LUDUM DARE 40 - Making of BE YOURSELF

Welcome to BlackthornProd !

In this video I will give you a detailed look at how I made a game from scratch, using the Unity game engine during Ludum Dare Number 40 (huge game dev event where you must make a game in a week end) !

The theme was : "The more you have, the worse it is..."

By the end of the epic week end I had come up with BE YOURSELF, a reflex based game with an interesting message !

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[Luiz_Mesmo]

"My eyes bloodshot from being in front of the screen for so long. I decided to--"

Of course he decided to take a break and--

"CREATE A HIGHSCORE USING..."

[kedarnarayann]

Only Black can make a ludum dare sound like an inspirational speech Lol.

[shroomy__rxcks]

So you DIDN'T create The Binding of Isaac?

[abhishtagatya]

I really like how you draw your characters

[BenJaded]

Huh so 2 years ago you had the idea for the game you made in ludum dare 42

[GuitarGuyFromNC]

Awesome job Noa! I had to bow out of LD40. I attempted to make a roguelike where the more gold you were carrying, the less you could see your environment. 9 hours before the end of the compo I decided I was unhappy with my 2D artwork and switched to 3D and just ran out of time. My custom engine had some bugs in the 3D code I had to work out and that ate up too much of my time. Congrats on finishing and I really dig your art style, so keep working on it!

[samwarren]

9:36 "Solid idea, was a bit overwhelming at times for a proper reaction, maybe scaling things down 50% could help."

The theme: 0:57 "The more you have the worse it is."

[theladcalledizzy]

You really went overboard with this! Love the game and you put in so much work for it.

[novacti]

I participated in Ludum Dare last weekend aswell, though sadly, I didn't manage to finish the game with my friend. Everything was going mostly smoothly for the first day, but then it all started to crumble. I spent 5 hours making a spawn system that I changed to a better, easier to manage alternative I could've done at the very beginning, Blender to Unity import problems, animation import problems, the fact that I nor my friend had any prior experience with making music and sounds, and the list goes on. We plan on finishing the game regardless, and it was still a very awesome experience, because I proved to myself I can work on a game for full two days with motivation and actual desire to work on it, with turning down friends' offers to play video games. Welp, at least I now know what to focus on in the next few months.

Also, the game looks pretty neat, though I noticed the games you made in the last few months are very similar in art style and the general feel to them. Not saying they are bad, certainly not, but I recommend creating something you're unfamiliar with, both on the art and programming side. It'll be tons of fun and you'll learn a lot in the process.

[bgtutorials]

I saw this game in Brackeys stream. It is pretty nice.

[zki_]

This really reminds me of that one scene from “The Incredibles”

[DodgeThatAttack]

When I saw the start of this video, I got the idea of: a general top down shooting game where everytime you miss an enemy, the bullet will stick to the screen and make the border smaller, also if you touch the edge, you would lose

[loux]

this is one of my best channels now, Good job Noah

[Т-ми]

I got an idea from your initial game. You create ppl which shoot money at you to create more and different ppl (random ppl)

[Supershadow]

Stop trying to hide yourself, Edmund. We all know it's you!! Make Legend of Bumbo plz.

[tobikule]

i just found you and i was amazed of your games i all played them to end. they are good.

[katrinacalice]

Totally awesome!! Such a cool and very original game, the beauty in this whole adventure is how you quit and made something so new and fresh, that was a major step forward, I love everything about this excellent game and the idea behind it is so original, a big thumbs up to you!!

[HH-jesh]

I am a murderer and I will be myself, this game has motivated me not to listen to others. Thank you so much.

[i_youtube_]

Keep up :) you are such amazing instructor in Unity. Your channel is promising.

[chazdawg]

I’ve been thinking about your style of art. And it definitely does remind me of Tim Burton!