Let's Review Your Games — Ep. 005

fun live stream we're going to be what we're going to be playing your games that's what we're going to do today and I'm really really excited let me go ahead and just wait for you guys to funnel in here the games we're playing today are in the description and uh I don't want you guys to look at them yet hold back from looking at them let me update my thumbnail here for YouTube um don't look at them yet okay we're going to we're going to look at them together and I wanted to do something fun today okay uh one of the things I think helps add value to the games or the developers were playing their games the value is one of the what am I trying to say Thomas why can't you freaking talk anymore is we're going to look at the steam Pages before we play them okay I think this is going to be really really helpful uh the goal is to to figure out okay is this game is the game good that's one question but there's also a question of is the

marketing good because without good marketing a good game doesn't get what scen or played right um so that's what we're going to do we're going to take a look at the uh um the steam Pages come on in guys welcome welcome hey wanted to say a huge huge thank you to Samir T Luke F Steph U robot gorilla Johannes Carlos a Eric Studios grenett and D DOA although I think I mentioned Della yesterday but anyway um thank you so much for joining fulltime Game Dev by the way guys the new year sale is winding down in six days so if you know starting a game Studio from your bedroom is a dream of yours obviously I can't make any promises I can just tell you what I've done um if uh if that's a dream of yours then go ahead and check out the link below uh to get 50% off full-time Game Dev and also you can get my 2D and 3D art programs completely free and then also you got to get my program streaming my game which teaches you how to reach

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you guys ready to jump into the first game let's go the first game is called kiosk okay let's take a look at the marketing for kiosk uh the de the developer is Vivy um and viv's marketing is actually pretty great uh kiosk is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for late night customers who visit your cozy rain soaked kiosk M I love that okay the Cozy setting contrasts with the unsettling tension that builds as you serve your mysterious visitors I think there's a really strong hook there and frankly that what is what principle is being utilized for this hook it's the big butt principle okay it's a restaurant Sim butt horror and butt horror is a great way uh you can attach it to pretty much anything and get a really strong uh hook for example

uh David Way's uh we Harvest Shadows what is that farming Sim but horror right a first per person farming horror allegory so really strong hook right up front um and uh let's see here yep really strong hook up front uh really clean clear cut image of the for the thumbnail I would argue it might be a good idea to put something related to the hook in here uh here's what I mean if you know what your hook is okay and by the way your hook should be like a single sentence so horror cooking game or horror cooking Sim if it were me what I would do is I'd put maybe a knife sticking in the table maybe some probably not blood because I don't think it's that kind of game but maybe a person standing in the window that's clearly visible I would I think there is a person in that window

I would definitely highlight them more and again the reason why is yes you can you can create your hook here or establish your hook in this sentence here but if you also want the hook to be clearly you want it to be like this instant I know what it is immediately no question that is what this thumbnail is for no question what this game is not a single question and right now if I saw this image without reading this and by the way you know steam users are sometimes not going to read this surprise surprise so to the developer Vivy if you're in the chat I would recommend making this clearly communicate your hook because I don't think it is okay um Danny says Hey Thomas I recently pitched my game to a publisher and they said they're interested in playing the demo sorry if this is a stupid question but is that a good sign or is it just a general response it's a general response Danny um Publishers are always gonna take a look at your demo um if he responds after they get the demo then

that's a good sign and frankly guys you should be sending your demos immediately to Publishers you shouldn't ask them do you want to play My Demo the first email you send should have everything okay all right so let's watch um watch the trailer here uh I would definitely add sound effects there's no sound and it's really boring [Music] yeah I'm not sure look I'm not sure this trailer is really communicating the hook well enough um there is this really cool approach to trailers I don't know if it's new but I've just been learning about it

where it's being explained by the developer there's something really personal about that so you could say hey my name is Vivy uh I'm the developer of kiosk and this game is super spooky it's super creepy blah blah blah you could do that you could also have Nar uh a hire a voice actor that's welcome to your first day on the job um don't make a mistake with the customers cuz sometimes they might appear in the pantry be careful with the knives sometimes they sharp something like that to make it feel like okay this is a horror game if I saw that trailer I wouldn't know what the hook is okay this first sentence does a ton of work for us take that sentence put it into the thumbnail and put it into the trailer okay all right all right

oh yeah that is a little redundant cozy cozy yeah I would definitely just do it once okay you guys ready to play the game let's go ahead and play the game in full disclosure I've changed my approach to how I do these streams yesterday's stream was not good I didn't do a good job and I felt like I let you guys down if I'm being completely honest um because what I like to do is play games without any context the problem with that is though um mute this really quick or turn it down the problem with that is if a game is outside of my the kind of games I typically Play I Don't Give a fair assessment and I basically I just make the game look bad but that's because I I'm bad at the game so I've played all these games today um okay we got a problem with okay let's start with the Positive actually um I freaking love this menu it's so freaking clean oh I love that you feel that the

clicky clicky clicky clicky it's so this oh but margins careful with the margins we've got a margin size over here let's say that's one unit and that's one unit this is like 75 and 75 so make this one on all sides nice and clean margins okay all right brilliant brilliant menu though really eerie um let's go ahead and hit uh play here get get started oh I love that o guys what is kiosk doing really really well it's what a lot of more recent indie games are doing which is get to the freaking point because this is a streaming game okay this game is really good for streaming so get to the freaking point and that's exactly what this game has done

it's got particles coming out of it hello hey kid it's Michael your boss just wanted to say good luck on your first day here last guy didn't last very long but I hope you will he was reporting some paranormal activities in the area and one day he just stopped showing up to work I didn't hear from him again he even left some notes on the wall just ignore them if you need help with any recipe you can check it out in our cookbook on the table and if you need any ingredients there is always more in the storage room we close at 12:00 a.m. don't forget to lock the door I wish there was voice acting honestly but I understand that this game has a retro vibe to it um okay what about a cooking competition horror game I love that that's a great idea o that was spooky

this is so Eerie I love that it's pouring rain I'm trying to see if I can see the Sky Box clipping or something I love looking for that this is really great look at that oh look at that mesh distorting I love that what do you want hey didn't see you around here you must be the new guy I don't usually go alone at night like this but I'm hungry can I get one plain hot dog please guys this game is really well made I'm not sure if you can tell it just feels really good to move like this it feels awesome oh sorry that would have been great if there was like sound oh this feels really good I wish I could

turn the water on that's a big big mistake developer anytime you have faucets you have to let the water turn on uh trash cans I should be able to open the lid okay so she wanted a hot dog graphically I think this game is phenomenal I really do I think it's beautiful I'm really impressed honestly okay so I need a cutting board this is really strange instructions okay so let's open this up really quick okay hot dogs are over here son of a okay so I was just talking to someone for the podcast I I guess I could tell you who it is it's strange scaffold and and

uh straight and scaffold is very much about efficient game development because it creates a very healthy creative environment for you as a solo Indie developer if you're Solo or you a small team when you're efficient with your your texture work and with your meshes it creates this healthy creative environment where you you you enjoy your game and then you finish it right this game is highly highly efficient these models probably took 5 Seconds um but they're they're they're still you could tell that they're Prof professionally made um there's a cleanliness to them there's almost like a graphic I don't know the right word is it's architectural like the sizes are all proportionate and clean and and it makes sense and there's very smooth clean lines everything's very flush against the walls it feels professionally made honestly even though it's very low poly and retro oh I need to cook uh the hot dog crap okay so that's wrong you can't give her a raw hot dog get out

of here oh you throw it in the trash I love that okay so we need a bun we got our hot dog and she wanted a plain hot dog right did I need to throw it in your [Laughter] mouth thank you so much it looks delicious well did it taste delicious here keep the change thank you all right I wish that sound was more rewarding oh crap okay okay oh jeez

oh gosh that's freaky does this break please break yay it breaks all right what else we got oh that is so spooky oh you're just so creepy looking with the low poly weird morphing mesh yeah I this is just so wellmade like the texture work I know it I know it looks cheap but the texture work is really nice like it's all consistent pixel sizes everything's unwrapped properly it just looks really good I'm really impressed and it's it the environment is really spooky do you guys want me to turn it up a little bit hey man give me a burger with cheese do you want it cooked dude cuz I don't

know you know you might want it raw you got to be specific okay we got our Burger let's go dude I wonder if you could like get a lot cooking and use it later I wonder if this game is linear or random I think it might be linear oh it's done it's done careful don't burn it Thomas okay he wanted cheese right crap I think I have to cook the cheese on it yay here you go dude you're a lifesaver I already like you more than the other guy here you go I left a little tip there for you thank

you okay now what hello this looks so pretty oh you're scary just the way they look it's just scary look at that face give me a coffee burger and okay I got to write that down yes sir you guys are think you think I'm joking I have Terri like the world's worst memory I probably have the worst memory of anyone you ever met in your life it's really bad coffee Burger hot dog both with only ketchup you want ketchup in your coffee bro all right hurry up I have places to be the sound design is phenomenal oh dude it's like black here you didn't ask ask for that okay um he

wants a burger and a hot dog and coffee oh no I have to make coffee I'm nervous I don't know how to make your coffee dude oh I need a cure egg don't I there you go dude okay we got your coffee was that tasty you like that um we got our bun uh you want to get your burger oh yeah he doesn't need to know no it didn't fall we're fine

and he wanted catchup on it okay hey Daryl how you doing wait wait wait wait oh he just wanted ketchup he don't want cheese oh man this is great it's really hard to draw okay so we got ketchup on the burger is that all he wanted burger with ketchup so okay I think that honestly that it would be great if there was a few more jump scares probably in the first five minutes um I think it would help I do I think maybe

one more jump scare that's like truly scary would would really help or something narratively that's creepy something um maybe a man just walks by or something I don't know uh okay what else oh the hot dog no okay good get that cooking get our bun really good game feel here and he wanted ketchup yeah wait where did my ketchup go there it is oh no I can't get it maybe there's some more catchup oh good we got more ketchup okay

Thomas okay we got plenty we're okay all right let's put some ketchup on there oh yeah eat it who's that behind you oh that's so scary that's great oh man brilliant that's a really clever uh nothing happened that was scary but it was scary that's brilliant I love that okay well that's all we got time for for this game because we got to review wait hold on I just got a a ring okay um we have some other games to play and we have I have limited time today um that was great really good um okay I've written down my score for that game moving on we're going to play a game called back to hearth

the horror part portion of the game comes from the OSHA and Health Department violations that's from James Anderson no we're going to keep playing the we got to we got to play some games guys I'm not a a uh a let's player all right we're we're taking a look at games oh we forgot to look at the menu or the the um we forgot to look at the uh steam page back to Hearth by the way those of you just joining us just remember you can join fulltime gamedev which is my course but also the sponsor of today's live stream Check It Out Below you're going to get 50% off and learn everything I've learned in the last decade of making a game Studio from my bedroom and making a profitable one at that and I'm not just teaching random stuff I'm teaching stuff that actually worked for me and in fact um you can look on the link below you'll see a ton of um uh reviews of students who have gone full-time or found the course at

least helpful um so check it out below okay uh back to Hearth a cozy narrative focused exploration game in which you repair the houses of an abandoned Forest settlement to bring the for inhabitants back home after the Calamity has occurred that is a rough sentence to read it's very it feels like kind of like almost like a run-on sentence I would just say a cozy story a cozy exploration game where you repair houses where you bring life back to a village but I don't know what the Calamity is so I'm not sure that you should even mention the Calamity because I don't even know what it is uh so it's a little bit Yeah the Voting is at the end guys the Voting is at the end um I'm changing my voting up today um how we're going to do voting we'll see see how it goes I'm not sure there's a hook here to be completely honest and and a hook is

very important it captures your audience's attention and that's the goal you want to immediately catch their attention so a cozy narrative focused exploration game that's a lot that's a mouthful so pick it you know pick what what's your main focus let's say it's narrative uh a story about right um but if it's a cozy game then that's I think that's important to say it's a cozy game but look I don't even know if Cozy's even in the tags here so is it a cozy game maybe there's no cozy tag for steam but I'm pretty sure there is so yeah I don't I'm not sure there's a hook here um let's see let's watch the trailer yeah I don't like panning screenshots like this just show the game play there we go I would start with that start with that [Music]

show me show me doing tasks do it quicker it's a little [Music] slow [Music] okay more sound crunching of the leaves ASMR sound would be really helpful okay I can't read that so I would do voice acting there that felt that that last scene didn't feel very uh helpful to selling the game cuz if it was a story scene I couldn't even read it um so I'm not sure much is shown there um so I would potentially do some kind of um maybe three slides of text um explore a village in the

apocalypse CU I'm reading Calamity here it I would rather you bring it clo closer to I would make it more understandable for your audience um so I would say something like explore a devastated uh Village after the apocalypse or after the black plague or something make it clear what happened um repair the village in this cozy and environment explore and uncover the story just give me like three beats of what it is granted I'm not sure there's much of a hook there um my audio has quiet noise in the background here one sec okay well let's go ahead and jump in guys um and jump into the let's play here or the the

review back to Hoth let's go how's the audio now yeah that was a pretty boring trailer not going to lie and if the developers in the chat remember guys I'm not being mean I'm trying to help you really boring trailer get moving you know get to the point tell me what this is about what's the strong hook so when it comes to the menu I don't like these kinds of fonts they're very very difficult to read tall handwritten fonts are really tough especially all caps [Music] um so also that I would recommend that the text is uh yellow on highlight or red on highlight or something cuz right now you can't really tell what you're hovered [Music] over finally the Calamity has subsided today the houses in the settlement are empty but it may be possible to return

the resident's home you need to clean up the yard and the house and then start a fire at home do you know kind of what this is it's kind of like FEMA so there's something there it's not that this is a FEMA simulator but if you made a FEMA simulator like go and clean up Hurricane uh devastated Villages and towns that's a hook hook I think that's a really strong hook yet you've kind of abstracted it and watered it down potentially we'll play the game but I'm not sure that this is a strong enough hook or it's clear enough to the player what exactly it means to clean up a town so let's go ahead and play so if this is going to be a cozy game I would actually recommend you make it look more cozy right now it looks scary it almost feels like a horror game so let me let me show you what I would

do um to make this feel more like a cozy game if this is actually a cozy game believe me I know that I'm being annoying here um I have played this game already and I will tell you for me personally I feel oppressed what I mean it feels wrong word I feel like I'm it's an oppressive haunting environment and there's not much coziness in it so if it were me I would I would chill on the orange okay I would definitely chill on the orange um I would I would reduce the red okay and then I would take the sky and I would actually make it feel more like right now it feels like whoa I'm going to hell and what I would do is I would actually change the sky to

feel like the storm has passed now I understand what the developer is doing here trying to make it feel like a storm has passed however if it's up to me personally the way I see a storm passing is more like this let's go Blue you could definitely do this still a little haunting so you could instead go Blue here and then also pink uh right here hold on one sec and then we'll get to the game so we'll do pink and then blue okay so this blue is pretty aggressive there maybe we can colorize it yeah something like that maybe a few

clouds here and there this pink we could probably there we go we're getting there maybe I guess we could get away with the red and maybe go or we just go light there we go there we go we found it and then finally something like this just some beautiful clouds in the distance okay so let me show you guys hopefully this makes sense um and you know this is my opinion everything in this podcast or not this podcast everything in this live stream is an opinion obviously so if but if if I was to make a cozy game I'd try to make sure it's not too haunting so look look how much uh um look how Dynamic it feels now and it's easy on the eyes whereas this is like whoa ah it almost hurts right um um so I would definitely recommend changing

the Sky Box this is very aggressive it it looks like just like intense rust so that's what I would do but anyway let's move on I like the gra the graphics though I really do really crunchy it feels good I like this terrain how chunky it is all right let's keep going here I need to find find a hammer okay okay I found a hoe okay I can hoe this stuff that's a cool mechanic although I'm not sure what what purpose it serves it's not particularly challenging but I I I'm not complaining I'm just I'm

trying to figure like okay does this uh add a challenge to the game let's see here and these bags the potatoes had already begun to rot because they had not been hidden in time yeah this game definitely needs voice acting in my opinion it would help it so much like really solid professional voice acting in these bags the potatoes had already begun to rot because they'd not been hidden in time and Lisa would and Lisa would have made such potato pancakes so uh the English I'm just going to assume that um this has been translated from another language what is it trying to say in these bags the potatoes had already begun to rot because they had not been hidden in time and Lisa would have made such what and whoa okay I think what

it's trying to say is um the potatoes are rotting should have put these away Lisa made such good pancakes something like that so there's just a translation issue there um this looks good it's very it's it has a style to it I really like it that's that's so funny I like that sort of um diarama feel really pretty honestly whoa that's [Laughter] vibrant let's make the bed oh you should have made me do a task that's the one that's the one time I wanted to actually do like a cool shape to clean it up but it doesn't even look clean because that Blanket's sort of spilling over what just happened okay let's start a fire I haven't restored everything yet okay so you can

uh an old sewing machine okay can I clean this table up oh come on make me do something okay um yeah I kind of feel like if you want me to clean things up there should be something some sort of challenge associated with it um so maybe I'm going back on what I was saying earlier about the hoe you know and drawing the shape I kind of I kind of actually see the appeal if I'm going to go clean up stuff seeing it cleaned up is a reward so might as well create a challenge to get the reward you [Music] know okay so I need to go find stuff

okay where are we going [Music] here ah I found a rag let's clean up so sometimes when you clean up it requires emotion guys come up within the chat let's do a little brainstorming here how could we make the movement of a mouse a puzzle kind of like a witness right from Jonathan Blow I love the idea of it being a puzzle you know what I mean like again seeing stuff cleaned up is a reward right it's really rewarding to see things nice and tidy well it's only rewarding if it was challenging to do that's one of the me and my wife love cleaning up it's it's sort of a therapeutic thing especially for her she loves to clean um and it's a challenge right it's you

got to work to do it but it feels good it's kind of like mowing the grass and you see the lines what could you do to create a challenge from that because it's not super challenging I would say really staying in the lines and if you don't do it perfectly you have to start over I think that would be something you know like imagine it being much more challenging and getting that reward W when you do clean up I think there's value in that at the end of the day I think even a cozy game can be a little challenging Maybe I'm Wrong what do you guys think yeah I think this feels again back to the artwork it feels like it's the Skybox it really is I think if it felt more real and more grounded and I was coming home from and I'm actually lived here and it's clearly explained that I lived

here and it feels more grounded in reality I think I'd be more motivated to clean up this Village I get I get the idea I'm not sure it's something about the way it looks doesn't feel like it's ready to be cleaned up it still feels like I'm in the apocalypse I think the goal is that feeling of like I don't know when you're no longer sick and you get to get your life back together I think it's supposed to feel like that it's that relief of like okay let's do this and I'm not sure these Graphics feel that way okay so let's find a shove we got to a hammer I need to find a hammer it's so sweet oh thirsty okay yeah are we ready to move on to the

next game guys yeah are we ready to move on to the next game cuz I can't find the hammer O Let's Go Potty I need to have a hammer to go potty quench yeah we ready okay let's move on to the next game yeah okay so yeah uh I will let you guys know at the end what my my score for that game is um but we're going to move on okay we're going to move on to the next game this game is called blood bar blood bar T Tycoon oh we got to look at the steam page okay cool guys blood bar is doing a really good

job communicating the hook okay you can just in this image alone you know what this game is it's clear as day you're a vampire running a blood bar you're taking human blood and selling it I guess says here lure humans in to harvest their blood process it and serve your customers other vampires really good really good clear as day um again we're using the big butt principle here which is restaurant Sim but with vampires what does the big butt principle do really well it creates contrast between between two seemingly opposed ideas really Sweeney tide did it first thank you for testing blood bar Tycoon demo still blah blah blah blah

blah okay I get it all right yeah yeah yeah yeah beautiful menu oh look at this guys oh I wish their eyes followed the mouse that would be so cool all right let's go ahead and start a new game here oh good sounds too here I'm going to turn it up for you guys so far this feels really professional move the camera good rotate the camera good hover over the question mark for a tool tip good oh guys this is teaching us really really fast and really really well notice how it's holding my hand it's what we talked about yesterday okay uh the goal is to broaden your audience as much as possible and get as many people in the door and sometimes you have to hold the hand of

even seasoned Gamers but they'll figure it out quickly but you want to hold the hand of the people who can't play these kind of games because you want to bring them into the fold and let them buy your game and enjoy it so this game is a really good example of how to hold your hand look at this you give all these instructions over here select a minion okay good all right remove the soiled mattress it says remove the Sol mattress with the minion selected right click on the mattress to bring up the context menu okay throw away anything to serve you master nice let's clean that up too let's clean up here this is a mess what is

this all right you guys ready place a table and guys look at how everything is being there's hints wherever you need to go next oh man it's so it's so true that the first five minutes of your game are the most expensive to make because you just have to teach so much you know and it's so conditional the UI is incredible the music sounds great great graphics are really Simple and Clean clearly an indie game but and they knew what they were doing with their budget seems like it because while the graphics aren't AAA but they look good still um so let's do our bar here good and then we need a table let's do this one some chairs very good open the bar there it is this is going to give me even more work okay let's go open the minions

file priority management click on the menu open the menu drag and drop for various task this is so fun okay you turn on autonomy they'll they'll work for you so I can turn them all on here and choose the priorities so the priority should be to serve this guy so let's go ahead and uh drink preparation and Human Service so I can make this guy my human guy sweet you know the music is fine I don't love it I mean I I like it in the sense that I think it matches a vampiric sound but I'm not sure it's ah I wonder what other what what music is

better let me I want to show you guys some some music that I think might work better for this game um is it possible to mute it okay let me show it to you guys one sec so some music that I think would work better and by the way I'm not just you know randomly coming up with ideas here I've thought about this I played it today and I wanted to show this to you um okay so I wonder if this music would be better and also music is kind of in my opinion my humble opinion music is my specialty um so something like this let's see hang on let's try [Music]

it no it's a little too creepy isn't [Music] it we we need something that's more driving this does sound pretty good though I wonder if uh let's see here I'm just gonna I'm playing around hold on one sec it I feel like we need something that's more driving okay but it needs to sound Halloweeny so give me just a sec

[Music] here too too fast H let's think here you know maybe maybe uh maybe I don't know what I'm talking about for this one let's let's keep playing let's keep playing it's not I don't know I feel like we need something that's more driving um this is a little slow it's a little slow and a little repetitive okay let's keep playing okay feed the minion let's go ahead and make you a drink

don't consume him yet are you ready to consume select the worker right click on the human and select consume oh yeah I got to eat him yeah I don't know it's like I kind of want to look for or something this is driving me crazy let's go to epidemic sound and take a [Music] look there we go okay let's try this so listen to this music see how it's kind of like it's sluggish and it's like not motivating it's kind of hard to like Focus you want something that's therapeutic and driving um so I would uh listen to this

okay hang on guys I know I'm being annoying but also who cares we're we're reviewing games from a game def perspective so that's just what you're here for so that's what I'm here for so I'm not going to apologize okay here we go let me turn this down though whoa you're loud hold on something like this I feel like makes way more sense increase the bars Prestige okay we need to put some furniture do you guys see yeah this this to me makes way more sense it's not vampirey but it's it's just rhythmic and it drives you okay let's listen to another one [Music]

this is great too all right attract six humans let's try another one do you guys see yeah this is great music makes a big difference I am Yugo and who are you nice to meet you yumo let me introduce myself you know what I couldn't care less about your life LOL let's get down to business I'm giving you direct access to the only vampire minion agency worth its name the vampire agency

what all right let's go let's recruit some minions this is so great guys a't that music good mhm let's keep trying you want it to be rhythmic this is great too no no no let's type in vampire Halloween and see what we get on I'm on I'm on a epidemic Sound by the way

hire this dude hire this chick hire that is so cool the effects are great yeah the biggest flaw with this game in my opinion is the music everything else is phenomenal and I could never pretend to even honestly know how to make this game because it's just these aren't my style of games to make and to me like they're too complicated for me so uh that's just the way I am you know I make more simplistic games all right let's go back to the bar do vampires not have beers I just beards I just noticed that after 35 years all right thank you let's go ahead and get started here place a fridge oh there's my management for my minions very cool let's place a fridge so now we can start collecting

blood look at this they give me so much money why can't I place it I wish I could place it in here oh I got to put it in public are you kidding me oh wow I could put it in here though hang on maybe not oh my goodness I'm going to have to put it here all right purchase 20 blood bags so this is like supplies got it attract a vampire how do I do it to attract vampires you need humans ready for consumption so we need to stock up on blood bags very good um if needed add a new table and four chairs to the bar to increase your capacity why is it frozen there we go isn't this music so good [Music]

[Music] all right so let's go ahead and set their priorities they're already ready to go okay very good so they're serving and we are dumping body bags I think we need to go ahead and uh what are you doing over here dude I think we need to consume some of these guys oh man but we can't cuz there's customers around we need to close the bar well I don't know actually let's just eat him and see what happens no no no no no no consume oh no oh no vampire Law requires all vampire activity in the shadows avoid problems lead no Witnesses

crap okay so she's coming in to help yay a panic they're so funny when they run around in all directions in case of a panic select the select the abys ab Abyssal wrath down here at the bottom right of the screen then click the Troublesome witness to make them disappear that's hilarious thank you sir yay hey let's uh get this guy here all right we got some body bags now we're going to get some vampires coming [Music] in yeah I think overall guys it's mainly the music again here's the music that we've got okay we've got some vampires here serving some vampires we're giving them

blood that's great you managed to hold on let me try again you managed to open a blood bar in this God forsaken place you don't know me I'm Vladimir the most powerful vampire master of crimson City I want to help you raise these human cattle to feed our kind very good very very good that's all I've got time for today guys now let's go ahead and vote and it's not that I'm trying to be mean to to the developers um I've got to run to the gym but I wanted to get this vote in are you guys ready to to go ahead and vote um let's go ahead and vote here on what we feel like is the best game now I have a a request this is a sincere request guys if you did not see all three games I'd request that you do not vote if that's fair um but we still still stick around

because we want to see all the the final votes but look if you didn't if you didn't see all games I don't think it's fair for you to vote to be completely honest and I got a request from a developer actually who said you can't let people vote if they didn't see all games so only vote if you saw every single game you guys ready so below is the straw poll 3 two 1 go and what I want you to do is sort based on your favorite uh games okay yeah so super cool ninja I'd request you don't vote but you can leave comments in the chat about your thoughts but only vote if you feel like you've seen every game okay that's going to give us a really solid idea of which game is best um all right let's go ahead I'm going to pull up the vote here and watch it come in um but I'm not going to let you guys

uh see it yet this is so interesting to observe um yeah I'll tell you my thoughts in just a sec and and while you guys vote just remember to check out um Thomas you're so annoying about your freaking sale events but it is sponsored by full-time Game Dev which is my course this video is so this is uh the new year sale um this and Black Friday are my biggest sale events so check it out below if you want to get the biggest discount you're going to get probably until Black Friday this year so like in November in 2025 uh it's 50% off to learn how to make games from your bedroom uh how to build a profitable Studio how to get funded by Publishers how to get funded by Kickstarter um how to hit the steamr page I've done all of this so you're learning from someone who's done it multiple times and then you're also going to get my 2dr programs and my 3D art programs completely free and hey I'll also give you a shout out in the

new students page here uh on my next live stream all right you guys ready to take a look at these uh um the link for voting is in the description now I'm going to give my score here um and uh yeah I I I think um I didn't do I didn't do bloodb bar score full disclosure I forgot to write that one down but and I did see the votes but the other two scores I did uh score prior to seeing the votes but I'm being honest here about what I think about blood bar um okay well I'll give you my scores first guys 8.5 for kiosk um and that's like a 85% recommended on on Steam is my prediction um which is I think that's very positive

back to Hearth something like a four um is is my opinion about what I think that game uh the score should be um primarily the issue with back to Hearth is I don't think there's a strong hook so I don't think people are going to show up and buy a game where you're cleaning up a village that you have no identity with you have no you have no care about this Village there's no motivation um and I also think a little creepy I would make it look a little bit more cozy um like the calm after a storm the the subtle Breeze the sunshine but cleaning up and making this place home again uh if you wanted a stronger hook you could potentially go with the it would have to be modern day though but like a FEMA simulator that's the only way I can think of this hook working um blood bar I gave it a 8.3 I think it's really and that's a solid score honestly I think it's a really solid idea I would say that it's a little Limited in its audience um cuz

it's a spooky game and it's also a like a management tycoon game which is that's not a problem at all it's just I think it's just a little limited it's a it's a more it's a more Niche audience um but then again that's not a justification for a score I I think that's actually unfair of me so that's that's not a reason for the 8.3 I think 8.3 is potentially it's it's um I don't know it I don't know if it the reason I reduced 1.7 is I think it's just the fun factor I think it it takes a while to get going and to laugh and to feel rewarded um so but I'm not sure there's a way to speed that up because you got to teach a lot you know so it's dense it's a dense game um and that immediate rewarding fun Factor right off the bat isn't quite there but still 8.3 is a solid solid um score so um am I voting on whether it's good or whether it will sell um I'd say good

uh I think that's that's um that's that's primarily what I'm doing here but then again here's the thing look a hook should be present in the game play right so just because we looked at the steam Pages doesn't mean that and and we talked about the hook in the steam Pages look if the hook isn't in the gameplay itself the player won't be motivated because they're going to be confused so you need a hook in the game play it needs to be present in the game play so when I mentioned the hooking back to Hearth it's not just a marketing discussion it's a gameplay discussion it needs to be very clear immediately What The Hook is to motivate the player to keep playing to know what their goal is right um okay let's go ahead and take a look at the reviews all right kiosk is the winner by a hefty margin a margin of let's say 40 50% blood bark Tycoon um is next in line

and then back to Hearth is in third place um so yeah guys uh thanks for thanks for hanging out and if you guys have any comments below uh or in the in the comments below if you're watching this after the fact or you have comments in the chat to help the developers please leave your comments below to help the developers we want these games to be successful you know um also hey wish list the game but only wish list only wish list if you're going to play it so I'll do it too okay I will probably only play kiosk blood bank or blood bar is amazing but it's not my kind of game um so I'm not going to play it so this is important this is actually a lesson for for for me and for you guys because I learned it last week don't beg for wish lists and also don't give sympathy wish lists because you don't want to ex you don't want to wishlist something if you're not going to buy it right and I don't want people wishlisting my game if

they're not going to buy it excuse the data um so all right guys that's all I got time for today again check out fulltime Game Dev if you're a student let me know in the chat and I'll try and shout you out in the next 30 seconds let me know in the chat what you think about the program um any other thoughts questions comments here guys this was really really fun really really fun oh Tech C6 says uh for kiosk um yeah we need basically you're just saying we need more jump scares yep um Hey Thomas happy freaking New Year bloated wish lists are a bummer yeah you don't want bloated wish lists no way um you like this voting better I just have to trust that you guys aren't going to vote if you didn't see every game you know um so you expect Sam see Sam this really does have to do with that Niche genre right I think k is much more accessible it's it's not as it doesn't require

of much intelligence for me I it's hard for me to be to play strategy games I'm not very intelligent I really I'm not um I'm not an intelligent gamer I'm more story focused and atmosphere focused and art art focused um so I think kiosk is is more accessible and so that's probably why it won in terms of quality and like true technical Excellence obviously I think that blood bar is just clearly the winner but in terms of accessibility and marketability and something that a larger audience can play and enjoy I think kiosk uh has that in the bag who's that behind you oh all right I got