Show HN: Do you love 8 bits art and time lapse videos? I got something for you
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As someone who's never heard of you before now, if I may offer some suggestions that may help you to expose your content to newcomers like me. Of course, take this with a grain of salt, I'm a random internet user but I felt I needed to take the time and write something nice and (hopefully) encouraging to brighten a stranger's day in this coronavirus pandemic. :)
- The name of your video could be improved to help searchability. You use "Tile Map Editor - Part 4 (designing a tile map)" and I see why you might choose that, it's a Tile Map Editor for 2D games. However, when I am on Youtube, I'm more inclined to search for "How to create 2D game tile map" or "Create a custom 2d game tile map".
- I happened to watch a few of your videos and noticed that you are working on this in your free time after your full-time job. Totally get that, I'm writing budgeting software in my free time, it's hard to find time. In my experience, when I find a video that's more tutorial-esque, I find it helpful for voiceovers and shorter segments that I can digest. When I don't feel I can pause the video without missing something, it's hard for me to keep my attention on the whole video.
- Do you have a landing page or website? I was hoping to find a link to that in your description on Youtube where we could read a little bit more if we didn't want to watch videos, or if you were using any software/tools you wanted to share on Github with others. I know quite a good portion of the HN audience enjoys seeing new code projects and I think yours is worth sharing with the community too! Likewise, sharing a github link in Youtube or vice-versa is good cross pollination.
- You seem to be moving your mouse a lot for the brush feature :), have you thought of click-dragging over a set of squares to create a brush that way? (They all seem to be contiguous anyway in the sprite map, right?). All of the squares you click-drag over would be in the brush. Otherwise, maybe you could hold ctrl + click on all contiguous squares (and a separate button to save those squares as a brush preset).
- Are you designing these sprites yourself? You do a good job, much better than I could ever do - I wish I could draw that good.
(I guess I _did_ have more to say, aha)
I used other tile sets from him before, specially on my isocity (my most liked project so far) github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity
after people like isocity so much, I've been giving my old games some attention in hope to launch them. so, as I working on some game I have decided to make the tile editor you see on this video. there are many things that I would like to implement and keyboard shortcuts are among them.
I have to click each tile to compose a custom brush cause tiles are not always near each other or in perfect sequence. so I need create a place holder and define in which place goes which tile.
I'm horrible at YouTube, I don't see myself asking people to like the video and subscribing, but I do like to show what I'm working. So I'm trying this style of video. I have tried tutorials also. Anyways, thanks a lot for the comment.
I gave it a star!
Ah, I did not know, now I do.
I didn't mean to be harsh or off-putting. I'm sorry if I came off that way. I do honestly hope you continue to do what you love and pursue it; if I ever get into 2D development I'll remember your content. God bless!
Feel free to let me know if you would like to see me writing the code to create projects like this.