 Hello everyone, it's CryptoGround here and welcome to part two of the 5k subscriber special. Today I'm going to be doing a Q&A and reading some of your suggestions for the channel and yeah that's pretty much it. It's going to be a pretty basic video today I'm going to be announcing some new merch so stay tuned for that and then we're going to be reading off the Q&A, I'll be answering a bunch of questions that you guys have asked and a lot of them are goofy so and after that I'll be reading some suggestions for the channel which weren't really that helpful after all. This will all be taking place outdoors so we're not going to be in here and there's no screen screen setup so yeah this is kind of a lame background so we're going for the outdoor setting instead. Anyway just real quick I just wanted to thank you guys so much for helping me reach 5,000 subscribers. It means so much to me and it was quite a rough journey and now that we're finally here we have succeeded the second milestone. But again thank you very much for those who have subscribed and helped me get here and shown all your support for my channel. It greatly means a lot to me. I do this for you guys and it really shows that you guys are enjoying my content. Let's get this video started and let's head outside. Alright welcome to the Q&A. I am currently outside and it's a bit chilly out. Let's check the temperature real quick. It's really cold. It is currently 43, it's not as bad as it was earlier but it's going to get colder today so now's a great time to get this done. I'm still a bit sick so I was going to record this last week but I ended up getting cold and I felt really shitty so that didn't really happen and now I'm here. I am very proud to finally announce that I have released new merch for the 5,000 subscriber special. It is exactly what I'm wearing except the main logo is going to be in the center and I have this design in the back. So if you want to cop yourself a shirt and show some support check the link below and buy one right away. If you end up buying me one and you want to show it off DM me on Discord and join the Discord if you already aren't on it. It's in the description as well. Anyways let's start this Q&A so I have created this Google Forms and I have told a lot of people to throw a bunch of random questions so we're going to be looking at this first and then I also have a Discord channel for the Q&A where we look at that right after. So let's start with the first question. So question, let's see, here we go, alright. What the dog doing? So someone on my floor decided to ask this 45 times so here you go, I decided to showcase this question in the video and yeah thanks for sending that 45 times. I'm not going to answer it 45 times because that wouldn't be very fun for me so what's my age? 18? Gua? Yes. Am I the sussy imposter? I don't know am I? Do you like Fumos? I really like Fumos. When and why did you start coding? I'd say I started around probably in 7th grade about that. I just started screwing around with HTML and JavaScript and just made some really basic stuff that wasn't really good at all and then I moved on to Unity a year after and I wasn't good at it after so I didn't really learn too much. I wanted to make a survival game and it really didn't turn out good. I wish I still had the files but I'm very lost on my old Mac somewhere. And then I started to get some computer science classes and that finally got me to work on crypto clickers and it got me to learn a lot more so yeah I started, anyways that answer was a lot longer than I was expecting but I started around 7th grade so that was about 6 years ago, 5-6 years ago and why did I start coding? I don't know because it's fun and it's something I'm good at now. Will you make out with RM Barts? Nah I don't think so. Hello my name is Ray Z, a man you've never met. May I purchase 10,000 helicopters covered in diamonds? I'm addicted to buying unbelievably expensive custom helicopters. In a brief moment of lucidity I went to the helicopter dealership and told them do not under any circumstances sell me more helicopters. I was back there half an hour later wearing a fake mustache and then I said hello gentlemen I am Ray Z, a man you have never met before. Give me 10,000 helicopters covered in diamonds. Thank you, uh, Sawyer. What us, the significance of RM Barts? I don't know, we just hate them. What it felt like to get my first 100,000 total views on the channel? Uh, it's supposed to sound big but honestly not that much. Views is like a kind of an odd milestone to me and I also have another YouTube channel that reached a million views and I didn't really care so maybe when this channel hits a million will be different but I kind of care more about, I don't know, I don't really care too much I guess. How and why did you start coding? What is the best and worst thing about having a big community? So this is kind of a duplicate question for part of it. So how did I start coding? I don't really know how, I just like started doing random stuff and I don't know. I just played some basic clicker games and I wanted to make my own except making a huge meme. Some of my friends may remember but I made Box Clicker, it was a very basic one. It was just about this giant meme in middle school. It was really stupid but that's kind of how it all started. And what is the worst, what is the worst thing about having a big community? It's kind of hard to know what everyone wants because I want to host all these events but it's kind of hard to keep everyone up to date with stuff and I don't know. It's because everyone wants different things I guess and I just don't really know what to do. It's a bit hard and another thing about, it's not like the worst thing, it's just hard. Another hard thing about it is, yeah I'm kind of answering this a lot differently but because it's not really a bad, there's no really bad things about it other than having really bad members but that never happens so I can't really say that. Another hard thing is entertaining people because I'm just always worried about what if my server is just too boring, stuff like that and how can I improve it. It's just really hard to know what everyone wants. And the best thing about it is to be able to connect with everyone because the server is kind of built around my games and my YouTube so it's kind of nice to hear feedback and good things about everything and I get to ask everyone questions about it and yeah it's nice to interact with people and have a big community that enjoys what I do so it's really nice. How are you pro game developer? I am not, why did you choose Unity over other game engines? Well I just used Unity for the longest and I mean I've tried Unreal and never really got the hang of it and I just stuck with Unity. That's really the only reason why. What made you start slash learn Unity? Oh start YouTube learn Unity so um well it was when I wanted to it's when I started making Crypto Clickers kind of. There weren't very many good Unity tutorials specifically for idle games so I was like you know what I'll make my own. So I started with the 2019 series I made that and I really enjoyed it but the series wasn't good enough so I just started making other videos and then I eventually started making the 2020 series which is what most of you guys are probably watching and I just honestly kept going from there and I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed teaching people because I have definitely had some struggles learning myself so I felt like if I took whatever I've learned over the years and just put it on YouTube I feel like other people could benefit from it and that's what I really enjoyed about it. What made you start learning I don't know if this is asking what made me start learning Unity or what made me learn Unity. I guess I'll just say start. I've said this already but I wanted to make a survival game so I went off of Brackies and a few other people's survival game series and it completely failed so I used to I have a Unity answers account. I don't know if it's still up but if it is if you were to go to my oldest questions you would see stuff related to that like I was trying to make like a tree fall or stuff like that and it was just not working. How am I doing? I'm doing pretty well other than the fact that I'm still kind of sick which I'm really pissed about because it's just getting in the way of things. Wall color review? Well it's white so there you go. How long do you take to release Capacto? I don't really know what that means like I don't know. I had the game a month ready in a month in advance and I mean I've worked on it for a total of six months but a lot of that was just empty gaps so I don't know if that's the answer you're looking for. Why won't you ban Arm Barton? Why isn't Waddles head Edmund? I don't know. How's your life in college? It's pretty good honestly. I'm really enjoying it on campus and surprisingly I have more free time than I was expecting but that's probably because I'm not taking a lot of core classes like a lot of others are so yeah I'm ready to get my ass worked to next semester but other than that food's all right. Life is pretty good. I made a lot of friends and they're all really nice and supportive. They're really cool people. All right so now let's have a look at the discord so again I made a channel for asking questions since people weren't really asking many questions on the google form so like you know what I should have made this on discord a lot of people would have just gone on there and just asked random questions so that's exactly what I did. What inspired me to become a game developer? So when I started making games I thought it was really fun. I did it for jokes and stuff like that but then when I realized that I could make okay so this is when I was starting to make crypto clickers when I realized that I could publish this game and have other people play it and eventually turn that into a business I thought it was really fun and it would be a nice side hustle and that's kind of what I've been doing so as a game developer I make the game I publish the game I monetize the game I do all that kind of stuff and I thought it was really fun so what but what exactly inspired me I looked up to a lot of game developers smaller game developers like me except they're a little bigger than me but I always looked up to them and I saw how successful they were and I thought that I would have a chance of doing the same thing because I have similar skills so that was probably like my big inspiration. What do you eat? I eat honestly anything that is good if I were to have my favorite type of food it would probably be Italian and also when do you sleep or do you even sleep? No I don't sleep at all why you C sharp? Well I use Unity and Unity uses C sharp so there you go. Also I've learned Java in the past and that's what got me to learn C sharp a lot faster because they're both very very similar. What does my daily routine look like? Well on a school day it's get up at seven thirty no seven seven thirty in the morning depends on the time of the class and how many class I have a day take a shower make coffee have a protein bar have classes do homework watch some Netflix if I don't have anything going on work on my games stuff like that slack off procrastinate and then I have lunch and then I go to the gym around all my after all my classes which is around four o'clock ish and then come back make a protein shake go eat dinner come back do whatever I need to get done so if I don't have any homework I just do whatever I want and then I go to bed yeah that's pretty much my routine otherwise it's not that very special. The thing that's my daily routine is making smoothies I love making smoothies got one prepared right here it's got some frozen fruit bananas cherry hold up there you get the fruit frozen fruit it's got some berries then I have cherry flavored Greek yogurt milk and it should be good to go let's kick it what is my social security number it is one what non incremental games do you like I've recently gotten to phasophobia and I've started to play that with my friends and it's a really fun game I've been wanting to play it for months but no one else wanted to play it until for some reason just in the middle of college when I barely have time to play games with them they decided to play it so I ended up getting it and had a chance to play with them and it's a lot of fun I also really like Rainbow Six Siege but I never really have time to play that so oh Carter asks again what the dog doing I don't know what is the dog doing how much arson do you commit per day what is your favorite part of developing idle research um okay I don't want to seem like this is a I don't want to seem like I have a lot of ego for this but I think my favorite part of it is realizing that I am creating a game that can become something big like in compared to larger idle games it can be somewhere in the in the ballpark I I guess like I don't want to seem to have a big ego but like I have done my best to balance and design the game so it could be really balanced and really fun to play for people that like idle games and that can also kind of match up against those bigger titles another favorite part of developing is making the art making the art is so much fun that is something I've never really done in the past until idle research you guys have probably seen the flash to all that game art that is all just so much fun to make and that was honestly like one of the things I'm really proud of in idle research is the arts because that is just like that is just like something new that I've never done before why is armbark so awesome just because he is why do you think I am an AI because I coded you that's why I also just wanted to say that why do you think I'm an AI CG I coded him to say that so why don't you let people appreciate your bad works because it's embarrassing I had some really not so good projects like on Google there's idle impulse incremental something like that I hated that game with a burning passion and people somehow enjoy it I don't know I hate the game I never want to talk about it and one of the main reasons why I hate it is that if you were to look at the game scene in Unity everything is open at once all the windows they're just all scattered everywhere and when you open something it just slides right over so it's just so poorly optimized and it's just so embarrassing to see it makes me cringe what inspired you to make incremental games I gotta be honest I've enjoyed playing them as a child and I always wanted to make my own and therefore I have and when I made crypto clickers I realized that the fundamentals of making an incremental game is pretty easy compared to other games it's just the balancing part and making the game actually good is really hard and when I made crypto clickers in compacto and started working on idle research I have realized that I have kind of mastered the incremental game scheme I have kind of figured out how to balance thing and how to make things kind of you know somewhat entertaining and how to not bore people out so that's pretty much what inspired me do you have any plans for non incremental games in the future well I want to give the survival game thing a try again because I feel like I can do much better it's just making 3d models is really hard so that's definitely not my field and I wanted to make like a stardew valley game except like space related I tried that I uploaded a few videos on that and it kind of failed it was just really hard and out of my skill level so I'm sure I'll tackle it again in the future why is the music so scary I don't know idle research music isn't that scary come on how do you balance your games well I played a shit ton that's for sure um I don't know I just I just do it you know one advice I've one piece of advice I've been given was to play the game at 10 time speed and if anything is too slow speed it up if anything if anything is way too fast slow it down I never actually use that trick because I just feel like I don't know I don't want to make the game accidentally too long because again 10 times game speed is really fast but I have done like two times speed so just to speed things up because balancing an entire game playing an entire game through multiple time takes a lot of time so I don't know I just play it until I enjoy it right and then if I have my beta testers play it if they think it's too slow or too fast certain spots I kind of change things around and then I replay that certain area and I just go from there so it's a lot of just tweaking and seeing if people like it why you obsessed with Fumo anyways that is it for the Q&A next up let's see what the plan is all right so the next part of this video is to go through all your suggestions um I didn't really ask on youtube but on my discord I asked people to provide recommendations for the 5k video and let's see what we got all right so the first one is the serializer series so show us how to use uh each serializer big double attacks just a tutorial how to build games in unity so yeah I'm not going to do this for this video but these are just some general ideas I could probably use in the future other than the serializer series because I don't want to teach that counting to one million and playing lots of incremental games one two three four five you playing synergism for one hour and see how far you get I don't really want to play that especially for the first hour it's kind of boring in my opinion do a stream where you do stuff with scratch oh god that brings back some freshman year and eighth grade maybe seventh grade as well memories yeah I don't want to do that I know I'm saying no but like there's a lot in here tutorial on how to cut a cantaloupe I would but I don't have one on me right now make out session with our bar what is with you guys with me wanting to make out with our bar do you know what let's just kick him my god is that what you guys really want this is really what you guys want to see there you go he's gone you happy now you can go to the welcome channel you see he's gone all right is that what you guys wanted wall color reveal wow it's white but right now there's no walls around so band arm parts okay well I just did that so you're in luck Q&A I just did that yes NIL Q&A no wow this is some great recommendations guys good job good job guys guys are really good at this all right so now another challenge to see how long it takes for arm parts to realize that he's banned so hopefully by the end of this video I'll get a DM from him and I'll show you guys so the last thing on my agenda was to do was to run a 5k live which I actually have and if you haven't seen that already make sure you go check it out real quick and give it a like you don't have to watch it all but just give it a like because I don't like running so and running up a mountain was kind of or it wasn't really a mountain it was just I don't know it was a lot of elevation but it wasn't very fun so make sure to give a like just support and I ran that 5k specifically for the first 5000 people that subscribed to my channel and for the first 5000 people that have subscribed to this channel thank you very much for subscribing and for writing this journey along with me it means a lot and I could have done it without you guys I would not have been making this video right now if it wasn't for you guys and I really appreciate all your support the journey here has been kind of bumpy I was hoping it would be more smoother than this like as in I will make a video and then publish it and I'll do that every day but that clearly hasn't been the case I've been very on and off with my uploading schedule lately and I'm really sorry about that I'm trying my best but also knowing that 5000 of you are still subscribed to this channel means a lot to me and it knows that you guys really appreciate what I do for you guys my main mission is to spread the words of coding and game development and to be able to teach you guys something new every day and I really hope I can keep doing that for you guys anyways this is getting really wholesome I just wanted to say thank you very much for subscribing to my channel and for being here and for supporting what I do and for being here ever since the start so anyways this is the 5k special Q&A video it was mostly Q&A I didn't really get to do too much and I hope that's okay I feel like once I get once I hit bigger milestones I'll do even more stuff I just got to kind of figure out ahead of time what I should do because I really want to do something big for each milestone so but anyways if you guys have watched all the way to the end thank you very much I really appreciate your support and I really hope you guys have a great rest of your day or night wherever you are and I can't wait to see you guys in the next video if you haven't already subscribe to the channel turn on the bell if you want to be notified for when I upload videos leave a like on this video if you want to support it so yeah this has been the 5k subspecial it's a very beautiful day out it's actually starting to warm up a bit which is nice and I will see you guys in the next video thank you for watching peace you magic we born in different