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It's been so fun to watch this game grow, and congrats on finally getting that demo out there and entering the festival. That's no small achievement! I'm loving the rise in popularity of 2.5D games and this is definitely one of the better looking ones I've seen. You're right though, handling camera systems is tough in this style of game... I feel your pain. 😅 I sent you an email back in April of last year inquiring about your plans for music, since this genre is my favorite to compose for, but I'm assuming you've already worked something out. Can't wait to try this out later either way! :)

Looking forward to what's next!

Gay!

it looks really nice!

great work on the new camera! i feel like camera systems are kinda like sound effects; if they're bad they really stands out, but if they're good you don't really notice them

Looks like Hyper Light Drifter 1.5. Wishlished.

Commented on your first video when you first posted it and this here popped up, been quite a while! Gotta say... Amazing bump in the quality & variety of environments & enemies. I have 2 humble suggestions if you get the time, purely cause I really believe they'd only add to the experience: 1) Add the option to toggle post fx like Bloom & DoF off or at least tone it down. I understand why they feel ok to be included, but you've got to make the decision on if you want your art to feel homogenous or not. Currently these PP FX are clashing harshly with what I'd initially expect to be minimalist art. Would be more ideal to boost your visuals by focusing on sounds as DoF & Bloom give it a realistic side that could do more damage than good. 2) If your character & fx sprites are rendered on a separate layer from your 3D environments, it would be a fun idea to add a pixelation effect over your 3D and see if they look better in tandem with your sprites. Solution would be to either render them in-engine at say, 270p (if in 16:9) and upscale in nearest neighbor OR fake this with a filter that behaves like Reshade's Virtual Resolution (essentially the same thing just applied as post fx). You've put so much work on this, I'll be following to see how it turns out! Huge props!

Reminds me of Digimon World’s fixed camera angle that changed per map

"After doing a lot of research I found Cinemachine" Isnt cinemachine prepacked with Unity and advertised everywhere as the go-to solution? :D

This is the first video I’ve viewed of yours. The game looks great! I find myself thinking more about cameras recently, just to help guide the player without it being too obvious.

Aye just started watching the video, I thought the video was gonna be kinda boring bc of the title though ya camera system is essential, but when I heard you say that you released your first playtest and you realized that you almost set yourself up for failure I think that kind of thing alot of ppl could relate with, maybe you change the title for that and the video could reach alot of people and help encourage them too but ya i only clicked on this video bc i seen your previous dev logs b4 and its progress and your story with it was interesting but ya i hope you can figure everything out and be good ❤

amazing as always

nice touch. much more appealing art style. keep it up bro.

Now that you're focusing on the camera, please, please move the target ahead of the character. It has felt like it's been dragging behind, since the beginning really. In cinematic composition theory, one generally leaves breathing room in front of a character, unless intentionally going for a feeling of claustrophobia. And in a game, I am much more interested in what is ahead. I don't need a hi def look at enemies I've already killed or gaps I've already jumped. I need to see ahead. There are times watching these clips that I'm very aware that the person playing seems to know the terrain very intimately already. I've sometimes wondered if a new player would feel frustrated walking off a cliff or into an enemy they couldn't see. And the real trick to this: the faster you move, the further out ahead the camera target should be. This is the exact opposite dynamic from the typical dragging behind type camera smoothing, as it is much more difficult to implement. But it's so, so worth it. Your game will be much more of an enjoyable experience.

Nice, cinemachine is pretty damn good. Just played the demo, is it possible to tone down the bloom, DoF, and chromatic-aberration a bit? Feels like visibility/clarity is somewhat lost.

Ngl im always surprised by how important the camera is, even though it's so easy to notice a bad camera. Nice one :)

Hey Steve this is so cool it’s davis

Insightful as always

Added to wish list

well....THIS is bad ass. Love the Low res Hero

Cannot wait to play Evie. Such an inspiring story, and very much appreciate you sharing your experiences as a developer and father. Wishlisted!

I just found this project and I am loving how it looks and feels! One personal issue I find in this part of the game tho is that the light source being so far behind and being so little can be more frustrating than it is connecting. I understand you want to build a connection/need with the companion, so if you are open, I have came up with suggestions. Instead of changing, how about we add something, an interaction. What if the player could hold or allow it to perch on the player, so that we can have an easy light source. However, we are unable to attack or use abilities. To do so, it will send our companion flying forward which could be used as a way to see forward into the darkness or quickly react to surprise encounters. I think this way would be more fun and connecting since we are having an beneficial interaction instead of feeling like an escort mission. This interaction could also be used outside of lighting the dark, since having the ability to send out our companion could be fun or helpful for combat encounters or perhaps collecting farout items. Anyways, im loving how this looks and hope to see more of it! Keep up the great work!

It's a great chance to test out and play around with features/system implementations without having to necessarily commit to them

Love the art style. Love the devlogs. Can’t wait to love the story.

Solid progress. Games looks great. Keep it up. Wishlisted.

Great video! If I could offer some visual feedback from what I see, when you teleport the screen does a slight jitter effect. While it was fine when you TPd once, it was very jarring when you did it multiple times in a row. Have you tried taking the jitter out and not having the camera follow the character during this movement to see if it changes the fluidity?

This game looks great. I love the art style.

It's turning out to be a beautiful game, man! The walking seems a bit mismatched with the char speed tho. Have you tried tweaking the walking animation speed? Just a lil bit, maybe 0.9 or 1.1

Looks pretty promising! good job!

how many hours pers day are u working on it ?

Damn, the music in this vid is awesome, is it the game soundtrack? Need more :D

Can't wait to play in the next fest, always love these devlogs. Aiming to get my demo ready for June 2025 next fest :D

Great job, wishlisted.

Looks amazing.

This is so inspiring and promising. Keeps getting better

This my first time I'm seeing your work here on this indie title and I must say I'm liking what I'm seeing.! Keep going!

Heyo! Big fan of LEGO Universe, and a current DarkflameServer maintainer. From reverse engineering of the client and a dev video, they were going to bring back the capture the flag style racing with the nexus tower/crux prime race track. The component exists in the final released client and is called GateRushControl. It looks like it would work given a server emulator (like darkflame) implemented support for it and a map for it was made, since that map hasn't leaked as of now

Holy shit you worked on Lego Universe

ratchet and clank combat was so peak, love to see it referenced. thanks for sharing these stories

PLEASE invest in a pop protection.

As an aspiring dev, this was amazing insight, thanks!

Thanks for sharing your story man! It was great to hear!

My favourite YT content right now is just people talking about what they love doing, subscribed for more stuff like this

This channel deserves more views. It is rare to get to hear an inside view from somebody with as wide a range of professional experience in the game development industry.

I love hearing stories of working in bigger studios! Thanks for sharing

tHE MUSIC IS 🔥🔥

Man your devlogs are my favourite. Really cool to hear you are also a lead game designer, my dream is to one day be a gameplay programmer but I need to finish my own game first while working as a software engineer full time.

I really appreciate your insights into your mainstream and indie game dev journeys. I find myself getting started and then stopping, then starting again trying to make indie games. Your clear explanations about your experiences (as well as my recent self-motivation) really help me to understand to stick true to my gut and really stick with getting started on my own journey. Thank you!

wait thats not runescape

You gonna be broke if your game makes money unity gonna drain your money in runtime fee and royalty fees and yearly fees good luck I'm using godot