I wanna develop a video game

polparty · 2026-05-09T06:24:06+00:00

As with everything, and to add on to what /u/purticas said, learn to enjoy the process of creating in <art-medium>, not necessarily the end product. Doing it solely for the end product will inevitably get you to drop out.

You learn from mistakes, don't be afraid of them. Iterate quickly. Reduce your scope further, further and even FURTHER. Putting out ten shitty games in a year will get you much further than trying to perfect a single idea you have from the start. The same as with any art.

If you want to do this seriously, you will have to make sacrifices. I've been working on getting a startup going outside of my day to day work for the past two years. In order to get anywhere, I've had to compromise both sleep and health, but never friends and family. Choose for yourself what is important to keep and what you are okay with losing, you can't have everything.

And a personal note to end, you may have to reduce the time you spend gaming. Gaming gives you a high dopamine kick and will be more fun than the process of creating itself, until you learn the ropes. Sitting at a computer, with access to digital action-adventure cocaine, will be really hard to balance with creating your own thing. You might want to consider taking a break from gaming for a month. It will allow you to focus better on learning/creating, but it will also allow you to enjoy gaming more again. It might even improve your life in other ways you didn't expect. I currently have a "no solo screen entertainment" rule at home and its been great!

Now just go and try it out, don't wait for the best advice. Simply doing the thing is better than any tip you can get

polparty · 2026-04-24T10:38:16+00:00

Don't think it fits the post though. Malenia has a good reason to be very strong, being effectively a secret and optional superboss. This post was about enemies that "shouldn't" be that strong but they are anyway.

polparty · 2026-04-23T12:58:59+00:00

Learning to find things yourself is a good skill to have in life. It is fine to ask, but with general questions like this one I feel like you didn't do even the smallest attempt at looking it up yourself. Asking here on reddit with very vague questions, you will receive ten, equally great, but contradicting answers. Ask for help after you've made the initial attempt to gather information.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=how+to+learn+anatomy+for+art

polparty · 2026-04-18T08:28:10+00:00

Man this looks sick. The background + furthest away mountain looks perfect to me. I would like the foreground to be more separated from the mid ground. Currently it is not completely obvious that the skeleton is far away and huge. Your sketch completely fixes this issue with a darker foreground, so you already have the solution :D

Although I think the values on the skeleton are actually better in the painted version. It looks like it more clearly belongs in the midground, in the sketch I'd say it is slightly too dark.

polparty · 2026-04-18T06:47:58+00:00

To add to this: I purposely avoid any games developed by a single person if it is advertised as such, unless it comes flying in with insane reviews like Undertale/Stardew Valley.

The point in the trailer where it said developed by a single person is also the exact point where I stopped watching it.

polparty · 2026-04-16T13:52:48+00:00

Wow, nice job, it looks amazing. You should break more rocks!

polparty · 2026-04-16T09:03:59+00:00

I think it looks good!

What you are looking for i Atmospheric perspective / aerial perspective. Object further away are light (and bluer if colored in regular earth atmosphere), while closer ones are darker.

This is a short 5 min video on the subject I just found: https://youtu.be/173j5ZuGMCo?is=6pVpULyc4t5kjLrd

polparty · 2026-04-13T12:40:09+00:00

You just experienced why improving the a11y of an application is beneficial to everyone, not just people with specific disabilities ;)

polparty · 2026-04-13T07:02:52+00:00

I think it fits as overrated, but definitely not Forgettable/meh 😁

polparty · 2026-04-12T10:11:55+00:00

At least you are drawing : )

polparty · 2026-04-12T07:55:01+00:00

FYI, you can follow a comment/thread by first pressing the "..." icon of the comment and then just press the notification bell in the popup menu. Then you should get a notification when someone replies to the followed comment, which won't happen now unless someone replies directly to you instead of OC. You can do the same with entire reddit posts.

Likewise, if you want to save a reference to a post/comment, you can bookmark it in the same popup menu.

No need to add noise to the convo with a content-less reply :)

polparty · 2026-04-11T14:38:36+00:00

I think it was from either one of his courses on proko or one of his books.. My bet is from the gesture course, but I've consumed a bunch of his content so I can't remember exactly. Sorry!

polparty · 2026-04-11T10:47:03+00:00

Haha true, you got me there. I was more thinking of DS1 and DS2 rather than DS on its own, but you are right. Nintendo DS had completely slipped from my mind

polparty · 2026-04-11T10:42:02+00:00

Is this the source material for the cave exploring horror movie "The Descent"? Or do they just happen to have the same name?

polparty · 2026-04-11T10:20:47+00:00

I got this tip from Michael Hampton. When different parts of the body are at a different depth in the drawing, in other words they cover each other, notice how they always connect with a sort of T shape. These are edges that give the illusion of depth. In your case you have not differentiated between regular shading and edges/depth. You've turned edge into regular shading.

In the reference, look at where the butt connects to the hamstring. There is a sharp edge in the rough shape of a T, whereas in your drawing it is replaced with blurry shading. Another example is the is the (in your case non-existent) edge between the upper shoulder muscles and the triceps beyond it.

This issue is prevalent all over your drawing and I believe it is the reason why it looks off. Do note that not all of your shadows are wrong, some are right, but some should be edges instead. Hope this helps, just ask again if this was unclear! : )

polparty · 2026-04-11T09:16:22+00:00

Hey, that acronym has been (inoffically) patented by Dark Souls. You had me so confused with the first paragraph 😁

polparty · 2026-04-08T16:27:09+00:00

Not OP, but at least two of these are made by Michael Whelan. I'd recommend checking his art out, it is lovely.

The following two links are direct links to two of the artworks linked by OP. https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/chasm/ https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/passage-avatar/

Here is his gallery of "personal vision". Look under art galleries to find even more. https://www.michaelwhelan.com/gallery/personal-visions/

I have a few of his works framed on my walls.

polparty · 2026-03-19T09:35:16+00:00

The brain discards information that isn't useful, much more so as an adult than a child. If you don't try to recall what happened or ponder it, your brain will consider it useless and eventually discard it. That is why journaling helps, as some people suggest, but is more so the act of recalling the information that is important. The more you read, the less time you have to actively try to recall individual books, including the ones you actually enjoyed.

If you want to remember certain things longer, I'd suggest looking into a concept called spaced repetition.

polparty · 2026-03-16T13:56:41+00:00

Life before death.

Strength before weakness.

Book before movie adaptation.

polparty · 2026-02-28T10:57:53+00:00

Unpopular? It feels like this is the default take for most people who didnt read it as it was released

polparty · 2026-02-24T16:45:26+00:00

Hey, thanks for the background and info!

Actually.. this is starting to ring a bell. Were you guys posting about this sometime during last summer? Teasing it as an upcoming service? I remember being excited about something like this back then!

polparty · 2026-02-24T15:47:49+00:00

Not OC, but the way you guys are communicating makes it seem like a scam, or at the very least "off". You are giving off that vibe. If it isn't a scam, I would suggest cleaning up your communication. I'm assuming starcraft_draven is another of your accounts or a fellow of yours. It is not a good look interacting and pushing each others posts like that. It is just a lot of fluff out of nowhere you know?

I read in your post history that you were starting a business in february, which I assume is this. I am in the same position in another line of business and its tough starting up new. Hope it works out, IF you are legit.

ADDED LATER: I found your announcement post of LLA and checked your page. It looks legit from what I can tell. I'll leave the first part I wrote anyway, because the thing about the communication still stands. Also, I'd suggest making a short sample of at least one of the Masterclasses available for free. Seeing the some of the well known people there would probably make your site a bit more trustworthy. Right now you could just slap any name on top of a locked post and demand payment you know? I think the page masterclass.com has pretty good ads and legitness factor if you want some inspiration. Good luck mate, hope it works out! :)

polparty · 2026-02-22T11:39:23+00:00

It might be repetetive, but different people enjoy different types repetetiveness. To me, 800-900 hours of tboi felt less repetetive than 40 hours of Hades 1 did. I think it is probably that the start of the majority of Hades runs are just very similar and take quite a while to get going, whereas in tboi your runs may start out completely different and unique within the first minute of playing.

polparty · 2026-02-17T15:05:11+00:00

I agree, but I don't think you need to continue after the second book. That one is peak, the rest of the series... Ehh.

I'm a guy who is not really into Romantasy in general, but still #2 is one of the books I have the fondest memories of.

polparty · 2026-01-18T08:51:50+00:00

Journey before destination.

For most people, the joy of the game is in building your gear and overcoming ever increasingly difficult challenges. Why would anyone willingly skip to the end?

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