One Week of Indie Game Development - Equilinox
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2018
- A very productive week of development on my indie game "Equilinox" this week - getting closer and closer to release every day! I'm currently aiming for launch around end of March/beginning of April.
Let me know what you think about the logos and if there's anything you would change about them!
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You could make the DNA spin on the main menu so that it isn't completely static. Also, I think the new logo looks better than the old one.
Thanks for the suggestion!
You could also maybe animate the tree in the background to look like it is blowing in the wind.
Instead of spinning the dna, which would be awesome but would break the allignment with the menu buttons and be a lot of work i presume, you could add a cyan or green fade that goes from the top to the bottom of the dna.
boomknuffelaar agreed
I agree with boomknuffelaar, the spinning DNA would break the allignment with the buttons. Instead an animation for the tree as Aang6678 suggested would be nice, maybe combined with actual water movement and a time change (day & night). I don't like how the logo is moving, this reminds me of jumpy PowerPoint animations :D
I want this guy to make me dinner.
Cyberpunk Revolt exactly
I actually want this guy to organize my life somehow. He's nailing it.
Greg Waste He has such an amazing organised life it's insane, and how he wakes up so early each morning and the things he is cooking for himself damnnn
That's what all of us are thinking :) His lifestyle is great too
Greg Waste id love to see some videos on how he manages to do all this and stay motivated
Your life seems so cozy and relaxing. You're a true inspiration for (hopefully) a future developer! Thank you for sharing these videoes, and I hope your game will succeed. It definitely looks fun!
I think you should add also sunflowers and make them face towards the sun, that would be a nice feature
That would be cool! I'm actually going to be properly implementing the day/night cycle next week, so that could be a nice thing to add with it.
Will the game also include humans in the future?
Ethan Gunter is right, humans would be really hard to implement. Also, I just don't think it would fit the theme of the game
(Moving background in the main menu) I think it would look cool if everything (water, particles, etc ...) would move normally like at the end. Maybe birds that are flying in the background, but that would be my idea.
And maybe the camera could "fly" around the island.
Make the menu background ACTUAL game. So birds fly, trees move etc. And if you could interact, it would be amazing. But keep the camera stationary
Kuře Kuřecí or rotate it very slow
Pixel Inside
Yeah, if the island would be this small, it could rotate really slowly
I agree!
I commented that too! :)
For the main menu, you should do something similar to Minecraft's menu. Basically there's a slowly rotating skybox centered around the camera that displays some sort of panorama.
Thanks for the suggestion, that's a pretty nice idea!
u could also add a fade sort of transition between different scenes? along with the rotating skybox
or you could make the menu be a animated film of your most recent saved files (once the players played they game)
very inspiring and aesthetic video!
my professor recommended your OpenGL 3D Game Tutorial to improve our opengl "skills" and you really nailed the video series. got my sub and keep it up :)
Love the new logo ❤️!!!
Same!
Great design. Keep on!
Every time you hover over a different tab on the opening screen, the sun level should change. So if you very quickly mouse spam over the tabs it should go from day to night cycle like. Watching the sun change from your vlog shows how light can be a "non movement movement"
Man... you are very faithful and dedicated to your craft. Wish there were more people that put together content like this with the confidence you have.
Great video! Your work routine is simply amazing
With everyone of these videos I get more and more excited for this game
First of all the old/new logo is absoluty amazing. Nice video so far :D. And one suggestion would be to make the DNA on the left side scrolling make it longer from the display top to the bottom and then let it scroll.
GentleXD Totally agree with the scrolling DNA idea
Thanks for the suggestion! It would be nice for the DNA to scroll, but at the moment the button are actually connected to it (when I mouse-over a button you can see part of the DNA turns green as well.) So I'm not sure how that would work with the scrolling, but I'll see what I can do!
ThinMatrix make it spin around its y-axis instead ;-)
How about you make the background a splash screen that spins around. When you click, it opens up the menu, then you could make the menu cover more of the screen and having a vertical scrolling element.
I think the old has a more nature and relaxing feeling which ure game requires so i think u should return to original logo .
For the main-menu i would let the little particles in the Equilinox logo pulsate, so they fade slowly out and back in
For the main menu you could try to make the helix rotating. The logo looks better than the previous version for my taste.
Really enjoy watching your dev-videos.
I’m so excited to get it! Can’t wait for release
Hey man! Been watching your dev logs quite a bit! They really inspire me, thank you for making them! I am excited to try out the game when it is released! I had an idea, when you create a new world and choose the options for that world, maybe you should add a random option. For the people who just want to have it randomized.
for the main menu, you could make the point of view rotate around the island. Although it makes a little more complicated, I think it'd look really cool
This series is an inspiration! Keep up the great work.
I love these! I look forward to them each week, it really motivates me when during Development Hell.
Absolutely love these dev vlogs! After watching three of your vlogs I couldn't resist and I'm now making my own game. Thanks!
The new logo definitely has a very charming feeling to it, especially when it's bouncing around on the main menu. 6:42, wow; the scenery was so beautiful, it looked straight out of a movie or visual novel.
Ahh perfect, they day I feel a bit down you upload a video which makes my day just fine.
For movement in the menu, make leaves fall across the screen in the background or make the trees sway in the wind.
Of the four logos at the end of the video, the fourth would be my favorite. It looks the most natural of the three with similar font. In addition the lettering is more genuine to the game than the standard text of the logo above. I hope this game brings many others as much joy as it has brought you.
I really like what you have done to the game... your work is amazing! I'm excited for the release!
Love the new logo, always a pleasure to watch the devlog.
Simplistic logo for sure. I love that little leaf and the font
You are a massive inspiration to me, I find it amazing how dedicated and positive you are. Keep it up, can't wait to see the game once it's finished
Fairly new to the channel and honestly you're so exciting to watch for an aspiring game developer. Also where you live looks stunning! Wish I was anywhere near as good as you
Suggestions for main menu:
- Cam rotating around the island
- Cam rotating around itself
- Breathing effect on cam
- Animation of scene
You are an inspiration 😊!
Man I really hope your game gets played a lot! Such a creative idea for a game!
Getting closer and closer to the release ! So much work has been done since the beginning. I hope that this game will encounter the reception it deserves.
I love your low poly sunflower, and the camera pans you do are absolutely beautiful. Thoroughly looking forward to playing this. In my opinion, the bottom right logo is nicest from the samples, but I do love the leaf.
Can't wait to try out this game. I'm not a big fan of those types of game but just watching you make it , makes me want to play ittt!
I definitely like the bottom right logo the best. Really excited for the full release!
I really like the bottom right logo I think it looks awesome with the game in the background!
As for the breathing effect on the logo you can add leafs that fly with the wind from the logo, I think it would add to the relaxing nature effect that the game has.
Love your videos they are really inspiring and relaxing at the same time, i'm excited for your games release and future devlogs.
Birds in the background flying around would be a nice touch to the main menu. Logo looks good.
Add some random life on background, kinda fox hunting chicken, after bird coming on the tree, then some turtle appearing from the sea, they can go away and disappear, and so on. I imagine that like all life is there, on other side of the island, and little bit of it coming here to see you..
For the main menu, slowly rotating the camera around the tree, with the camera focused directly at it, would make the scene seem more dynamic/lively without going overboard.
Love the dedication you have to your game. A lot of developers lack that.
What I've done in my game to make the menu less static is to show the terrain in the background and let the camera rotate very slowly. Makes for an awesome effect and you could also add in some birds and butterflies flying around or something
UA-cam just suggested one of your videos and I watched it and a couple more. I think, I'm in love with this game! I really like the poly/minimalistic design of it.
About the logo: I'd prefer the one with white lines around.
For the menu I had the idea to put a tree on the right side with its leaves falling down. :)
Everything is going awesome! I really like the current logo you're using. I also really liked the whole "screen jiggling" when you move the mouse, but I didn't think that the "breathing logo" was a good idea.
I can't wait to buy this game on Steam! Keep up the good work!
Cheers from Brazil!
I like the new logo! I think it would be cool if each letter was sort of swaying in the wind, the way the trees do.
3:25 those green triangles in the logo could move. The dna thing could slowly spin. Maybe animals moving in the background. Background shifting from day to night or changing weather. Water could move. Maybe birds or something in the sky.
i think the logo on the bottom right is the best looking one. i am also really looking out to the final product. love it so far!
For the main menu, you could add a gentle pan on the background, like a sweeping camera movement over the island.
For the start menu, I think it would look really cool if you made a low poly 3D version of your logo and used a moving light to cast shadows off of the raised parts, maybe even a sun cycle. For the triangles, you could turn them into pyramid shapes and have them rotate different directions and bob up and down a bit. Great videos btw!
love the new logo. Some sort of movement of the triangles by the logo, like if they were to blink into existence one at a time (if that makes sense) would add some nice movement to the screen.
I really like the new logo with the irregular triangles, especially without the white borders. I think it'd look really good in combination with the low poly leaf!
Also, to make the main menu more dynamic, you could have a non-static background. By that I mean make the water and the tree in the menu move like they're moving in-game.
The logo on the bottom right looks the best to me. Also, maybe some clouds floating by on loop in the main menu would be nice. That shouldn't be terribly difficult to add either. More animation would be cool, but that would require a bunch more work. I like it when the menu resembles the game, because then I feel like I am flowing into it, rather than jumping from a static image into the game.
I like the second and fourth one.
I would also just like to mention how much I like the atmosphere in the game. From what i've seen, it's really calming and nice to look at and listen to. I would love to play this when it comes out.
:)
Awesome new logo! I love this series.
I've got here because I want to become an Programist and, in the future make games. From the start I loved your design. I've also seen that you're really good person - one that others can trust. Stay strong, make more vids, 'cause they're great and I love to watch them!
Greetings from Poland!
PS Sorry for my English :D
It's looking pretty good already. About the start screen, I'd love to see the final 5s of this video into the start screen, it's alive, it's beautiful and it's perfect as a starting sequence.
For the logo, I think the bottom right looks the best! Been fun keeping up with this game for the last couple of weeks
Such a relaxing video, very entertaining. I think it would be cool to use the last part of the video as a main screen, maybe with some blur on it. New simplistic logo looks awesome btw. Keep up the good work.
I love the logo on the bottom right, no white borders and good looking low poly style
I think the simplistic logo with the leaf goes way better with the minimalistic design you've made for the game. Also great work , i wish i would have the same organized life as you do.
Like many other people commenting, I love the new logo and the new main menu page. One suggestion that I would make to introduce movement, is to keep the slightly blurred background but to add in some animals moving and maybe some plants growing - also blurred, but faded to almost a watermark - to give the impression that the scene shown is just one of a number of possibilities that may occur.
Nice logo! For your concern to have a more dynamic main menu you could just go with gradually changing the shade of green in each triangle of the logo.
I'm not sure how hard it'll be but you should try it!
More lively main menu ideas:
- the scene in the back could be 'alive' that means the tree could be animated in exactly same way as it is in the game.
- same with water particles. It can be very subtle, human eye will notice.
- Breathing logo is not subtle at all :D Don't mind the animation but it could be on the verge of noticing - to provide additional "oh cool" upon discovery.
- animated hellix? Or part of hettix getting highlighted on selected option?
Logos:
Either 1st option (outline makes it stand out from the bg) but without triangles around it (I don't understand what do they represent ^^') and there is visually too much going on
Last one: Without the outline one the logo the triangles are not too much. Still don't get the idea of having them thou. xD
Nothing else in the game has an outline, so I don't think the logo should have one, either. Doesn't fit the game's overall aesthetic.
But I agree, the floating triangles need to be removed and the bottom right logo needs more contrast against the background. That can be achieved without outline though.
For the main menu I think that adding some leaves or something flying across the screen could make it look more dynamic
This logo is the best one yet! I really like how it incorporates the main traits of the game, nature and low-poly.
Thanks, I'm glad you like it!
I absolutely love the new logo! For the background of the main menu, I’m thinking it may be cool to have it scroll so we can see more of what the terrain is like. If the user doesn’t do anything for a while, it may eventually change to a new biome. You don’t have to do this, because it’s just a suggestion, but I wish you luck with Equilinox! It looks great so far!
I can't get over your colour scheme - the environment is so beautiful, I'm such a sucker for low poly art. The new title looks good - my recommendation would be to include some of the pinks/oranges in the little triangle splash on the side instead of the darker green, only because they seem to be more prominent colours in your environments. I could only hope to get to this level of game development (and focus) one day!
First of all, the improved low poly logo looks really good!
Second, you could have a camera spin around a center point on the main menu, for example, spin around the island that was already on the background, or spin around the center of the last played world. Add some blur to it and I think you'd have a really cool main menu! :)
Anyway, great work as always! Can't wait to play the game!
Can you do a video on some of the stuff you cook? It looks delicious
For the main menu, you could add some shine that moves through the logo and the menus. Also you could add leaves flying in the wind in the background, and maybe make the tree sway a bit
I've got a good idea what about making it so it rains that'll be very good because it looks even more realistic and that could be the way plants get their water. The new logo is absolutely great
star and ufo I would love that if he could do that
That would be great
It would
It is grait the logo
star and ufo ok
I think it'd be cool if the camera was slowly orbiting around that island. Also, I'm a fan of the simplistic logo. I just love that leaf!
Of the 4 logos presented, I feel the one in the top left corner is the best for the white border and thick text. The second one is awkward to look at, with the thin lines and larger leaf icon that did not go well with the background. The third was nice but was hard to distinguish without a border and the small gaps. The fourth just needed the white border to help give it the emphasis it needed. Good job! Can't wait to get my hands on it when it is released. :)
I really like the low-poly logo. The small triangles on the left are the only thing that bothers me about it. Maybe reduce their amount or change their path? Currently, their purpose is to break up the logo and make it more open or dynamic. But their "round" path is very uncanny valley-y.
The roundness is fine as long as it's not perfectly smooth. But the triangles suck, I agree. They're the only regular triangles in the game and also the only ones that are floating next to each other instead of touching, so they have nothing to do with the overall artstyle at all.
in the menu make the dna strand slowly rotate.
You can make the spiral DNA thingy at the left of the menu spin around that would be cool or just have a wide image such as a 360 image that just spins on the Y-Axis for the background so it shows all around the world or multiple islands also that always happens bug after bug can never just be perfect hahaha. Amazing Work am loving the progress and love following the journey also I like the first logo
Yeah a background like in minecraft :D That was my idea aswell
Spinning DNA would be very cool but might be a bit tricky because at the moment it's just a 2D image and the buttons are connected to it (when I mouse-over a button you can see that the part of the DNA connected to it goes green as well.) The rotating image should be easier to implement though, so I might give that a go :)
How about you redo the dna thing with your "artstyle" in 3D and let it rotate? :)
For the DNA on the Main Menu , it might look nice if it was breathing ( switching from one colour to the next )
or
a colour could spiral down from one side and a different colour from the other crossing paths where they connect.
In the main menu, you could add some animals in the island moving around. And you could even make them interactive, so that they go towards the mouse or something happens when you click on them
Keep up the great work! You are inspiring me to want to make games! For the home screen I don't really like the breathing effect... Personally I would make the camera slowly spin around the island. Just an idea!
Since you asked, I'd suggest not making the entire logo scale up, but rather make each of the triangles scale individually, and the letters scale individually. And with a bit of a delay when the mouse leaves the letters. People can then stroke the logo and it will kind of act like a wave. Great job on the game--can't wait for release!
the low Polly text without the white outline is nice, clean and easy on the eyes. I was thinking you could have a day-night cycle on the main menu or have the background slowly spin, or maybe a subtle handheld camera wobble
In the menu, you could make the background slowly rotate with one animal on the island so give it mire movement and depth
You could have some trees, flowers, and grass waving in the wind in the background on the main menu. Maybe even a few sheeps.
Good to see this game is on steam. seen your game while scrolling through steam. I was like oh shit I know this game I used to watch the dev logs.
Really like the blocky leaf logo. It gives a really calm vibe and it's a lot cleaner. Not that the other is bad, it's just a bit heavier in the eyes
i like the new logo and it could look quit well when the little triangles are moving around on the start screen
I think one cool thing you could do with the title screen is take inspiration from the minecraft title screen where there is a scrolling scene blurred out in the background or maybe the camera rotating around the tree. Also, the triangles in the logo could fade between colours on the title screen. Great work on the game!
On the main menu keep everything static apart from the background. Every so often you could have an animal appear. Like some birds fly over or a bear walks into the frame. It could be like a little waster egg or story that plays out.
I think it would be really cool if there was some kind of scavenger, like a vulture, that would try to steal the meat the predators gathered.
New logo is awsome! :) Maybe try some light and shadows moving over the logo or the world in the background. like watching the background go from day to night and back again might be cool
The new logo looks a lot better than the last one! For the main menu, you could have the water moving in the background, sort of like a looped video if that's possible.
hey, great channel, great video. i think some very slight breathing of the text and maybe a slow camera rotation around the island would be nice to bring some life in there. but i think it's best to keep it subtle. as for the logo, i like the simple one with the rounded font best. it's not like you have to force the polygon style onto every part of the game. the leaf builds a really nice bridge between the rounded font and the edgy graphics.
keep up the great work!
This is very relaxing to watch. 😀
in my opinion the simplistic logo looks best there is something about the white borders which makes it stick out too much and the one without borders isn't defined enough, for the main menu the dna scrolling upwards and also if you are using a live render for the background (not just an image) which i think you are because of the blurring effect you implemented a while ago then you could make the camera slowly orbit the world your in currently or pan? brilliant videos i love watching them and i cant wait for the game to be out it looks sooo good!!!
I think the new logo looks fantastic!
Out of all the logos, I'd go with top-right, with the narrow text. Only thing I'd change is make the text white, with a small drop shadow. Great work on the development so far btw.
quality content, love it
I think one possible option for making a more dynamic main screen could be to have the DNA spind around on its X axis. You could also let the water flow like in does in the actual game as well as adding in a bird or two that flys in and out of the cameras view. I think all of these ideas would work, but I think both the water and DNA option would be the easiest and quickest features. 😄 Keep up the good work!