Howdy, everyone! This is just a small project, only expected to take a few months to develop (depending on how much art I want to do). Once it's done we'll return to Zoe and the Cursed Dreamer, so don't be concerned for it. ZatCD is expected to take 3 years to develop, and I will probably take the occassional small break to work on something small and vary the content for the channel. Thanks for watching! If you want to support this game, then check out my Patreon where you can get exclusive posts as I work on this project: www.patreon.com/posts/53930157
@@ashraferwan5350 As in single player? Yeah. As in if you need an internet connection, I'm going to be publishing it to Steam, so whatever connection they require.
I must've habitually checked your youtube channel page 30 times since your last video. I admit I got hooked by the quality content. Very glad to see an update, the new project looks great!
Haha, yea. Had to take a bit of a break to sort some stuff out and then start this project, but should be returning to a more regular upload schedule now. Thank you! :D
A new Game Endeavor video is always welcome and it's good to see you not giving up and doing a smaller project. Your art style is very consistent and cute.
"starting a new game" oh no.... "temporarily postponing" thank god.. (ok but for real happy that you're doing something new but that title had me scared with all the work and time you spent on the last game)
Hahaha, yeah. I made sure to put that at the start because I knew some people would be concerned. :) We'll resume with ZatCD after this project if everything goes well. :D
It won't. :) ZatCD is my childhood project. I've been working on it piece by piece since I was 12. One more year of waiting won't hurt me none. I'm itching to get back to it, would rather be doing it right now, but it's too large a project to do without funding. I fumbled the KS a bit though so it's not a big surprise to me. But I learned what not to do for this next one, so here's to that. :D
@@GameEndeavor Sounds great. I would be really interested, and imagine others would be too, in a Kickstarter post mortem on what you did, what went wrong and what you learned. I think a lot of people minimize crowdfunding into "I'll just make a Kickstarter" but it truly is its own beast.
@@Fevir I plan to do exactly this if this Kickstarter is successful. :) Probably a whole video on it. And yeah, it's a whole thing that requires a lot of planning and time. Hopefully a post mortem could show that to people wanting to do their own KS.
That's the idea. :) I haven't played much of Hollow Knight myself, but what I did play, I enjoyed the exploration a lot. So I'll be using that as inspiration.
You have taught me at least one golden thing in almost every video, to the point that I started watching all your videos, regardless of topic, because there's always something of value there. You (and others) inspired me to join the youtuber ranks and I hope I do justice to the community. So I guess my message is; keep doing what inspires you cause you do great work when you do.
Always loved both your devlogs and your game! However, besides the absolutely outstanding technical aspects of it, I've never felt like its concept was actually strong/unique enough to stick out amongst the many, many similar-ly themed indie games from nowadays. It always kinda felt like a plain mixture of random indie games you've enjoyed playing in your spare time, and nothing much else. So I'm especially glad you took your time to get some inspiration & finish another side-project; for it looks to be the right decision. With your know-how of Godot, I'm sure it'll be an easy task. And maybe some fresh ideas from this new perspective will carry over to your main project as well!
Are you talking about ZatCD? It's not meant to be a ground breaking game. :) I'm not interested in doing something unique and unheard of, especially not for my first game. I think that's a trap many developers fall into and get stuck. imo most indie games are not unique and genre defining, only the really popular ones, and that's not what most developers should aim for. ZatCD is first and foremost a story game. My only goal is to tell that story. It's an RPG with fun combat. If I can pull that off then I'll be happy :) Consider the Witcher 3. It doesn't do anything unique. But it has an amazing world, characters, and fun combat. Hollow Knight doesn't do anything unique, but it's so well executed. This is a lot more common than you think. :)
@@GameEndeavor "It's not meant to be a groundbreaking game. :) I'm not interested in doing something unique and unheard of, especially not for my first game. I think that's a trap many developers fall into and get stuck." Okay, I think I expressed myself wrongly. I'm kinda talking more about a sense of general direction; like whether it fits a single solid purpose - the famous "describe your game in 1 sentence" test. Which is something your latest project seems to fit in with a lot more ease. I might be wrong, altho from what I've seen in the devlogs overall, I did not perceive much of a concise and clear vision behind it. Of course, I've never actually dug too deep into the game itself, so there's that. Anyway, this is by no means an attack on the overall quality and merit of your work or anything. More like the honest perspective of an outsider about (possibly, can't and couldn't ever know the whole story) why the game, even in such a well-polished and technically outstanding state, did not get the desired traction (from what I could perceive as a mere viewer of the channel). But yeah, reinventing the wheel is always (unless you're a game design god or something) a bad idea indeed. Can't even begin to count the number of times where it got me stuck on both game jams & hobby projects. Altho, so it is trying to do too many things at once, and it's quite a harsh lesson sometimes. Despite not being super unique, both the Witcher, Hollow Night, and even games like Enter The Gungeon, Stardew Valley, and such all pass this 1-sentence test quite easily.
@@the_procrastinator8606 I probably just didn't describe it well, which I've always felt as much. :) The game boils down to "What if Animal Crossing was an aRPG with a focus on characters and story". Wasn't perceived as an attack, I just hear the "this game isn't unique" a lot so I assumed. It has a clear direction to me, I'm just not great at describing it. However that's not how I treat the devlogs. The devlogs aren't meant to explain the game and what it'll be. It's as a log for what I've done.
@@GameEndeavor Oh, so that explains it haha! Never been too much of an Animal Crossing fan, so maybe that's also why. And yes, this isn't the general purpose of devlogs indeed! However I do think there should be more material devoted to explaining what's your game about, for the fact that I couldn't find much even on your Patreon page, so I think it'd help quite a lot! Perhaps the sentence could be shortened even further, into something like: "An Animal Crossing-inspired ARPG", or such In any way, best of luck with both projects!
Dude are you serious??? First off, this is AMAZINGLY well-made...i mean the video itself and the editing! Second off, you are extremely inspiring!! You have some of the most unique ideas i have ever seen. I have a degree in game design, and i keep up / play hundreds of games...i LOVE your ideas. That frog killed me. You are GOING places dude. Do NOT give up. You will hit it, and you will hit it BIG. Give it time.
your art style is really cute, and I'd love to play this game. I feel sad that your last video is from almost a year ago and I'm afraid to burn through all your uploads in one session, but at least it means you are working on developing the game(I hope). best of luck!!!
Thank you! Yeah, I hit a brick wall with making videos, lol. That said, I have one that I'm finishing up as we speak, so that will hopefully be out as early as tomorrow. 🤞Just waiting on a thing. :) It's on my main project Zoe and the Cursed Dreamer though. reQuest is mostly me making enemies and items, so there's not a lot of video content there. xD Glad you enjoy the videos. :)
I looked at your earlier game and can say that this easily and hands down looks twice as good. I also like that you used the term Anti-Hero is the literally correct way as opposed to the ones we get most times.
Thanks. :) Yeah, my art has come a long way since and I'm doing some things which I think look better artistically. What I return to that project, I hope to take what I've learned from here and apply it there. I made sure to look up the definition of the term before I used it, haha. I don't like to misuse a word where I can avoid it.
Hey there. Excited that you’re still motivated. I didn’t know that you were kickstarting the other game that you were working on, but I thought it looked really cool. This new game looks cool too. Don’t give up buddy!
Thank you. :) Yeah that was an issue I had. Lots of people are telling me they didn't know, and I had trouble getting momentum going. I think I created the page late, and so it never got off the ground. At least I can see the mistakes I made last time and learn from them. Because of that I'm feeling optimistic about this one. Thank you. :)
lmao! Thank you Ludos! So glad to see you excited for the project. xD Blessed is His Light! Though Cute Sun God frowns down on the heathen frogs as they use the earth to shield their faces from His Light.
I was a bit sad that you took a break from your main project but I totally understand you. Plattformer are not my type of game but I like your approach with exploration. This is my personal motivation in any game. Your art style is very cool and appealing to me because it is clear and not too noisy. I subscribed to keep being updated. Your work is inspiring to me. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Bit sad to take the break myself, but it's for the better. ZatCD will benefit in the long run from it, and I'll return to it as soon as this game is finished. :D And that's what I enjoy most about my art style as well, so thank you. ❤️ I really enjoy the cartoon-ish look of it.
Recently I came back to developing games in Godot, and one of the first channels I came back to was yours. I don't think it's hard to tell why with your concise storytelling, great personality, and amazing jokes. I'm excited to see where this game goes, and good luck with it! Also, 2:09 had me dying.
You're very kind, thank you! Story telling is something that I specifically practice with these devlogs, so it's great to hear that it's enjoyed. :) And that's one of my favorite jokes in the video, lmao.
That's a good way to support it, lol. The idea for this project is to try and raise funds for that larger multi year project. Hopefully it goes well. :)
Very cool! The frogs are so cute! I was thinking, about the spooders, you could have that option people asked for and just make it look like something else like a worm or something. Then the game design is the same; it just won't freak those people out (so much).
Well that's the option they asked for, for me to swap out the sprites. The clown thing was a joke, but I'm not interested in creating a whole bunch of other art for what may become a recurring enemy type. I would need to redo an entire area that I'm planning which is likely to be spider infested. Lots of games have spiders, they're a generic enemy type. It's uncommon for a developer to cater to that. And as someone who has the same feelings but for rats, I feel for it. But I don't expect developers to remove rats from their games. Those that do are extremely generous, but I don't think I will. :)
I hope the pogo mechanic becomes a bit more impactful, as it is right now it looks like if you want to pogo off someone it's mushy, but if you're trying to do delicate combat in the air you're gonna get bounced around.
Somehow feel like a New Terraria Game could use similar Art Style. I love the Terraria Art Style but I feel like how this looks and how combat feels it feels like a nice fit to me :) Good luck with the Game Dev 😊💙
Thank you. :) This won't be a Terraria style game though, to be clear. Like you won't modify the terrain or build a base. That said, Terraria is my favorite game, so the combat may not be too far off. I love how simple yet fun their combat is.
Hi! I'm glad you're still there doing stuff. I just wanted to drop by and say that your artstyle is incredible. It's super "easy" in some way, but just detailed enough to be super recognizeable. Like, I admit I haven't watched a whole lot of your videos, but as soon as this one popped up I was like "hey I know this artstyle!" and here we are. I just wish for you to continue making the games you want to make and that motivation never stops you from reaching your goals. ♥
Thank you! That's exactly what I try to accomplish with my style. I love simple aesthetics and will sometimes even find myself erasing detail to take something down to a more simple base. This message was very kind and motivational, so thank you very much for that.
I love your art style and streamlined approach to game design. Honestly, I have a problem with my game ideas getting really bloated with stuff I add, and I'd like some tips on how to keep myself from getting too ahead of myself with them.
This is one of the hardest things about game development. :) You mostly learn it through experience. The only tips I know is to outline your game early, intentionally cut the fluff, and give yourself frequent deadlines. Doing game jams helped me the most with this. It's humbling and really puts into perspective just how little you can do in a given time, lol.
Thank you! Normally I've never really liked my art style for my entire drawing experience, but with this and ZatCD I'm actually starting to feel pride in my work. :D
Love what you're doing with this game already. I really dig your art style, so I'm happy to see it here. That sun is so cute! I might have missed it, but does it have a role to play in the game experience? You're enemy designs and animations are definitely a major strength. So imaginative. I feel like this is a cross between playing Mario and playing Kirby, two of of my favourite platformers growing up. And that parallax is just so lovely. Look forward to seeing more of the dev process!
It will have a role, yes. But that's a secret for now. :D I need to play more Kirby. It seems like my personality in a game, but I haven't played much other than dreamland for the gameboy. :)
You're too kind, but that came with practice. I used to really struggle with creativity, but I worked at it to try and improve it. You can too if you want. :)
Thank you. :D It's alright, this way I can work at the game at my own pace and don't have to sell off pieces of my childhood game. I think I prefer it this way. Postponing is fine too. It'll vary the content for the channel and it's nice to take a step back and regather your thoughts. I'm already looking forward to getting back to working on it after this small project. :) This may not even be the only time I take a break, just because it has really done wonders for my mindset and I think the game will benefit from it.
Always get motivated to develop my own game when I see your uploads! Ends with playing around a bit and giving up afterwards though, but hey as skills stack up time after time maybe this time around... :D
And without the base building. :) I think combat will be the main similarity, but imo not enough to compare the two. It feels like too much of a stretch for such a generic similarity which will stray even more from it as the game develops. imo it's closer to Hollow Knight, but more item / puzzle based and mini-sessions. Keeping in mind I've only played Hollow Knight for like an hour, so idk much about it. :)
It's inspired by reventure. :) I wasn't too keen on the game itself but I really liked the idea of having lots of short sessions that can be played independant of each other, rather than a long complex game.
lol, this isn't a confirmed spinoff yet. I have talked about it with the Discord community, we would like to include easter eggs into the game, but it was originally intended to be a standalone game. :)
@@GameEndeavor noice... But now that you replied to my comment, I have an important question for you. What program do you use to make your music for your indie games? Have you ever tried famistudio? Will you consider using famistudio? When will you use famistudio? Love your devlogs btw, they are the best♥️
I'm sure I'll talk about it more in the future after I've continued to develop it. :) Probably dedicate an entire video to it. It's extremely helpful and a lot easier to do than people might expect. Godot makes it pretty easy (aside from the lack of documentation) to add your on features to their editor via plugins.
Indeed. Good for those that do such things, but there are a lot of fears out there. I for one hate rats, but ironically old school RPGs are my favorite games, lol.
You know if you go with the Clown idea could replace the Hammers with Flyswatters, gives a different impression plus a Spider nest full them would be a rather weird scenario that seems like it would be right up your alley, hell could have a Spider NPC that only turns up for it, maybe get some Cheese or something as a reward for clearing the nest of them, I dunno just a cute little detail I suppose.
lol, the clown thing was a joke. This is a cute idea though. I might just add this in addition to the spiders. Like a clown NPC with a giant rubber fly swatter that goes when he hits something, with a text graphic. Fun idea, thank you. :)
Finally it’s been too long you inspired me to start game development I’m using unity but I still love watching your videos I hope this becomes routine I really like watching your videos and you have really good art.
Thank you! I'm going to try and make this routine again. :) The one video per week was brutal for ZatCD though, so I will either need to cut back to once in two weeks or adjust my schedule to better accommodate a weekly schedule. Either way I intend to start posting more often. :)
ZatCD is expected to take three years to develop which I can't do without a budget. So I'm going to work on this for a few months to see if it can raise funds for the larger project. We'll return to it afterwards. :)
Love this! Side projects are a powerful tool for jump-starting creativity and will help keep your passion for game dev fresh. Really enjoying the unique enemies (I like spiders, they don't like me) and looking forward to future progress.
Thank you! And indeed, I'm still getting ideas for ZatCD that I'm making notes of, and excited to get back to work on it. Spiders are so cute, and the Spooders make me giggle every time I see them they're so adorable. :D
@@GameEndeavor It's crazy how bad slopes can be on the controls. I tried to make a game with gravity that follows the angle of the player while it follows slopes. Well it wasn't a good idea
I am making a platformer and i love how your lv are build up as its not a lot of parts where you can fall through the map. And there is a lot of enemys i am taking a bit of insparation of how your lvls are buildt up "sorry for my bad English"
Thank you. :) I'd say it's something I developed through practicing picking colors. When I started doing pixel art, I intentionally took time to practice this so that I would get better at it in time. As for methods, one of the things I do is study other colors. Both from real life and games that I enjoy. I will pull them into my image editor, use the color picker to study the different colors, taking note of their hue, saturation, and luminance. Then when I go to choose my own colors I rely on this knowledge to inform my decisions. :) For this palette specifically, I started by picking some base colors that would make up a majority of the game. So my greens and browns for grass and dirt, and then I just started drawing and creating new shades as I needed them, mixing colors to see how well they worked together. After a couple days of this I had the palette. :)
It was my own fault. :) The demo wasn't quite ready, I didn't have long to work on the KS page, and didn't promote the page that much. It's alright though, I'm not bothered by it.
lol, idk about that. I'm good at my style, but I don't think I'd be that great at teaching it. :) I have a couple videos planned though where I give advice on pixel art an animation.
Howdy, everyone! This is just a small project, only expected to take a few months to develop (depending on how much art I want to do). Once it's done we'll return to Zoe and the Cursed Dreamer, so don't be concerned for it. ZatCD is expected to take 3 years to develop, and I will probably take the occassional small break to work on something small and vary the content for the channel. Thanks for watching!
If you want to support this game, then check out my Patreon where you can get exclusive posts as I work on this project: www.patreon.com/posts/53930157
Can i ask something? Is this game offline mode?
@@ashraferwan5350 As in single player? Yeah. As in if you need an internet connection, I'm going to be publishing it to Steam, so whatever connection they require.
“Unlike Animal Crossing, however, this is not a survival horror”
It's true though.
Silent Crossing
@@veto_5762 lmao
I must've habitually checked your youtube channel page 30 times since your last video. I admit I got hooked by the quality content. Very glad to see an update, the new project looks great!
Haha, yea. Had to take a bit of a break to sort some stuff out and then start this project, but should be returning to a more regular upload schedule now. Thank you! :D
A new Game Endeavor video is always welcome and it's good to see you not giving up and doing a smaller project.
Your art style is very consistent and cute.
Thank you very much. :) I'm quite proud of this artstyle that I've somehow mananged to pull off. :)
The trees are looking especially good
This
@@sco_otr I'm getting better at them. :D
"starting a new game"
oh no....
"temporarily postponing"
thank god.. (ok but for real happy that you're doing something new but that title had me scared with all the work and time you spent on the last game)
Hahaha, yeah. I made sure to put that at the start because I knew some people would be concerned. :) We'll resume with ZatCD after this project if everything goes well. :D
Sorry to hear about the Kickstarter .. to be honest I thought the funding was a lock. I hope it doesn't become a backburner casualty.
It won't. :) ZatCD is my childhood project. I've been working on it piece by piece since I was 12. One more year of waiting won't hurt me none. I'm itching to get back to it, would rather be doing it right now, but it's too large a project to do without funding.
I fumbled the KS a bit though so it's not a big surprise to me. But I learned what not to do for this next one, so here's to that. :D
@@GameEndeavor Sounds great. I would be really interested, and imagine others would be too, in a Kickstarter post mortem on what you did, what went wrong and what you learned.
I think a lot of people minimize crowdfunding into "I'll just make a Kickstarter" but it truly is its own beast.
@@Fevir I plan to do exactly this if this Kickstarter is successful. :) Probably a whole video on it. And yeah, it's a whole thing that requires a lot of planning and time. Hopefully a post mortem could show that to people wanting to do their own KS.
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I love the hollow knight feel of the game design. Combined with the cartoony style it will make for a very unique feeling experience
That's the idea. :) I haven't played much of Hollow Knight myself, but what I did play, I enjoyed the exploration a lot. So I'll be using that as inspiration.
You have taught me at least one golden thing in almost every video, to the point that I started watching all your videos, regardless of topic, because there's always something of value there. You (and others) inspired me to join the youtuber ranks and I hope I do justice to the community.
So I guess my message is; keep doing what inspires you cause you do great work when you do.
Good luck on your journey, bud! I'm glad you found my videos inspirational. I'm sure you too will inspire others. :)
@@GameEndeavor I appreciate it! I'll do my best to give back as much as I can :)
Always loved both your devlogs and your game!
However, besides the absolutely outstanding technical aspects of it, I've never felt like its concept was actually strong/unique enough to stick out amongst the many, many similar-ly themed indie games from nowadays. It always kinda felt like a plain mixture of random indie games you've enjoyed playing in your spare time, and nothing much else.
So I'm especially glad you took your time to get some inspiration & finish another side-project; for it looks to be the right decision. With your know-how of Godot, I'm sure it'll be an easy task. And maybe some fresh ideas from this new perspective will carry over to your main project as well!
Are you talking about ZatCD? It's not meant to be a ground breaking game. :) I'm not interested in doing something unique and unheard of, especially not for my first game. I think that's a trap many developers fall into and get stuck. imo most indie games are not unique and genre defining, only the really popular ones, and that's not what most developers should aim for.
ZatCD is first and foremost a story game. My only goal is to tell that story. It's an RPG with fun combat. If I can pull that off then I'll be happy :)
Consider the Witcher 3. It doesn't do anything unique. But it has an amazing world, characters, and fun combat. Hollow Knight doesn't do anything unique, but it's so well executed. This is a lot more common than you think. :)
@@GameEndeavor "It's not meant to be a groundbreaking game. :) I'm not interested in doing something unique and unheard of, especially not for my first game. I think that's a trap many developers fall into and get stuck."
Okay, I think I expressed myself wrongly. I'm kinda talking more about a sense of general direction; like whether it fits a single solid purpose - the famous "describe your game in 1 sentence" test. Which is something your latest project seems to fit in with a lot more ease.
I might be wrong, altho from what I've seen in the devlogs overall, I did not perceive much of a concise and clear vision behind it. Of course, I've never actually dug too deep into the game itself, so there's that.
Anyway, this is by no means an attack on the overall quality and merit of your work or anything. More like the honest perspective of an outsider about (possibly, can't and couldn't ever know the whole story) why the game, even in such a well-polished and technically outstanding state, did not get the desired traction (from what I could perceive as a mere viewer of the channel).
But yeah, reinventing the wheel is always (unless you're a game design god or something) a bad idea indeed. Can't even begin to count the number of times where it got me stuck on both game jams & hobby projects. Altho, so it is trying to do too many things at once, and it's quite a harsh lesson sometimes.
Despite not being super unique, both the Witcher, Hollow Night, and even games like Enter The Gungeon, Stardew Valley, and such all pass this 1-sentence test quite easily.
@@the_procrastinator8606 I probably just didn't describe it well, which I've always felt as much. :) The game boils down to "What if Animal Crossing was an aRPG with a focus on characters and story". Wasn't perceived as an attack, I just hear the "this game isn't unique" a lot so I assumed. It has a clear direction to me, I'm just not great at describing it. However that's not how I treat the devlogs. The devlogs aren't meant to explain the game and what it'll be. It's as a log for what I've done.
@@GameEndeavor Oh, so that explains it haha!
Never been too much of an Animal Crossing fan, so maybe that's also why.
And yes, this isn't the general purpose of devlogs indeed!
However I do think there should be more material devoted to explaining what's your game about, for the fact that I couldn't find much even on your Patreon page, so I think it'd help quite a lot!
Perhaps the sentence could be shortened even further, into something like: "An Animal Crossing-inspired ARPG", or such
In any way, best of luck with both projects!
@@the_procrastinator8606 More western RPG, but agreed. Thank you. :)
Yoo im so exited for this project and cant wait to get my hands on it! Keep up the awesome work GE!
:DD
Long live the froggo army!!
Thank you, Hero! Thankfully this is a much smaller project, so you won't need to wait for long. :D
Dude are you serious??? First off, this is AMAZINGLY well-made...i mean the video itself and the editing! Second off, you are extremely inspiring!! You have some of the most unique ideas i have ever seen. I have a degree in game design, and i keep up / play hundreds of games...i LOVE your ideas. That frog killed me. You are GOING places dude. Do NOT give up. You will hit it, and you will hit it BIG. Give it time.
Thank you very much! This is a very motivational comment. ♥ I'm happy to hear you enjoy the ideas. :D Thank you!
This looks awesome, man! Can't wait to see where you go with it.
Me too. :) I have some really good ideas, can't wait to make a game out of them!
your art style is really cute, and I'd love to play this game. I feel sad that your last video is from almost a year ago and I'm afraid to burn through all your uploads in one session, but at least it means you are working on developing the game(I hope). best of luck!!!
Thank you! Yeah, I hit a brick wall with making videos, lol. That said, I have one that I'm finishing up as we speak, so that will hopefully be out as early as tomorrow. 🤞Just waiting on a thing. :)
It's on my main project Zoe and the Cursed Dreamer though. reQuest is mostly me making enemies and items, so there's not a lot of video content there. xD Glad you enjoy the videos. :)
I'm just here along for the ride so anything you develop will be fun to watch!🥰
lol, glad to hear you enjoy the ride, and that actually means a lot to me. It's good to know that people support me doing what I want to do. ❤️
I looked at your earlier game and can say that this easily and hands down looks twice as good.
I also like that you used the term Anti-Hero is the literally correct way as opposed to the ones we get most times.
Thanks. :) Yeah, my art has come a long way since and I'm doing some things which I think look better artistically. What I return to that project, I hope to take what I've learned from here and apply it there.
I made sure to look up the definition of the term before I used it, haha. I don't like to misuse a word where I can avoid it.
Wow You are back pls more tutorials, You are awesome.
I don't expect to make tutorials any time soon, sorry. Game development and devlogs eat up most of my time. :)
@@GameEndeavor Its OK take a break dear Devlog You helped me enough :')
I've been following the previous project for a while, glad to see that you're working on something else also!
Hey there. Excited that you’re still motivated. I didn’t know that you were kickstarting the other game that you were working on, but I thought it looked really cool. This new game looks cool too. Don’t give up buddy!
Thank you. :) Yeah that was an issue I had. Lots of people are telling me they didn't know, and I had trouble getting momentum going. I think I created the page late, and so it never got off the ground. At least I can see the mistakes I made last time and learn from them. Because of that I'm feeling optimistic about this one. Thank you. :)
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lmao! Thank you Ludos! So glad to see you excited for the project. xD Blessed is His Light! Though Cute Sun God frowns down on the heathen frogs as they use the earth to shield their faces from His Light.
@@GameEndeavor Sadly, they can't bear His Magnificence :'(
I was a bit sad that you took a break from your main project but I totally understand you. Plattformer are not my type of game but I like your approach with exploration. This is my personal motivation in any game. Your art style is very cool and appealing to me because it is clear and not too noisy. I subscribed to keep being updated. Your work is inspiring to me. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Bit sad to take the break myself, but it's for the better. ZatCD will benefit in the long run from it, and I'll return to it as soon as this game is finished. :D And that's what I enjoy most about my art style as well, so thank you. ❤️ I really enjoy the cartoon-ish look of it.
Everything always looks water tight and solid when you make it well done
Thank you. :)
"Gooblin", hehe xD great project, can't wait to see more!
Happy to see you're back at it dude! I've missed your stuff
Thank you! It feels great to be back. I missed this. :D
Recently I came back to developing games in Godot, and one of the first channels I came back to was yours. I don't think it's hard to tell why with your concise storytelling, great personality, and amazing jokes. I'm excited to see where this game goes, and good luck with it!
Also, 2:09 had me dying.
You're very kind, thank you! Story telling is something that I specifically practice with these devlogs, so it's great to hear that it's enjoyed. :) And that's one of my favorite jokes in the video, lmao.
You should make it that the sun starts off really far away but as you go on in the game it gets closer and closer.
Did this become a thing?
Definitely gonna buy this when it's done, looks awesome and I'd love to support the channel so I can also buy Zoe and the cursed dreamer
That's a good way to support it, lol. The idea for this project is to try and raise funds for that larger multi year project. Hopefully it goes well. :)
Very cool! The frogs are so cute!
I was thinking, about the spooders, you could have that option people asked for and just make it look like something else like a worm or something. Then the game design is the same; it just won't freak those people out (so much).
Well that's the option they asked for, for me to swap out the sprites. The clown thing was a joke, but I'm not interested in creating a whole bunch of other art for what may become a recurring enemy type. I would need to redo an entire area that I'm planning which is likely to be spider infested.
Lots of games have spiders, they're a generic enemy type. It's uncommon for a developer to cater to that. And as someone who has the same feelings but for rats, I feel for it. But I don't expect developers to remove rats from their games. Those that do are extremely generous, but I don't think I will. :)
I hope the pogo mechanic becomes a bit more impactful, as it is right now it looks like if you want to pogo off someone it's mushy, but if you're trying to do delicate combat in the air you're gonna get bounced around.
Somehow feel like a New Terraria Game could use similar Art Style. I love the Terraria Art Style but I feel like how this looks and how combat feels it feels like a nice fit to me :)
Good luck with the Game Dev 😊💙
Thank you. :) This won't be a Terraria style game though, to be clear. Like you won't modify the terrain or build a base. That said, Terraria is my favorite game, so the combat may not be too far off. I love how simple yet fun their combat is.
Terraria 2 should have this art style lol
Hi! I'm glad you're still there doing stuff. I just wanted to drop by and say that your artstyle is incredible. It's super "easy" in some way, but just detailed enough to be super recognizeable. Like, I admit I haven't watched a whole lot of your videos, but as soon as this one popped up I was like "hey I know this artstyle!" and here we are. I just wish for you to continue making the games you want to make and that motivation never stops you from reaching your goals. ♥
Thank you! That's exactly what I try to accomplish with my style. I love simple aesthetics and will sometimes even find myself erasing detail to take something down to a more simple base. This message was very kind and motivational, so thank you very much for that.
I love your art style and streamlined approach to game design.
Honestly, I have a problem with my game ideas getting really bloated with stuff I add, and I'd like some tips on how to keep myself from getting too ahead of myself with them.
This is one of the hardest things about game development. :) You mostly learn it through experience. The only tips I know is to outline your game early, intentionally cut the fluff, and give yourself frequent deadlines.
Doing game jams helped me the most with this. It's humbling and really puts into perspective just how little you can do in a given time, lol.
you bring me great joy :)
Glad to hear it. :D
Blessed is his light
Blessed is His Light! 🌞
the frog must return in every game you make
I love your pixel art style! It's like fairytale...
Thank you! Normally I've never really liked my art style for my entire drawing experience, but with this and ZatCD I'm actually starting to feel pride in my work. :D
Love what you're doing with this game already. I really dig your art style, so I'm happy to see it here. That sun is so cute! I might have missed it, but does it have a role to play in the game experience?
You're enemy designs and animations are definitely a major strength. So imaginative. I feel like this is a cross between playing Mario and playing Kirby, two of of my favourite platformers growing up.
And that parallax is just so lovely. Look forward to seeing more of the dev process!
It will have a role, yes. But that's a secret for now. :D
I need to play more Kirby. It seems like my personality in a game, but I haven't played much other than dreamland for the gameboy. :)
@@GameEndeavor Awesome :) And yeah, get a hold of Kirby Super Star of you ever have a chance. Phenomenal game. :)
youre such a creative game dev im jealous
You're too kind, but that came with practice. I used to really struggle with creativity, but I worked at it to try and improve it. You can too if you want. :)
Good to see a new vid from you!
It feels good to finally make another one, thank you. :D
Glad to see an update! That level design tool looks awesome, any plans to show it off in more detail?
In time yes. I'm still learning about plugins but I want to do a video on some of my tools once I've developed them more.
It's a bit sad that your Kickstarter failed and you're postponing that game but this game looks really great! Great job on the pixel art too! :D
Thank you. :D It's alright, this way I can work at the game at my own pace and don't have to sell off pieces of my childhood game. I think I prefer it this way. Postponing is fine too. It'll vary the content for the channel and it's nice to take a step back and regather your thoughts. I'm already looking forward to getting back to working on it after this small project. :) This may not even be the only time I take a break, just because it has really done wonders for my mindset and I think the game will benefit from it.
@@GameEndeavor That's good :)
¡Gracias!
Thank you very much, bud! :D
Let this be a certificate verifying this as the first Super Thanks post for this channel. ♥
"The sun smiles at you with eternal malice".
Very excited to see more! Absolutely love the art style as always and the gameplay looks very smooth too, very nice
Thank you! I'm very proud of the art style. Looking forward to working more with it. :D
Your a so talented gamemaker I hop I will become as good as you one day both in making games and with making art. Love your videos.
You're very kind, thank you. :) Practice and study and you'll be great. Good luck!
"blessed is his light"
*fear*
Blessed is his light. 🌞
It's a shame your Kickstarter wasn't successful. Good luck with your new project!
Thank you! :) It's no worry. I wasn't optimistic about it anyhow. Hopefully this will fund it instead.
my fear of spiders is still reacting to the spooders
Awh, it worked on Time in our Discord. :(
Looking forward to seeing more!
I'm looking forward to making more. :D
Always get motivated to develop my own game when I see your uploads! Ends with playing around a bit and giving up afterwards though, but hey as skills stack up time after time maybe this time around... :D
So long as you're having fun, that's what matters. :) I started out the same way, did so for 10 years. When you're ready, you'll make something. ❤️
Keep it going man! You have good vibes and good content
Thank you. Will do. :D
I'm digging it!
Reminds me of Terraria without all the digging, which isn't a bad thing! But very quick and streamlined.
And without the base building. :) I think combat will be the main similarity, but imo not enough to compare the two. It feels like too much of a stretch for such a generic similarity which will stray even more from it as the game develops.
imo it's closer to Hollow Knight, but more item / puzzle based and mini-sessions. Keeping in mind I've only played Hollow Knight for like an hour, so idk much about it. :)
the game gives me slight flashbacks to reventure
It's inspired by reventure. :) I wasn't too keen on the game itself but I really liked the idea of having lots of short sessions that can be played independant of each other, rather than a long complex game.
Less go the main game didn't even come out yet and he is already working on the spinoff for Zoe and the cursed dreamer🤯
lol, this isn't a confirmed spinoff yet. I have talked about it with the Discord community, we would like to include easter eggs into the game, but it was originally intended to be a standalone game. :)
@@GameEndeavor noice... But now that you replied to my comment, I have an important question for you. What program do you use to make your music for your indie games? Have you ever tried famistudio? Will you consider using famistudio? When will you use famistudio? Love your devlogs btw, they are the best♥️
@@JuhoSprite I use FL Studio with Super Audio Cart. :) I have no intentions of using anything else, sorry. xD
I like art style if this game
Heya! Im keen-as to see your tile editor and thoughts on plugins. Your 2.5d dream game is inspirational
I'm sure I'll talk about it more in the future after I've continued to develop it. :) Probably dedicate an entire video to it. It's extremely helpful and a lot easier to do than people might expect. Godot makes it pretty easy (aside from the lack of documentation) to add your on features to their editor via plugins.
5:35 I'm afraid of socializing but you don't see me asking for a social anxiety mode in open world games.
Indeed. Good for those that do such things, but there are a lot of fears out there. I for one hate rats, but ironically old school RPGs are my favorite games, lol.
this game looks sooooooooo sick
Thank you! :D
I’m sold on the frogon
It is a really interesting idea, especially with some of the more secret lore that I have planned. :D
im afraid of both clowns and spiders so welllll
Love this channel. I learned so much from it. Also you have a very pleasant/ motivating voice
Thank you! :D I never would've thought my voice could be described that way, but I'm glad you find it to be. :)
0:31 Look, ma! I'm in a game endeavor video!
At one of my favorite places too, haha! I loved when you asked that and we were just "no" xD
You know if you go with the Clown idea could replace the Hammers with Flyswatters, gives a different impression plus a Spider nest full them would be a rather weird scenario that seems like it would be right up your alley, hell could have a Spider NPC that only turns up for it, maybe get some Cheese or something as a reward for clearing the nest of them, I dunno just a cute little detail I suppose.
lol, the clown thing was a joke. This is a cute idea though. I might just add this in addition to the spiders. Like a clown NPC with a giant rubber fly swatter that goes when he hits something, with a text graphic. Fun idea, thank you. :)
@@GameEndeavor No worries, praise the Sun!
@@vulpinitemplar5036 Blessed is His Light. 🌞
Finally it’s been too long you inspired me to start game development I’m using unity but I still love watching your videos I hope this becomes routine I really like watching your videos and you have really good art.
Thank you! I'm going to try and make this routine again. :) The one video per week was brutal for ZatCD though, so I will either need to cut back to once in two weeks or adjust my schedule to better accommodate a weekly schedule. Either way I intend to start posting more often. :)
@@GameEndeavor awesome don’t go to hard on yourself
Lovely!
When you drop into the cave, how do you make the transition that seamless?
I love the frogs 😅
I love the spooder so much!
It's so cute! One of my favorite enemies that I've made.
Hey what will happen with the devlog RPG
ZatCD is expected to take three years to develop which I can't do without a budget. So I'm going to work on this for a few months to see if it can raise funds for the larger project. We'll return to it afterwards. :)
@@GameEndeavor okay cool
Love this! Side projects are a powerful tool for jump-starting creativity and will help keep your passion for game dev fresh. Really enjoying the unique enemies (I like spiders, they don't like me) and looking forward to future progress.
Thank you! And indeed, I'm still getting ideas for ZatCD that I'm making notes of, and excited to get back to work on it. Spiders are so cute, and the Spooders make me giggle every time I see them they're so adorable. :D
The sun is creeping me out, he kinda looks like flowey from undertale
Cute Sun God is cute. :(
With his normal face he is sure cute....but with this wide smile like the one on the thumbnail he is creepy
Ok that spider is very cute
I think you should double down on the frogs. You could have frogs, froogins, froggers, frogons etc...
OMG, I love the sun!!!
I love him as a character and can't wait to explore it more in the game. :D
You have very talent, man! Other great game!
Thank you!
No slopes : the difference between a small and large project
Haha, I literally told myself this. I was like "Do I want slopes? Nope, I want to finish this game in a few months."
@@GameEndeavor It's crazy how bad slopes can be on the controls. I tried to make a game with gravity that follows the angle of the player while it follows slopes. Well it wasn't a good idea
@@Mysda_ My biggest issue with them right now is how to make it look like the player isn't floating with a rectangle collider and side perspective.
How to create a wall that disappears when touched in godot engine
I am making a platformer and i love how your lv are build up as its not a lot of parts where you can fall through the map. And there is a lot of enemys i am taking a bit of insparation of how your lvls are buildt up "sorry for my bad English"
Glad you like it. Good luck with your game. :)
@@GameEndeavor thanks have a good day (:>
Hi,
That's impressive! How do you pick your color palette? This game and Zoe game, they both have really beautiful art and colors :D
Thank you. :) I'd say it's something I developed through practicing picking colors. When I started doing pixel art, I intentionally took time to practice this so that I would get better at it in time.
As for methods, one of the things I do is study other colors. Both from real life and games that I enjoy. I will pull them into my image editor, use the color picker to study the different colors, taking note of their hue, saturation, and luminance. Then when I go to choose my own colors I rely on this knowledge to inform my decisions. :)
For this palette specifically, I started by picking some base colors that would make up a majority of the game. So my greens and browns for grass and dirt, and then I just started drawing and creating new shades as I needed them, mixing colors to see how well they worked together. After a couple days of this I had the palette. :)
Yes
I’m not even a minute in and this looks really awesome!
Thank you! I'm really excited for it. I personally love how it looks, and excited to see where the gameplay goes. :D
@@GameEndeavor No problem! And me too, I love how it looks and am really excited for it.
Welcome back! It's been a while since we've seen anything on youtube, glad to see you're working on a really cool game! :D
Thank you! It feels great to be back. :D
The art style is really attractive! Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
make a steampunk robot as the final boss
The Sun will be a boss, he's clearly evil
Cute Sun God is cute and the most innocent.
@@GameEndeavor 🤔
how to choose a palette with rpg game colours how you choose share some palettes
Hi Im your new subscriber. What application did you use in creating the character? Is it photoshop?
Aseprite. :)
Hmm... I wonder where the cake bomb will fit in?
(You don't need to use it if you don't want to, but I will really appreciate it if you do!)
If I can fit it in I'll consider it. :)
I like the the bunny more
The only God, Lord of this World, is what we call the Sun.
Blessed is His Light. 🌞
Glad to see a new video. The game looks great!
Thank you!
Include the Frogon Boss or there will be another frog riot :P
I don't think I have a choice, haha.
This man is a living legend. Long live the froggos!
You're very kind. :) Long live the froggos!
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Pog
What?! I didn't even know you did a Kickstarter! Feel like you got screwed by some algorithm on that one :(
It was my own fault. :) The demo wasn't quite ready, I didn't have long to work on the KS page, and didn't promote the page that much. It's alright though, I'm not bothered by it.
I recon if you wanted to you could expand into pixel art tutorials as it's gorgeous
lol, idk about that. I'm good at my style, but I don't think I'd be that great at teaching it. :) I have a couple videos planned though where I give advice on pixel art an animation.
@@GameEndeavor OK ty :)
The spooder is just the cutest thing! Love the artstyle (and your videos).
Thank you! I love how adorable they are. :D
this looks amazing
Thank you!
You art is sooooo cute
Thank you! :D
Where you at maaan??????