Let's Review Your Games — Ep. 002

doing and playing your games cannot wait to get started here um I want to try and get the stream up and running I'm using multistream I'm trying to stream to to Twitch and for some reason this there's an old man in me that's slowly getting older and older that can't quite figure it out um so let me update the uh the thumbnail here for every stream and if you're watching this on a rerun just skip ahead um setting the thumbnails here goodness gracious it's not updating the freaking oh man it's so frustrating why the description isn't updated hang on hang on there it is okay um good good good saved and I think we're all set but I have an other stream hey guys come on in sorry this is

boring isn't it U I'm trying to update the freaking stream um it's on another stream I got another stream going where people are confused hang on one sec here copy and then we'll just end this one okay hey I can't wait to start this live stream it's gonna be so fun hang on one sec one sec one sec one sec SEC one sec the problem is when you multistream on Twitch and YouTube and Twitter it doesn't let you do a big nice clean description and a thumbnail you have to update each one and so I'm trying to figure that out um oh man hang on one sec I'm trying to figure out why that's the case um okay all right you guys ready and I'm checking to see if we're live on Twitch uh we're live on Twitch we got any twitch viewers here with us

awesome awesome awesome and I think we're live on Twitter as well yay we're live on Twitter as well oky doie come on in guys come on in welcome welcome welcome does everything sound good everything feel good sound is a bit soft check one 1212 check check check check check there we go it's a little little clippy there check okay [Music] I'm going to rate the games today and you guys are going to rate the games today we're all going to rate the games we're going to do it together and I'll give my opinion obviously on what I think is true um but I'm also going to have you guys give your opinion on what you think is true at the end of the day your choice is what makes a game win okay so today we have five games that we're going to be playing and reviewing um blood rush constant Crimson Tide Dragon Paul Ledges of Mythology

I I encourage you do not go vote yet do not go look at the steam page let's all look at these games fresh and clean okay okay hey guys huge huge thank you to all of these wonderful new students who joined full-time Game Dev for the new year sale uh Andres Andre Andre andrees Chad gr uh is it gor or gyore dialysis Davey Zayn Tony Farhan IH IAD Maria John James Michael and Raven thank you so much for joining fulltime Game Dev during the New Year's sale it means the world to me and by the way guys if you want to join for the uh the New Year's sale it's 50% off plus you're going to get 2D art Pro and 3D art Pro completely free and also stream my game uh completely free now some of you might be thinking Thomas isn't that the same thing isn't that the same thing as the Black Friday sale yes it is and after

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those are going to sell out for sure so uh check it out below and by the way if you're a student in uh in the program let me know in the chat what you think about it and we're going to go ahead and get started here on the first game all right guys the first game is called blood rush ready to get going let's go don't vote don't vote just yet um hang on let's let's look at every single game before we start voting what about President's Day sales I guess I'll just buy a new mattress then that's from Death Cloud are you guys ready okay for some reason there's no desktop audio hang on one sec there we go there we go I like this menu okay

this game is hard you can adjust the accessibility settings at any time adjust the ACC accessibility settings now is that a button it doesn't feel like that's a button and I'm scared to click it because I don't know what's going to happen let's just click continue I don't like that these buttons are squished thanks for playing blood rush blah blah blah blah blah beta blah blah blah blah blah Okay so we've got this pixelated font but we've got a nice clean um image here and a very clean logo I always get really disoriented when I see um a different sort of graphical style um next to like a pixelated font it always confuses me um so anyway we're going to take a look here there's no music there's no Ambience I would highly recommend some Ambience here

something like that I think that'd be really cool press edit key so I want an in instant Punchy feel when I press key uh when I click buttons on menus I know I always get into the nitty-gritty of menus and I get kind of lost in menus and that's cuz I love UI I love sound and I love instant reactive game feel a menu isn't part of the game play right so you have an excuse as a developer to make it Punchy and fun and reactive and quick because well Dark Souls for example you don't want it to be Punchy and reactive and quick because that's part of the gameplay you want it to be um telegraphing and maybe even want it to be sluggish and slow just to make it challenging make the menu fun though make it Punchy and quick when I press buttons watch bang oh that felt good okay select to

save okay so there was no sound no clicking it it didn't feel good at all but this I'm sure is going to be fun so let's take a look o oh I can do a a dash forward can I do a dash sideways okay cool I like the pixelated look the hands are pretty cool looking hit the door to break it nice I've heard that sound before that sounds in my game oh that feels great this is super cool you slap things uh what is this a tetos provider tetanus what okay I wish there was some some crunching of my feet and where's the

ambience what there's no Ambience now by the way guys when a developer releases a demo okay they're obviously releasing something that is incomplete okay and they'll even tell you that as big fat disclaimers when they when you start the game we're not reviewing this game as if it's a demo we're reviewing this as if it's a full game why are we doing that so that the the uh developers who are in the chat or who are watching us can say okay well this is what we need to do to make the game great okay so I'm going to critique it based on what I think it should be in the final so that they can Implement those changes if they trust me um which you don't have to trust me boy that swing does not feel good I want it to be really fast yeah that it something feels off there it's not reactive look the break occurs before

the swing right that's not you need we need to work on this I would highly recommend looking at Half Life um crowbar where's the music while in the air to perform a slam some reason I didn't feel like I went down I felt like I teleported so I would I would maybe slow down that slam actually this does feel really good but man we need some music and Ambience not ambient Ambience hang on one sec guys give me just a sec here I'm going to type in on YouTube cave horror Ambience okay we're going to listen to some cave horror Ambience you hear that look look at how much a difference this

makes sound is everything and if there was footsteps oh my word I really need to get out of this place voice acting how many stairs do I have to climb okay give me some motive tell me who I am ple it doesn't matter if it's just a game about gameplay and there's no story give me something give me a motivation like I've been in here for the last 20 years I can't take it anymore I've got to get out something like that something give me a motivation yeah so we've got sound effects but we don't have Ambience right okay now I want to show you guys one more thing

[Music] we're going to find another track horror Ambience and see if we can find a nice video with horror Ambience and I know this isn't necessarily a horror game but let's just see here o dark ambient ready guys you want to escape is that it what what no I mean I love it here the etern Eternal torture and stuff so it's hell I absolutely adore this I will not try to stop you I like your energy try again but take a weapon of my Creation with you nice I love the graphics I think it looks

great and it also by the way the game feels good let's let's give some positives here game looks great I love the chunky you know pixelated feel I love the the hands I love the movement it feels great I love the environment okay so anyway let's let's do this now that we've got some music we could turn that off I just wanted to show you guys it okay let's go [Music] H music isn't very good wait is this an encounter let's see drain a miracle increase your weapons fire rate backfire a fire to anyone that damages you shatel your explosion will produce shatel depending on the size

so that didn't feel like an upgrade okay here we go whoa [Music] what salvation does not exist okay so combat feels a little um it feels a little heavy clunky but maybe I just need to get used to it let's keep trying the music the music in my opinion um I feel like it should be well I can't play anything because I don't want to get demonetized I think it should sound like this okay here's what I think it should sound like

something like that right I'm spitting everywhere but that's the idea but this is like kind of it feels like it a Super Nintendo sidescroller as opposed to like a doom game um so I guess we've got it kind of sounding like that but something's wrong with the instrumentation I'm not quite sure but anyway maybe I'm maybe I'm being too critical too [Music] fast okay I already did this but wait what okay I guess it's something like a do we have a Rog light can you guys explain to me what's going on [Music] here okay let's get it well that feels

[Music] good nice so this weapon feels [Music] great cool I like those uh the enemy Graphics are really cool okay so what [Music] happened so I have an ability in my left hand I have control what does r do I can hit with r q is I think my ability all right so let's go see what happens here okay cool all right cool I can choose doors whoa [Music]

oh I can do a triple Dash nice yeah that feels really good actually [Music] [Music] nice not sure what that does kind of starting to like the music oh no I'm out of ammo okay I got my pistol nice Thomas good [Music]

hey this feels good drain a miracle I don't know what that means I guess it's just a upgrade [Music] system okay spawn a crack on the ground after a Dash Radioactive cracks lifespan okay American armor inflict radiation damage and a heavy dose of radiation to the responsible enemy what inflict radiation damage and a heavy dose of radiation okay I wish that was a I wish that sound when you upgrade was like all right let's go oh my word okay it's just arenas okay

so how do I switch my abilities come on nice oh I'm about to die about to die [Music] crap crap you guys ready to move on to another game are we ready to move on to another game so far I mean I think I think we've we've learned a lot about this game um and I I think I I think I understand the loop um I quite like it actually um okay so guys go ahead we're going to we're going to move on to the next game what I want you to do is click the link below uh on the description uh for blood

rush if you're on Twitch you might not see the link in the description oh you might no you should uh click the link in the description and head on over to the P the straw poll and go ahead and vote and our voting is going to be do you recommend the game or not the reason we're doing this is we're basically trying to get it a same kind of scoring system as Steam um so would you recommend the game yes or no that way what we used to do when we would do these let's plays and reviews is we would vote at the very end but some of you might not stick around to the end so I want you to be able to vote now and then we'll compare all the scores okay so um go ahead and uh go ahead and vote okay and I will give you guys my score at the end of this this video or U at the end of today's uh stream all right the next game guys yeah the the player death animation was actually really really cool I I I

the moment that happened I thought man that took some work cuz I don't have a character in my game um so it felt a little chunky to give it a brief overview here it felt a little clunky and slow um it didn't feel super reactive like sometimes I would click and nothing would happen or shoot and nothing would happen some of the The Sounds were really low so it didn't feel good you could accomplish so much with really good sound what I was saying was when you upgrade it should even if you don't even have a particle effect I should hear something like that um when I'm running when I get hit something like that when I when I hit an enemy and I should see like arrows around my cursor my cursor should turn red or something instant Snappy right you want

to give the player a really strong sense of game feel I thought the movement was great I just think that the game feel wasn't really solid in terms of the loop I think the loop was great I have no issue with the loop um we're we're mainly talking about gamefield stuff which by the way gamefield is is almost uh I would say it's the that and music and by the way Music and Sound are kind of part of gamefield but that and music are like the majority of what makes your game good in my opinion I could be wrong but that's just my opinion okay has everybody voted is everybody voted okay and everybody wish list blood rush if you can okay so please do that while we while we load up the next game which is going to be a game called constants ready guys UI is asking why Thomas's latest video disappeared that video wasn't

supposed to go live I don't know why it went live today um so I I I said it to private okay so it's already at 1080P or at least that image was 1080p okay so this person knows what they're doing um notice how guys oh my word are you ready finally for the first time in like 20 games we've played we have good clean margins thank you equal margin here equal margin here equal margin here equal margin here equal margin here equal margin here do you see that oh it's so professional okay let's go oh that feels [Music] great thank you Lord music is awesome this is phenomenal already oh

guys let's listen to this music come [Music] on oh wow that's amazing oh that click sound was great oh no this game is amazing already uhoh I say uh oh because the rest of the gamees better watch out okay so I'm already going to write my the game um oh no you can't do aswd are you kidding me okay so we don't use our Mouse which is fine I can rest so we clearly got hollow Knight Vibes but it looks different than Hollow Knight okay so it's full on Hollow Knight but it the the style looks totally different in in certain ways in other ways not so much uh like the coloring and the uh the depth of field the bokeh effect with the blur in the foreground

this feels incredible holy mackerel how do I attack D holl night is officially a genre I mean at this point welcome to the constants 2 demo this looks amazing look at those [Music] illustrations holy crap oh I love that camera shift or that transition effect oh that feels good oh smack you oh yeah that felt [Music] amazing oh my word I just love it so much oh that feels good come on

I love it when a game has good game feel I don't even care if it's fun as long as it feels good I'm happy well it makes it fun you know let's study guys let's study what about this game has good game feel if you don't know and if it's not obvious let's let's discuss a few things when I hit the ground there's a land sound it's got a base and a treble to it listen there's a base a thud and there's also a crunch do you hear it okay instant movement when I press a key instant predictable the jump height is always predictable solid game f right if you're going to make a platformer you better have solid uh predictable uh jump height the only critique I'll say say is that it's a critique I give myself for

my game Twisted Tower who knows what the critique is the one critique that I have for this game is the same one I give to myself Twisted Tower what is it does anyone know let's see if there's coyote time yep does anyone know what the major critique what this game is and some steam users are going to say the same thing what is it nope not motivation people are going to bring it up no nope it looks too much like Hollow night that's what they're going to say I don't have a problem with it I it it's clearly Hollow night like there's so much here that's just look clearly

inspired including that lever you know everything is clearly inspired by Hollow Knight and so people are going to get critical and I'm not I don't care I don't care clearly cuz my game Twisted Tower is like obviously inspired by Bioshock like in every way um but they're going to say that and who cares I mean who cares did you guys know I did a I'll tell you because I've got um I was going to say only 200 people watching but now we have 672 anyway I did a I did a podcast episode with Ken LaVine a couple days ago a't that awesome and after the podcast he was like what's your game and I was like uh nothing because it's so inspired by him I kind of feel guilty about it so anyway I told him and he was like oh let me look it up and he looked it up and he said it looks awesome he was like oh this looks so cool so I was re I was like I said I'm so relieved thank you um look being inspired by other games

mimicking a style if a game is established it's almost a genre okay like Bioshock in and of itself is basically a genre in my opinion Hollow Knight it's turning into that because there's so many games that look like Hollow KN do you do you guys agree I don't know if you agree or not but I figured i' would just talk about that um because that's what this game is going to get this is going to get critique like that but I think we're at a point where no one cares okay that didn't look like a break it looked like a fade but that's okay this is so beautiful the music is incredible too oh yes much more uh a quick attack than than Hollow Knight I can do it in midair look at this yes okay so there's there's differences right there's differences in in the uh Hollow KN gameplay look I can do a quick whack I can do as many as I

want oh I love this I love this game it's called constants guys wish list below by the way it feels so good that felt great everything has a has a it feels like a oh what what's the word it's tactile Everything feels like it's in the world like look at this most developers don't even worry about that they're like ah who cares you hit a wall big deal but not in constants I will say the game's not very challenging at this point um which is fine we we've talked a lot so I need to shut up the irony um also that the hurt animation the hurt sound fully drawn from Hollow night which is totally fine

it's to that is totally fine [Music] um seriously I don't have much critique here guys look at that animation in the top left hand corner of her head oh freaking beautiful and the music is awesome okay let's keep going let's keep going oh that felt amazing it's just such good game feel everything let's talk to to this dude obviously Hollow KN if I were them i' would be I would whoever whoever made this game if you're in the chat let me know but I would definitely reconsider pulling this everything from Hollow KN like try and change some stuff like do a do a British accent here oh hello there nice to see a friendly face my name is Bertram and wait a second do we know each other you seem awfully familiar here oh oh your your hair I

found you I I was told to send anyone with purple hair to The Foundry they're having issues with their pipes I think beautiful text just continue this path to the right it leads straight to The Foundry if you ever get lost you can always open your mini map with tab good luck and be careful please there are some mean robots in ahead so how do I so how do I get out of here now so notice how the text Chang colors uh when he's like doing a thought it turns gray amazing amazing oh my word okay I'm I'm really just thrilled about all of this honestly let's see if we can go up there though but don't be discouraged guys we might we have some incredible games coming up we that might beat this

honestly this game is going to make a lot of money get out of here oh it's an arena oh I can [Music] evade okay s dive and Das oh I can turn into paint whoa oh you got to be careful you can't go under you can't just try and get big again when inside that small um that sounds weird um I lost my train of thought okay hang on that feels amazing wait can I go through that so good I love that mechanic do an indan never mind

um I'm losing track of my controls actually hang on D is attack s is Dash okay what's this blocked for demo screw you I'm just kidding notice how guys Thomas notice how we uh how do I what's Q oh I can heal okay um notice how we've been playing guys and we haven't realized we've been playing for a long time and that's because the game is just really fun I'm still getting used to the controls give me a sec here what is that oh it's like a Healer I I I'll say this um I would never ever ever say that the graphics are better than team cherry but I like them more um I don't know why I think

they're cleaner I just like the cleanness of them they they make me feel Nostalgia for some reason okay let's go that's just I love how the music stopped what's this maybe I need to get like a firebomb or something feels so good to hit my broom look at that animation guys by the way Watch the watch the particle effects all it is is it's just emitting while during run it's not even emitting during a hit of a foot it's just emitting while it runs and it's an animated atlas of Sprites and they're just subtly going from Big to small that makes such a huge difference notice the particles in the air guys they're being distributed along the z-axis and so that's what makes them

they're they're adding so much Parallax with very little effort from the developer whoa oh Lord thank you so much for this game it's so pretty oh no I'm going to have to make this I'm going to make this game I'm inspired I finally feel inspired for once in my life oh that music [Music] ah okay oh it's like Italy or

something it's like full on Renaissance there's a freaking loot right there a tree in the foreground hey it's a robot look at the contrast here in the visual style T hello there fellow traveler the name's Robert A roaming photographer extraordinaire I capture memories of all the places I visit you might even call me a journalist so what kind of camera do you use what do you mean you don't have a camera this is a travesty blasphemy even luckily for you I always carry a few extras here take this one look at that it's even loaded with a few snapshots already why don't you give this bad boy a try and snap a selfie with me just press J that is so cool look at the film grain let's keep

it oh my word I just love this game so much this might be one of my favorite games wow I wasn't expecting you to get it perfect right up the bat and you even manage to get both of us in the frame you're a natural and don't worry about your snapshots they reusable I want to talk about global color versus local color we'll talk about in a sec don't let me forget whenever you delete one you can use it again now get out of there get out there and capture the world's wonders and picture one picture at a time all right let's talk about global color versus uh local color this game has a Lo a global color scheme which is cream and purple that's the character that's the UI That's the menu That's the maps do you see the global color guys then

there's local biome color schemes based on the world okay so right here our world is yellow um and green and and um what is that like a brownish red and so you have different color schemes interacting with each other and you have to keep in mind that the local and the global need to look good together but the global unifies the game okay so it's a it's essentially a brand color SCH oh my goodness so this is isn't this same as like dirt mouth basically is it our Hub brilliant mechanic so what do I do I think I just need to dodge him ah yes you brilliant brilliant

developers can I do it up oh my word okay I think I got it yep plenty of um crap okay whatever okay guys we're about to wrap up this game though we can't we can't spend too much time on this um because we got other games to look at so I'm going to give this game a score I can't even give it that I'm just I okay yeah I'm I I I got it I got it I'm GNA give it I shouldn't say it uh do do the um the the straw pole Below guys and we're going to go ahead and quit here look at that cool menu guys

[Music] look yep I have one critique for it and it's probably just because I wasn't paying attention so it's not even really going to affect the score um okay so don't don't rate it guys publicly just rate it using the link in the description can we do that can everybody do that all right let's go ahead and move on to the next one um Moving On Moving On by the way guys if you haven't checked out fulltime Game Dev using the link below check it out it's a new year sale so if you want to learn how to make games but also and it doesn't matter gdau Unity unreal doesn't matter if you want to learn how to not only make games 2D or 3D but also learn how to sell them to Publishers Kickstarter and sell them on the steam front page you can actually go fulltime with just a demo if you want to learn how to do that you're going to learn from someone who's actually done it

that's what I do um I've actually signed four publishing agreements I'm on my fourth one right now it's my biggest one I've ever signed um check it out below I'm going to teach you how to do that it's 50% off you also get my 2dr Pro and 3D art pro programs and I will also shout you out tomorrow during tomorrow's live stream um this is the new year sale okay so the new year sale once this is over Black Friday and New Year's are like the biggest sales so once these are over it's done you know um it might be maybe summer before there's another big one but even then it's probably not going to be as big as this one so um check it out all right you ready guys whoa really loud Dorothy says was was was that game actually cool it looked beautiful but nothing much was new well Dorothy I I I appreciate your comment I don't that

doesn't I don't care like I'm not looking for new um and that's that's what I've kind of been frustrated with lately with the industry is it feels like everyone's trying to do something unique and something gimmicky granted I do recommend that you you try and fit in a gimmick into your games just because it helps Market the game but sometimes I just want a nice homecooked meal that I've had before make me a delicious roast beef stew with a nice thick piece of sourdough bread with butter on top that's what that game was that's all I want I don't want something fresh and new sometimes I just want to go back to the basics okay so that's just my theory um okay you ready guys wow this is loud okay so why is the music and the sound so

different okay so already there's an issue here with this game which is I I guess I like the menu but get rid of the music start with subtlety the music is hurting the the vibe completely um to prove it I want to show you guys what you could do okay so to prove this let's let's talk about this men really quick you guys know I love jumping into menu uh critique menus are are very very important because they they're the doorway to your house um you got to get in that door and if you if you don't introduce them properly with a beautiful mahogany door or a big fat steel door with blood splattered on it you you're trying to present to them what this game is what's the feeling right and so what I want to do is show you guys one of the big issues with this menu and why I would recommend you change it uh to the developer um we're

going to do this okay one sec guys okay so this is the ambience that I recommend quiet there we go see very simple I don't mind the red here I'm curious if the color should be shifted a little bit Nick depalo let's remember Nick dealo Nick I would highly recommend a different font I felt like that that font looks a little it looks like helvetica so I would do this I don't know if this is the right uh spelling but I'm just going to do this for a sec um we're going to do Gand

use the same font you're doing there dude um there's no reason to change it I would use the same red too I think you did right no you use black and then do this here we go the red is fine it's not my favorite uh these buttons make it look like it's an asset flip game so what I would do Nick is I would take this and do this again that white does not look good yeah I would just use red the red looks really horrifying okay Nick and so what we're going to do is remove these good and let's discuss changing the

colors of that the brand color a little bit I know you're using Crimson so I'm not going to change it I just think that you might want to use a little bit more orange in it so yeah we're having a very consistent font here okay watch this watch watch watch watch watch this is going to be very um helpful to you just grab a great I so that we can read the text better and I would I would consider adding a little bit of a unification to the coloring so kind of like uh a post-processing effect you do that and then just drop drop it down so it's not so significant there we go you may even be able to get away with just a full overlay

yeah that's what I would do just for the sake of uh keeping the 16 by9 I'm going to make it 16 by9 this is the idea because because it's so dramatic I would Center everything to create a sort of kubrickian I don't know if that's a word vibe to it it makes it feel almost um scriptural it almost has a authority to it when you Center things okay that coloring is still wrong so let's let's let's find a better color coloring here zoom in this is kind of like almost looking like 4x3 so let's do this there we go um so the coloring what I would do is consider giving it a little bit of a boost in the

lightness yeah there we go so this is what it was this is what I would do okay so there's that guys and then there's this so let's let's take a look at the difference just so you can see I'm not saying I'm right or wrong um I'm just saying that this is this is this to me looks like a student project this to me looks like it's taking itself very seriously and especially if you throw in just a subtle shift like watch this if you do like uh um scratch if you throw in there we go if you throw in a subtle icon this feels very Shyamalan um but if you throw in a very subtle icon just to make it look like you've actually focused on creating a a logo

for your game it makes it feel more professional so watch this you could do this this is cool I want to show you guys why why I love doing stuff like this so you do something like this watch what you can do is you could take this and then uh if I go expand watch watch watch by like let's say eight I can cut this out where's Crimson Tide there it is and then I can do an overlay of color it doesn't mean anything but it just looks professional do you guys see do you see what we just did here so there's that and there's this okay so that's the idea so that's my theory is that this is a better approach I could be wrong but that's just my my theory okay let's go ahead and jump into the game you guys

ready let's jump into the game I have never had this many viewers in my life why do we have why is why do we have a thousand viewers where is this coming from do we agree guys let's this is for the developer not for my own ego although it helps yes or no that we need a new menu and we need to go with the Thomas brush approach and there's no hover effect I need it okay the tumultuous tides of Life relentlessly draw their next Chosen One onto the shoreline of shipwreck dreams the purp of its Sands have become a mystery and the Darkness remains Challen

remaining challenges the Explorers within The Hourglass Fades and one hour remains in the vast expanse of existence we are but Sailors on the tumult tides of Life need a new voice actor each wave a reflection of our journey washing ashore shipwreck dreams success The elusive Beacon I've been tiously chasing believing it to be my my salvation my Island yet now that I've been Shipwrecked on this island of Shadows it's beginning to reveal the truth especially the Echoes of Forgotten choices that haunt my every step all right all right come on need to know let's go let's go lose sight of what truly mattered I'm confronted with my greatest fear okay two too late to change course will I embrace the remaining hour or to the depths of regret music there's a musical issue with whoa we'll talk

we'll talk okay we've got three tones that we just two total very different tones and we'll talk about it whoa what's that white thing [Music] what whoa okay okay

whoa okay you got to pause the timer there if you're going to force me to do a cut scene pause the timer okay this is tons of Mega scans where you definitely talk no your time and life are coming to an end no I would say make it count but no one ever does when the light AES and dies on this sh line you'll die no this is your life it's time to make your choices okay pause the timer if you're going to force me to do that okay what so the game is very slow it's really struggling because there's a ton of Mega scans um okay I don't know what that is

okay what why is it blurry what's happening what is happening what what was that music it's so blurry what yeah but that's not I guess but uh at 55% Health

what guys am I missing something here is this my fault why was I dying no no no no no the tumultous tides of Life each wave of refle okay so uh caveat here I could have just sucked but I'm the game was slow it it was clearly an unreal game with tons of Mega scans tons of post-processing um there's no reason to worry about lods because you unreal will handle it right it and it never does it's it's always clunky and heavy and in uh inconsistent in the frame rate the sound

effects get crunch I this same same thing happened with a previous um game we played I can't remember what it was but it was like because so much was rendering and I've got like a pretty good gaming PC because so much was rendering the sound started to like things are cracking because it the sounds can't even be rendered or um or loaded so uh there's a lot that was confusing about that game first off let's talk about the tone there was like four tones you had the beginning tone which was like oh this is like a story game um it feels kind of like a ight shamalan movie and then it moved into a um it felt kind of like I don't know um sha Shake redemption or um um uh Silence of the Lambs with the um the boach music [Music]

music and then it moved into the swelling strings swelling Terror strings um there's also another issue which is the dialogue okay so a lot of games have this issue with dialogue they they they okay I don't know I I I would never ascribe motive to anybody but I will ascribe motive to me okay I've done this before where I I start with abstra and you when you start with abstraction the reason you do it is because you don't know what the story is and so as the developer you have no idea what the story is so you start with abstract poetic language because you think like an indie songwriter from 2009 you think you can get away with being um poetic when in reality it would be better if you just told us what the motive was immediately just tell us um now am I saying Crimson Tide devel velers did this no I don't know I'm saying I've seen a lot of games do that

it starts abstract and the abstraction is so dense and it lasts for five minutes where it's like I don't know what you're talking about I give me a clear answer as to what's going on give me the who am I why am I here where do I want to go and what's something that's sympathetic about me despite being a terrible person great characters Luke Skywalker is a tiny teenager and he's miserable to look at and miserable to be around and what a punk yet you sympathize with him because well weren't we all that way and didn't we all want to get out of our stinky Hometown that's Luke you want to establish some look it's not that it's it can't be about gameplay but if you're going to give me abstract story tighten it and solidify it and give me an emotional through line with motive a sympathetic character where am I and what's my goal does that make sense

but but I don't know I don't know if Crimson Tide if the developers had that in mind and I also have trouble raing this game because it it all happen so fast and I don't want to have to rewatch that cut scene and so it's hard for me to give a score to this game and I may not because I feel like it would be unfair because the score I want to give it isn't great but I think it's because I I'm trying to be am I being mean am I being mean uh tonality um tonality um yes so the musical tone there was there was like five four different tones for the game for the for the and then there was like there was two two totally different D um

uh and then also that the the dialogue wasn't matching the tone of the music okay watch this we've got let's do Bach okay imagine some Bach piano music [Music] playing and the dialogue is I arrived on an island and I wanted to get uh off the island man and I was so upset and I wanted to get to the top of that Island guys that the tone is off instead you want to do [Music] this everything I ever tried in life was a failure my mom my dad everybody told me I was just just the worst so I'm going to get to the top of that Island to show them who's boss you've got this I can do this you see you want that that you want

the music tone to match the environment and he wants the environment to match the dialogue and the tone of the voice and then after anyway let's just move on to the next thing but it's hard for me to give any sort of score to Crimson Tide because I don't think it would be fair because because I rage quit and that's not fair to the developer um okay let's move on Dragon Paul you guys ready go ahead and uh review uh Crimson Tide click the link in the uh description and go ahead and recommend not recommend and don't think about what I said guys be be completely uh um be completely objective if you can um but let's go ahead and move into Dragon Paul

okay I'm trying to read the chat here because I don't want to be too mean here yeah I was easily confused in less than a minute I agree okay Dragon Paul press Z where's the music give me some music well that was cool what this is great that felt great that's it I'm out of

[Music] whoa I I hate this game in all the right ways let's keep going very gr interesting [Music] the mighty wizard grup finds himself in a magnificent Spire yet I sense no wizard wait who's talking I don't know who's who I guess that's Ronin could you please leave I'm trying to get some rest I should have cast a circle of protection if only I knew how great so you're the wizard you've got to be gritting me my wizard detection magic

didn't even Gallant GRT me gr alert me of your presence your magic is gratic weak something must be done to gedy this you don't deserve such a grossome Spire grup may just have to relocate you what yes face my gnature move the grapper cut oh was that what I thought it [Laughter] was the it's such a mess I love it I can't believe it casting spells one minute and dying a space death the next okay I can believe it now wait what I'm finished I don't know

what that means our a [Music] Aima great have fun freezing to death in grouter space I can't wait to touch everything in your lovely collection of TOMS and trinkets [Music] what not my TOS not my trinkets looks like I'll have to do you guys know I like to imagine being in space when I'm anxious I'll just close my eyes and imagine floating in the middle of space next to Alpha centori or is it Proxima centuri that's the closest Sun to the Earth looks like I'll have to reschedule my space death for later it'll have it'll have to be postponed in indefinitely inde indefinitely this is

hilarious I should get back to earth oh good grief there's probably entire civilizations of bacteria and Vermin living on Grub's fingertips I need to get home before he touches all my stuff whoa that was I couldn't read that okay come on give me some sound whoa this is hilarious what a mess in all the right ways what this is so hard okay this is the

best what this is such a mess wait I want to found two green sodas this is the best whoa this is so funny what a freaking mess ability stuff guard to attack let's get him attack wait that's my stuff wait attack go oh good game feel this is hilarious uh let's do it again [Music]

this is so funny okay there's it there's so much wrong with this game but it it's clearly on purpose that is so cool I love that attack what get him ooh okay um soda yeah oh crap I have to press z uh I need to got some soda um ability result I need

to press Z when it happens yes this is really fun let's do it again let's go the music is incredible okay here we go um I guess we can just attack him crap I need to [Music] eat we going to use the Z this is super fun Joey are you the [Music]

developer this is the best Joey you've done so well here do you guys like the music isn't it great okay let's go let's get some treasure two creen sodas let's go this is such a mess Joey don't make it better keep it bad okay I'm giving you a compliment I swear what speed whoa Joe Joey no that's not fair what

happened okay let's kick his butt so do I need to do the same thing here bomb Oh I have to hit it right when it happens is that what it is okay well let's let's eat some soda a got him I get it I get it we'll do another ability what Joey Joey what is

that it's not fair this is a funny game I think it's going to do [Music] well okay let's get out of here what Joey what did you want me to do yeah yeah yeah yeah so funny oh I leveled up Mystic ring thank you Joey what were you saying I need to [Music] do okay let's go this is great okay that's enough time to figure out a score for this game you know there's things that

um what's that game called Dragon paw there's there's things that if a g like if a game knows what it is um and it's clear as day that it knows what it is in my mind I'm just like I don't care about bugs and I don't care about inconsistency and granted inconsistency is the whole point of this game clearly um so I'm going to I'm going to give my score I'm write that down y'all go ahead and go down and vote below um vote on Dragon paulw um Connor says it has a great identity I totally agree it's a great identity really cool idea um what else you guys say in here foxy says it's super dumb but it's a thumbs up for me that's the point isn't it it's supposed to be dumb um Joey does

the link to the steam page work below don't don't don't don't don't tell anybody your scores guys don't tell anybody to score it's in the description it's in the description the link is below to wish lists and also to vote on Dragon Paul and by the way when I say vote guys I mean vote on every game we're trying to say are would you thumbs up or thumbs down this game that's all we're doing okay we're trying to get a nice accurate idea of how the game's going to do on Steam the vibe is immaculate Thomas he wanted you to go into the menu to fix it to fix what to fix the whole game you can't um Kiri says Joey if you want art help I'm an artist and I could help you see I think K I think the point of this game is is that we don't want professional artists with this game uh we want the

worst artists for Dragon Ball um it's a very smart game Joey it's very very smart I think I think you've got guys what's the hook of what's the hook of Joey's game does anyone know the hook what what what's the hook and Joey you actually mentioned it um on Twitter Twitter what's the [Laughter] hook yeah the hook is what the f that's right I love that um okay guys next game is called Legends of Mythology this is the last game and then we're going to reveal the score okay we're going to reveal the score at the end of

this live stream so be sure to stick around through this video because we're going to reveal the final score look at that walk animation oh no another game that has this makes me this reminds me of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit vibes from the animated cartoons do you guys know what I'm talking about okay let's new game oh my goodness I could change my hair color my skin color pale like me blue eyes like me brownish hair no thomasena let's go oh no don't give me the controls like this oh no this is the worst way to give controls um you should do it sequentially and introduce it slowly and

this music's hilarious though okay right hand left hand equipment action is shift move left move right move up move down Crouch is control use item is f i I can't memorize any of this so we're just not going to how's that on a regular day like any other thomasino was headed for the Western Market as his family needed a new chest for storage this is hilarious this music is so funny oh these Graphics they like my brain is about to explode listen this is kind of like uh dragon Paul okay I I think I think it's supposed to feel dos um this I feel like I'm in a

computer lab in 1994 hello baby oh you spooked me I thought you already went to the Western Market are you worried about getting attacked by Bandits again right of course Mrs Thomasina would you like to bring the kitchen knife to defend yourself all right let me get it for you this is so nostalgic for me oh I'm sorry it slip through my fingers I'm such a clutz I should have wiped my hands what oh cuz they were cuz they had water on them thankfully no one got hurt well well thank you Mrs Thomasina I got my knife let's go graphically there's so much wrong

with this and I love it listen to that music guys do you hear that oh look at me jump oh oh this game is so oh man it feels like those those free games that came with school computers let's go let's go what look at this hill okay I got to crouch I [Laughter] thinko this is hilar hey that's a that tree is white okay I have a sword here look at the way I punch

listen okay here we go oh it's a squirrel come here oh Secrets this game gives me like Nostalgia but also gives me like a tummy ache where am I going wait guys look at there's a perspective shift here the the developer thought about this they did a perspective shift right there let's go on our journey oh listen to that music

nice whoa beautiful tree oh oh no bro get out of here how do I use my knife wait what how do I use my knife no no no no no hang on hang on this is terrifying actually hold on who [Music] who does anyone know how to use the knife F okay Anders how did you know that excuse me okay what where's my knife I picked up the knife how do I use it oh it's it's my right

hand wait no wait wait wait wait wait wait how do I use [Music] it how do I use it what is this oh that's my right hand [Music] okay um how do I use my right hand oh there it is okay let's go this wolf is truly terrifying get out of here no no no no no get out of here [Music] okay we're going to kill these freaking

wolves so what am I doing wrong guys I think I have to crouch to get him come here wolf ah yes uh excuse me this isn't Dark Soul [Music] this is ridiculous like this is a game that Notch would want to play I think it's a good game I don't know if it's for me because that not being able to kill these W okay let's okay I'm getting dark souls feelings where I have to beat it okay let's go how am I supposed to freaking

know unfair that's unfair okay I'm going to put a score down right now all right guys go ahead and vote Below on your favorite game look it I I know that I can't I can't play all five games for like three hours okay it's not I'm sorry I'm just give me a sec I feel like maybe I should try to figure out how to beat that

but go ahead and click the link below to vote and um we will go through our no I don't want to do this again it's great game but I just don't want to play it um it's called Legends it's it's called Legends of mythology which is hilarious I love that name Legends of Mythology I okay I've got scores down for everything has everybody voted I'm going to go ahead and pull it up by the way guys while you're voting and if you've already voted and you're waiting check out fulltime Game Dev below by the way if you're a student let me know in the chat what you think about the program I actually make games for a living um and uh I've signed four publisher deals I'm currently published by 3D realms and I'm making a game called Twisted Tower I can teach you how to get publishing deals how to get Kickstarter campaigns funded which I've done multiple times um I can teach you

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got motivated all right let's view the result keep going keep going keep going keep going you guys ready to take a look here keep going we're almost there we're almost there okay I'm gonna open up all these and we're going to take a look guys I know you can't see my screen chill keep voting I'm seeing live results coming in guys good good good one two three four oops okay one sec guys sorry we're almost there we're almost there okay good everyone seems to have voted

so let's go ahead and take a look at the final results are you guys ready all right here we go starting with starting with Legends of Mythology we're actually looking at a it appears to be a mostly a mixed score what would this be on Steam guys we've got 50 58% thumbs up so what would that be on Steam does anyone know that's is that uh positive or is that mixed I think it's positive right so I think so I'm writing this down Legends of Mythology per our sample data with you know 1100 people watching on this stream that's a pretty good sample I think but then again it's not really you're you haven't really played it you're just watching we play it but what is that is that mixed [Music]

okay oh that's down Thomas what did you do dude that's not fair okay guys we're going to do Legends of methology again because that's just not fair okay that is not fair so we're going to change it to wait no that's correct wait what what wait wait wait wait that that's not fair am I am I missing something here hold on guys no that's thumbs up why is that flipped oh it's just showing the majority I see okay I was really worried I was thinking man that's not fair no show it's show Green is the majority I don't know why um really really guys that's mostly negative what's wrong with you guys I thought it was hilarious

okay that's hilarious I gave it a good score I gave it a 7.3 I thought it was hilarious um is are we confused are we confused or is this is this is this true is this true that most of you voted thumbs down I don't know if this is real guys let's let's double check the poll so the poll is let's double check this is the what the poll looks like when you guys voted thumbs up or thumbs down so it looks like most of you voted thumbs down okay so it looks like you didn't like it guys um well you guys are brutal um

would you recommend Dragon Paul this is so funny because Dragon Paul had the same tonality in my opinion maybe it has to do with Generations you know cuz Dragon Paul to me had the same tonality um okay so dragon Paul thumbs up so we're looking at a 75% on Steam which means that it would be what is that mostly positive I've I've always I've always struggled with the scores we can just ask chat gbt give me the percentage breakdowns for steam mostly positive positive Etc scores overwhelmingly positive is 955 to 100% very positive

85 mostly positive is 50 to 69 okay so we're looking at 73 which is positive okay so we're looking at positive for Dragon paw okay all right you guys ready to take a look at the next one so far so good Crimson Tide would you recommend Crips tide and by the way to the developer um I don't think I gave you a fair Shake because I didn't understand it and I don't I I always feel bad about that because it's like not every player is going to understand your game um but we're looking at um 93% um thumbs down and that's a uh a negative score let's see here with what was it 93% negative so that's yeah negative

negative no it's overwhelmingly negative I have I just have trouble I have trouble being honest when the game is is is something I don't fully understand let's move on to blood rush let's move on to blood rush blood rush um is looking at a man you guys are brutal mostly positive okay um blood rush mostly positive no I I I would agree with that I gave it a seven I gave it a seven so I was spot on actually um I gave that a seven oh I didn't mention Dragon paw gave it an 8.2 which let's double check up pretty close Thomas Thomas you are so smart 8.2 and my score for Crimson Tide was actually higher than what you guys did you're you're terrible um okay so anyway constants 93% thumbs

up which is very close to what I gave it I gave it a 9.8 and that is officially a very positive score so huge huge congratulations to Constance the winner of today's uh games out of five games constants is the winner phenomenal phenomenal games overall guys there was some there was some hiccups in there I cannot give a critique for Crimson Tide because I just didn't understand it but the rest of the games were awesome that was so so fun guys thank you so much for hanging out do you guys have any critique or commentary in the chat that you want to bring up um what did you think what did you think about those games it and by the way what what do we think about the scoring system for these live streams um there's a lot of questions I have about this live stream why did I have never had 1100 people show

up it's always 200 what's going on are you guys on Twitch which by the way twitch people are critical so maybe it kind of makes sense you want me to be more honest cyber I didn't understand it is a valid critique yeah I guess okay this seems like mostly an art competition I don't think so I gave Dragon Paul an 8.2 and the art was trash now Logan obviously you meant to do bad art but yeah YouTube okay holidays yeah so it's it depends on what you're looking at because we're streaming to Twitter twitch and YouTube um so yeah okay guys thanks thanks for hanging out that was really really fun a reminder to join fulltime Game Dev if you want a shout out in tomorrow's stream again thank you to Andress Chad

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on the other I don't really want to do like like talking head like top five videos anymore on dedicated uploads because if I'm being honest like Dev vogs and like how to make games they're all over the place on YouTube now so I think I'm just going to do podcasts on the on the upload side and playing your games on the live side so is that is that a good idea I only really watch the podcast anyway so I'm down for that cool that's great Henry um awesome awesome seems pretty good allows the algorithm to know that you're not what you're about yeah I agree throw these live streams to your video editor for YouTube I did that and we uploaded yesterday and it didn't do well like the algorithm had no idea what to do with it so I did that and it was a

10-minute we did a 10minute um distillation of this of a live stream I did just like this one and it didn't do well and I don't know why um so that sounds really cool but how can I get my game on one of of these follow me on x.com Thomas brush deev deev and I post about it all the time so I'll just say hey I'm G to play your games and then you can respond in the chat okay so follow me on x.com Thomas brush you prefer the live without the editing I would too personally um Joey says I loved that video though yeah too bad I agree the the reviews are better as long form you guys know want to know something that's crazy long form content is

being so much more I'm so much more favored on YouTube with long long form content these live streams are doing pretty good relative to my previous live streams um and I just feel like there's this YouTube's like yeah we want to push your live streams more and then the podcast like an hour and a half just me talking to somebody is doing better way better like twice as good as my previous videos so I don't know what's going on I think maybe I'm filling a gap I don't know what it is yeah it could be the thumbnail could be the title um sweet sweet all right guys um if by the way again if you're a student for fulltime Game Dev I want to shout you out do we have any students in the chat for fulltime Game Dev and by the way let me know what you think about the con about the the course I want to shout you out in the in the chat if you're a student um but wait what did you say here stick stick guy says YouTube likes long videos yeah it seems like it um Kyle says I don't watch videos under 15

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