as the player.
I would remove player combat and 100% focus on creature combat!
I wouldn't remove the player combat completely yet, but you're right, the focus is and should be on the creatures for now.
Will this be on mobile too?
I don't know :D Would be nice of course, but I can't say anything about it yet.
Can we play the demo?
Yeah soon, I just iron out some bugs, performance issues and I want to have a basic game loop which would imply being able to catch new monsters (which you currently can't).
I am working on it. 🙃
Where can i download this game?
Nowhere at the moment.
Falar em Portugues porque mó preguiça pra falar em inglês mas vamos lá
Meu sonho era desenvolver um jogo igual a esse ou semelhante Brasil star mas com os bixinhos que capturasse
Se quiser alguns designs de monstrinhos fala CMG que eu tô cheio kkkkk
a cool system to add this is using your pokemon style monsters in some way other than combat and/or transportation
like in palworld, or in a rimworld mod that add pocket monsters your pals can do works in the base, water pals do firefighting, grass pals reap and sow the fields, eletric pals power machines
if not for basebuilding them puzzles that would require you taking control of a legally distincti eletric rat to power a generator them swamp control to the player that press a switch and a gate opens
Just tell him copy palworld at this point
Man, that lighting makes Turbine G3, an Engine from 2005, look fresh and new.
Godot is such a sad and poorly performing engine. Why on earth would you?
Reminds me of all those people who were adamant to become game developers and program their games in visual basic.
@0:30 ewww kill it!
Why do you guys repeatedly try to do this?
Do you want the Nintendo ninjas to come after you?
Why not just call it Pal-world style games, with maybe small Pokémon tags here and there?
Anyway nice concept, the mechanics look fluid meshing into one another, terrain editor looks good did you guys develop it by yourself? Good luck with the Po***on style RPG game.
Lol why are you mad, bro? Maybe people stop doing it when Nintendo puts some effort into their beloved franchise.
But thanks, yes everything is done by myself.
@@twntysvn9882 awesome bro, it's always nice to see people making their own stuff, without relying on proprietary abstractions.
And I'm not mad about the "poke" thing, it's just watching people making something new but gets taken down because "NINTENDO" makes me very sad.
try some AI text-to-speech next time for the voiceover
Yeah maybe.
add text to speech if u dont want to talk pls
Weak. Can't handle subtitle? Go back.
@@ReinzTheKing ppl attention span can't let them read 😅 don't pay the no attention
@@ReinzTheKingthey would get more views though
Nothing gets me to click off a video faster than a text to speech voice, tiktok has rotted your brain dude
I disagree. Can't stand the text to speech voices. I downvote every video and short with it in it.
Another reskin pokemon clone...yay
Another unnecessary comment... yay
The work behind this is impressive and game looks great . For me the final result as a videogame is too much generic (open world in woods, water, common movement, same weapons as many other rpgs...). If I want to provide one feedback is make your gameplay different and attractive because that's the only thing that matters to the players.
You are in the right path technically but honestly, you need to develop some hooked gameplay.
Thank you for your honesty. That's totally fair :) I'll take your advice and will think about it ❤
Why don't you let us use the source code of the game? 😂🎉
lol