Let's Review Your Games — Ep. 009

I don't know it's turned into a daily thing huh welcome to the Daily live stream where I play your games uh today we're going to play three really fun games I'll share them with you in a bit it's going to be a lot of fun because we're not only going to review the games um but we're also going to review their steam pages and that's that's going to be honestly one of my favorite Parts because we can review the marketability of a game and frankly if the marketability is not there it's going to be kind of hard to sell the game even if the game is decent right um come on in guys come on in hey I wanted to say a huge like a mega thank you a mega mega mega mega thank you to John S Anthony P Victor saf thanat Jerry Elder Wing Nikita mimo Raphael Henry Adam Joseph Mason David thank you but also because we have a few seats left I think there's 20 left out of the 150 um hey one sec that's the wrong

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here by the way guys how are you doing um is anybody working on a game right now um how are you doing with your game career and your your uh pursuit of Indie Games how are we doing I'm going to upload a new thumbnail here and then we're going to get started the games we're going to play today are called one of them is called beer Runner the other one's called sinus and the other one is called anti- Shoot just while while I get this thumbnail updated here sorry I'm a little lost right now where is my thumbnail there it is okay um what am I what was I saying oh yeah I'm going to get my the chat pulled open I got this new monitor so I have to pull up a different chat because it's too small is it is it laggy too today man Thomas

no your Internet sucks dude does the internet suck let me see here I think we're okay right is it laggy right now okay I guess we're okay I guess we're good all right I'll I'll I'll let that be um I'm going to do the pop out chat here there we go bring it over to my new monitor here and now I can read the chat yay hey it's right there cool okay all right let's go ahead and jump in and start with our first game beer beer Runner the first thing that struck me about beer Runner is the new monitor 4K no I I kind of want to take a picture of it I wish I could show it to you guys um it's like it's a teleprompter and the monitor's down below the camera and there's a mirror a clear mirror that you're looking through right here and I can see see the monitor on the mirror and so I

can look at you guys and read your chat um to uh so I can look at you while reading the chat which is a big deal you know I haven't been able to do that for six years um I'm working on a new survival horror game that's from Kiri that's awesome all right Thomas your new content is awesome great work with your new YouTube approach hey I really appreciate that it's it's it was really it's been really validating to to see just two kinds of content be the only thing I need to do uh it's hard it's very very hard to come up with brand new content on a weekly basis or twice a month Dev Vlogs or top 10 videos that kind of thing so you know I I'm really really grateful that this and what's so cool about the podcast guys just for those of you who are curious podcasts are like what wonderfully delicious content both for

the Creator and for the uh the viewers and the reason why is you could have an hour and a half podcast and it gets a ton of views and then you cut it up into like three clips and then it doubles the views so you get twice as many views for your YouTube channel and on top of that you have a guest who retweets and sends out to his audience so this is why podcasts are so freaking valuable um they are insanely valuable and so I but they're not they're not I will say they're not they're not easy to do um they're really not easy to do um so anyway let's go ahead and take a look here at um when I say they're by the way when I say they're not easy to do it you have to you kind of have to man this sounds egotistical you have to have sort of a conversational bone in your body you have to understand like how to guide a conversation um okay

Thomas is so on it with the lives yeah yeah I sure am um okay so one of my big issues with um one of my big issues with this beer Runner game is and then we'll jump into the the the hook and everything but it doesn't look it doesn't look like that's the hook it took me about a minute to figure out what this was here and when I critique stuff and when I'm when I'm when I'm hypercritical I'm I'm genuinely doing it and my hope is that it really does help Lord Dora games drw games my goal is not to be mean my goal is to help I don't see anything in this visual that says hey this game's about running beer jump run and climb over obstacles to deliver a keg of beer I see a Sci-Fi game I don't see a fun beer delivery

game so there's two options here the first one is to get rid of the beer and make it a bomb the second option is change it graphically change it graphically so that it feels more like that's the hook so here's an example I'm going to go to grock here and what we're going to do is we're going to ask grock we're going to say hey draw me a stylized an um image in a cyberpunk city of a delivery boy wearing a red hat and a a box red backpack full of beer to deliver we might need to say soda it might stop it so let this is an example guys of of taking knowing what your hook is knowing

what the single sentence pitch is and then letting that convert to the game's imagery so you don't start with the imagery and go backwards you go forwards from the single sentence hook this is awesome this is so good so I want this one to be the image we choose okay so guys let me show you an example of how we could make this hook much stronger cuz I think a delivery a delivery service that delivers beer is kind of funny um I don't think it's enough of a hook but there's something there um and so what I'm going to do here is we're just going to talk about like okay what could the thumbnail actually look like and what could the style of the game look like um you could find an asset and then put a square an asset of like an anime character with a red cap and then you could just create a

backpack um full of beer and that's your that's your humanoid character um do we have anybody in the chat who is a let me ban you I'm G to ban this individual because they're annoying me they're ruining the whole thing um put user timeout hide user on this channel there we go okay let's paste this here all right and I'm going to clean this up here um we're going to do um stylize and by the way guys why am I doing this I'm trying to show how a visual and a a visual hook a mechanical hook and a story hook can all be represented in a single image okay and right now that that that capsule is not showcasing this so we're going to call this beer Runner do I recommend using air no I'm

just I'm just showing this for concepting purposes okay and then we're going to have something like that and something you could do by the way with capsule art layering is your best friend guys layering is your absolute best friend so let me show you an example of layering for uh capsule art you can do something like this make sure you show the hook okay there's the hook the beer and then what you do is you just put um maybe we could do two here two lines and I'm not just being random here I'm trying to show you guys the value of showcasing your hook in the visuals of the game and then this right here we just scale it up and blur it

maybe we can go a little bit bigger beer Runner so this to me says okay I get it I get the style and I get the hook right it's very clear okay so there's that versus um give me a sec here I need to close my Discord um versus where's beer Runner hold on this do you guys see the difference here now all that means seriously all this means is if we watch the trailer here where's the trailer there's no trailer I don't know why I saw it earlier all that means is

this humanoid character would be changed to one boy with a red cap does that make sense and he's like running and he's got beer in his backpack and you could make it really fun uh like a fun animation where the beer's bouncing on his back so that's the idea here the goal of this little portion of today's review is to help the developer know just how important you can even make this uh black and white you can do that that's kind of cool okay let's let's copy this here and bring it over to the steam page and hopefully we could see how valuable this is so change the humanoid character to a boy like a pizza delivery boy and and suddenly the whole game I

mean this by the way this style of this boy would work in this environment cuz there's like cell shaded lines um full disclosure I have not played this game yet so let's go ahead and open it up and start playing and we'll see if I can figure it out in real time let me put my headphones on you guys think that's better what if you take air and Trace over it with a pencil I would say that that actually feels better or like tracing over it in Photoshop and repainting it I mean is that any different than well it is different but like it's similar to something that Norman Rockwell would do Norman Rockwell he would um he would take photographs of people and then Trace over them um okay let me go ahead and put on my headphones really quick guys

check one two and two whoa it's super quiet it's really quiet I don't know why Wow guys can you imagine the humanoid character here being that boy it's like ash from Pokemon but he's got his backpack on and he's got the beer in the back and he's like a delivery boy but right now we're like wait why am I a weird robot Maybe I'm Wrong here so let's take a look um I don't know what this means what oh this is a brightness lighter this is a difficult brightness slider to be honest I can't even read what that says which what what's the goal here I

guess the middle one save okay play new game all right here we go rain tan what loading wow the frame rate's like 30 I wonder why is there a lock yep man Thomas you are just a genius all right let's go back in time here why would they lock it at 30 CU that's a big issue it should be locked at 60 honestly the it feels really good guys can you imagine this humanoid

character is Ash with a backpack of beer it would be so much funner just in that visual alone pick up beer cans rise increase use the word increase increase your score yeah we want it to be like a pizza delivery boy but it's beer okay it's hard really hard to see so let's go ahead and go to the graphics here so the brightness you can't increase the brightness in the menu wait there we go there we go got it save okay good I kind of wish the climbing was faster like really fast he pops up you want it to be pretty reactive

like twice as fast and I also want to hear sound too excuse me okay so far graphically the game I think that it truly is the character art that's just so so much of an issue for me I feel like the ambience and the sound could use some work but I'm going to give some compliments to I think the environment looks interesting uh the platforming feels really good it's nice and um the measurements are good so like that that Sprint jump was perfect there's there's no it doesn't feel like the developer just drag drug a bunch of assets into the scene it feels like it's built for the platforming which is really good I think the game is really

missing the lighting feels kind of flat and I don't know why but the music and the ambience aren't working for me we'll talk about it in a sec here okay so within the first five minutes you should pretty much have the hook established and introduced you you got to really capture my attention browery what's a browery what's a Bry there's the elevator okay let's talk about music really quick um I'm going to mute it the music and the ambience it sounds like I'm in a field do you

hear that so there's a real disconnect with the ambience so instead here's what I think the ambience should be so there's we're going turn the sfx down for now and I want to show you guys what you can do to make this really come alive and this is no small thing we talked about this yesterday um this is really no small thing so uh cyber P or how about just City Ambience you want the sound of car horns um shouts dogs barking um check only up game it's from that by the way a Bowery is an it said browery okay here we go so first you could start with the sound of a city

hang on I'm G to find it okay and then we would also choose hold on one sec we would choose cyberpunk music okay so hang on hang on we're going to find a perfect uh little set here of Sound and Music cyberpunk music or synway wave you could do synth wave let's do synth wave here we go or retro wave turn all of it down

do you guys see how much funner it is already hang on sorry I love that running though that feels good the music already makes it feel like 10 times better how do I get past this get past that okay and you can even turn it down you know we could turn down the music a little bit oh okay yeah I would highly consider reworking the lighting let me show you an example of how this lighting could look 10 times better

[Music] let's go to photoshop here oh thank you tuck MAAC tuck MAAC says excited for your short horror film I think you would like spanger lore luk Ray on Instagram if you haven't seen his step I haven't all right so what you can do with this guys is you could darken the game and increase the saturation significantly of one area so for example you could make this have a neon sign with a giant up Arrow just to justify a vibrant hit of green light like this I'll even show you how you could show it all you need is a PNG with an emissive on it that's all you need um so I could do up Arrow or elevator so that there's no confusion it's just an elevator

you can do this watch I'm just want to show you guys how valuable lighting is and how you can use it to make the game feel um way more unique cuz right now it feels very flat it doesn't feel like a cyberpunk city um so let's let me show you how you can use lighting to do that here we go so this would be a quad and we do this at Twisted Tower it' be neon you could even do just a stroke even like this yeah there we go rasterize it kill the white oops rasterize the layer style and you guys know I'm a visual person I'm very visual so that's why we focus so much on visuals and visuals in Music and Sound are my my sort of forte

so I focus a lot of that during my live streams that's what I focus primarily on and if you don't like that you know I don't know what else to tell you that's just my forte and I I would hate to give advice about something that I don't understand so these are the things that I really understand okay now watch this this is going to blow your mind ready on the other side you do ambient lighting inside this area of teal do you see so that's how you can use lighting to really pump up the the feeling of this game this is what it was see this is what it can be does that make sense all right let's keep playing all right we got the elevator to go

up I thought we did how do we do this is it a puzzle or am I just being dumb press e to pick up Barrel whoa what's going on down there so this is my beer what do I do I guess I deliver it upstairs maybe how do I drop it okay bring it down

excuse me here it comes yeah there's a Miss of there's just not enough sound there so maybe I need to deliver this upstairs I don't know what that thing is at the bottom of the lefthand corner what is happening what do I do I guess I need need to go somewhere up there maybe what okay so this is a sort of oh I see I see got it got it I was about to say there's a game m game design mistake there where we're not rewarding the player for exploring but we're good okay what

okay maybe we keep climbing guess we got to jump across there oh got it oddly as simple as this is I I kind of enjoy it I think the platforming isn't perfect it's a little frustrating um and there's not much sound to like give you feedback about if you grabbed a surface or whatnot that's a good idea pixel game 80 that's a really good idea I might I might create something like that it's not there currently no to be honest with you like planning out actually yes the the story part is in

the section related to game design yes the game design document yes but um perhaps not to the degree you desire okay okay I got up good so there's no sound so it just it feels very void [Music] uh you guys ready to move on to the next game yall ready to move on to the next game we have some cool little puzzle elements here with platforms that's fun I don't know why this graphically reminds me of the Bulba Fett game do you guys remember that game from GameCube cool okay well hopefully I provided some

feedback there to to make it uh easier or uh better helpful to the to the developer yeah so like if this is too saturated for you guys then we'll move on to the next game if this is too saturated for you guys there's lots of ways to to to play with this you know you can what's that noise oh it's the city Ambience um okay I was like what is is that um okay so uh what you can do is you can reduce the influence of the blue like that and desaturate it and then you can even reduce the size of this you know so you can just play with different VAR variations of saturation but that's the idea that's how to use color and um El Paso elsewhere does this a lot um the flashing head hurts my eyes after a while so go ahead guys provide your

feedback for that game as I open up the next game and this is if the developer watching and they want to get some feedback okay all right what do we got here next game is called sinus which is a hilarious name sinus let's we always start with the description and and see if we can if we can find the hook I don't I can't find the hook here I don't know what this Hook is it's not clear to me but it doesn't always have to be obviously but it helps shoot loot hack level up die upgrade okay sounds like every game okay shoot loot hack level up die upgrade yeah that just sounds like a normal game to me there's no nothing special there shoot loot hack level up die upgrade okay I would just kill that what is that going to do for us sinus is an action

RPG Rog likee okay that's down here so I don't really need that in a cyberpunk world well obviously so all of this in my opinion all of that should be removed okay so let's write this out in how many of you or all of you should please understand I'm not a genius here and also some of my steam Pages have terrible descriptions just from old games so don't think that I'm like perfect here I'm just going off of what I've learned in the last two years you know working on Twisted Tower working with a publisher and just learning a ton from the podcast and also my my previously released games I've just learned a lot shoot loot hack level up die upgrade sinus is an action RPG Rogue like in a cyberpunk world you just told me number one a bunch of generalities and number two the genre and the style which those should not be in necessarily

in the description cuz it's in the in this and then in this so hack can take control of power powerful turrets okay there's something there capture enemies to equip and evolve them okay there we go there we go synergize skills weap there's so many things being said here you got to find the one thing so to early Sun games I need you to look through all of this and find the one thing the one thing that is the most interesting synergized skills you mean combined skills I I don't know exactly what that means maybe I'm just missing out on like what's normal for this kind of genre weapons and items explore generated what's a generated map you mean randomly generated maps to complete missions and stop sinus Humanity why would you want to stop sinus human there's a lot of confusion here this is very confusing um do we agree in the

comments yes no yes no do we agree in the comments yes no hey Jason how you doing buddy do we agree that this is a very confusing um description shoot loot hack level up die upgrade sinus is an action RPG Rogue likee in a cyberpunk world hack and take you just use use the hack twice hack can take control of powerful turrets capture enemies to equip and evolve them that's kind of the same thing those two things synergize skills weapons and items explore generated Maps what does it mean to be generated explore generated maps to complete missions and stop sinus Humanity savior um so we need to figure out what the hook is here so let's watch the trailer maybe the hook will tell maybe the hook will be present here

this looks awesome I don't think that description is doing it justice humans my last unsolved mystery I've given you a new planet I've built you a new home I will decompile you into roded you ler no many decompile shouldn't it be compile you into raw data I don't know

this is brilliant how manys you learn many you complete okay so there's something here this is great I like the word hack I like the word evolve and I like the word uh randomly generated or procedurally generated world maps what a Cool vibe this game has you

know um it's called sinus like the nasal sinus I guess um something like uh hack your way through hack your way through an Ever Changing cyber Punk world the path is yours or the choice is yours will you upgrade to blank or will you devolve to blank or something something quick and focus something much shorter than this and focusing on the true hooks which is hacking evolving and then the randomly generated Maps uh but I would also say the combat is

insanely exciting so I love the idea of of it being like a epic shoot them up Jason what do you think man what do you think Jason what kind of sentence could we come up with here a really short simple sentence um I would love to hear your thoughts as well guys the volume seems slightly low for the microphone ninja Guiden NES what's the what's the genre for that what's the old classic ninja giden um generated map sounds like AI um

sharbo says Thomas would you account a YouTube game developer 97% positive riew game as a true case study no not at all um yeah not not at all having a YouTube community that gives you positive reviews on a game is there's nothing nothing wrong with that I'm going to do it myself but no it's not a true case study cyber Punk hotl Miami it's got that Vibe what is this um Rog light is important well yes it's important but do you have to include it in the description because it's right here it's like a dead cell shooter yeah

H okay well I'm I I will I will admit I'm struggling to find the right description here but I do think that this needs to be devolved it needs to be or compiled it needs to be put into a much more distilled uh distilled couple of sentences right now it feels like clogged sinuses um it's not a hack and slash though it says you can capture enemies kind of like Pokemon yeah I would say capture and hack hack and capture hack and capture enemies Blast Your Way upgrade and blast your way through a randomly

generated cyberpunk World ah I like that okay so here's the idea something like this um you are sinus no that's too much hack and slash I'm sorry hack and capture enemies upgrade and blast your way through a procedurally generated cyberpunk world this is something kind of I think this is close to what we need here I don't know exactly how to incorporate the story here synergize skills weapon there's just so much that and it's not a problem that there's so much to do here or it's not that there's too much to do in the game it's just it needs to be

more focused here um hack and capture enemies upgrade and blast your way through a procedure generated cyber Punk world something like that okay let's go ahead and hit play here not not my best work I will admit but let's go ahead and enter play mode here or uh uh enterplay mode uh play with an enormous array of weapons yeah okay hang on one sec guys oh and by the way guys those of you just joining us just remember you can join fulltime Game Dev below for 50% off I've extended it for one day just to account for the extra we have or not the extra the remaining 20 seats so check it out below if you're interested in joining full-time Game Dev oh this feels so good oh

options let's look at the options menu brilliant I mean it just feels really good who do I want to play as Tina hi Tina look at this Tina is part of the first human generation born in another galaxy after a deranged childhood she founded a group known as the resistance since then they have been cleansing the streets of abusive agents and fighting for a better tomorrow now recognized as a threat she is being hunted to be silenced this is awesome awesome this feels so

good welcome to your training follow my lead and you will be ready to no time oh that feels good a this is hilarious look at that that reminds you of golden eye oh this music is awesome I freaking love this look at the way I can back up oh that music is awesome hold shift to dash hold shift to use move direction to control your

dash what this music is awesome I love it this is so good it just feels so good oh yes pre press tab to open your or pad wait what just happened wait what where' my weapon go oh it's right here equipped oh yeah that feels good aim press this and press that to

shoot this feels super good guys oh man this is awesome this is one of the best games I've played on this these streams it just feels really [Music] good okay I'm out of ammo let's go get some ammo hold right click and aim towards enemy agents when very close for a melee attack [Music] okay wait what hold this to aim towards an enemy agent when very close for a melee attack okay oh we're I see so I'm out of ammo well I need some more ammo don't

I oh oh that's awesome I love that I can crawl up walls that is so great shoot that turret this is a brilliant game man two too bad about the description I just feel like it doesn't it doesn't really do this game Justice virtualize okay I'm hacking turrets aim from Mouse press to shoot nice got it that's so cool press shift to D out of

turrets oh man I hate upgrades that's just cuz I'm not smart enough you're a now able to hack and control these agents okay very cool 14914 oh interesting they have Rarities and different hacking requirements so hacking is a huge part of this game the hacking and this pixelated classic platforming style those are the two big things I feel make this game interesting so the hook is um hacking and then this sort of classic what game is this similar to does anybody know in the chat what classic game is this similar to no Mike Jimmy I don't agree I personally don't agree I like these distant games where the camera's far away there's something really

precious about them hold a uh hold space to take [Music] blueprint get close and stay close to hack those agents oh that's so cool hacking hacking hacking nice this needs to be super for present in the trailer and the marketing material I'm sorry and I just don't think it is this is great I need a key or something oh sorry manage your agents in your or pad press one to command your agent so these are my agents

okay whoops so how do I tell him what to do though oh one and two that's so cool guard follow guard attack follow got it so fun and the teaching in this game is really well done everything has being taught uh precisely open that chest and equip the passive item rare shock helmet equip combine passive weapons agents and skills to create overpowered builds

nice this is great nice well we haven't really gotten to I honestly I don't the blue 70% of the screen being blue it doesn't bother me for some reason I'm not sure why press Q to activate your ability check this out Graphics have changed look how beautiful this is look at that awesome Planet the this is just so artfully done I detected the decryptor in a different

location you'll need to find a key to gain access find the boss key let's go contracts available I love that you can climb walls that's hilarious so I need to go find a boss key ooh I can teleport yeah I totally agree with honest Dev games jumping sounds woo thank you Game Dev who understands what a character should sound like I totally agree ooh nice lighting this looks like it's actual 2D lighting by the way I think a

lot of this guys why this looks so beautiful I think this is for Real 2D Lighting in unity as opposed to it being Graphics oh come on oh man that feels good woo give me a little bit less overheating there just while we start make me feel really cool at first Atari that's awesome so I will say the game is for me for me just cuz I told you guys this I've said it a million times I have bad memory I'm not good at learning things

I'm fairly add at least I think I am like pretty bad I have terrible memory so these kind of games I'm not good at but I can tell this is a really fun concept so it's pretty complicated pretty complex but I I'm I I think I've seen enough to know what to rate this okay I've raided beer Runner and sinus let's go to the next game do you guys have any feedback for sinus um your thoughts on sinus um I think it's personally I feel like it's pretty special um I think there's a really good game in there um by the way we might have bonus time to play the demonologist today um but we're going to jump into the next game uh the next game is called anti- shoot um that's still don't understand the title

I don't either but it's memorable isn't it um but like I really quick I just want to go back to the store Page here do do we agree I want to make sure that the developer gets good feedback here if they watch this video do we agree that this is way too much and just way too confusing don't you feel like we need to be much more precise with this language and short and and clean and concise yes or no metaverse says amazing men use the dev should feel confident the game is good yes we agree okay early Sun games what else did they make so they've only made sinus what a great game I I I would never be

able to play it it's just too too complicated well Jason Jason if I'm gonna argue with you um you you said you don't put a lot of effort into reading descriptions um yeah but you might for the first sentence right and also the first sentence is a great exercise for the player I'm sorry for the developer because if the F if the developer can't write the first sentence it's going to be very hard for them to make a good trailer uh because the first sentence should be your single sentence pitch it should make sense in your first sentence what the game is if you can't do that then your game might be a little too watered down so this right here

yeah that right there did a really good job but I wish it said a sentence like this I wish it said it like somewhere in here that was like hack and possess every enemy in the game boom there's your hook hack and possess every enemy in the game yeah should be called synergies I agree actually Synergy I believe is taken Synergy I think sinus is actually pretty uh pretty easy to remember so I don't know if I would I would change it I think sinus is a cool name honestly um but it I mean it makes me think of a nose all right let's move on to anti-

shoot I don't like uh descriptions that include the name of the game right there because I just saw it you're just wasting time um it's a big big time game Steam Pages you go anti- shoot anti shoot anti- shoot oh you just wasted like three seconds and you've got like five seconds to capture their attention it's a first-person action what action fast-paced shooter okay how can we fix that this is so important it's not necessarily because the description is important it's because you need to create a single sentence pitch that that dictates everything else in your in your games marketing um fastpaced shooter we do not need first person there you go action-packed that's great I totally agree with you Jason action-packed fastpaced shooter guys why are we doing this why

am I so obsessed with this because when you're pitching to a publisher when you're pitching on Kickstarter when you're uh creating the trailer when you're marketing this thing on Twitter when you're trying to get wish lists when you're creating your thumbnail art everything it needs to be that one sentence everything communicates that one sentence okay an action-packed fast-paced shooter where you defeat your only goal is to defeat the creatures that kill you okay what that's the same as every single shooter in the world so you need to make it clearer an action fast-paced shooter an action-packed fastpac shooter where your only goal your only goal is to defend against the um ever increasing ons

uh onslaught of enemies now if the enemies I'm just give me just a sec here I'm I'm working this out uh they come and kill you well of course they do it's a shooter we need to create some kind of horde mentality to to Def defend against the um hordes of um ever increasing hordes of enemies shoot and rocket jump through enemies to gain glory on the leader boards um rocket jumping is that's I don't know if that's a good enough hook to put in your description blast and Rocket Jump um I guess we can do that shoot and Rocket Jump through enemies to gain glory on and I removed

through enemies because we already talked about enemies something like that action-packed fast-paced shooter where your only goal is to defend against uh ever increasing hordes of enemies shoot your and Rocket Jump your gain and shoot and Rocket Jump to gain glory on the leaderboards yeah there's something there anti- shoot what does anti- shoot mean cuz I'm literally shooting right now yeah what does anti- shoot mean

okay I'm not sure there's much of a hook here um and it could be that we just solve this with visuals anyway let's go ahead and hit play here anti anti- shoot yeah I think it's they're trying to combine anti-gravity with shooting name has a hook game looks like it doesn't have a hook I completely agree with Jason it's like it looks like you use guns to shoot if I was the developer and I had a game called anti- Shoot I would immediately say you do not shoot shooting is jumping that's it that's all it is and different weap man that is such a good hook that is such a good

hook the anti- shoot game that is a really strong hook that is a really strong hook anti- shoot the game where you don't shoot the game where your guns are used to jump right something like that

you know what I mean guys the game where your guns are used to shoot or I'm sorry to jump and that is it there's no real shooting in the game that's fun what a great idea anti- shoot I beat you to it Jason but it's a good idea yeah dodging bullets and um using guns to blast your way and jump so the the guns are a a propelling force and that's it so it sounds like I I think Jason has put it really really well the game the game doesn't seem to carry the hook that the name does but let's go ahead and hit play here and take a look

Dan we're not redesigning his game we're just saying that the the title implies something and when you're title implies something and it doesn't follow through on the actual game itself it can be a problem because people don't get their expectations met so these are pixelated guns but the text isn't and that's really odd okay let's go to campaign I don't know what one means but okay there's no reload movement feels good I want to make my mouse a little bit faster

what whoa this is not good pressing escape takes you back to the main menu so if you want to make a change to something you have to restart whoa that didn't save okay okay well it's going to have to be yeah that's going to be tough for a demo you your demo really does need to be perfect I mean it's a it's a it's a small perfect slice of your game movement feels good that feels great nice I need I need sounds when I when I hit something I need where's the blood sound I just died for some reason

give me a little bit more room there to slide yeah this whole like pixelated low resolution is bothering me it's not it's not really doing the job that we think it should yeah it's set to 3840 by 2160 yet I'm getting just the this pixelated look that doesn't really serve the game I would I wouldn't do that I would just make it nice and clean there's no reason to do this pixelated look cuz all this isn't a true pixelated like cultic game I don't know if you guys have seen cultic um this is just a a forced lower resolution in unity and I'm not sure it really does much for us okay for some reason that there we go

whoa goodness shoot header enemy from behind to kill oh my word they'll just spawn on you what is that okay I have infinite ammo I was being conservative but I have infinite ammo movement feels really good gun feels really good oh okay let's see here I wish it would like autosave right here so I don't have to keep going through that beginning anyway let's go ahead and hit play here shoot the header enemy from behind what's a header enemy from behind oh I see that what if you're going to have these Arena Shooters you need to start me with a really simple

Arena but let's go ahead and there's like five enemies almost immediately how do I get that there we go okay got it why do the bullets fly up there what is that that what is happening there I think it's because the the bullets are actual projectiles and not Ray casts which could be problematic I don't know scroll to change weapons okay all right shoot into the ground while in the air with a

shotgun that's fun I love that all right I wish there was a feeling of going up even though I know we're loading into a new scene I wish there was a feeling of going up maybe show the elevator move just for a split second oh so far it feels good though now that I kind of understand the loop here H there's no death sound either and I don't know why I'm dying necessarily okay let's keep going here okay I'm out of ammo now okay so this is infinite whereas this is

not are you not dying there we go these guys are annoying so there's not really a theme here it's just shooting and weird enemies I wish there was more of a theme like aliens or rats versus cats or terrorists or I don't know some kind of theme or motive like where am I what's the point and it's does it definitely just to confirm our previous suspicion it doesn't really me like anti- shoot means nothing right and to one of you I think said don't redesign the person's game well I'm not redesigning the game I'm saying that this definitely doesn't

imply anti- shooting this is like quite literally just shoot you know these are these guys are pretty tough I I would slow those down they're they're they're luring or their smooth their look at speed because they're pretty fast or pretty yeah pretty fast it's hard to get behind them but that feels pretty good um yeah this does real feel really good I don't want to die yet nice okay so I need to like kill those things

this is kind of fun though the the the onslaught of enemies I think it's kind of funny cool okay what that's hilarious um cool all right I can give that a score all right I I think we're ready to go ahead and review the games um there's a save button in the settings menu okay oh really okay um Jason or no Jus says if you plan to make ammo unlim lied for most guns maybe call it something like bullets included or infinite ammo or if it was a laser gun

if it was a laser gun with just a laser sound and maybe it had a purple emissive around the or running down the barrel of the gun it's the same gun but it has a purple emissive and uh it makes a laser sound then it would feel more like an infinite ammo gun that was a little confusing okay um guys I think we're ready to vote um are we ready to vote guys so go ahead and click the link below and I want you guys only if you saw every game do I want you to vote if you didn't see every single game either back up and take a look at the games and then come back to live uh and then Vote or don't vote at all and just leave your comments in the in the chat because we don't want it to be unfair where only the last games get like a extra votes you know while you guys vote one final reminder one final reminder this video is sponsored by

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I've left the link in the description to vote okay all right go ahead and vote below if you're on Twitter and I'm going to go ahead and take a look at the uh poll okay let's take a look at the results I'm going to guess the winner is sinus second place is anti shoot and third place is beer Runner let's take a look okay looks like beer Runner beat anti- shoot uh we have a total of 50 votes if you've seen all the games please vote guys we've got how many people are watching right now 779 people are watching um so Jason says call Twitter by its proper Christian name Twitter or call X by its proper uh Christian name Twitter Jamie says I've been loving the interviews Thomas really amazing content on this channel thank you so much for the content and the hard work well thank you guys for for those of you who buy my courses cuz it keeps the podcast going

and means a lot to me um so it looks like sinus overwhelmingly won like holy crap um beer Runner is the clear second I don't know I don't know I don't agree I really don't I think antio is clearly the second because antio at least has some kind of of loop that is clear from the beginning the movement feels a lot better it's more the style is clearer um I think sign or I'm sorry beer Runner I feel like it's a little it's just all over the place um so yeah guys that's that's what we've got for these three games if you liked any of these games please please wish list the game below I know one game that I'm going to wish list which is sinus okay I think sinus deserves my wish list don't ever wish list a game out of pity or trying to help the developer why why should you we'll we'll

leave with one final question here guys why is it a bad idea and why is it a disservice to wish list a game that you don't want do you know why does anybody know why anybody know why oh you want me to play demonologist you guys want to play demonologist with me who wants to stick around for demonologist anti- shoot will be repetitive after six minutes it messes up the ratio that's right yeah you don't want a crazy weird conversion rate you don't want a 1% conversion rate do you guys want to play demonologist it's yeah very bad statistics you don't want that that let's go ahead and play demonologist feel free to stick around guys let's

go and we won't be really be reviewing anything here we're just going to play I think this is an indie game clock wizard games whoa freaking unreal oh unreal is so frustrating it's just slow turn the sound up here I love games that don't have menus never mind okay that's the main menu it's TVs I see single player multiplayer Lobby is required to vote on a map load

out this uh motion blur is killing my brain off please anti-aliasing I'm going to set it to low or medium shading medium it looks so much better I don't know why maybe I'm just old I like my games to have crisp non motion blur no motion blur and not so much uh so not so many post-processing effects okay so anyway let's go ahead and explore this house this is cool bansi o that's

creepy I kind of wish there was a little bit more Bloom though I told you I wasn't going to review this game but here I am is this unreal it I think it's unreal right although now I'm starting to question myself now that the motion blur is gone okay so there's not much to do here other than get started I want to look out those windows notice how stuff's in front oh no we're good that's fun I love the sounds this feels great all right let's go ahead and get started here single player let's go do you want to allow public and private networks

yeah okay I'm in single player here there's our load out I don't know if I'm going to understand this game I guess I got to choose this yeah I don't know if it's unreal actually Old House Pub

so what do I do Does anyone know what I do here am I missing something that's so weird I love that why do I not know what to do oh I clicked start there we go it's a little uh what's the word

jittery oh that's awesome let's increase the brightness yeah I think this might be Unity actually yeah it feels like Unity

nice I just can't see am I missing something do I not have a flashlight so I guess the goal is to find the light switches or at least at the start yeah cool this is awesome

oh jeez that terrified me actually who's there this is super creepy oh no what is that oh goodness does that really say say my name oh my goodness I'm getting kind of scared guys to be

completely honest uh oh we have ai art maybe maybe not kind of looks like it you never know these days this looks awesome let's take a vote is this AI art yes or no this one looks the most like it look at their hands why are they sitting on elephants maybe I need to say Victoria into the mic good graef what was that oh

no well I'm officially scared now guys um what where did that book go oh gosh okay I'm a little bit scared to be completely honest with you my hands are sweating dream oh please Lord [Music]

stop [Music] stop Victoria Victoria or Victoria I don't know my name is is it push to

talk voice chat push to talk V was it Victoria guys Victor Victoria Victoria Victoria Victoria V Victoria oh Simona Simona Hazel okay let's figure this out because I really like yes okay it worked okay it was Hazel whoa did it did it

work I'm just like really scared actually oh gosh not this room again so this is interesting is it something like um various sort of haunted houses that you just basically get to play and there's a story in each one if so I think it's that would be so cool so was it Hazel or mag it's Magna oh fudge I almost started crying on the stream I haven't had a jump scare like

that since I was like 10 um okay anyways I don't think this is fair I need to make it louder for you guys it might not be AI art because that model looked really good show me stop it please stop with the

faces anchor wait what was that what is that it's so dark oh no I'm like stuck there we go stop it I love how all the jump scares are like triggered by light switches so I've been through here okay I guess I can go up here now

no oh gosh stop it I can't see anything okay so I think I need to do something in here it's like a haunted house basically where's the

flashlight my hands are like shaking by the way like truly this this kind of stuff freaks me out do you want to play with me no thanks where do I go

do you guys have any ideas maybe I need to interact with something in here I think it's something in here I just can't see what what I just saw something I don't know what that was I can't see anything in here use the mic you said

c what oh yeah the mic I forgot do you want to play with me what do I say see what about this is there a hint here anger okay what's the mic G or what oh I said anger okay okay oh interesting penalty 30% ghost yeah sorry I I don't I didn't quite understand the the mechanic a push to talk I couldn't figure out is it push to talk or not um I kind of wish there was like a you could see that you were

talking and that it was actually capturing your voice but I don't know uh okay there's our load out okay so did I make some money I didn't make any money I don't know how to make money well that's fun and then you can have like a team flashlight two out of four o I can get a new one but I don't have any money so I played the old

house oh I can I can have a load out of a flashlight but I have to buy it how do I make money this is so cool what a great idea although what game did you guys say this game was similar to okay thanks for hanging out guys I love you very much