| “ | What's up, gamers!? | ” |
―Dani's intro in his Dani2 videos | ||
| “ | Anyway that's gonna be it for me, I hope you enjoyed the video. Thanks a lot for watching, smash 'like' if you like, smash 'dislike' if you don't. As always, drink milk, hit Billy, and beat your god-damn wil-- | ” |
―Dani's Outro in his videos on the main channel | ||
| “ | Is it just me, or is [subject] looking kinda thick!? | ” |
―Meme used by Dani | ||
| “ | Wow, that was really cool. | ” |
―Meme used by Dani | ||
Daniel William Sooman[2] (born: June 15, 1997),[3] better known online as Dani (also known as DaniDev and DaniMilkman, formerly dwsGames), is a Norwegian YouTuber born in Bergen, Norway. On Daniel's main YouTube channel, he posts videos mainly consisting of him developing games in Unity using the C# programming language.
History[]
Early programming experience[]
When Daniel was 15, he was introduced to the Java for the first time, and after learning it for a while, he fell in love with it. He would make simple games with core Java using the IntelliJ IDEA for Java. After a while, Daniel wanted to make better games and was introduced to several game engines, but chose Unity as it uses C#, which was similar to Java syntactically.
Development series[]
Daniel has a running series where his fans challenge him to make games, by saying "Or you can't do that?". This has led to some interesting projects by Daniel, including an upcoming game called Karlson which is now on Steam awaiting release. Not long after making the initial game he then made a follow-up video showing the process of him making the Multiplayer aspect of his game Karlson. In mid-2021, he made a PC game called "Muck" when he was challenged like this in "He said I Couldn't Make a Multiplayer Survival Game...So IMade One!".
Karlson[]
Karlson is a game planned to be released on Steam, sometime in the future. The game began as a joke from a user called jotaro music's comment, saying "Why don't you make 3d game (or you cant do that)". Sooman specialized in 2D based games, with Off The Balls, Fair n Square, and many more. Karlson actually originated from a 2D game, named "Karlson 2D". In the video of which Daniel begins the development of Karlson 3D, he learned, through Brackeys, how to make 3D movements in Unity C#. However, instead of using that movement code, he learned to make his own 3D movements.
Then he worked on the weapons, but instead of doing what most devs would do (making models in blender), he made 3D models for the weapons in ProBuilder, a Unity tool that is usually used in 3D level making. Using ProBuilder brought up some strange occurrences, like when he implemented picking up and dropping weapons, if done repeatedly it would deform the weapon in weird ways. He then moved on to enemies, and their AI. Realising that making an enemy in ProBuilder would be a challenge, he found a tutorial by CG Geek, then rigging the character, with the help of a tutorial by Sebastian Lague, for animations in Unity, a mistake he mentions.
After spawning in the enemy, he noticed a pretty big error. The enemy was way too big to be fair. So he animated the enemy to walk, instead of sliding towards the player. Then made them Naruto run towards the player. The rest are general upgrades, excluding the video in which he implements multiplayer, as described by himself, "A very CS:GO type of multiplayer." As of now, he mentions Karlson a few times in his videos, telling gamers to "smash wishlist now, gamers!".
YouTube[]
Termination[]
On March 2, 2014, Dani got banned from YouTube for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines. The reasons were unknown of why he got banned, but Dani stated that he thinks it was due to bots mass flagging his videos because the bot operator thought his channel was being view botted. This eventually resulted to him quitting YouTube altogether.[4]
Reinstation[]
After 3 years of dormancy, Dani eventually returned to YouTube somewhere in 2018 doing CS:GO videos and such. He started to get into game development again after watching a devlog video from ThinMatrix. On October 17, 2018, he made a new channel called Dani.
The genre of his content back then was devlog videos since he was inspired by ThinMatrix. Then he made a video called 6 Months of Learning Game Development in Unity (Progress & Result) which resulted in an amount of views and channel growth. On June 23, 2020, he finally hit 1 milllion subscribers.
Some of Dani's favorite things[]
Daniel's favorite things consist of Milk and Unity's Particle System. He used to hate OJ (Orange Juice) Gang but he is now friends with them.
Some of Daniel's favorite quotes are "Thicc", "Unity's Particle System", and "Milk". He also likes calling his fans boners (coming from the Norwegian word for subscribe "abonner"/the fact that Milk gives you strong bones).
Video Games & Coding[]
Dani has made many games on his channel, the most notable one currently is called Karlson and is awaiting to be released on Steam. But he has made other original games like Fair n' Square[5] and Off The Balls[6].
He also created a game named "Tree Team" as his part in the TeamTrees project, which had a goal of raising a total of 20 million dollars by the end of 2019, and for every dollar raised, Arbor Day Foundation will plant a tree. Dani inserted ads in his game and all revenue was donated to TeamTrees.
The game that started his YouTube-career was called Off The Sticks, of which he uploaded 21 dev-log videos of, spanning from October 2018 to July 2019. He took a break from the game due to getting burnt out[7], and has made no more videos of it since December 2019, leading to the game being presumed cancelled.
He has also developed games under a time limit, in which he would make that game within a certain deadline.
- He made a video of making a mobile game in a day.[8]
- He later made a game in just two days.[9]
- He made another challenge of making himself a website which he used to advertise the games he made and so he can post his mobile game to the App Store.[10]
- He made a game in 48 hours.[11]
- Another game he made in 12 hours.[12]
- He made a game in one hour.[13]
He then made a VR game under the challenge of his fans. Due to his devotion to milk, he named the headset he made Oculus Milk, also partially because he made the headset out of milk boxes. He also made an item called the "DaniBox 3000" for his making a game with a banana video.
On June 5, 2021, Dani got his first game officially released on Steam, and it is titled Muck. On October 29, 2021, in response to the popularity of the show Squid Game, he made Crab Game. Both games gained praise & applause and gained popularity among small and bigger YouTubers worldwide. The latter was nominated for the 2021 Unity Awards as the Best Multiplayer Game.
Computer Specifications/Equipments[]
- Computer: Surface Pro Intel Core i5 7th Gen, 8GB DDR3 SODIMM, 256GB Storage.
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060.
- Intel Core i9-9900k.
- 32GB RAM.
- Oculus Milk: a remake of the Oculus headsets for rich people.
- Keyboard: Steelseries 6Gv2.
- Mouse: Steelseries Rival 100.
- Mic: AT2020+.
- Screen: ViewSonic 24" LED Curved VX2458.
- Headset: Steelseries Arctis 3.
- Oculus Quest.
Tools that he uses/used[]
- IntelliJ IDEA for coding in Java.
- Rider for coding Unity games in C#.
- Blender for making 3D assets.
- Visual Studio Code, used when making a website, he also used it for Python.
- Sublime Text, used when he followed a tutorial on web development, but gave it up for Visual Studio Code.
- Git (Source Control).
- GitHub (Managing Git repos).
- Adobe Suite. Photoshop for making art assets, Premiere to make videos. After Effects to make GIFs.
- Unity, for game development.
Channels[]
Dani2[]
Daniel's second channel is called Dani2. On his second channel, he uploads Reddit videos where he reviews some posts and sometimes he gets exposes on his Reddit Page.
DanisTutorials[]
Daniel's third channel. DanisTutorials has only two uploads. He promised that he will try to revive the channel.
DaniClips[]
Daniel's 4th channel is DaniClips. He uploads clips of his main channel videos and Dani2 videos that are basically memes.
Trivia[]
- Dani has a passion for milk and is often seen drinking milk.
- However, due to the "orange juice bad" joke being out of control and people were getting harassed, Dani decided to make peace with Orange Juice Gang as a whole.[14]
- He knows the programming languages Java, C#, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Haskell and C++. He also knows Unity and has said once he was making a game using the SDL2 framework as an university project.
- Dani jokes in his videos that everything looks “THICC”.
- Dani is known for having a Windows 10 skin to make it look like Windows 98.
- Dani often blacks out after encountering technical difficulties in programming, and when he wakes up the problem will disappear.
- Dani is a huge nerd and rarely goes out. This is also why he decided not to plant trees himself because he is afraid of the sunlight. This of course is a joke.
- Dani despises Billy, an enemy created for Karlson 3D but turned out to be passive.
- Dani is very bad at creating a title and an icon for his game. And that's why games called "bad game" and "farty rocket" were born under Dani's hands. In fact, he seems to be explicit about his games.
- Dani became very well known after making videos on Karlson 3D.
- Dani constantly compliments Unity's Particle System.
- Dani always advertises Karlson in his videos.
- Dani has made a VR headset called the Oculus Milk.
- He has jokingly said that Google copied him with their "Google Cardboard" as the Oculus Milk similarly acts like it (e.g. you put a phone in).
- He has a brother.
- Dani has contributed code to the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, he has contributed both of his repositories on GitHub to the Code Vault.
- He used to have a couple of old channels before creating his current channel, Dani.
- One of them is Zaruk12, where he made stickman animations using Pivot Animator.
- Another one is runescapeshow1, where he made videos based on the game, Runescape.
- One now called "Old Channel", it is unknown what the original channel name was.
- He had another unknown channel where he made Battlefield videos.
- He moved to a new channel, which later got banned for unknown reasons. This caused Dani to lose motivation and retire from YouTube.
- Three years later after focusing on school, social life, etc., he got back on YouTube and made music, CSGO gameplay, edits, and videos in general.
- He moved to a new channel, which later got banned for unknown reasons. This caused Dani to lose motivation and retire from YouTube.
- He used to operate a Reddit account named u/NinjaSock where he posted development of his game, Off The Sticks.
- He also made a Subreddit (r/OffTheSticksGame) which is dedicated to his game, Off The Sticks.
- Unity Technologies acknowledges him, as they have sent him a "special one million subscriber trophy" with references to his jokes. He was also nominated for their 2021 Awards and won the Best Unity Insider Entertainment Value.
- Due to Crab Game being based on the popular series Squid Game which was trending at that time, several mobile game developers attempted to cash in on his game mostly rather than the TV series. Dani acknowledged it, but did not take legal actions against them due to said games having negative reviews.
Quotes[]
- "As always, drink milk, hit billy and beat your goddamn willy-"
- "Is it me or is ______ lookin kinda T H I C C"
- "smash subscribe or I smash you"
- "Then I made some particles using Unity's particle system, a great system for making all sorts of particles in Unity"
- "Oh, you don't know what Karlson is? Karlson's just a game I've been working on, it's currently the ____ most wishlisted game on Steam, so smash wishlist now, gamers"
- "Wow, that was really cool" (a meme in his Dani2 videos where every time he says it in one video, the moment is clipped and posted in his Reddit page, and then he finds that moment, saying "Ah, here we go again", and repeats this quote at the end, creating an infinite loop of this process)
- "B E A N" (used phrase for making a new project or a game with a player in the shape of a capsule, which looks similar to a bean)
- "Roses are red, violets are blue, _______"
- "Boring!!! Shut up nerd!!!" Dani when talking about something nerdy.
- "Imma just borrow some of that code.. YOINK!"
- "Our ______" Dani when he gets something from the internet and "borrows" it.
- "Hippity hoppity, your ____ is now my property"
- "Drink your milk, kids"
- "Thanks Evan, very cool" Dani every time he asks Evan King for music in his games
- "Dear Jeremy..." Dani whenever he contacts steam support
- "HAHA car go vroom vroom zoom drift skrrrt brrr boom woooosh". Former description of his racing game Jelly Drift.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3NyBt__PE&t=189s
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0X5A6aURms&t=105s
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Speedbre4ker/status/1139804672573657090
- ↑ https://youtu.be/e9eypZCGEZQ
- ↑ https://danidev.itch.io/fair-n-square
- ↑ https://danidev.itch.io/off-the-balls
- ↑ Stickman Game is Back! | Devlog #20
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrFm8hq3gsA
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMWnwBpUgoI
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeZHG1bFJDg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzPGmR6R67Y
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFNrOGPVls0
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGBvvlgbJVM
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAN-F--aPp8