Spending a Month Rebuilding my RPG's World
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- Welcome to another devlog for Dauphin! In this episode I show you how I've spent the start of 2024 re-architecting the way I build Dauphin's islands, and from there, embark on a journey to make Dauphin's underwater world just as interesting. Hope you enjoy!
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I love following your progress in these devlogs, the game is coming along great!!! And I'm really happy my water shader could help :D
it's really great!
Thanks for all the work you've shared on your channel and GitHub - I've learned a ton!
omg, the moment i saw the water, it reminded me of ur video :3
THAT WATER ABSOLUTELY MADE ME SO HAPPY IT'S WONDERFUL 😭😭😭❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
its perfect
Your water must be one of the best pixelart water I have seen in a while. I saw Jess' video a while back but was unaware the code can be adapted so easily. I definitely will get inspired by this for visualising lava and water in my game.
Phenomenal progress, Ben!
I'm quite certain you're the one who tagged me in a post about it on Twitter 😄
That would look super sweet for lava in your game @bitbraindev!
@@DevDuck oops! Actually forgot about that. 😅
really? it's ok, looks pretty boring... idk, comments like yours sounds like bots ngl
@@LuisCassih Hope you feel better bro, seems like you're a bit grumpy
I love seeing your progress in this devlog. The diving mechanic already feels way more immersive.
yeah, he's somehow the only indie creator who makes devlogs and seen stay committed to their game
NO U
@@minimog8465 Well, besides the ones that already have launched their game
I love the effect when you step into the water. Really gives it a sense of depth. And the underwater art is looking beautiful. Great work on all this.
3:51 A real "BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE" moment seeing the player gradually sink into the water, very nice!
It's the goat
This update is HUGE! Amazing work. Your continuous motivation is impressive and inspiring.
That new water is beautiful.
I got an Apple Vision Pro too and loving it, in fact, I'm currently watching this video with it. I would love to see content on developing for it. Great work on all the updates to Dauphin.
you gonna give him thousands of dollars for it
Really cool use for procedural generation. Big fan of the "dev-time generation" rather than gameplay time generation. I've done a lot of that at work, using mostly Houdini and Unity/Unreal. One of the problems I ran into was when you expand past that initial tile of generation (assuming you are doing tile based generation, rather than the whole world, which it sounds like) you end up with pretty square looking environs on a macro scale. One thing that I implemented as an additional step to the generation was a radial gradient in 0-1, fading from the center of the tile outwards (controlled by a contrast variable) that meant I could ensure that all of the tiles remained more 'island' looking. It also created some additional neat underwater "islands" that you could probably look at using for reefs.
Seeing the corruption in the water before diving will be very cool and help with visually seeing the progress of cleaning up the island. One of the coolest updates for sure
Great work! You should look into "muck dives" when you go to build out areas that only have sand. Lots of unique nudibranchs, octopi, etc, can only be found in the muck :)
something you could add is small and large fish swimming around in small groups
thank you so much for not just using the tool to make randomly generated islands for each player. I was scared for a minute
I'm loving your journey so far... it helps to inspire me to continue my game :D
A+ work broski
Indeed
Ive watched every devlog and always been a little bit sceptical towards the game, but now, now I have faith. Absolute love it!
nah, he's one of those content creator doing it just for making money with devlogs, there are a few of them, after some time when the views aren't there, they change project and continues milking youtube
Since you have the new water tile shader (looking great!), you should definitely add a similar shader to the side-view underwater.
I think the biggest weakness of this game is by far the art and design. I know it's still at an early stage, but the art needs to be overhauled massively.
Always so interesting to see how you've implemented this stuff, incredible work!
Awesome to see the underwater element being expanded. I’m super excited to see the plants and animals incorporated into it. Looking amazing!
The polish on this is amazing! Nice work! I've loved watching this come together and just by adding some shiny stuff you've made it feel like a real world. Wonderful.
I've been following your videos for a long time, and I feel like this was the most impactful one yet to the game! Super awesome stuff and glad to see the progress keep going. Best of luck!
Wow! What a progress you've made!!! Not only architecturally, but the artwork keeps improving also!
The diving mechanic feels a lot more immersive right now, especially cause you can see what's underneath before diving.
Every devlog is a new inspiration! Keep up the good work!
I have been following your channel for quite some time now and I really enjoy catching up on the progress your game makes. Also I find your lifestyle really inspiring and you are kind of a role model for me :) Keep it going!
I’m not sure if this would even be possible to do, but (assuming you plan on including a day/night cycle) it would be really cool if you also had a system that controlled the tide! It would make it so that you can find new creatures depending on the time, and maybe you could even have tidepools!
The water effect is clearly a slap in the face. Sooooo nice ! 🤣👍
Dude, awesome progress! 🎉
The corals look absolutely amazing. These little details can really make or break a game!
These videos are awesome!
I appreciate the explanations for why you make the decisions that you do. I've always wondered why designers make certain decisions, so it really helps to think about things from other perspectives.
Showing the Apple Vision Pro was really cool also.
You're doing great work!
This looks fantastic! Always great to see a new Dauphin devlog :)
Great progress so far! I really like the approach you took for the procedurally generated diving scene. I've done the world/island generation using a noise map before, but hadn't thought about using it as a tool to help create static maps. Keep up the great work!
wow, those changes are amazing. the game looks 100x more polished! good one!
It looks amazing! Wonderfull work!
I swear to god this man single handedly made me want to pursue my passion of making video games. I tried and I am taking classes on godot! It’s excellent and your videos push me to keep going! Thank you! Keep it up!
Looks good, nice work!
It’s come such a long way it’s crazy!!! In the beginning I was just watching but I might play it when it comes out
looks really great man! :)
I love the new water and its effects, it really makes the game look nicer as its gonna be a major component of the game. I'm also interested and looking forward to see how you do aquatic life as you described. The game is definitely coming together nicely.
Looks beautiful!
The progress you've made in this devlog really is a WOW moment for me. When you talked about the player's shadow darkening as they get closer to the sea floor it might be cool if it also gets slightly larger too.
Your videos are such a joy to watch, keep up the good work!
I can think of a few retro games with underwater segments that might be useful as references: "Tiny Toons Wacky Sports Challenge", "World of Illusion", and "In the Hunt".
You made Major progress ! Keep it up man!
When you dive, I think it would look cool if you had that red bobber still visible after the cut scene!! This is such a cool series btw. Keep it up!
I knew I recognized that water!
I'm a bit further into the video now - those dive sites look great!
Ok this game is getting intresting now! very cool love your devlogs makes me want to get back to work on my game!
Wow, the underwater area looks really nice.
I've been waiting! Great progress mate
Man, that is a big jump forward. Great work.
hell yeah, love the walking into water
Im so happy you haven't given up brother. It gives me hope for myself
Amazing update!
The new water and heightmap really adds a new depth to your game.
(pun intended)
These changes are a MASSIVE improvement. Great work, and this is a good example of one of the times where graphical fidelity really DOES impact gameplay, haha.
Really enjoyed the progress in this video! Before I always thought the game felt, dare I say directionless, but now it really seems like the game is starting to understand what it wants to be. Great work!
Taking a step back and improving the things already there is really important sometimes. It was definitely worth it!
looks insanely good :D
So good vlog❤
Really cool your integrated tool to generate islands. Because you wanted an automated tool to create them during development time, maybe what you could do is to also generate a bunch of PNG files with the island mapped on them so instead of you trying random seeds until you find something you like, maybe you can generate over night from 0 to 10.000 and then look at the generated images to find which one is the coolest for your design plans.
this graphic update is very nice, I especially like water and corals, they looks really nice.. and I also like the ability to dive anywhere and see the exact environment where the player dived, very cool : )
This game looks really nice, can't wait till it's finished!
Never seen a pixel art shader this complicated - the result is totally worth it. 😄
The water looks SOOOOOOOOO much better and the undersea view from the surface looks awesome. The tiles legit remind me of late gen SNES games and it's very telling how you've improved your spritework skills so i look forward to more of the sprites being updated
I have been following your game development from the start. I have to admit that new water and underwater stuff looks amazing. It's definitely huge leap forward in visual style of the game.
I've been following your journey for nearly 2 years, I can't wait to see this game release one day
This looks sooo much better 🤩
the water looks amazing!
this is insane that making your game beautiful can have tremendous effects like that
Yeah, this is pure motivation, gotta get back working on my game
despite all the ton of work that needs to be done, you are doing amazing!
My brother, your pixel art skills are really improving! All the new environment sprites look 🔥🔥🔥
Ngl, improving and adding visuals vastly increases the appeal I feel towards this game.
I always tought myself as a gameplay over visuals guy, but when it comes to natrual environments I notice I tend to care a lot more because I love the beauty of nature.
It's all great, my favorite is the water and the diver's shadow. HUGE improvement!
The water looks awesome!!!
Yeah, that water is extremely clean
I think you should apply the water shader in some capacity to the diving scene. Or another that takes into account light traversing water (deep = dark), god beams, the wavey light refractions, bubbles, particles, maybe how the terrain height changes into the background, etc
Thats probably one of the best pixel art water effects ive ever seen.🤩
A low-hanging fruit idea: consider using the x position of your SeaGrassOrganism to offset the animation timer. This would have the result of making the animation play in waves though the scene, and should give your a nice modulating effect for all-but-free.
Incredible looking water
This is looking so great! And welcome to the world of VR haha. I've been using my Quest 3 since Christmas. I don't dev in it all the time but it is fun writing code in a spaceship once in awhile :)
I love the seeing the coral and sea grass within the ocean! It's looking super cool. I think adding the same subtle sea grass wave animation that you have when diving to the below water sprites would look great.
The new sprites look great!
Your water is looking really nice for sure, especially when you have the plants seen under it :) I'm also in the process of tilemapping my first pixel art game, so it's nice to follow along. I do think that, with your water style updated this way, removing the hard outlines from other sprites (like the player and trees) will make a big difference when you get to them.
That's a great update
You could greatly improve the underwater scenes with a gradient colour from the surface to the bottom (It gets darker at the bottom) You could also add some paralax effect based on the depth of the underwater chunk and maybe depth of field to water so it gets blurry in the distance. Maybe you could reuse the shader underwater like when in topdown view so that specs of light pass through just so that the ocean isn't one colour the whole way through. That may just be wishful thinking but the implementation of the ideas could be pretty cool. It is insanely awesome to see what you've accomplished over this last month. Can't wait to see more.
Damn does this look good! Also, I somehow knew the water was from jess::codes lol it's just so pretty
Dont forget to create a rock enviroment.
I live in a island and when I was young I loved catching crabs when the tide was low.
Finally got a chance to watch the devlog, and wow was it with the wait! Dauphin is looking beautiful! :D Also I'd be very interested in seeing more Apple Vision Pro 2 footage, and content, I'm not hugely interested in it myself, but seeing its use cases are interesting nonetheless
A JessCodes video popped up in my recommended a few months ago. I watched it and was amazed at how interesting and easy to follow it was!
What the hell man.. the water is SO good!!!
whoa that water is beautiful
New water looking very cool.
The water looks amazing. According to the depth I’m missing some visual change in the corals. like when it’s getting deeper there should be like an edge or shade underwater to make the depth change more visible.
Phew, my heart sank a bit when you said procedural generation. Purely procedural maps/worlds in 2d games are a dime a dozen these days but using the procedural systems to make the islands and then cherry pick them and then manually add the rest and such is perfectly fine. Great work!
It is cool to see that you're still sticking to this game!
My main problem is I lose interest and start a new project. I got like 50+ projects that never gets done.
The minute I saw the water I knew that it was based on Jess's code! It's so beautiful and it totally fits your game!
I likehow you give credit to things that inspire you
IT'S LOOKING AMAZING. I love the coral and the new water.
I think the next step would be adding sun-rays when diving, it would look really good. :)
I didn't know it was possible for pixelated water to be that good in video game! That's an amazing improvement for Dauphin
The random generation looks very well implemented. Would love a deep dive on it and the code, if you find the time for it. Also love the look of the water and how it functions.
Looks great!!
Would you consider having multiple layers? Like coral shelfs that aren't just on the ocean floor. Would also tee up scuba diving at lower depths as a mechanic for later in the game.
Now that there are underwater "biomes" theres so much opportunity for shipwrecks or rocky sites or ruins or human waste dump etc