Okay, wishlisted But have you checked, how many cat cafe games are on Steam already? When I tried to search Cat Cafe, hundreds of other results showed up. It would be concerning, since if there's a niche, it can be oversaturated too easy.
Samyam, you might really be onto something here. You called 1000 wishlists in a month not bad but it's probably higher than most of the indie gamedevs. For example, Samurado, Songs of Everjade from Sasquatch B and Bitemegames respectively took ~1 year to reach 1000 wishlists. Actually that is the case for my game as well, which I'm actually now abandoning for various reasons. Best of luck! You seem to have landed on an idea that resonates with your target audience and executed it beautifully! The cats and the environment look adorably cozy. The art in Bumbi was decent, but this one is remarkably beautiful.
Thank you so much! The wishlists are largely due to my existing audience which I am grateful for :) (also BUMBI may or may not be getting a makeover too ;)!)
This game is looking great Sam. i have been loving these type of cozy desktop era living wall paper style games making a comeback in te past few years ago. So taking me back to my childhood. Def gonna be adding this into my wallpaper gameage stash.
That's a really cute idea! I love how even simple-looking games might me a true challenge for developers. After watching a few of your contents I'm on my own journey, so thanks: this is very inspiring to me!
This is a lot of motivation. I’m working on a typing practice mini game with cats. Called typing kitties. As a solo dev it’s been an infernal code experience but a rewarding one
Could you please tell us about the build configuration and screen size to make the game appear at the bottom. Or is it that the game is full screen and you did that transparency thing
Yes, it's transparent. Which is actually kind of tricky to get right since you need to dig into the Native (C/C++) APIs of the platforms you're gonna use, which makes porting a lot of work. If you just want to have the game in a square but take up a smaller section of the game you can run the game in Windowed mode and resize to your liking, then only use the Native API to remove the border around it. That's already much easier.
Just a cool tip: instead of .gif-files, you could try using animated .png (.apng). They share the same file type, but consist of frames which play out. You don't have the color limitations, transparency supported and the size doesn't explode as much.
" how to make a game in unreal engine 5 OR unity " because i want to learn game development, please🙏 make video on this topic , I got your channel recommended by this unreal vs unity video of yours and its intresting 😊❤
I love this haha. Not usually into the cats and tea thing but, Hey a cool background game that; acts like that ruin and moves in the back is so great for my oled monitors haha. But I'm curious how optimized is this? Would it impact the day to day performance of a programmer/gamer
Game is looking great though! As a devops engineer turned game developer I always start building my games very early in the process, but I understand how that can be undervalued. But in most cases comes back to bite you in the butt.
Looks funny! Would be cool a video about desktop games teachings. Right now i a have a problem when my game is on "desktop mode" and the game overlaps half of task bar even when a use .workarea screen values on unity
Can you talk more about the technical aspect of how you created a windowless game in Unity that appears to sit on the desktop with a transparent background that can be interacted through?
I'm gonna be honest, the glaring lack of engagement on this question (and another asking the same) while continuing to answer every other comment makes me EXTREMELY suspicious of this "creator" and everything they "make" and put out. Contrast this silence with every other indie dev that loves to talk shop about unique technical things they've done.
You are being quite rude- I don’t have a responsibility to respond to every question (which I receive dozens every day), especially asking extremely technical details about our game that can’t really be explained in a simple comment.
It's a bit hard to explain in just a RUclips comment, but you'll have to dive into the native platform APIs (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) and you'll have to make it work manually for each of those platforms, some features you want may not be possible on some of the platforms, or they may handle things like Taskbars very differently. CodeMonkey made a good tutorial a while back on how to do it for Windows. RUclips doesn't like it when use links in comments but it's called "Transparent Unity App! (Overlay, Assistant, Particles)" Though beware, there are big limitations for different Render Pipelines, if you use URP it removed all alpha information when using any post processing, so that'd break the effect entirely. Honestly it is a big hassle, so be prepared to dive into C++ code if anything breaks!
Thank you! At the moment it's not planned since we'd have to dive into native Linux APIs to make it work and we're a small team, but it hopefully it might be able to work with Proton!
@@samyam I understand, thanks for the info. Similar to most desktop games it likely wont work in proton as it wont support the window transparency. A nice workaround for this could be to have an option in there for a skybox or background so it does not appear as a black rectangle xXx
Hello Samyam, Great Work! I would like to know how the game runs on the desktop. Could you please make the small tutorial ? or Suggest any resource to learn? Thanks :)
CodeMonkey made a pretty good tutorial a couple years back. The dev from Rusty's Retirement (our inspiration) actually used that video to make their game! We also looked at it.
Hello sam, I am from india, I am aspiring game designer but I realised that game designer alone is not enough, so can you like guide me to become a game developer as well. I am okay with anything like unity or unreal whatever, but need your guidance either any course that you will recommend on udemy or Coursera either paid or free, or any RUclips tutorial, because I am really scared because every job is asking for developer, there are not any single one that says that we can join without the experience of a developer, please reply if you can.
Hey, it's nice to see an Indian Game designer. I'm also from India and also, facing similar problem as yours. I'm a game developer and I want to become a game designer😅
@psadicodes oh that's sad, it's like i am finding hard what to do unity or unreal or godot, because I find coding hard, so need to have some tutor or something like that who can teach me the coding from very scratch and basics of both c++ for unreal and c# for unity. But need to learn both of these coding languages and both of these gaming engines from scratch, can you help me brother, if you can give me your Instagram I'd or whatsapp number, that will be helpful.
Man Indians always ask for "complete tutorial". Just read what the job requirements are. Find out whats commonly demanded. Youll find it on youtube Im sure. If you need a structure, you will find everything on Udemy.
@samyam inspiration from a recent game 🤣 just give the dev at least 2-3 years to recoup cost instead of promoting predatory practices to your impressionable audience.
Just FYI, Desktop games aren't a new invention, eSheep came out in 1995, probably before you were born, judging from your tone. Either way it doesn't matter, Mister Norris (the developer of the game in question) liked some of the posts of Desktop Cat Cafe and even promotes other similar games on their Steam page. They welcome similar cute games!
Walter white finally got rid of crystal and start to code an amazing RV for cat to cook 😂YEY , lets hope Sam doesn’t check this comment RIP The game looks cool fr and i hope u and Walter successful journey ☕️🐱 Wishlist the game twice in my 2 accounts 🔥🦦
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Wishlist Desktop Cat Cafe on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2978180/Desktop_Cat_Cafe/
PLEASE MAKE GAME FOR MOBILE 😮
Okay, wishlisted
But have you checked, how many cat cafe games are on Steam already? When I tried to search Cat Cafe, hundreds of other results showed up. It would be concerning, since if there's a niche, it can be oversaturated too easy.
Samyam, you might really be onto something here. You called 1000 wishlists in a month not bad but it's probably higher than most of the indie gamedevs. For example, Samurado, Songs of Everjade from Sasquatch B and Bitemegames respectively took ~1 year to reach 1000 wishlists. Actually that is the case for my game as well, which I'm actually now abandoning for various reasons.
Best of luck! You seem to have landed on an idea that resonates with your target audience and executed it beautifully! The cats and the environment look adorably cozy.
The art in Bumbi was decent, but this one is remarkably beautiful.
Thank you so much! The wishlists are largely due to my existing audience which I am grateful for :) (also BUMBI may or may not be getting a makeover too ;)!)
This game is looking great Sam. i have been loving these type of cozy desktop era living wall paper style games making a comeback in te past few years ago. So taking me back to my childhood. Def gonna be adding this into my wallpaper gameage stash.
Thank you so much!
Walter sounds kinda crazy😂
very cool concept, added to my wish list. cheers!
Thank you!
I hope it gets to 7000 wishlists!
Thank you! 🤞🤞
That's a really cute idea! I love how even simple-looking games might me a true challenge for developers. After watching a few of your contents I'm on my own journey, so thanks: this is very inspiring to me!
Thank you!! Best of luck!
This is a lot of motivation. I’m working on a typing practice mini game with cats. Called typing kitties. As a solo dev it’s been an infernal code experience but a rewarding one
Hey, good job! Nice knowing the behind the scenes.. best of luck for the release.
Thank you!
Poor Walter.
I feel like this game is gonna be huge, what a genius idea
Thank you!
Could you please tell us about the build configuration and screen size to make the game appear at the bottom. Or is it that the game is full screen and you did that transparency thing
Yes, it's transparent.
Which is actually kind of tricky to get right since you need to dig into the Native (C/C++) APIs of the platforms you're gonna use, which makes porting a lot of work.
If you just want to have the game in a square but take up a smaller section of the game you can run the game in Windowed mode and resize to your liking, then only use the Native API to remove the border around it. That's already much easier.
Is this gonna be like rainmeter, where I can just choose the monitor and have the setting that every other application is above it?
You'll be able to choose the monitor, and you can also choose if you want it in the background or the top of other applications.
@samyam thats awesome!
Looking good. Good job not giving up !
Thank you!
I love the concept! So cute!
Thank you! 💖
This is such a cool idea and loved the graphics and animation. This is gonna be a big hit for sure
Thank you!
Wishlisted! Good Luck! Appreciate your videos!
Thank you!
Finally! The camera got you in focus...
Nice job, Sam and Walter!
Thank you!!
Thanks!
We need Walter's version of this video which would be simply that opossum screaming AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH
That's pretty neat and your ability to not give up is admirable.
I wanna have this running at work 🎉
Thank you so much!
Just a cool tip:
instead of .gif-files, you could try using animated .png (.apng). They share the same file type, but consist of frames which play out. You don't have the color limitations, transparency supported and the size doesn't explode as much.
Good to know, thank you!
Plz port to Samsung refrigerator thx
😩
" how to make a game in unreal engine 5 OR unity " because i want to learn game development, please🙏 make video on this topic , I got your channel recommended by this unreal vs unity video of yours and its intresting 😊❤
So much work
Advance congrats for *100k* 🎉
Haha thank you!
You have my wishlist if you guys can go into detail about the transparency trick!
Great insight! I was always wondering how you got the transparent background to work. Can’t wait for the dog invasion DLC!
🤣
I wish the best for the Barcelona gang 😎
🤘🤘🤘
Amazing game! (also finally I saw you clearly!!😂)
Haha thank you, I finally figured out the camera xD
It looks so cute !
Thanks 😄
This is really cool! I've been wanting to make an idle desktop game as well so I should probably give that a shot sometime lol
Thanks! 😄
I love this haha. Not usually into the cats and tea thing but, Hey a cool background game that; acts like that ruin and moves in the back is so great for my oled monitors haha. But I'm curious how optimized is this? Would it impact the day to day performance of a programmer/gamer
Game is looking great though! As a devops engineer turned game developer I always start building my games very early in the process, but I understand how that can be undervalued. But in most cases comes back to bite you in the butt.
We do too usually, we just totally forgot 😅
Looks funny! Would be cool a video about desktop games teachings. Right now i a have a problem when my game is on "desktop mode" and the game overlaps half of task bar even when a use .workarea screen values on unity
Cool work!
Thank you!
IMGONNAWISHLISTTT
THANKYOU
Can you talk more about the technical aspect of how you created a windowless game in Unity that appears to sit on the desktop with a transparent background that can be interacted through?
I'm gonna be honest, the glaring lack of engagement on this question (and another asking the same) while continuing to answer every other comment makes me EXTREMELY suspicious of this "creator" and everything they "make" and put out.
Contrast this silence with every other indie dev that loves to talk shop about unique technical things they've done.
You are being quite rude- I don’t have a responsibility to respond to every question (which I receive dozens every day), especially asking extremely technical details about our game that can’t really be explained in a simple comment.
Drama in game dev is just game dev
Congrats on fame dev 🎉
Haha thank you!
Love this!
Thank you so much!
wow well done! 😮
Thank you!
please explain how the transparent background works. how can we implement it?
It's a bit hard to explain in just a RUclips comment, but you'll have to dive into the native platform APIs (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) and you'll have to make it work manually for each of those platforms, some features you want may not be possible on some of the platforms, or they may handle things like Taskbars very differently.
CodeMonkey made a good tutorial a while back on how to do it for Windows.
RUclips doesn't like it when use links in comments but it's called "Transparent Unity App! (Overlay, Assistant, Particles)"
Though beware, there are big limitations for different Render Pipelines, if you use URP it removed all alpha information when using any post processing, so that'd break the effect entirely.
Honestly it is a big hassle, so be prepared to dive into C++ code if anything breaks!
Welcome in the exclusive group where marketing is a big problem. Let me shake your hand, I will be your years-experienced guide. 🤝 Wish luck!
The game was made because you are silly.
😂
it is okay to make each cat nod in different ways? I think it would add personality
Do you mean while eating?
Good job.
Thanks!
Will it be adaptable to Mac?
Yes we plan on adding Mac support 😄
Great job, this looks awesome! Please please please please release a Linux build of this xXx
Thank you! At the moment it's not planned since we'd have to dive into native Linux APIs to make it work and we're a small team, but it hopefully it might be able to work with Proton!
@@samyam I wishlisted! but I use linux too, hopefully it will work with some proton version. the game looks so good 😍
@@samyam I understand, thanks for the info. Similar to most desktop games it likely wont work in proton as it wont support the window transparency.
A nice workaround for this could be to have an option in there for a skybox or background so it does not appear as a black rectangle xXx
Hello Samyam, Great Work! I would like to know how the game runs on the desktop. Could you please make the small tutorial ? or Suggest any resource to learn? Thanks :)
CodeMonkey made a pretty good tutorial a couple years back. The dev from Rusty's Retirement (our inspiration) actually used that video to make their game!
We also looked at it.
@@lockyaw Thanks :) ...i believe "Transparent Unity App!" this is the one you are referring?!
@@dakhanesarvesh2102 That's the one! Sorry, I can't add links in RUclips comments, RUclips seems to remove those comments automatically.
Very cool!
Thanks :D
good luck, maybe sell the "hack" on the asset store
Looks cool ♥
Thanks!
You should target and send your game to tchat cozzy streamer, that dont play game for their content or something like that.
Algorithm-chan!~~~
Same same but mine is not silly
Can you make a video on how indie games earn.
First I need to publish the game, then I'll make a video on sales and whatnot after.
Would be cool if you could have your twitch viewers/subscribers be your customers in the game as an option!
We are planning on adding twitch integration yes :D!
I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them, samyam.
GG
Yay! When San uploads, I click.
And yes... I've already wishlisted it. My kids will love this.
Hello sam, I am from india, I am aspiring game designer but I realised that game designer alone is not enough, so can you like guide me to become a game developer as well. I am okay with anything like unity or unreal whatever, but need your guidance either any course that you will recommend on udemy or Coursera either paid or free, or any RUclips tutorial, because I am really scared because every job is asking for developer, there are not any single one that says that we can join without the experience of a developer, please reply if you can.
Hey, it's nice to see an Indian Game designer. I'm also from India and also, facing similar problem as yours. I'm a game developer and I want to become a game designer😅
@psadicodes oh that's sad, it's like i am finding hard what to do unity or unreal or godot, because I find coding hard, so need to have some tutor or something like that who can teach me the coding from very scratch and basics of both c++ for unreal and c# for unity. But need to learn both of these coding languages and both of these gaming engines from scratch, can you help me brother, if you can give me your Instagram I'd or whatsapp number, that will be helpful.
just search it up in youtube dude, knowledge is free all over the internet
Man Indians always ask for "complete tutorial". Just read what the job requirements are. Find out whats commonly demanded. Youll find it on youtube Im sure. If you need a structure, you will find everything on Udemy.
Are u asian by any chance
nope
0:26 that is called plagiarism or reskin shame on you
It’s called inspiration, our game is completely different.
@samyam inspiration from a recent game 🤣 just give the dev at least 2-3 years to recoup cost instead of promoting predatory practices to your impressionable audience.
Just FYI, Desktop games aren't a new invention, eSheep came out in 1995, probably before you were born, judging from your tone.
Either way it doesn't matter, Mister Norris (the developer of the game in question) liked some of the posts of Desktop Cat Cafe and even promotes other similar games on their Steam page.
They welcome similar cute games!
i have got a feeling that you are iranian🤪
Walter white finally got rid of crystal and start to code an amazing RV for cat to cook 😂YEY , lets hope Sam doesn’t check this comment RIP
The game looks cool fr and i hope u and Walter successful journey ☕️🐱
Wishlist the game twice in my 2 accounts 🔥🦦
Lmao.
Sounds about right, I've gotta say, it's not as lucrative as making crystal meth but it sure is more rewarding!
Thanks so much for Wishlisting!