Glad you enjoyed it!

U must be a pro now

I started in 2008

Dang that's a long time, good for you!

I didn't say I was good. 😎 @@sasquatchbgames

lol. but seriously: i've hired once a young dev aged 14, after he showed me his minecraft clone written in c++. that dev has today an own game company and you know one of his games which became a huge thing on youtube. before you contemplate about game dev, if you are into coding: become a great coder first. clone some other complex game, as a challenge, i.e., minecraft. for some kids the hardest part about coding in their teenage years is... realizing that it is a choice you make. do you want to be a consumer (user, gamer) who wastes his childhood on products other people created, 24/7? or do you want to create finally something own, maybe with a minecraft clone as a first learning step. that's the difference. oh, and do not become a youtuber. youtuber game devs aim for views and likes, but actually, none of them made it so far as an actual commercially successful game dev in the industry.

Hustle up. What’s taking so long? I want answers!!

2030 hang tight@@ipodgolfer13

I thought GMS went paid service? I was gonna use that engine, but I overheard they went that direction and switched to Unity/Godot.

@@markguyton2868 yeah they switched recently to this one time fee if you want to publish, and subscription for console.

They were sub-based for a while but it seems they've since changed to a one-time payment if you stay to web, mobile, and PC-based releases. If you want to release to consoles (Switch, Xbox, PS5) then you pay a subscription per month/year in order to compile your game for those which seems to run about $79/month or $799/year. I personally like this set-up. @@markguyton2868 I'm planning to use GameMaker Studio for 2D based games and if I ever look towards 3D games I'd probably pick Unreal Engine, as it stands now.

⁠@@markguyton2868from my understanding they went to a subscription model briefly and then reverted the decision, with the money you invested toward your subscription able to be applied to the updated one-time payment.

@@markguyton2868 its back to normal baby

Iv also picked Unreal and how has the c + + been going?

@@DylanWasTaken_ Great. Learning curve was hard to adjust too but iv gotten the hang of it. It does help having some experience with programming with C++. But practice does make perfect ur won't know everything but u can learn as u go or learn what u want then go. That how iv taken my approach to game development

I've also just recently done the same! It's going to be a long ride but hopefully a rewarding one.

@@P3ga73 it will be a long ride but a fun one one the less. GL on ur journey m8

What game engine you use for your game?

@@flamart9703 unreal engine 5 and i use C++

If anything open source is more stable. No surprises, bugs reported openly, patches can be made easily.

It really depends. Godot is kind of at a rapid development phase, where new features are going to be coming in hot, which could break compatibility. At least for me, coming from an enterprise background, open source is great, but projects sometimes get into a phase of development where there are too many hands in the kitchen and not enough oversight/control. It's by no means a universal problem, and open source makes it easy to get older builds, but things can spiral out of control fast if the core team doesn't run a tight ship.

The whole stability aspect of open source is a common myth started by commercial software companies, along with things like the license from the software being tied to the assets you make with the product. The latter is allegedly used by Autodesk to prevent people from using Blender in schools and places like that.

true

You are right lad

Just to potentially get slaughtered at the end 😂 no thanks

I feel it's a great way to learn in a hurry and realize what truly is necessary in the initial prototyping stages. Clever solutions can be found under pressure when you have to take every shortcut imaginable.

But if you fail to complete a game that's fine too. It'll teach you your limitations at the time and what you might need to work on as far as productivity goes. Don't be afraid of failure.

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Lol yea I realized my mistake after the fact. Whoops! I googled it and apparently Gdevelop is another engine I'd never heard of, so no idea why that got stuck in my head. Thanks!

tbh godot is extremely unstable, I experienced way more bugs in a couple months of using godot compared to 6 years of unity.

@@NihongoWakannai you can't generalize ALL open source software to be less stable than their counterparts, because it's often the reverse - open source being more stable due to people who experience the bugs actually reporting the bugs, or better, fixing the issues themselves.

@@YouHaveTrouble you're right, it's not unstable BECAUSE it's open source.

You can also download their source code and compile it for free

There also alternatives like Piskel and Pixelorama. Pixelorama being made with Godot.

I'm just like you. I want to make a 3D game, but I feel lost every time I search for UKposts, I find that the subject has become very difficult and complicated. 👎

i think i am just going to stick to the current version, so i dont even have to bother with the install fees/revenue addition

I don't trust them not to fuck something else up next. They only took it back because of backlash, and it might not be enough next time. I can't blame you for not wanting to switch to another engine, though - especially since you have an ongoing project.

Most people hating on the unity side aren’t actual developers just opinion havers

​@RandomNoob1124 Dude, I started game dev back in early 2023. I was going to use Unity until I found out who the CEO (at the time) was and immediately deleted it off my computer and found something better for me to work with. And with the BS they tried to pull, recently with those install fees doesn't make me want to reconsider.

@@nsgames24 most people aren’t going to make a game where those fees apply anyways lmao. That’s the funny thing…especially if you started game dev last year….now if you actually had a game that was near production and that happened, makes sense to say fuck Unity, but if you didn’t, you’re bothered for no reason reslly. Unity is a great place to start and to understand graphics programming through shaders and graphics APIs such as Vulcan and OpenGL. If you’re just starting Game dev…you’re far far far from releasing a game to production anyways so the fees really don’t matter. Instead…look at the tools Unity offers as one of the most mature game engines currently and learn from them, then apply that to whatever engine you decide to use when you’re 100% confident you’re going to actually make a game to production stages.

Unreal and Unity (as well as some others) have visual scripting which you, as a hobbyist, might find to be what you need. It's like "drag and drop coding".

If they’re old enough, you can try to include your daughters into the process by programming in Scratch. GDevelop is a more complex version that uses similar visual scripting.

Don't make it harder than it needs to be. Just pick Unity or Unreal. Find a tutorial for beginners that makes an entire game in a reasonable time (like a 2 to 4 hours tutorial). Complete the tutorial. Now find another one. That allows you to actually create a fully functioning game, even if it's just a simple tutorial game. You can expand on what you made or start from scratch after that. Personally I picked Unreal because I like the visual style of creating the game (using Unreal Blueprints).

@@slandshark Yeah I think that's probably the best advice tbh. Now I'm over my sickness, I'm going to jump into one I found the other day! Thank you :)

​@@BadRPGPlayerGlad you are feeling better! I'm a total noob as well at the moment, but ended up creating a kind of roadmap for learning that I'm going to stick with (based on the suggestion of various other successful indie devs). It looks like this: 1) Watch and complete 1 to 3 tutorials on how to make an entire game (This is where I started, almost done with it: /watch?v=zt13VcimeyI ) . Make sure they are different genres of games and not longer than 3'ish hours for the tutorial video. Then move to step 2 below. 2) Create 3 to 5 extremely simple games, just copy from existing games. Like recreating tetris or pacman or pong, etc. Try to make each game a different genre if possible. 3) Now you can work on your own idea/game from scratch. But the big caveat is to make sure it's a simple game. This is where a lot of game devs fail, they try to make their big dream game right from scratch and burn out after awhile. So instead make a small'ish game, and be careful of feature creep. The next stuff I'm write is more about the step by step approach you should take when making your own ideas/games, more stuff I gathered from other game devs. 1) Get the absolute basics of the game mechanics down for just 1 level or '15 minutes of gameplay' of your game. Don't worry about graphics, AI, animations, etc. They can all be bare bones stuff just so it works at a basic level. And don't try and build the entire game, just focus on 1 level or 15 minutes of gameplay. 2) Test your game in this state, play it, have friends play it, etc. Ask the question: Is this game fun even without all the fluffy/fancy graphics/animations/audio/etc? Is the core gameplay loop interesting? Does it have a good 'hook'? Once you've found and created an idea that is fun even without all the fancy stuff then move onto step 3. 3) Now take that single level or '15 minutes of gameplay' section of your game and polish it so it's dang near perfect. Don't worry about the rest of the game, just focus on that 15 minutes or 1 level of your game. Polish the sound, animations, graphics, game mechanics (you don't need to include ALL the game mechanics, only what's necessary for that 15 minutes), get it all done as best you possibly can. 4) You've basically just created your demo/showcase. That's what you can use for putting on your steam store page or sending to game journalists...or send to publishers to help get funding, whatever your goal is. You now have a completed section of your game. Show people the quality they can expect from the rest of the game. This is what will get people to wishlist your game when they see it for the first time. 5) Now build out the rest of your game using your polished 15 minutes as the template. It should be much easier now to simple copy/paste what's you've made and apply it to other levels, etc (I'm generalizing here, but you get the idea). You can also now add in any other gameplay mechanics that are relevant for the rest of your game. A lot of devs get stuck trying to polish 100% of their entire game before showing it off...which means they are very likely to burn or now always be in a 'it's not good enough' state and nobody will ever learn of the game. I honestly think that's where Sasquatch B Studios is stuck. I also took some advice from a youtuber who's made almost an entire MMO in 1 year. This is my daily routine right now, keep in mind I'm a father of 4 (oldest is 10 and youngest is 1), husband, and have a full time career...so my time is limited. I'm not expecting to get a lot done every day and I will not compare my progress/speed to others who can focus on game dev all day long. Keeping that in mind makes it less stressful for me. 1) No Zero Days! Every single day I'm doing SOMETHING towards completing my games/tutorials or whatever I'm working on related to game dev. 2) Post a dev blog (I'm using wordpress) every single day, even if you got almost nothing done, post about it anyway. This allows me to look back and see that I'm actually making progress and that every day I'm one step ahead of the previous day. 3) Backup my code changes (I use Github) AND update my project management tasks every single day. This helps keep me on track and focus without getting sidetracked. I'm using github projects to keep track of tasks, but will likely switch to Trello in the near future. I hope the advice helps! It's the advice I'm following right now. I'd love to see what you create once you get into it. Please let me know!

From what I hear Godot console support is coming. Its gonna support xbox, ps and switch

I also need to mention I can import things from procreate (free, but iPad exclusive) extremely easy I can drop it straight to my email and put in my godot under 1 minute after completing the drawing.

Samurado is coming along nicely! I'm really stoked about it!