Java 3D Game Development 64: Planning Ahead

3D Opengl Game development log videos with commentary about my indie Java RPG game.

A bit of a ramble this week, letting you guys know what I've got planned for the next few months!

The Team:

Christopher Jubell: Food Stall, Mage Attack Animation, Chicken animations, Turtle animations, Skeleton, Giant Spider, Weapon & Tent market stalls, Shadow Battle Axe, Spirit Power Staff, Mellee Helmets, wooden bridge, Church, all house models, training dummies, city walls, city gate, round city towers, shadow trident, Log Pile, Shadow Horned Helmet

marCOmics: Holy Horned Helmet, New Armour Set, Tribal War bow, present pile, camp fire, Shadow Power Staff, Light Staff, Animal Skeleton

Itay Almog: Medium Desert House, Many weapon textures & icons, small lamp texture, pot market stall texture, darker market stall texture, small mushrooms texture, tribal long sword icon

Jacob Brewer: Shadow Lesser Staff, Holy Lesser Staff, Ancient Lesser Staff

Erik Quick: Desert Well, Wizard hat, rustic bench, standard armour, Great Sword, Combat Icons, Overhanging House, shadow armour, Ancient Long Sword, Holy Long Sword, New Fence, Tavern(!), Palm Tree, Shadow 2H, Hatchet in Stump, Shadow Horned Helmet, Desert Hut, Dead Tree

Richard Weug: Sickle, Trident, Aether bow, ancient war hammer, holy short sword, Sai, Wand, Turtle model

Code Magnet: Both Desert Towers, Ancient Short Bow, Wooden Cart, fire lamp, guard tower, Fancy Lamp, Spirit Zweihaender, Chicken model

Joko: Water Well, Pots Market Stall, darker market stall, warhammer, small lamp, small mushrooms, Cacti, Ball Lamp, Greater Bow, New Bench

Alexander Schulte: Small Bush
Jack Theakstone: Ancient B.Axe, Ancient Dagger
Andrew Knowles: Mace, Ancient Short Sword, Ancient 2H
Ricardo: Wooden Crate
Rob: Wooden Barrel, snowman, second Xmas tree
Stiles3D: Xmas tree
Josh "Shadow" Monson: Various sound effects
Aleksander Długosz: Spirit Short Sword, Tribal Spear
Niklavs: Headwear Shop Icon
Nicolas: Waterfall sound fx (not yet shown)
Simeon Heinze: Candy Cane
Titas Vaitkunas: The loud thunder clap!
Teddy C: crossbow (not yet shown)
BonJoniLP: 2H sword (not yet shown)
Tadej Gasparovic: Texture and settings for fire lamp entity, Palm tree collision box
Reza Zaman: Shadow Long Sword

Music:

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

End of video music- Kai Engel, "Waking Stars":

[TheMathestar]

Yay! Really hyped for the Behind the Scenes btw (and for the Kickstarter of course)

[Yan-mzyh]

Can't wait for the behind the scenes videos !

[MrLazini]

Can't wait for the _behind the scenes_ videos! Keep it up pal.

[joooordy]

Looking forward to seeing the animation updates. They definitely need it! :)

[MohammedPlaysMC]

Looking great and looking forward to the behind the scenes

[지인-vj]

Im excited about the future updates.
I cant wait!!

[ShaneRob]

Wow, definitely looking forward to the future of your game. I wish I could help out with making NPCs, objects, etc., but I have none of those skills. I certainly intend to donate to your kickstarter though! That behind the scenes video series also has me pretty excited. Good luck with everything, it is not going to be easy. Promoting a game can be as much work as the programming, I believe your faithful YouTube followers will be helping out though (I know I will), as much as possible.

P.S. Finally made a Tumblr account, just for you. ;)

[coolglen]

the behind the scenes videos will be awsome :)

[ludmilgrigorov]

Really inspiring, really interesting. Looking forward to your new videos and when you begin kickstarter preparations - I bet we all will be glad to help with game popularisation, so drop a task or something like that.

PS: Don't go travelling too frequent around, because I hardly have the patience to wait for a video every week, let alone more :D true story.

[jasonjepson]

Welcome back! Great video! You could totally do so many ideas with kickstarter rewards. Like a special item that has cool visual FX like fireworks that no one else can have accept the original backers. Maybe a cape that doesn't do much but looks cool. A wall of peoples names, you'd have to click on it for a dialogue box to open up but from there just a list of all the backers. Silly in-game stuff like that. A  special mount (if you are planning on making them). I mean it is comes down to the basic principle, backers get a one time unique item. Can't wait to see your take on it!

[FrostoLP]

Yeah, water rendering, thank you soooo much for that :D

[Fadeycsgo]

So awesome :O! Wish i was this good at programming :D! Love your videos man!!!

[igz]

Good luck with the Kickstarter! You've got me as a backer, and hopefully it will be a success so you can get yourself a nice new chair :D

[Retrofuge]

Excellent video man. I hope for the best for this game. It's awesome how far you got with this MMO. The fact, you're an one man team is an amazing feat to begin with. You could get people interested just based on that lol. I've been watching this series since 2013 and you've gone so far. It's pretty interesting one person is capable of this. It must be time consuming and intensive to work all those hours to give us a good MMO. Keep this up and you'll got down in gaming history as the Notch or Eric Chaci of the MMOs.

[brokenmatrix]

Cool, also that island with the water looks awesome! One question for the water tutorial series: we will still be able to use our code from the other tutorial series right?

[lesterknome]

Pretty inspiring as always man. If you don't mind me asking, what experience/how long have you been programming? Also how long did the game take you up to this point? I'm trying to decide whether it would be worth it or not for me to keep trying to make a game...

[rcookie]

Now, that i'm 18 i can finally donate money and cool stuff on the internet..
So im ready for the kickstarter project!! Shut up and take my money, ThinMatrix!!! ;)

And im so glad, that you make the behind the scenes video!!! :D You're

[ExemptAK]

Looking good, I hope the Kick starter works out great for ya.

[MattLoveday]

Nice! I'll definitely be backing the kick-starter.

[Zoggzter]

if you would remake the whole game from scratch now, how long do you think it world take? PS love ur vids :D