How to Make a Game in 5 Minutes (Playmaker vs. Bolt)

Are you a beginner game dev? Do you want to make your first game fast? Want to compare visual scripting tools for Unity? Then this is the video for you!

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[oshatlarge]

Honestly wished you made more videos that show how to use Playmaker! This is already the stuff I'm looking for

[TheQwarmaleon]

If you are an artist without coding experience, visual scripting is a bliss but if you are a coder, visual scripting could be a curse.

[Jorendo]

I'm working on my very first game ever right now. Like you i have a background in movie making (i was a movie editor). I'm a very visual minded person, coding to me makes no sense and find it very hard to learn it (i tried believe me).

I use playmaker but with Bolt becoming free to use i did try it. I find it confusing, maybe because i started with Playmaker and things make more sense to me there.

I do agree that if you see progress it keeps you motivated longer. When i tried bolt i became less thrilled about working on my game as it took me forever to study tutorials and then in the end i still didn't feel like i learned something (not the tutorial fault, just my mind). I tried simple things and it didn't work, meanwhile i had those things working playmaker. So i moved back again and feel much more motivated.

Hopefully i understand bolt better once i got my game completed. Seeing Bolt is much closer to the blueprint system of the unreal engine i figure i might understand that one a bit better to and can make games with that engine as well some day.

Thanks for the video, it was very informative!

[MondoMurderface]

Visual learner myself, I have been making 3D models and material maps for decades. When I tried to learn to code I couldn't grasp it and my natural ability to typo made syntax errors frustrating. Playmaker is exactly what I needed, all of the functions I needed and none of the errors. I've managed some pretty complicated things with it too. Random character generators with procedural elements to keep things realistic, full inventory UI systems, dialogue system (although you are better off with an asset store script that can work along side playmaker for this).. Everything is doable but it takes some planning to avoid messy node graphs.

[twiddles]

The biggest productivity boost for me when using Bolt is the ability to change the game logic at runtime. No more compile-wait-play-cycle.

[emillanza]

You have both inspired and motivated me. Your game “The First Tree” looks amazing and it is a testimony that even single devs can make amazing games. My dream is to become a single dev.

[SmartPenguins]

Great video! I, myself make Bolt Tutorials, just a choice that I made to use Bolt.
BTW, you can use Per Second node/unit in Bolt instead of delta time and float multiplication. And there is a Timer node/unit you can use so that you don't have to worry about Coroutine.

[bobjenkins]

Wow! i just followed everything you said and made my first game ever, not including that silly one in highschool when i was 12. Your entire story really inspired me, its given me hope, at first i thought it couldnt be true, but wow man, words cant describe how great of a feeling you just gave me, i thank you so much from the bottom of my heart, God bless you

[Itsjustjord]

Playmaker if your new and/or artistic
Bolt if you've used Unreal before

[PiNPOiNTK]

Construct 3 is a great visual programming engine for 2D games if you ever want to dabble in that. I love it because just like you said you can have something playable in matter of minutes and its only your imagination slowing you down at that point.

[tyleranders]

Good info! I've been using bolt since it released for free and I love it.
I'm a visual learner and it is just so much easier for me even though it's basically coding with a mouse. Just my $0.02

[FIXXER]

I wish I saw this video 2 years ago, i only knew playmaker and didn't want to spend any money as I don't believe in myself I would ever get the money back. That's why I just started self learning code the hard way, by creating prototypes of games to learn code. I'm now at a level that I understand code, know how to do some basic stuff (like your game) but it takes so long and spelling errors are made so easily. I think bolt would be perfect for me rn, it's free, fairly easy to learn but really quick to use if you can't type fast. It was noticable that bolt was free as it was less "finished" and more just code visualized. Using bolt will also improve my coding logic because my code is always messy... Thank you for this video, this is a perfect example of both methods. I agree if you are a complete unity beginner that playmaker is perfect but sad part is that it isn't free, so for anyone not willing to pay (like me) this is a problem because when u are at a certain level of bolt/coding i don't think many people are willing to playmaker just because it's easier to use but has less power (imo)

[KKirmaci]

The one single sentence at the end really made me set my mind. Thank you.

[NSTIC]

Best video about "how to make a game" ever!

[parvatiprabhu]

Sooo much waited for it and I was so eager 😭😭

[mikeg]

Honestly, you're not that far off from coding. You're still using logic and the same classes you'd use if you were using a script, you're just interfacing with it differently. The only thing missing is the syntax, which many programmers look up for reference anyways.

[GeniusK]

Before watching this video
me : I want to give a try playmaker and bolt.

After watching this video
me : Visual scripting sucks. Coding C# is easiest way.

[Agelvik]

i doubt i'd get into gamedev if it wasn't for playmaker now almost 6 years ago, coding suddenly didn't feel that intimidating as it did before i got started! i'm so happy this tool exists

[timsonss]

You are killing it! Really looking forward to your another game!

[orthors]

Playmaker is wicked! If you're new, its honestly the best stater pack.
But he's right, it does have its limitations.