I PLAYED YOUR GAMES! | Let's Talk Game Design.
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- I played your indie games and here is my feedback for you! Hope you enjoy. :)
Wishlist Will You Snail on Steam: store.steampow...
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0:50
Ghost Grab 3000
by Matt Glanville
Twitter: @crowbarska
Wishlist on Steam here: store.steampow...
Patreon: / mattglanville
10:07
TheyllFindYou
by Teddy Baker
19:29
Phos
by Amatsugu
UA-cam: / @amatsugu
Twitter: / amatsugu_
29:51
Neural bOts
by The Red Ghost Studio
Download on itch: the-red-ghost-...
For beta testing: theredghost.on...
38:14
AI-Buster
by Saturn91
40:38
Lofi-Room
by Bearmask Studios
Play here: bearmaskstudio...
Instagram: / barend_harris
Twitter: / barend_harris
Itch.io: bearmaskstudio...
44:06
Area 86
by Sim Devs
Sorry that I didn't end up playing your game. Ooopsie doopsie.
Steam: store.steampow...
45:29
Grace Fall
by Rebecca Harrison
52:05
Poly Cube 2
by Oktopod
Download: oktopod.itch.i...
Instagram: / oktopod
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Big thank you for all of the awesome games and prototypes you sent me! It was a pleasure to play them.
#gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign
Thanks everybody for sending me your awesome creations! Really good stuff! :)
If you like this format, you can check out the entire playlist here: ua-cam.com/video/QkrbQLSDcu0/v-deo.html
Will we do this again?
Yes, of course. Just stay tuned. I'll announce the next round in the community section of my channel and on our Discord group. :)
Hope you enjoy.
Eventuell, Ja
Ich hörte :"German Keyboard" und: Kommentare = Meins!
Yo Jonas, I have a little suggestion, I leggit love this 'series' of yours and I love watching you play the games other people made,
So, What if, for exmaple, you put all the games you didn't play in a list or file of sorts and reviewed like, 3-5 of them (every now and then), until you completed the list. Kind of like, filler video content, if you get what I mean.
That would be pretty dope. And before you ask, yes, I have already wishlisted Will You Snail!
@@paulolukeny5736 Problem with that suggestion is that games would come in faster than I can play them. If I play through the list from top to bottom I would play outdated games most of the time where the feedback isn't really useful for the devs anymore. Just recorded a new video for the series. I'll try to keep them coming, no worries. :)
please i am poor donate
hedi-dev-studio.itch.io/
i make games and projects for free !
You know you made a good game when the person playing stops talking.
Hmmm. Yeah, I guess that's true. Very interesting point.
@Zarr135 ?
@@Shanes_dead274 they stop commentating to focus because it is almost impossible to commentate and focus at the same time
43:51 he's dancing to this one i think we got a winner chat
Wow thank you for putting Ghost Grab 3000 up first, Jonas! Super useful feedback and I'm definitely going to act on all of it! Keep the great videos coming. 👻
Great game to see pop up in my subscription feed! :v)
@@MrProtjes :D :D :D
Happy to hear you found my feedback useful. Keep up the good work. :)
Hey! I really like the game but I think you should use only one art style, because you used for your menü a pixel style, for the game a drawed style and in the backround a 3d animation.
@@crowbarska can u send me the game I want to play it
"This video is sponsored by.. ME!" haha.. loved it.. Please more lists tips vids I love those..
Id sponsored you if I had any money
Okay. I'll see what I can do about that. :)
@@JonasTyroller :) don't get me wrong those are great too.. love your channel you just keep those coming and your channel will be huge :)
@@salihcanozdemir2112 bruh
Thank you so much for including LoFi Room!
I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
That game was super chill 👌. Awesome work
Great work man
Or woman
it's really good bro
That was so great man, would love to see more games like this!
Fun fact: ghost grab 3000 is on Nintendo Switch now
Yay
Woah what
YES! PLEASE DO THIS MORE!
I will. Perhaps the next video will not be as long, though. :D
@@JonasTyroller are you sure about that there
that lo-fi one was reaaaaaaaaally different
yess
@@HediDev no. Don't do this.
@@capstero ok
Woop - another awesome video + feedback!
About Area 86 - will try to improve the coloring - thanks!
Let the Snails go wild!!!
Great game btw
I'm a bit saddened he didn't play your game but it looks very promising!
Thanks so much for playing Gracefall! :D Yeah haha I’ve been having people from the gamedev community help me by playtesting and I’ve made some big fixes regarding the overall stability of the flight and implemented changes to the camera system. You’re right it is Cinemachine hehe.
I think my big problem is that the tutorial just isn’t doing an adequate job of explaining the mechanic. About 50% of people do the rapid clicking you were doing, which generates no lift and therefore causes those backflips that were happening.
Thank you so much for your honest feedback and I’ll work hard on the control scheme! It means a lot to me that you think it has promise. :)
i have seen your game in the discord a few times now and since i don't have a gaming laptop i never tried it but now that i have seen it in this video i can see what it is about. i think the concept is really awesome and graphically very appealing as well. what you just said about the rapid clicking is a problem i see a lot lot lot in these kinds of games/situations. immediately at least 3 different games come to my mind where new players rapid click some sort of wing / similar and then get frustrated because they don't gain height or what they are trying to do doesn't work.
I think this should be a big part of your tutorial, that teaches the player what happens when you rapid click (= bad) and what happens when you time your jumps. because if the player understands the concept that rapid clicking is not the intended way to maneuver they will immediately know that they can improve on maneuvering instead of you the game developer needing to improve the maneuvering, which feels frustrating to a player even if it isn't the case.
Ninjario Picmin thank you for your thoughtful reply! Yeah I can’t blame the player for not knowing something they were never taught hehe :P
I think the tutorial and the camera are the two big areas I need to improve in right now.
Also your kind words about the concept and graphics really mean a lot to me :’)
Please make more videos and updates on your game its a really cool concept just needs a little more work
Jonas:You should make it so you can’t leave a room until you kill all the enemies.
Also Jonas: Killing all the enemies in the room is a little tedious.
There is a difference between killing all enemies on the screens you pass (e.g. on your way to a goal) and killing all enemies on all screens.
Thank you so much! lot of precious feedback! it's sad that music and sound bugged and didn't play for most of the game, I should have noticed that bug long ago(it has something to do with player prefs). and again thank you! btw love playing islanders to relax after long development day
btw that laser sound staying after level changed is because we use wwise for all the music and sound. and it's pain in the ass :D but still useful for interactive music
Super happy to hear there was some useful feedback in there for you. Wish you the best of luck with sorting those sound issues out. :D
Hey Jonas, I really enjoy these videos because they are long and I can watch them while I'm making games and I think it's nice of you to review other people's games, who knows I might just submit mine one day
Thanks for your kind words. I certainly hope I'll get around to playing your game one day. :)
In AI-Buster, another recommendation I would make -- after you die, the enemy tanks continue shooting at you. If you've ever played portal, after you get killed by a turret, your body still lies there on the floor and you continue to see for a few seconds before you respawn, but as soon as you die, all of the turrets instantly stop tracking you and go back to scanning the room and that kind of acts as a bit more of a slap in the face.
Really cool!
I can learn a lot from the other games even though mine didn't show up.
Your community is super talented! :D
Jeah it would be pretty impossible to play all those 100 games in that detail. I think this is the caveat that we had to make.
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.UrazSoftware.StickyBall
I like this! I feel like any game dev listening (especially newbies like me!) can also learn a thing or two from the feedback you're giving these games.
Damn I thought I was being original when I decided to use a rolling cube as the key mechanic of my game. I hadn't seen it done before.
You still can do it, the cube game in this video seems to be deleted for some reason....
For the They'll Find You game, maybe it would be interesting if the monsters had stuff like limited running stamina, pouncing with telegraphing, momentum etc, varied mechanics that require you to learn different ways to move to dodge them?
Funny you should mention pouncing.
My favorite enemy in the game does jump at you (not much in the way of a warning though, you just gotta dodge quickly as soon as they do.).
And if you're close enough to a wall & they miss, they'll jump off for a second try.
I like this series and your honesty.
That said, I genuinely feel that you missed the point on the game "neural bots". You were judging it based on assumptions you had made about the game that the game didn't really direct you to making.
The character movement and level design were clearly focused on precision based gameplay with a rarely used style of movement.
The only design element that hinted at speed is timing the levels, however that is ideal in a precision challenge as well as you want to be the fastest while being precise.
I feel like the way you approached reviewing that particular game would be like someone coming into your game "will you snail?" And making the comment that the A.I. shouldn't predict your movement. It feels like the review is either ignoring the core mechanics or that it is a way of expressing distaste for the core mechanic.
True. Good design is only about meeting your design goals. I don't know any of the developers design goals which means I can only make assumptions about their goals. In doing so I can miss the point sometimes.
Thank you for the response!
As an aside, that game reminded me of the old arcade game "lunar lander", don't know if you've seen/remember that one. I have actually hoped to see some modern takes on that kind of movement without feeling like they are copying that game so it was pretty exciting to have seen this one for me.
perhaps if the bot flew with a propeller, it would hint more towards precision. having a rocket engine makes people assume speed, because rockets
@@douglasparkinson4123 yeah there wasn't really much to suggest that intention, something like getting over it/qwop it's very obvious that maneuvering is supposed to be somewhat awkward
Jonas: Have you wishlisted “Will you Snail” already?
Me:* Karlson flashbacks *
1:29
me (german): * looks at keyboard *
qwertz = YXC
he switched up y and z on german keyboards, or he's somehow betraying with qwerty
Yea qwerty has x and y about 3 keys away diagonally. So I think he's just a traitor.
Some German keyboards do replace Y and Z. He might already be used to this, so it would just be annoying and pointless to switch.
Dude, thank you for playing & for the feedback.
It really brought some useful things to my attention.
Also a lot of these other games look dope af.
And yes I DO want to play Will You Snail?
Grace Fall's music is a remix of the Will You Snail theme!
46:50
EDIT: I'm dumb, Jonas clearly added it in post. Nice chill remix of the theme though, I like it.
I feel like Jonas put in Will you snail soundtrack as background music because in Phos I've also heard islanders soundtrack^^
I put in Will You Snail soundtrack as the game didn't have any music. xD
So many cool games here! 😍 Well done all devs! 💪
Awesome work, Jonas! These are probably my favorite videos of yours, and that's saying something because I really like all of your videos! (You're probably my favorite gamedev UA-camr ❤️)
I love that you do these; you have such great, really knowledgeable and apt advice for each game. Keep it up!
Nice of you to do this for the community
Felt like i was watching more of a lets play than a game design talk :)
The feedback on that tank game: humm you should have to kill all enemies before leaving the room. 30 seconds Later: WHAT...I Need to kill all enemies? that's tedious...
37:45 "I would never dare to make a Game with a Level Editor"
lol, exactly. I was gonna comment this
I'm ready to start my coding career! I got a gaming pc and I can't wait for it to get here beacuse i have 2d and 3d unity coarse's to do I can't wait I love your videos they give me lot's of idea's for my future games!
Great! Good luck!
Thanks for playing my reeeeeally early prototype AI-Bustet Jonas and your onest feedback. :D really nice!!
(38.00)
That music game was awesome !
Your channel never fails to put me in the mood for some programming. I hope you play my game someday, when it's a bit farther in development.
I certainly hope so as well. :P
Can't wait to watch the video :D, love those! One day I will be in that kind of video hehe :P
I hope so. :)
Phodex Games oh hi lol
@@michaelsantamaria8306 Hi :D
I would like to see the developer of that flight game play it-- I bet you he can do barrel rolls and back flips and stuff.
actually many game devs suck at their own games XD. me included.
Oh wow what a coincidence. We looked at Lofi-Room last year in my game design course at uni. Such an adorable little project
The first game should use the waves as a checkpoint to prevent boredom
19:48
“Pretty watchable”
Haha, oof. That part is really bad. Sooooorrryyyyy. :D
Jonas Tyroller
It’s ok, and I really liked the video!
It gave me good insight on game design
@@jacknation1141 Thanks for your comment and for watching. I'm happy you managed to get some value out of it. :)
9:40 Remember kids, don’t trust metallic sounding voices
Jonas Tyroller, knows clearly how to record videos and streams (never show your community the game)
My beautiful face is a lot more interesting anyways.
Lol
Jonas Tyroller haha
This is inspiring! Thank you for your video :-) and for being so kind and encouraging.
Wow 99 submissions!
I was hoping to get some feedback, but I totally got drowned out haha. I definitely learned a valuable lesson about titling your email appropriately!
Great video, there really was a lot of great games here and I still learned a lot.
Awesome. Thanks a lot for your submission. I wish I could play all but there's just not enough time... :D
" I Am Literary A Rolling Cube "
Me Using The Jonas Tutorial For Movement For A Cube: That's How He Did It Yah?
I enjoy your videos. You radiate experience in game making. I call this the "professional effect". When you try to fix your electricity and the electrician walks in and turns on the switch and it works. He doenst say "why did you call me", he is well aware. Also I like the way you are international with your English. I like listening to your speech. I will definately watch some more of your videos. Looks very yummy to a (old) new game developer like me. Grüße aus Köln
Cool video, how did you change your voice like some sort of a robot for "Will You Snail"?
Audacity its free
If you are still wondering exactly how, his video "Don't put 600 voice lines in your indie game" goes through it
@@jambie Eat your cereal
@@sirstotes yes sir
Maybe to avoid the easier stuff in level 1 you still keep what wave you need to get to the next level but let you skip to the wave you last completed successfully because otherwise you end up completing each level first time.
I think I would play PHOS coz I love logistic games
You just find a bug in my most recent game... still in development, and i haven't even show to anyone (break the flow starting again from lvl 1) he he he he!! thank you so much.
"I would never dare to make a game with a level editor"
One often meets his fate on the path he takes to avoid it
These videos are really awesome and helpful, thanks for doing them Jonas :)
You're welcome. Thanks a lot for watching them. :)
So much knowledge! Thanks man!
You are very good at this (as many people have said many times before). I know you want to continue working on your own game, but I'd make sure to reserve plenty of time each week to make 1 or 2 episodes, playing a few games.
bro you are underrated
really apreciatu you
"y and x are far apart on german keyboards"
y and x:
literally next to each other
ä
43:55 I actually want to play this now.
Phos. Just wow! Good start
Maybe you could have something like a sub-reddit where people vote on games based on screenshots, videos etc, and you pick from the hot list to make the video?
Cool idea. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm a bit afraid that would result in me only playing the good looking games. I don't really want the quality of the game to be a big criteria for selecting them as the whole purpose is to give feedback. :)
When you're watching a video and then go, WAIT HES RIGHT, and add a feature to your game mid-video to make it visually better
Jonas: Wishlist will you snail
Squid: *YOU DONT WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME*
Thank you for your feedback on Phos! Got a lot of feedback. Especially in communicating to the player what things do. A lot of problems would be solved with that. Thanks!
I could recommend the good old method of showing the resources travel on the wires
it's an old trope but it's a good trope
32:08 I think the problem with doing that is that the mouse will follow the camera but the character won't, so moving the camera will change the direction of the thrusting and mess the player up
I think you are doing an awesome job in bringing attention to some indie game devellopers and giving some really good feedback. I will definetly submit my game once i finish a playtest build. Keep up the good work man!!!
am i the only one that thinks Poly Cube 2 is very similar to Brackey's Tutorial Game thing?
Like, the red cube, the camera is exactly -10 Z behind, the "LEVEL COMPLETE" thing that looks exactly like the one that brackey's did,
that's awesome.
"It's very hard to make a horror game because in a top-down view, you know, you can see everything"
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*Maybe you should give a try to Darkwood.*
3:50 I think I know where this was inspired from.
There were those little flash games back in the day when we had to go with the CD to the first kid in the village who had a PC to get them.
I read the title as if my father was scolding me about my school grades, truly terrifying
100? o.O That can only mean that you are very famous now ;)
Subbed, great advices and personality.
The box one is amazing.
I finally figured out who he reminds me....tobey maguire in fear and loathing in las vegas
xD
First game could just screen clear on death, like in Touhou.
PolyCube2 could be amazing with some very subtly presented narrative. So not at all like an RPG narrative, but something to further stoke the deep mood that it seems to present, which I think is mainly created by the music.
very cool
Will You Snail is now officially on my wishlist!!
Very very nice. Thank you very much. :)
This dude sponsoring himself. Real chad
Nice vid Jonas
14:25 I think a very big empty room is pretty creepy, it feels like there's no place to hide, and that if someone comes, you are straight away dead.
I think it is creepiest if there's either giant empty black room or a dark room full of boxes
I only watch things under an hour so I guess this is acceptable
Best series ever.
Heh, that was a long video. Great video as always!
the controls for lofi room could be A-W-D-Space or A-S-D-Space, makes it somewhat better to land those beats.
Still a nice game tho!
I'm also developing a game which you create and complete the setup of a PCB board which is base on real life electronics tools and gadgets. It teaches the gamer How a diode or other components work, what kind of voltage is needed for the board to be stable and usable... Including writing codes for micro controller or processor... I thought of these idea with regards to Flight/Driving Simulator, Car Mechanic puzzle making of how to fix a car...
A computer within a computer .. i love it :D
That Phos game looks nice
Hey jonas i know I have said it before n ill keep saying it lol. I am glad i discovered your channel. After a long i decded to try n enter my very first game jam. Thanks to it i devoloped a idea for my very first game idea I want to make, so be prepeared after I learn to make my first game to be prepeared to demo it. :)
hey lucky me found a great channel, love ur content
A game called "Area 49 and 1/2" with extremely incompetent robots trying to contain green aliens that are very terrible at escaping. You choose to either help the aliens escape or help the robots contain them by solving puzzles. When you win, no matter what side you chose to be on, the scientists come back, (they are surrounded by shadows so you can't see them clearly) they complain that you shouldn't have done anything because they were testing their AI against the aliens to see who was smarter. If you replay the game it takes about 10 minutes for each level to "solve" itself, but who wins is kind of random, and whichever side wins more times is declared the winner at the end, but only if you sit back and don't touch any of the puzzles. So when you get the "Aliens Win!" ending or the "Robots Win!" ending there is an animation of all the Aliens safely behind bars, or all the Aliens escaping a hole in the wall and disappearing into the night, then after the credits of the game you see a very small spaceship leave into the sky and get smaller. You can watch it all happen, but if you want to see who wins, you can't click any of the puzzles. You can go through any door already unlocked or open, but you can't pick any lock or use any key. You can use the security cameras to see the progress but only if the door is open, which happens at about the 6 minute to 7 minute mark when the security bot runs out of the room, presumably to tell someone what is happening on the monitors, and the radio isn't working. It should be a wonky game, fully 3D but very silly looking. Someone please steal my idea, this needs to be a game.
this videyo is isponsord by MII
ahahaha subscribed ma man
I love that format. How can i send a game for You to play?
Found this channel recently love the content so please make more.
Quick question have you considered doing code reviews as I've been working on a game and I'm more interested in improved the code functionality rather than the balance, looks etc.
Thank you very much. I'm not sure if I'm the correct person to do code reviews. I don't really feel qualified. :D
@@JonasTyroller I have a feeling that you're most likely more qualified than me :3
@@MajorSmurf it is very difficult for someone that has never seen the code of a project to figure out what exactly is going on. it takes a lot of time to get in there and seeing the problems in a given code can take a very long time. i don't think it will be very helpful for either side
@@NinjarioPicmin I understand that it can be difficulty to read others codes. However it can be helpful to have someone just to go "Hey I think it would easier to do it this way" and when coding I make sure to add notes for what each part is doing so that its easy for someone to see what certain parts do as well as for me when I'm searching through.
And I would like to add one of the best things about coding is how universal it is. Language barriers in coding is rare . And when solo deving it is important to get feedback on your code whether its just on a forum somewhere. As if not some people can develop bad habitats for coding which I want to avoid,
@@MajorSmurf of course i am not saying anything against having someone look over your code, i just don't think it would make for a great video format, especially comparing how much time it would take versus the payout compared to epsiodes like these
13:26 Bruh,would have never guessed this game is about Baldi
Lol I had a ad about bugs in this video, how ironic
The last game is kind of like the Brakey’s unity tutorial.
Haha, true. A game doesn't need to be complicated. :P
37:47
Well, now it's reality
That really motivates me making new games.
Ps: Does anyone know how to make screenshake in GMS?
In the US, y and x keys are pretty far apart (y is key 6 row 3, x is key 2 row 5)
anyone: wtfking hell was THAT!
this guy: mh, that's interesting
ua-cam.com/video/XofMyFApIRs/v-deo.html
Bro when you were playing they’ll find you my phone was on minimum brightness and it was so dark I legit thought it was a first person game
my boyfriend and I are making a game together, he is programming and I am drawing.. watching your vids while drawing is very nice :DD
Nice. Happy to hear that. Have fun. :)
I would like to try this at some point, how can you be sure that no one is trying to give you a virus through those emails?
Just watched the whole vid xd