Remaking Tamagotchi 25 years later...
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2022
- I spent 2 weeks making my own virtual pet game for this handheld device called the Playdate!
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This is rad! As a big tama fan, what I'd like to see added is care-based evolution trees for the pets as well as less 'real world' animal designs and more just weird little guys like the traditional tama design. I think the battle system looks cool and the overall interface is really neat! Have you thought of having a breeding/generation system that uses inherited 'genetic' traits like the Tama M!x?
Yeah the evolution thing was definitely something I missed out on that would've been good to implement. The breeding system seems cool for sure, but would definitely be a decently big undertaking to add to the game
@@SquidGodDev I figure something like that is pretty hard to randomize well. This might be the thing that convinces me to get a Playdate though!
We can tell your a tama fan by use of the word rad lol. Much love
I'm with you 100%! I loved the weird little creatures. Especially in the beginning when they were glorified blobs! Give me weirdos I can love. 😄
like digimon v pet?
This looks great! I was also obsessed with tamagotchis as a kid. It's interesting to hear your thought process and game design decisions, and the final result with the grid-based battle system influenced by what you feed your pet was very clever - looks to be an addicting addition, keep up the great work! Subscribed awhile back, always looking forward to seeing more (and your continued work on the roguelite)!
Thank you! Glad you thought the game design process was interesting - I'm always interested to hear about that from other people too
Very cool. Love that you keep doing different things with the Playdate and the end result looks so polished!
I said it before in a different video but once I have mine I'll play all your games.
Thanks! Love trying out different genres and game types since I'm really using the Playdate learn game development
You did a job well enough to have me purchase your game.
As an old-school fan of both Tamagotchi and Megaman Battle Network, this game hits the right spots.
Your game making vlogs are very inspiring, and I would love to develop a game myself one day. Thank you for your content. ❤
I love it! You are so creative with a simple idea of what tamagotchi could be! Definitely would play ;)
I love the way this turned out! you definantly improved upon the tamagotchi formula ^-^
Thank you!
that is so awesome!! i love what you’re doing with the play date and all the games you have been working on!
Thanks!
You did a great job! This makes me want to buy one of these and learn how to design and program for it
Just subscribed! Don’t even have a play date but watching you develop games like tamagotchi is truly inspiring!
Thanks!
I couldn't believe you actually made something about tamagotchi, I want to make my own! Love your other videos too.
Overall, I am really impressed by how quickly you can put thinkgs together, gather assets, do the animation and make the sound effects. Any tips on how to efficiently use Aseprite or make sounds ? :)
Well the main thing is I always try to find assets first for both art and sfx - that saves tons of time. Otherwise, for Aseprite or art in general I think the main issue is getting art block, so to make sure I don't get blocked I always look at references, keep iterating even if I feel stuck, and try out things to make sure I'm making progress. For sounds, I try to imagine a sound in my head and go through CZcams and freesound.org and trying to think of things to look up that's related to that sound in my head, and keep trying different prompts if I can't find it, and then bringing it into Audacity and experiment with just pitch/tempo/speed and reverb. It's all momentum based - just need to keep working
You are so underrated!
Great video editing skills and awesome video in general!
Thanks Francesco!
Dude. Your video made me really excited and I was ready to try to make a Digimon version but then I remembered there’s already a wonderswan version or any of the handheld games.
THIS LOOKS SO FUN. I can't wait to try the battle minigame!
So frikn creative!!! Incredible work! I cant wait to play!!!!
I absolutely love this!
I'm a massive fan of Pokémon games and I noticed the farming mechanics is actually a little similar to how berries operate within the Pokémon games.
I think it'd be cool if different items you're farming take different amounts of time. You could add stages of growth and watering the plants regularly as they progress would give you more food items. Your plant wouldn't need to die just because you didn't water it. That kind of a mechanic could be implemented, but I feel it'd only make sense on rarer food items that give special effects.
Wow... amazing creation on this little console! Inspirational!
Yo beacuz of your videos now i am DREAMING of having a playdate.Keep going and one day you will be a LOT better
Man your videos are great. Having a playdate for Christmas 🥳🥳🥳
I love the way this turned out! you definantly improved upon the tomagachi formula ^-^
Thank you!
Well worth the 2 week effort. The narrative was entertaining to watch throughout the video. Also, "I ran this picture through a dithering algorithm" has got to be the catchphrase of this series of videos xD
LOL pretty much. It saves so much time since I can code way faster than I can make art and produces decent results
Thank you for showing Tamagotchi: Corner Shop, I've had memories of that game in my head for months but couldn't remember which game it was!
You have made me want a Playdate sooo much, im saving up for one
I was looking for a good virtual pet game and this is the best one yet so I’m planning I get a play date for Christmas also I really like all your other games and I make sure I watch each one of your videos.
Thank you! Glad you're enjoying my videos 🙂
This is so cool! Awesome job 🎉
Awesome job! This is super cool!
Wow this game looks so awesome! Great job!
I really love this! :O I'm probably going to buy a playdate specifically for this since I'm very into collecting v-pets ^-^ (and the playdate is actually cheaper than some tamagotchi models x.x )
Awesome work. I would probably do mine the way you made your game, it looks good
I’m joining your patreon when mine come these look like so much fun!
Awesome - see you there!
I love this project! I had the blue diginmon and some kind of dalmatian one when I was about 5 or 6 and now I kinda miss them. Might have to check one of these out. Thanks!
This is really great man :)
really cool and well executed idea!
This is amazing! Loving it! I need to get a Playdate :D
Haha yeah it's so cool and fun to develop for!
Dude how are you able to come up with so many creative ideas? The biggest thing that holds me back into even attempting game development is the fact that the most difficult part seems to be coming up with actual fun ideas that others would enjoy
Not sure what it comes across like in the video, but I just took some ideas from existing games and put a small twist on them, so nothing too crazy! Your first games shouldn't try to be for others, but just something for yourself. The game will probably be simple and not fun at first, but that's expected - it's supposed to be iterated on. You shouldn't let that hold you back from starting!
I am waiting on mine to ship but the emulator does a fine job at playing it for now! Good work
As someone who absolutely loves Tamagotchis since childhood, I really love your take on the original games! What I would personally add are collectible toys and items which the pet can interact with. On original Tamagotchis, the pets had evolutions that determined whether the pet was a toddler, kid, adolescent, or adult and according to this it went to school, could use different items (or interact with the ones it could previously use differently) and even get a job! Since you used animals I don't think it would make sense to add evolutions, but maybe it could be level based? It would definitely motivate people to level up to unlock more content. So yeah, items, schools (which depended on the Tamagotchi skills such as kindness, style and intelligence), and jobs would make the game more coherent with elder Tamagotchis, I think most of the things I mentioned were added between version 3 and 4. Also, look up Tamagotchi town, I don't know if you can make something similar here but as a child, I would spend a lot of time connecting my Tamagotchis to the tama-town website to get unique items, events, and rewards.
Thanks! Looked up Tamagotchi town - looks pretty interesting. That would definitely be a cool system to have in a game.
This is a really cute game! I think I would personally like to hear a more retro sound style but it's still really great!
Can't get enough of your devlogs
Glad you're enjoying them!
Great work! I love tamaguchi back is was a kid. You really make a wonderfull and very interesting game, but planting and monster battleing not what goes to my mind for tamaguchi, but if you make an rpg you can do wanders with thet mimic and cyclops :)
thats awesome, i would have like to have evolutions just like digimon but i know that would be a lot more sprites and way more time. still, pretty cool how much you were able to do in such a short amount of time. wish i had a playdate
I was so hoping for a per and one step from eden game for the playdate and you made both in 1. I Love it.
Maybe one day i will get one
This is awesome!!! Great job!! :D
Thanks!
thanks for sharing your work in detailed steps! really encourages the rest of us, digital creatives here :)
Np - happy to share :)
Cool! i know its gonna be great, hope it has a cool feature with the crank!
Edit: Nice! I love the petting.
This is incredible! I didn't know this little console existed but now I want one!
Wow nice work!
Great work man. This should be celebrated.
Really cool! I've also started playing with a tamagotchi and I think I enjoy the passive caring you have to do for it, but it's really cool how you're adapting it for a more active play session. Have you considered (if you even can) adding a clock to work with the game so you can see your pet while the game is in standby mode? I'm not sure if that is even possible but it'd be cool to still have that passive caring through out the today you have to do.
Ah no I haven't thought about that, but that's an interesting idea. It's definitely possible to do.
Thank you for teaching me about One Step From Eden. That looks super fun
Np! I'll admit I never played it, but it looks super polished and cool.
Very cool dude, good job
Wow! You are so inspirational!
This is so good!!
I had a tomagachi as a kid with a whole bunch of mini games that you could unlock as you played and they would reward money that you could spend on food and more games.
Great job dude
This is some quality work
this guys games look top notch,, the pixel art and everything feels so. much like the style of the hand crank
Thanks!
Great mini game idea!!
This is great. The only thing I would expect from a modern game is just more content. But very great for a free game made on a short timeline.
Being able to customize the pet a bit with decorations or accessories would be great. Maybe more types of items that so different thing as well to give the game a bit more variety.
This is great! But I am a huge digimon buff and when I saw you talk about the digimon battle system I was hoping there would be a more standard formula, maybe later on you can have different foods have different advantages against monsters, or maybe you could make the monsters possible to get!
Digimon definitely has some interesting ideas with their combat. Don't have any plans currently for any updates, but luckily there's a lot of space for other devs to make different virtual pet games for the Playdate.
This looks like so much fun and makes me want to get a Playdate
When I got my playdate last week, it was one of the first things to think of; how cool would it be to have a tamagotchi on the device. I could only encourage you to put more time into this, as I can see many people paying 6-10 bucks for this!
While we also had Tamagotchi Friends that was B&W non-lit back screen it is def not like this! This is awesome! 💜
nice. Very chill video. I enjoyed it
Thanks!
Great game and vid
Thank you!
I can't wait to get my playdate to try this game!
Always wondered if Tamagatchi would grow into a huge sim. Keep em coming.
I think you ended pretty well to put all the tamagotchi flavor in the playdate. nice work!
Thanks!
this is beautiful
i got it! i love the mini game! congrats making the first virtual pet on playdate! so far i love it! first pet i got was the dog!
Thanks for getting the game! That's a great first pet
Wow! This has a lot going for it!
your doing great job wouldn't surprise if got offers come in . people clearly like it and can see tamagotchi come back to life IF!!!! giving chance. most likely catch on tho will it last probably not
but be worth it
Ive already got myself digimon tamagotchi
maybe they can bring out two version old classic and maybe more hi teck version of tamagotchi to appeal to younger
super awesome!
very cool. good job
Cool! I also remember playing on little Tamagotchi toys as a kid :)
Thanks! A shared childhood experience for sure
@@SquidGodDev Yeah. I also remember playing a little game that was shaped like a Tamagotchi but it was the game 20 questions
Really nice. above and beyond the original
As someone who also bought a tamagotchi that has been going strong for nearly two weeks now (Thanks to me learning about being able to pause it while I'm at work) I love this concept! I really miss all the old virtual pet sims like Petz and Nintendogs.
I think one huge thing missing is the evolution mechanics. A huge draw to tamagotchis was learning about the different paths and taking care of them to see what they would turn into. Without that mechanic I feel like it'd be easy to play the game for an hour and then never pick it up again.
Thanks! I got some feedback about that when I made this video, so I did end up releasing an update/devlog with a basic evolution system.
Just want to say how good the sound design is, specially the make a wish screen, it reminds me of simple sound cues from some Gameboy Games.
Thanks! Glad that the time I put into the sound wasn't wasted
this is unreasonably cool
I love tamagotchi and I have a couple ideas, One is that you could use your Gems to get clothing for your pet. Another idea is maybe some sort of treasure hunting mini game we’re your pet searches a large garden and if you turn the crank the pet can sniff and search for the treasure or something. One final idea is (I’m not sure if it’s possible for Playdate) to make the mini game you already have multiplayer. Thanks for reading
Thanks for your ideas! Multiplayer is unfortunately not possible right now, but I do like your other ideas - especially the customization!
Ok! 👍
I absolutely love this! I really want to play your game, but I can't afford to buy a PlayDate right now (hoping I will be able to someday.) I can afford your game though - and I was wondering if it was possible to just play it on the playdate SDK on PC? I haven't been able to get the "virtual console" to work so I could play some games on it and was hoping you or someone in the comments would be able to help me figure it out. :) Thanks.
Do you have the Simulator installed? Comes installed with the SDK ( play.date/dev/ ). When you open the Simulator, you can just drag and drop any .pdx folder directly onto the simulator and it'll run it
Wow, this is actually really cool!
Thanks Null!
Awesome!
Back in the day on Phantasy Star Universe on Xbox you could download a Chao Sonic mini game onto your GBA. It was like tamagotchi in a way but the mini game was the greatest. It was a form of rock, paper, scissors and I've never seen it anywhere else. It would be great to see that remade
Nice graph! Look like good idea for widget games. Or amoled set wallpaper or screensaver. Have one dog that walking around screen and have interactions with touches. Launch fot Android.
Its really cool
Yo that is super cool!!!
Its a pretty great idea! The only thing missing are evolutions which I think are the best part of a Tamagotchi.
Thanks! Yeah I got some feedback about that when I made this video. I did end up making a follow-up update/devlog where I introduced a basic form of the evolution system.
SICK!
good stuff... keep it up.
that's awesome omg
I was too young when these came out but my sisters had them and I thought they were so cute. years later I'm a fan of Pokemon and even more years later, they remake Gold and Silver and include one of these little guys basically. I've wanted Pokemon to bring another one of these guys back with more functionality when away from the main games. this seems like the perfect solution
this is what I thought Pokemon Let's Go was gonna be... so disappointed.
@@luckerooni1153the Pokéwalker should've had more functionality. Apparently you were supposed to be able to receive distribution Pokemon on it but the function was never used
You make great video keep it up
Will do!
Is there a version of this, but with color like the Gameboy Color, or the early DS?
I'm on the hunt to make my own Tamagotchi (while also learning how to program in Python), and I'm enjoying the Raspberry Pi (but there's so much to set up first). This seems like a fun alternative.
Love this! When I finally get my Playdate, this will be one of the first things I play.
You give access to the source code for Patreons? I'm a developer and I really want to make some games for it. I know Lua is preferred, but that there is C support. Have you ever tried writing a whole game in C for it? (Is that even possible?)
I will definitely Patreon you when my Playdate arries.
Yup you can definitely make a whole game in C. There's several in the first season that were written in pure C. I'll probably try it at some point in the future.
This is badass!! Sold!!
love it :)
omg this is so cool! Thank you for the walk through. I kind of want to get a Playdate and write things now. Did you write this in C or Lua?
I wrote this in Lua
@@SquidGodDev The system looks wonderful, but the choice of languages feels a bit limiting. It sounds like folks are playing with using C++ and Rust for Playdate? It'd be great to have strong (ideally, "official") support for one or both of those. I wonder if that is likely happen.
@@MarkMark Unlikely to have official support, as there's basically one guy working on the SDK, but could have strong community support eventually
So amazing. Really shows you don't need HD graphics or huge maps to get rich gameplay.
Out of curiosity, have you ever played the Gameboy game Survival Kids? I think you'd dig it.
Nope, but looks cool!
Unofficially if there is a way you could make a little Sora, Riku or Kairi, that we would be rad :D, or Rugrats :) you're making me want to learn how to code and get that device lol