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I might have missed the name in the video, but what's the name of the game at 08:40?

What game is the one at the timestamp of 1:37?

I noticed no difference with Linus 0:38

what brush did you use?

I really like your art style and I'd love to draw along in Procreate. I'm new to drawing though, which brushes do you use?

What is the style pen did you use, and parameter in procreate ? I cant do the same of you with mine

You can put particles in the paralax ? Sorry if muy english is bad

isnt long fungus 1 just a hollow knight reskin, atleast it looks like that

NOOOOOOO WHAT IS THIS JACKET! WHERE IS THE FANCY SUIT NONSENSICAL? I feared this day. The day Nonsensical 2d becomes Nondapper 2d

Good vid

Another great video!!

Thank you very much for covering our game STUNTBOOST and providing us with feedback! I'm happy to hear you like it :D

All you gotta do is make your sequel goated with a little extra swag and it’ll be good

At the end of the day, you hit it on the head when you said that sequels are driven by what the devs think is important, regardless of what we think is a good game. Some sequels are meant to tighten up mechanics and provide a better gameplay experience. Others are meant to continue a story and worldbuilding. Others are in it for the money. Once you establish what the sequel is for, you generally get an idea of what the development pipeline would look like.

this video take away the fear of investing in my own art style

sorry if you think you dont have infinite amount of time, not to having to measure time

In your next video could you talk more about bland backgrounds and how to improve them? I often find backgrounds and level decorations very difficult. Like how do I make a level stand out? It's hard.

Awesome info as always! I gotta check 1, 2, and 3 more, especially 'gameplay communication' ~ after work I do a lot of 6 and 7 as a kind of stress relief haha.

Another thing with sequels is you don't have to start 100% from scratch. You should already have most of the coding and physics down and that alone will save a pretty significant amount of time. Which opens up development for other things like art.

This is perhaps a bit of a crazy upload. I’m not going to have time to do game dev/youtube for a couple of days, but still wanted to try and upload something. So this video was done in a day, which is by far the fastest I've made a video. This did affect the polish in some sections, and I didn't have time to script the entire video, but hopefully it still made sense. I will note that the list I made is not necessarily "the truth", it is somewhat in the order of how I personally prioritise and think about these things, but I do think it could be equally valid to find other things more important. I will also say that I may have missed some things (once again this video was done in a day). It is also greatly simplified, my goal isn't for you to blindly follow a list, but more that I think it is really important for you to have an idea of "this is what will make my game play well and look good" and make sure to focus on those things, before you add stuff that are "nice to haves". Once again, thanks for watching, and feedback would be great, as always.

SSCCRef sounds like a good rule 👍

Hi. Thanks for reviewing my game, Medal winners 24. Your feedback is really good, detailed and interesting. In the past, I have been said that my UI isn't good, so I started looking at tv graphs to improve it. However, it doesn't match the game artstyle as you say. Some things look hand drawn and others don't. Now I'll have to change many things in the results part. And about the font, I don't know how to make one, so I used one that was free to use and that I liked. I think I'll take your advice and I'll have to change that too. What I'm happy is that you liked my characters and colours. That's great. Thanks again for your feedback.

If you made a playlist containing all of even most of your videos I would watch that playlist while working

Is there a site like Draw a Box for pixel art?

really like the content - thank you

About to binge watch your whole catalog, my dude. Your method of explaining things really works for me.

This video has too few views for how helpful it is. Thank very much for this one.

If you suck at art, why dont you make a clicker or puzzle game?

How about hand drawn but with mouse?

I have to drop a wall of text to mention the fact that I love that you brought this one specific point up at 6:00, as to how it's not about the apparent quality of the assets but much more the intent and what you are trying to "sell" to the player/viewer: Coming from an illustration and general drawing background, being a game developer, as well as a hobbyist with a lot of other creative things, I've come to that very same realization time and time again. If I were to for example draw a single thing in an illustration with thick, heavy outlines while the general whole is more free-flowing brushstrokes, it's of course going to look out of place. Same can often be seen with games made from multiple asset-packs. The style of assets doesn't match, so things lack cohesion, sometimes from specifically things like the sizes of pixels in pixel-art assets. It can of course be made to work, but it's hard. What really matters to me personally when something doesn't look right is trying to understand as to *why* it's not working in the bigger picture, rather than going in and trying to work on that one thing blindly on its own. Wasn't hard to see this in action when I had to work on some university projects with people with no experience in game development, and I often ended up pointing out stuff not looking great in the build even if the art itself was fine, as I was the only person working in-engine out of the few artists. Of course, not meant to be a slight towards said teammates, just that lack of experience in that specific type of work was showing. Things were drawn, but then they were just thrown in the project without further thought about coherency. It's honestly the same thing with whatever else. If I were to try to paint a piece with super simplified lighting while the whole thing is extremely realistic otherwise, or if I were to make explosion-VFX for a movie without understanding how an explosion works (or a great explosion that the world doesnt react to), it's just not going to mesh well with the whole. Another great example fitting of that specific type of ruined and rusty environment you brought up would be Eve from wall-e specifically. Contrasting to the state of earth when she appears, she's eerily clean and white, which is exactly the point. She's supposed to feel alien, contrasting both the state of the world and the technology of the wall-e bots. In said case however, it's used on purpose and to create a story instead of just throwing her in there without any thought. Asking "why", "what" and "how" is a powerful tool when analyzing or critiquing anything, even one's own personal work! ("Why does this look off?" "What am I trying to say or imply?" "What can I add or take away to sell X better?" "Why does this make it feel more believable?" "How does X work in real life, and how can I make it work in cohesion with my other assets?") Again, sorry for the wall of text! I just love that you brought that up because I feel it's not spoken about enough :)

great vid

I like the way you breakdown the drawings and explain how different elements could better work together in a concise and understandable way. Great video as always.

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10:25 what this person says is irrelevant. they can draw and they have to live with that. i will not tolerate lies

Developer of Inverted Journey here. Thank you so much for reviewing my game! You were very kind and I really appreciate the extra bits of advice- I'll be focusing on adding a landing animation and some more details next! Your channel in general has been incredible for learning how to develop a consistent art style and how to actually go about the process of making art for games, and I really want to say thank you both for doing this and for all the helpful videos you've made before it. Seriously, thank you!

I have subscribe to at least 3 channels that upload daily over 5 indie games, most of the games got a really bad UI. Also over 99% of the games got no dying or losing animations ... most of them got just a text that appears with "You are dead" or even worst "Back to the main menu".

Have you made a vid on the fireflies background? That would be great. It's a beautiful effect.

your vids are so good, you got a new sub

In the case of 6:29 this goes to show that focusing on stuff like custom shaders and all this high tech effort stuff coming before setting a good foundation can work against you. All that effort isn't wasted so to say but to put that amount of work into that instead of making the level match the game story is odd.

Your content is pretty awesome and inspiring.. loved your critiques as well! As long as you have willing participants, I’d like to see this become a more regular session!!

That inverted journey game looks amazing honestly, i wishlisted it :)

Great advice! Love your videos.

Nice!!

Thanks a lot for reviewing my game! Yeah, the text is just a placeholder. I plan on making icons appear on the pet for the statuses. Your idea of having a transition for the icons is great! I have the icons kinda big because I'm legally blind so it looks better to me to have them so big. LOL! But I can make them smaller. Thanks again for the feedback. <3

Totally agree. Being coherent with the overall design and art style is usually more important than the quality of the art itself

That rabbit piece is amazing!

@Nonsensical2D - I disagree with your opinion on style. On the contrary, I beleive one style can be determined by constructing a creative theme.This theme is used as an expression of the video game work which can then be expressed with artist tools/mediums. For example,if you where to build a fast pace platformer that is to be speed ran. you could choice a theme fantasy-horror" that express the idea of something scary,or plot in the story a man being chased. This will broden your imigination if you mindmap around a plot of your game.

I've been enjoying your videos and you being up some points I hadn't thought about. My biggest fear though for using hand drawings for game sprites is how it might change when adjusting the resolution.😊

thanks for the feedback