I'll think about it and get back to you on February 30th 2019 !

orangepixel hey uh this sounds like a scam to me, this might not be your best option.

@@awesomepantsfilms I got that it was a joke ;) check my date on the calendar :p

orangepixel oh I missed that! Good one!

I'll probably do some fun videos on it IF/WHEN I make the "switch" ;)

probably can.. except maybe access the eshop? but I'm not sure, I don't have a devkit (yet)

A bit late, sorry. But in terms of running games, no, all the keys used for contents encryption and the RSA public & private signing keys are different on retail and debug. Popping in a cart will either do absolutely nothing or give an error (unsure which one, I know on 3ds nothing happens). And opening the eshop will bring you to a dummy eshop used for developing addon contents or a dev portal thing depending on your setting System feature wise, pretty much everything is there. Things like receiving news in the news thing and signing into a Nintendo Account may not work (both don’t work on 3ds dev units, I wouldn’t be surprised if Switch is the same).

thanks! the games are still there! sadly the ouya isn't ;)

Did you also try Unity? or just GM and stuck with it?

@@orangepixelgames I worked with Unity in an art production capacity very briefly but when I decided to try to make a game on my own GameMaker was more attractive as I wasn't a programmer. Moving from the Drag N Drop interface and migrating to the programming (or GML) was much easier for me than just diving in to Unity. As it stands now, I could see myself learning C# and adapting to Unity but I am very comfortable where I am with GameMaker. I mentioned it might be better for you just because it is more like normal programming whereas GameMaker GML requires you to learn things a bit differently.

​@@BradleyChick cool, thanks for that info! :)

Bradley Chick Which version of GM? And can you simply compile Android/iOS/Linux and Switch version? As last I heard, people were saying they dropped the support and it couldn’t compile games properly -they didn’t run on the target plarforms-.

Yeah, thanks! I actually have, and it's at the top of my list. It should have a lot in common with how my workflow is, I just need some time to really try it out :)

@@orangepixelgames Was going to post the same question about monogame. Have used both and really monogame and libgdx are so similar with workflow and design it should be no problem to port. Betting you could probably even script some of the porting. Can probably even port shaders with some script, haven't looked but guessing there has to be a glsl to hlsl converter. Interested to hear what engine you go with :-)

@@LostRoaming so far, still using LibGDX :)

Some of them are still looking at "streaming" games as an option.. I don't really believe that will ever make it, but if it does, that probably keeps those markets more locked for smaller devs and games.

And well if they don't then you have the next best step and that is to create your own hardware and that's what we need the most at this point create your own hardware and or a company that dedicates itself to creating the hardware of your dream with all the features you want that are the same people who create the hardware for these big companies if we can get them to make our hardware then we can put our own games to those hardware and not have to rely on these companies and or big companies to do it for us or even give us a chance at least which is a mission impossible type of thing instead of just letting Them just upload it there we're just going to create a market for them it's no brainer! But they realize that doing so will create competition for them so this is why they don't let everybody in so easily only those that are really pushing it that already committed and won't give up until they actually which are the serious developers that they have.

he doesn't do vids (yet!) but he explained it a few times on my discord to many people :D - he transpiles the Java to C(#) then goes through it by hand to fix issues, then I check the game, we fix bugs and other problems, test it on the devkits, and submit !

That would be another positive thing about learning an engine that's so widely used. Knowing Unity should open doors for interesting contract work or a job at another game company.

@@orangepixelgames yes indeed. I work on 2 games at same time for differents games studio. Hope I will have time to my games the next year. (Love space grunts, very cool game)

Thanks!

scale without anti-aliasing usually works ? :)

First Switch game is releasing on Tuesday ;) so I'm good! with a dozen games following in the months after that. Check next Thursdays video for a semi-follow up to this (old) video

if you can, make a game for it now :) why wait, there's always a new console coming.

Nintendo has gotten pretty indie friendly, you still need to show some quality and track-record that you actually released game.. but other than that, it takes just a few days to sign-up and be a Nintendo licensed dev.

Yup, and now also on Switch and soon Xbox + Playstation4/5 ! ;)

Games written in Unreal can run on Switch. Most engines can actually, but you'll always need to have a Nintendo Switch developer-account first, and then you can access special code/plugins/libraries for a large list of different game engines.

@@orangepixelgames Thank you for respond.

Thanks! we released the first 5 since this video and another 5 or so are coming ;) including to xbox and playstation! various newer videos on the channel talk about it!

@@orangepixelgames I will! :D

in this case it's probably more that console developers don't "trust" Java to perform well enough to make their hardware shine :D

no, you need an official devkit, which isn't that hard to purchase from Nintendo. Sign up as a developer, get approved for Switch development, and you can get one for about the same amount as a normal Switch

@@orangepixelgames The sources I've looked at say that it's around $400-$500. I wonder why I should buy a regular switch to play retail games and another one just for development.

@@iDontProgramInCpp that's how these things work :) and the devkit does have some other functionality obviously for debugging and such.

nope, monogame !

@@orangepixelgames Cool. I'll check it out.

their probably from some stock library or freesound.org

You'll have the costs of a dev-kit, other than that, I don't think there are other costs, but I haven't released on Switch just yet either ;)

no.. it will come early 2019 :)

+orangepixel What day of the month of 2019 will come?

@@Oyzz7 don't know yet :)

sigh.. the video is about a question people often ask ME (personally).. as in "hey pascal, can you release your games on the switch?" which is LITERALLY what I'm talking about in the video :) A little over a year later, my first Switch game is coming in September (without using Unity) and the next 3 games are already on the way to release in the months after. I've done videos on this process also on the channel, as I'm fairly open and direct about all the aspects of creating and releasing games on any platform.

@@orangepixelgames *sigh* very well :) the title sounds like it's "you" as in, the viewer, as in, how to release your own game on the switch. But I see what you mean now. Congratulations on porting and releasing to the switch. I assume it's more work to cross platform from desktop to Nintendo Switch without Unity.

@@Domarius64 ha :) well I guess that some read the topic and think about it in that way (never meant it like that tho) but in the first 2 or 3 minutes it IS explained .. oh well! and yeah porting wise it might be more work.. and at some point I should just stop using Java and move to monogame myself, but for now, this is a good solution (and we're porting games and submitting to nintendo at "1 game every 3 weeks" rate - so it's not slow)

@@orangepixelgames I definitely missed that part of the intro, jumping the timeline around when sifting through multiple videos for the answer. Only way to address the issue is to re-word the title, if you get multiple people misinterpreting the meaning of the video, otherwise no big deal. And yeah there's probably always a better way but the best way is the one that's actually working, so, good to hear it's going well, I hope they're bringing in the cash.

more on that pretty soon.. first of the games is currently running on Switch in test stage :) so I'll do some videos on it hopefully sorry!

Yes, R u?

@@orangepixelgames yes

Haven't made up my mind yet.. for now LibGDX still works and will continue to work on at least 2 of my 3 main platforms (PC and Android) and I don't think Apple will kill OpenGL that quickly, since 99% of the apps on the app-store probably would need a rewrite.. so it might take 1 or 2 years to phase out opengl support, or not happen at all. Or perhaps some smart cookies will make Libgdx/MobiVM run on Metal instead of Opengl. At the worst case, I'm confident I could write another 3-4 games on this tech in the next couple of years.

@@orangepixelgames Thanks, Yes, I also saw that Moltengl offers an OpenGL/Metal interface so it might be the way to go if they do decide to pull the plug

Got about 10 games on Switch since this video (from 2018) 😎👍

@@orangepixelgames And were you a threat to the Nintendo Empire? because that's the only other way you're going to get in there!

@@artmanstudios7037 Releasing games on their console has nothing to do with being competition to them.. everybody can do it in theory, just need to be a developer, have a game, and request it.

@@orangepixelgames Okay but why do you need to request it why can't it be more like steam where you can just upload the game you want or have develop straight to it When you use the word request it means that They can deny it just because and not even give you an explanation as to why? Therefore creating games for these platforms it really is a pain in the neck! I mean what hoops did you have to jump through to get your first game there and to what platform and tell me which platform is easier than the other and why you think it's so? I have not Watch the entire video so I don't know if you already asked those questions But if you do have it in this video then I'll come completely finish watching it.

You also need to sign up as dev for Steam, AND pay $100 to submit each game, and have them approve it. For iOS you pay Apple (one of the richest companies in the world) an annual fee to keep your games on their store.. submitting games to Nintendo, once you are accepted as a developer, is completely free.. so every store/platform has good and bad things.. subscribe to my channel to hear about them regularly 😉

it would! but we ended up with Monogame (and the first 4-5 games are on the Switch already) which works very well!

Agreed.

I thought game maker isn’t supported on switch though.