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im surprised nintendo hasn't sued you for using blue and red squares for range lmao

This is absolutely amazing! Congrats! I'm on my gamedev journey right now, too! God bless ya and Jesus loves ya :)

Good points! Would add that having a FT job also allows you to be more experimental with your game, choose a less-popular genre, take design risks, etc. You can still aim to make money, but you aren't worried about risking your livelihood. Same applies to being able to survive initial failures, or drop a game in development that isn't working out. Having some money just makes you more resilient to bumps and obstacles, doesn't matter whether that money comes from a job or a studio backcatalog.

disappointed that you didnt play Brigandine more :(

Haven't watched the full video yet, but are there any procedurally generated ones?

Super Robot Wars is my favorite SRPG series that I've played. Super Robot Wars W is one of the few games I've beaten more than once. That said, I haven't played most of the games that you've beaten and would like to try some of them out at some point. Fire Emblem is probably my second favorite SRPG series that I've played, but I haven't played every FE game yet. I'm really impressed by how many games you've beaten and are able to give interesting analysis on your experience with. Thanks again for the video.

Thracia 776 is unplayable for me. I dont speak japanese and the english patch is doo doo budder. And then the game makes 0 sense because of it. Why is it that when i go to combat sometimes i swing like literally 6 times and i gotta manually calculate everything i dont get a x2 when i double and brave weapons IDFK what they do different here but it aint normal. 0 QOL stuff makes FE unplayable until Fe6 or the remakes of Marths and alms games. I can appretiate the random Stuff in Thracia like the notes that allow you to move when you press wait with like a 10% chance or whatever. Thracia i just turn off my brain and engage combat and just win, the whole game just feels like a shit post to me.

Goodluck with this game!

Does Blaze Union count as Fire Emblem game?

Cant disagree more with three houses. I would probably put it in nearly two different teirs one is not for me, a low amount of characters and really restrictive recruitment is a big off set. Let alone i think it might have my least favorite gamplay and map design is among the worst with maybe only two games beating it. The characters are awsome but the gamplay and the story around is just so bad. I get why people like the game and even call it their favorite. Like i dont think i enjoy any gamplay aspect. The lack of a real tank on harder modes is pretty huge. The odd availablility, the wonky terrible story that has hundreds of unresolved things. The lackluster bosses with terrible mechanics as the game increases. The story being mostly bad depending on route, the routes being unequal and very differing in quality. How the 3 houses title doesnt matter in all routes. Weapon arts being 90 percent boring and 10 percent game breaking/character defining, reclassing and the requirements for it, spells being awful for most people unless they are broken for you. The amount of easy stride plus warp maps. How tedious it is to customize a character for minimal benifit. Most passives being usless and some being op. (Lythesia). Bosses that in story are intimidating but you can easily one shot even on higher difficulty. Ambush reinforcements on higher difficulty. Weapons and weapon rank barley mattering except for said tedious class system. The garrison system as a whole kinda blows, especially with stride and a few super strong ones vs pathetic which you use for nich times. Like again i dont hate the game, as its still a good game for what it is, but its easily the one i can confidently say i will never replay becouse of its vast differences in quality's just in its own game which makes the low cast hurt even more.

I agree with alot of what you said. I think Echoes is ridiculously overrated, the game is a slog to play. It really isnt fun even if its looks and sounds good. Birthright is bad, Revelation is actually 0/10, and TMS isnt a Fire Emblrm game IMO. The biggest disagreements I have is that I think FE6 is mediocre to great and I think you massively overrate Thracia. The game has alot of cool mechanics and ideas but just as many janky and poorly thought-out mechanics. Id probably put it at the top of mediocre. The only non-FE Kaga game Ive played is Tear Ring Saga and it was fine, probably bottom of mediocre for me. I would have loved a Kaga FE6 because he could have refined the half baked ideas in Thracia and made something really special.

As a fire emblem fan I did try the demo for this game. It’s very rough, but it has potential. It needs work, there’s a lot of ui and accessibility problems.

Awesome approach and congrats on your progress so far, you just got yourself wishlisted. Keep it going!!

Focus on a "real" game engine is indeed the worst mistake I feel people get pressured to do. I am never going to make Octopath Traveler in RPG Maker, fine, but I am never going to make Octopath Traveler in Unreal as well. And you can bet your ass that the team behind Octopath Traveler will make a killer game even in RPG Maker and I won't do anything near it in any engine. Not to say I never would be, it's just that skill, knowledge, teamwork etc. are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more important than the engine but since it is a choice that could easily speak to our consumer mindset, it gets overemphasized.

Hey you can take some inspiration from yggdra union for camera movement when they are on battle

It's a great time to be an SRPG fan. Looking forward to Noble Duty, the Demo was a lot of fun.

I've never seen this game. What the heck steam? Wasn't there just a Steam Strategy Fest? I almost missed out!

just for the love of god, whatever you do, do not add politics into your game, you know what kind i mean, either side. make your games for everyone, not just one radicalized side. doesn't make sense money wise or even fanbase wise.

this is great advice and your game looks great PS: what ive learned in 10 years as a professional software developer is that everyone sucks at programming.

You mentioned in the comments that you used part of the budget for character art. What is the particular artist you commissioned? There is no information anywhere about it

"having more money is better than having less money" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

may i ask what things you spend money on during game development ?

I like the direction you went with the art style, it looks a lot like the OG Fire Emblem games, I'll make sure to give this a try when it's launched!

This game reminded me of Fire Emblem:The Sacred Stones I hope you make a game like that ;-;

First off congrats on releasing your game! I don't agree with tip#1. I did everything you can see in my progress videos. Still working on my own sound effects and music which were the skills I started with. It ended with me knowing how to do everything else, and I can safely say that is all me and it was all free. So I think TIP#1 should be is try learning new things.

Im finally putting a ton of focus into game dev and its so exciting. I know pretty much nothing but seeing videos like these really give me the inspiration to keep going.

Is there going to be a switch port?

Hello fellow SRPG creator! My dream SRPG is a Super Robot Wars game inspired by Genealogy of the Holy War, where the first generation fights a losing battle against an invading alien force, and then 12000 years later, a new generation sends out an expedition into space to discover the truth about the origins of the invasion. Sadly I don't have the Six Years to really invest in making it a reality.

That was the one issue I had with Andaron Saga. There were an almost ovwr abundance of Escape Maps at the worst times to do so. The Hidden Final Chapter was one that devolved into an escape map.

I heard of you and your game from Titanium Legman. Really love the look of a Kaga Emblem game with stats to match

Keep it up, it looks nice!

Hope it does not turn out to be half dating sim like last Fire Emblems, looks more to the core which is promising.

Oh hell yeah! Demo time :D

Wish-listed! Looks cool!

I hope I will pick it up again sometime. I can kinda do anything. That was how I got myself overwhelmed in the past. Both your and Paddy's advice really hit the head of the nail. P.S.: As a big fan of TRPG, your game looks really fun. Wishlisted, will try later:)

These are all pretty good, really nice that you kept it short and concise too. Tip 1 might be the most useful, just having a general deadline can be enough to keep me going. I'm about 8.5 months into my current game and was actually worried I was going too fast. I gotta start taking breaks too, sometimes I "work" on my game and end up only changing one thing in an hour

5+ years...and I took that personally

Being a dad, working full time, I am finding hard to find usefull tutorials on how to do, as there is too many bad tutorials around. Also agree with all you said. I plan on paying for the turnbase grid system on unreal 5.I like art, and game design I suck at programming.

Totally not me making a hentai rpg game with farming sim characteristics x'D

These tips are similar to stuff I've heard other people say previously. As such, I already started following this advice before, and I feel reassured by this video. I had been playing a variety of games from my genre of choice for a while, but it seems like it's nowhere near as many as other people like you. I also recently tried playing a variety of games from other genres in preparation for making future games, but I still have more work to do to get there. Lastly, I play tested my game a lot and caught many issues, but there's only so much I can find on my own so I started having other people play test it too. Thanks very much for this video.

These are solid tips, admittedly makes me feel a bit better about not doing game jams very often. Regarding step 4, if you discover a 'cheese tactic' for a boss/hard encounter, how do you go about it? In my turn based RPG, one of my bosses can pretty easily die from a Poison + Defend a bunch strat, and it's pretty funny, but I'm confused on whether to just leave it in the game or patch it out

I can’t be the only one who realizes that some of the BGs in the Cutscenes are from Disgaea can I?

I was nos expecting this quality advises. Lovely game btw

1:13 eh, Puzzle Platformers are still in demand. It's just that for me it's hard to come across GOOD puzzle platformers. It's much more of the fact there is a higher quality mark for said genre, it's a genre that's easy to do but hard to make engaging/ good like that one magnet game that's coming out (my brain is too tired to remember the name)

I slightly disagree, making the game for myself and others, if I did this I might as well not make a game at all, just hope I find something with the setting and system I like. Everything I run across just so mediocre, boring and unfinished. I agree about everything else, I want to polish and make complex worlds with interesting and cool setting with a complex system. Not harder, but more enjoyable and worth the time and energy spent on it. I have my own aesthetic and style that I love and enjoy, I see games that I like and get enraptured by, but can never play it since the system and gameplay is so boring, broken and not at all explained. I don't need my hands held, but some games are just made to be too hard and streamlined. So focused on fast movements and no strategy or imagination. It's good to have the story be believable in it's setting, but too much realism spoils the game. I like games that are explained through the world, events and story. Let us have some kind of journey, make this none special character you have created, and turn them into that special character through the story and growth in all areas. That's why me and my brother plan on learning coding, and art. We want to make the game me we want to play. So I guess I am kinda making it for my brother and he's making it for me. Hmm, maybe I don't disagree as much as I thought I did at the start.

No more sad, starving artist trope. Happy, well-fed artists instead.

Great video and lovely points hahah I agree with everything for the most part ^^ Also looking forward to more vids like this! P.S. you might want to change/censor the title since YT will probably shadowban it in search results P.P.S. farming sims are actually undersaturated, meaning that they perform SUPER well on Steam but there aren't too many of them yet compared to other genres

"Fun" is subjective. At least you must find your game fun, so marketing won't be as painful to do. Look at when GGG talk about Path of Exile, they're exciting to talk about the game because they think it's fun. If nobody else think it's fun but you think so, it's just mean you're not meeting your tribe yet.

Damn, you didn't have to roast me on main like that fr fr. Jokes aside, releasing a demo for Gales of Nayeli has been a great way to confirm most of these points and I can't recommend it enough.

Can't wait for Noble Duty