in the last game dev video I introduced you to cat hut where you have to stack the huts on top
of the cat's head indefinitely but I've made some improvements since then now you put the
hut on the cat's head and then the whole game in the big snow sometimes you get an idea which is
great in your head but when you prototype it out or make it turns out it's actually hot dobisch so
next game I'm a beginner so I'm trying to focus on making simple games there's no point in me making
this massive world MMORPG with level systems and crafting because I'll just get frustrated
and I'll never finish it but at the same time I also don't want to just make a flappy bird clone
like everybody else coming up with unique ideas is hard the majority of creations out there or
just adaptations of things that already exist I think it was was the famous famous paint painter
Leonardo DiCaprio son who said don't think about stuff bro just deal it so I'm just gonna steal
something I like recently I've been inspired by dodge blast and switch and shoot a lot of
shoot-'em-ups or shmups or like bullet hell games which fill your screen up with [ __ ] you have to
avoid this while shooting collected power-ups in put in dodge blast and switch and shoot they focus
on basic inputs and rewarding you for precision shooting when I was playing these games I found
that getting combos without missing shots is very satisfying so I'm just gonna steal this and put my
spin on it see I put a spin on it 44 at night 90 degrees 90 degrees pi PI on to radians so here's
the plan flying pigs an arcade side shooter which rewards players for precision shooting
getting high score is the goal because I'm a noob still I'm first gonna be focusing on the primary
gameplay loop um excuse me like what is a primary game loop so primary gameplay loop is what you
build the entire game around let's take a look at flappy bird to explain this mechanically it's very
simple you tap to fly up if you touch the floor or an uncommon pipe you die and it's game over
get points for passing the oncoming pipe and Bing boom Bop there you have it basic game loop you
can repeat that infinitely you can add on to this with secondary systems like leveling and lockable
to add more depth in gameplay and all that stuff but you know what Leonardo would say all you're
doing is adding on to a turd all you're left with is a turd sandwich small mine buck two flying pigs
goal is to finish build 0.1 I'm gonna make the game in a simple one bit odd style to start off
with there's no smoking but the nose point his nose point where's this point give it there's
no point me spending 50 hours on the art just to realize that the game is boring so boom simple art
style - primary game loop finish a very simple arcade type loop with skull and high score so
let's do it sorry in advance for these terrible mobile mobile videos this is all I thought to
record at the time so I got some basic movement working originally made it so that when you hit
the bottom of the screen you'd bounce back up but that was annoying so I made it screen wrap
asteroid style instead which works a lot better out of some really basic enemies and shooting
it's kinda boring just to look at boxes so I put in that simple one bit odd style I really like the
one bit odd style it works really well in games like minute and down well especially if there's
an accented color but I think if I was to develop this further I've got a more colorful idea in
mind and this is where we are now we've got some particle effects we've got menu systems we've got
the score working the core gameplay loop is pretty much done I still have to mess around with enemy
spawn and speed for the increasing difficulty and get some basic UI done for the menu but that's for
next video got some cool ideas to share with you in the next video and hopefully I'll have a build
for you to play I'm happy with the progress I've made so far it actually kind of reminds
me of something that's out there already but I can't quite put my finger on what that might be
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