Let's Review Your Games — Ep. 028

Make sure everybody's happy. Make sure we're good. Checking here. Checking the chat. Okay, today's gonna be fun. We're going to be playing some more games. Why not, right? Why not? Why not play some games? Oh my goodness, Twitter is down. Wait, the twitter.com h URL doesn't work anymore. That's wild. Um, anyways, checking on the live stream here, making sure we're actually live. Looks like we are. Okay, the three games we're going to play are in the description, but we're not going to vote yet. We're going to vote at the very end of today's live stream just to double check. Hello, Duke. Hello, Tut Tatamaru. Tataru, I think that's what it is. Um, but yeah, we'll vote at the end of today's live stream um on the best game. The goal of these live streams is to give feedback to game developers, help developers know what they're doing right, what they're doing wrong. I like to play games like an idiot. That's because I am an idiot. But we're going

to play games like an idiot. And the reason why is because you're that's who's going to bring you down in the Steam reviews. The people who they they skipped through dialogue. They got bored. They didn't read the instructions. You got to you got to kind of cater to this base layer of morons. Okay. So, we're gonna do that. We're gonna do that. Um, hey, huge, huge thank you. Huge thank you to I'm gonna try to say this really fast here. Adam, Rob, Zach, Brandon, Marco, Joseph, Aier, Zachary, Patrick, Chris, Austin, Gavin, Robert, Chad, Ero, and Robert. You're gonna get there on twi you're on there twice for some reason. Uh, wanted to say huge thank you for joining 2D Art Pro. Guys, I have extended the sale. I have extended the sale because there was a handful of seats left and I figured might as well just extend this thing for another day or so just to let everybody who wanted to uh enroll enroll. I think there was

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very frustrating. Um, okay. Alexander said something nasty. Did you say something nasty to Mr. Thomas here? Let's see here. The rare place where I can go to get general information for gamedev. Uh, the tool that doesn't matter. And yes, ra man, what I can listen. Lol. And yes, curse. It is for must. Lol. So, you didn't say anything that was mean or nice. I don't know what you just said. Let's go ahead and jump into our Steam library here. We're going to start with the very first game. Dude, D. No, I'm gonna start with Slimy. We're gonna start with Ghost. Let me go. Hit play here and take a look. I'm going to guess this is a Unity game. Anyone with a brain would use Unity or GDAU. There it is. All right. Oh, here we go. What? No. There we go.

has is Twisted Tower using 100% original art? I would say 90%. We use a lot of assets. Um, but that's still it's a huge game, so there's a ton of assets. 90% of them are original. And I'm not going to sit here and say they're mine. I was the art director and I was the uh director of the game. I may go in and do a game that is completely Thomas Brush's style of 2D art or maybe even 3D, but I worked with a team member for Twisted Tower and that his name was Felipe. All right, you guys ready to roll? This is made by someone who knows what they're doing. Oh, almost. So, this is an issue and this is why making games for console, I'm sorry, for for gamepad and also keyboard and also mouse is so challenging because if I have my mouse here and then I press over, you'll see

that they're both selected. And this is such a difficult thing to to figure out. Um, especially if you're doing it custom. If you use Unity's built-in UI, it's a little bit easier. Um, so you just got to bear in mind that this kind of stuff can be a problem. Um, I don't even know if I press space on this. Will it will it try and save two game files? I don't know. Um, the pulsing one is the one selected. Also, I'd like a sound when I select it with my mouse. It does it with the keyboard, but not the mouse. Okay, let's go. Oh, I love that transition. Giving me Kirby vibes all day long. This is awesome. I guess we're going to click. Whoops. Oh, I jumped into the world.

Music is so important, guys. Let's go. It's so Oh, this feels good. Oh, smart. So, if I press and hold space, I go super high. If I do it quick, it's a short jump, which is really important. Whoa. Who is that? Oh, look. It teaches me. [Music] So he deflects me. Can I jump on you? It feels really good. Game feel is so important, guys.

So, what's the one thing about the game field that I think is the most valuable in this case in this game is I think it might be the downward the downward change of the blob as I fall. I like how the there's a sort of a tail that goes up when I when I'm start to fall. That kind of stuff is so valuable. Who are you? Jump on his head. Sound is great. I haven't killed anything yet. Uh-oh. We're breaking a little bit of a rule here that I'm not There's two rules that are broken here. This is just might be nitpicky, but I wanted to let the developer know. These trees need to be black. Um, they really shouldn't be the same color as the blue trees back there in the midground. Um, they should be darker as

we come closer to the foreground. Also, they're they're covering way more than the player's width. I think you could probably fit five players into the the width of those trees. Um, so you really don't want to cover the player that much. So, uh, when it comes to these kind of games, I guess you could get away with not giving me story and not giving me a setup. This game would be so much more valuable with a setup in my opinion. Okay, a tiny little setup with some kind of um, beautiful music like you might hear in Mario or Yoshi's Island with black text. The setup should basically tell us three things. Um, well, it should really tell us who, what, when, where, and why about this character. Um, and also it should tell us if we understand this world. Do

we understand this world or not? Um, it's probably best to say you don't understand the world or there's something about the world that's new and unique to the character that the character doesn't understand. So, an example of this could be the character's hometown is suddenly invaded by these strange peak pink walking things and he doesn't know what they are. They have five little fingers and ears and eyes. They're so strange. All this slime guy knows is the slime world. Suddenly, humans are now in this world and he doesn't understand what's going on. Something like that. Uh, his child is missing. His child got abducted. Something giving me a motivation and an incentive to keep playing. Right now, I don't care at all. And in fact, it's more important than ever with a slime character to create incentive um, and some kind of sympathy for this

character because right now it I don't care about slime at all. I really don't care about this character. And that's going to hurt the experience because players are going to quit. They're going to quit when they get frustrated, which is totally fine to make up the player frustrated every once in a while. That's what making a difficult game is. But if I don't care about the character, I'm not going to keep playing. So, give me a reason to care. Okay? And maybe I miss the story. I don't know what happened. But there's I don't know what's going on. So, that's the biggest uh gripe I have with this game is I don't care. But it looks really good. Feels good. Game feel is awesome. Color theory is incredible. The artwork is is really really awesome, honestly. Um, okay. Let's try again. Yeah, the artwork's really awesome. Um, but I don't care. Do you guys care? Cuz I don't I don't care.

What's this? Hello. I don't think I can go over there yet. This is really well made, man. You know, it it makes me think like what the developer what I would do if I was the developer is look at that dance. If I was the developer, I'd do three things. First thing, give me a reason to care uh about this character with some kind of cut scene or introduction. Uh, number two, I would make sure that the the you the developer clarifies to me if the blob knows what's going on in this world. I really need to know if I sympathize with this character. And it's so hard to sympathize with a character that doesn't tell you if they understand the world. And then finally, number three, regardless of if this game gets a lot of wish lists or not, I think it should be finished. This game needs to be finished so that the developer can move on to the

next game and take all of their understanding of game feel and balance and color theory and art and music and sound cuz this developer is clearly incredibly gifted. Take all those things and put it into a hook that actually hooks people because slime in a Kirby's Dreamland world isn't particularly hooky in this day and age. So, that's just my opinion, but if I was the developer, I would definitely finish this game. That's not fair. Okay, so I, you know, we we don't have a ton of time today, but that was pretty great. Um, let's move forward with the next game. Uh, I want to play a game called Dude, Where is My Beer? A new hop demo. It's a big title. I would never remember that ever. Um, I don't think I would ever remember this title name. Dude, wears my beer a new hop. There's like there's two jokes in

one. It looks great. I just think the the title's a little heavy. [Music] [Music] dude. Where's my beer? A new hop. [Music] Great music. So, I haven't heard any sound from now all the way to the menu. I want to hear something like a little click of the the the bottle caps. All I hear is music. Um A click sound or like a coin toss ching.

Okay, that's funny. All characters of this game are fictitious. Any resemblance to real purses, living dead, or regretting last night's choices is purely coincidental. That's funny. Great sound. Hey there. Just one question. Have you played Dude, Where is My Beer? That game was released a few years a Okay, so this is a sequel, never mind to my feedback about Dude, Where is My Beer? Okay. Wait, is there a first game? Yeah, you should try it. I would recommend you play that one first, but it's up to you. Now, let me introduce you to the story, my mission, and the navigation. Tell me about the story, buddy. Okay, so I kind of wish there was a sound or or a sound or even voice acting. My bus made a technical resting stop here for a few minutes and I decided to have a nice cold pillzner

while I wait for our journey to resume. But guess what? There aren't any pills around. Apparently a guy called the master brewer banned them. I've been walking around all over town searching for one to no avail. It seems that it's now popular to drink these weird, hoppy, bitter beer with fruit, maybe even vegetables that don't taste very good. The world's just not the same anymore. That's the story. It doesn't sound like much. Didn't you pay attention? There aren't any pzners around. Just snubbish craft beers. It's a big deal. But also remember remember that girl at the end of part one. She wanted some pillser too. If I managed to get it for her, I'm sure I could conquer her heart. Ah, a pillsner loving babe. Who wouldn't

fall in love? That's the Okay, what's wrong with those beers? Oh, no. Nothing's wrong with them except that they taste like a dirty mop and smell like cat urine. Even a Bud Light mixed with soap would taste better. I don't know if we're allowed to use that word Bud Light in a game without some kind of trademark or copyright issue. At least the price of three regular beers. I really miss a good old Pzner like the ones our dads used to drink. I see. My goal is clear. I want a Pzner. After finding the empty PZNAR bottle at the end of part one, I realized that that was the only way to get one. The only way to get one is to enter the brewing contest. Apparently, I can brew my own beer there. And supposedly anyone can enter. Maybe I could try to brew my own PSNer from scratch. How tough could

it be? It's just boiling some grain after all. Let's see how it goes. So, I understand this is a story game. I understand this is sort of point and click. I understand this is a dialogue game. I kind of wish I could do something before all this exposition, especially for streamers. You know, streamers, they want to play something and and get moving. Because right now, as a streamer streaming this game, I feel anxiety about you guys. And so you you got to cater to streamers these days. If you want your game to get played, you need to cater to what they want. Streamers are probably thinking, "I kind of got to want to get through this dialogue so I can play otherwise I'm going to lose my audience." All right, show me how navigation works. All right, the navigation. Down below you can see the action menu. To the left, you can see all the action commands you can do. And to the right is

your inventory bar. It's all pretty much straightforward. It's all pretty straightforward. Okay, let's test the game play. I like this sort of breaking the third wall here. Click on the action command look at. Perfect. Now you can click on something that you want to look at. Let's try clicking that sign over there. Calling all brewers and beer enthusiasts. Join our exciting brewing contest and showcase your skills. The winning beer will have the honor of being the next hype beer style in town. Style for our town. Unleash your creativity and craft any beer style to your desire. Any beer style? That means Pzner. Get brewing and make your mark on our town's beer scene. Register for free today at

the Oslo Visitor Center. Well, I want to go register. Okay, sure. Now, let's get ready. Let's get that pillser. Okay, good. So, yeah, if I was the developer, what I would do is I'd be very nervous about people dropping off in the first five minutes because all I saw was a static shot. I would create some kind of intro where I'm walking out of my apartment or something. Um, and I can move around and just feel like I have control. What's interesting to me is I mean I guess I understand the the the controls here, but what I would do if it were me, if it were me, if it were my game, I wouldn't have different

options here. I would just have it change depending on what I click. So, if I click that, I can go read it. If I click here, I'll just walk, which it looks like that's what it does. So, I don't quite know what the point of these are. Um, but yeah, we'll keep exploring here. Hey, Grey November, how are you? [Music] So, I think I need to go to uh the city. It doesn't sound smart. I need to go to like the city center or something. But let's see if we can look at this. [Music] It's a bottle of mustard from the brand I don't know. What's this poster?

Kissing couple. Can we talk to him? They're busy. So, yeah, a couple things here. Uh, art style is awesome. Color theory is great. Um you can kind of see that limitation in color is what makes things look beautiful. This is kind of a uh universal rule. So you can see the developer has chosen one, two, three, four, five. basically only five or six colors and they're basically just lightness and saturation shifts of blue, red, and yellow. It's basically it.

Yeah, I I am a little sleepy playing this game, but look guys, you know, this is the thing. Even if I don't like this genre, which I don't, it doesn't mean it's bad. Um, it's just not my genre. Okay, there's the visitor center. Alrighty. Hi, bro. How can I help you today? I need to register for the brewing contest. Can you help me with that brewing contest? Eh, I love beer. If you enter the contest, could you brew a fresh hopped mango Imperial Pale with Norwegian organic salmon and strawberry jam for me? It's my favorite beer, but they discontinued it. It sounds disgusting. Well, it's not. I would leave it my post just to have a taste of it. Why don't you brew it yourself? I'm too

lazy. It figures. So, can I register for the contest here? Sure, bro. Just act ask any clerk. All right, girlfriend. Let's go. Why? I'm a socially awkward person that cannot speak to strangers unless I have some alcohol inside of me. Better get that pillzner. So, wait, what? What about him? He looks familiar. So, I got to go get a pillzer first before I can talk to anybody.

Um, so I gotta go get a Pzner, but I wanted to brew a Pzner. So, are you guys following that? I'm not very into tacos. Let's not. So, I need to get a Pzner if I'm going to sign up to brew a Pzner. Yeah. So, I would get rid of this. I wasn't sure if this is some like classic genre that I'm not aware of, but having

all these actions here is very bizarre to me. The game would be so much more interesting if the UI did not exist. There was no UI and I just saw this. And you could talk, you can click, you can look at, you can push, you can pull, you can open, you can close, you can give by just clicking. Okay, so we need to go find a pillzner, but uh Okay, now I can go over here. I'm not sure why I can, but okay. Um, we need to go get a pillser. And I also wish that when I clicked a little a little whoop appeared. Just a little subtle reminder that the game can actually sense that I'm clicking. Are you kidding me? It's Brew Ball

Nordic finals week. The purples were drafting. You and your Brew Ball obsession. You missed the yeast explosion in the eggs and bacon brew. Wait, you mean the TV Noridge breakfast show with Hillstrom? No, I'm talking about the brewing show. It was a DDH New England IPA brewed with actual eggs and bacon. Eggs in the mash. That's a rookie mistake. All that protein probably drove the yeast crazy. So, I'm not sure what I just read there, but that's probably because I wasn't paying attention. I will say this happens more times than not with indie developers. It's really, really hard, really hard to tell a story with games. And I'm going through this right now with my own game where it's just so hard to make it click for players. So I'm I'm going to ask is this in the chat. Do you understand what that conversation was? Yes or no?

Yes or no? So I can't Can I use this? Okay. I can drink beer. Okay. That's all I needed to do. That's funny. Now that I'm drinking, you can see my blood alcohol content rising on the bureau meter at the top right corner. Oh, funny. You can always see how drunk you are here. Maybe it can affect your decisions and results of your actions. Good luck. And remember, drink responsibly. Okay, so I think that's good. He said he needed a pzner. Did I just drink a pillzer? So, the answer was no. You guys said no. No. And then about brewing beer and the ingredients, I suppose. All right. Maybe I'm drunk enough to

talk to this chick. What's wrong with your computer? They upgraded the system and everything is so slow now. Nothing works as it should. That must be problematic. It's time consuming and exas exasperating. Have you tried turning it off and on? I told you I'm not doing that. I want to register for the brewing contest. Ah, yes. Let's see. Brewing contest. Brewing contest. Sorry about this. Since they upgraded the system, I can't find anything. Ah, brewing contest. Here we go. The brewing contest 6 567 is arranged by the Oslo municipality. Blah blah blah. The

winner. Winning beer will be the new trend for the next season. Interesting. Blah blah blah. For prerequisites, click here. Let's see. Loading. Why did they upgrade this system? Everything was working well before. This new software update is awful. Have you tried turning it off and on? I told you I'm not doing that. Okay. Is the visitor using the registr? What? What? What? This is demo version. Yes, demo version. Where can I get a brewing certificate? Okay. So, I need to get a brewing certificate. Okay. Yeah, I think we've got a good idea of this game, guys. I think we're ready to move on to the next one. Um,

something strange is happening to me. Ah, it has happened before. I'm getting sober again. You can see my blood alcohol content level dropping. Funny. Yeah. Are you guys ready to move on to the next game? Um, yeah. Okay, let's move on to the next game. I'll say that I like the I like the art style. I think the the mood and the vibe is working. Um, and that's that's no small feat. You know, it's very difficult for a lot of indie developers to have a game that that has a vibe that's cohesive and I think it's done really really well. Uh I think there's a lot more to that game than we played. Um, but like I said at the beginning of the stream, we're going to be playing well like normal Steam players, the base layer, people who jump in and they want

to get entertained in the first five minutes. And I and I wasn't. And so I think that what we need to do is if I was the developer is I'd give something rewarding that's exciting that's funny and very interesting right away. Um, there was a lot of text And you got to really commit to playing this game. The people who are going to commit to playing this game are two different kinds of people. Number one, people who've played the first dude where my beer or number two, they love this genre. If you want to sort of broaden though and get outside of that niche a little bit and get people who might maybe be interested in the the art style or the story, you might want to give them something. Give them a reward. make it interesting within the first five minutes. So, what do you guys think in the chat? What do you think? Um, let's try and help this developer out. I don't think it's a bad game. I think it's just a little slow

and a little gray. Um, for me, okay, before we move on to the next game, I wanted to just remind you you can get 25% off my 2D art program and get my 3D art program completely free using the link below. I decided to extend this sale event for another day or so just because there are some seats left. So, be sure to check it out and join hundreds of students worldwide to get my art programs and my 3D art program completely free. Yeah, it's pretty niche and so it's not necessarily something we have to fix or change. Um, but if you want to broaden that audience, you could do it by giving us something very quick and snappy and fun and funny and interesting right away. That did take a while to get started, but you know, if that's what the developer wants, they want this slow build

and they want to stick to the sort of genre tropes of these late 90s, early 2000s point-and-click games, go for it. All right, this next game is called Boy, that is hard to read. I'm going to make a I'm going to gamble that that says Omno. But that's a rough That is a rough font. I'm not going to lie. That's just my opinion, though. So, let's give a little vote for the developer. Yes or no? That's a difficult font to read. Yes or no? Because I could read it as aono. I could read it as IO. Um, that's rough. I I don't know if I like that. Um, yes, that's hard to read. No, it's fine. Let me know in the chat. This is for the developer. Yes, that's hard to read. No, it's fine. Yes, hard to read. No, it's fine. Jay says, no.

Leo, Foxite, Dark Tree. Hey, developer uh change your logo. That's really really rough. Uh a lot of a lot of thing a lot of times these artsy games are and I make artsy games by the way. It's always design over functionality. Design over functionality. Design over functionality. Uh or readability. It should be reversed. Um, I would say, and I'm learning this, but a mature developer, they prioritize accessibility, functionality, um, over design. Doesn't mean that you disregard design. It's that you're going to put it first. And that I cannot that's so hard to read. Okay, let's go ahead and play this.

[Music] Press any key to start. Oo, that's good music. I wish there was a a sound. I just want to enjoy this. That idle stance could have a little bit more motion. He looks static, but I know he's not static. Let's hit new game here. Wish there was a sound with his his staff touching the ground. It's those subtle things that are so important at the very first, you know, three minutes of a game.

Yeah, that was a good sound. That little sound was great. Oh, see, there we go. We had a sound there. I don't like the motion blur. Oh, too bad. I really wish we could uh get rid of that motion blur. That's that motion blur feels unnecessary to me. That's quite quite nauseating. Um I would get rid of that if I was a developer or or I mean I'm sorry, put it in the options menu. Oh, nice. Hey, I wish there was a sound there for when I jump and grab a ledge. Let's try again.

kind of wish his head was bigger. For some reason, his head feels too small to me. Graphics look incredible. Very nice. I like that the grass moves. Very good. Oh, okay. Okay, let's keep figuring out what's going on here. What's this? So, the game feels a little bit um uh static and flat. Now, it doesn't mean you have to make every element in your game interactable, but those first five minutes, you want it to be very, very dynamic. So, if I

jumped into that, I want to hear animation's awesome though. Check that out. Grass feels great. Hold jump to jump higher. Okay, we got a checkpoint. New journal entry. Fraglets. Shy creatures fond of swamps and baggy bogggy water. All right. I wish there was a sound here. Guys, I know you're think you think I'm being nitpicky. That stuff is so valuable. Even pause menu.

That stuff is so important. Heed the call. Set out on your journey. Follow the path of the light. Path to the light. So, we're getting uh journey vibes. We're getting I don't know. Am I allowed to say it? Thomas Brush vibes. I like it. Great sun shafts here. I'm I am feeling like this is unreal, but I could be wrong. I feel like this is unreal, though. Whoa. Cool. Hello. [Music] New journal entry. Marula

semi mythic. Glimpsed only rarely, perhaps once a decade. Subject to many stories. That's fun. Oh man, that stuff is so important, guys. All you got to do is attach an audio clip to the menu when it activates and then do play on awake and it plays a sound. Uhoh. Yeah, we have just sound issues. I would say this game feels very silent, but um I want to hear moss on my feet, man. I want to smack that little shiny noggin right there. And I want to hear a jump sound there. Yeah, I would say sound is the our our worst enemy for this game. The

game is awesome, though. It feels incredible. It's very well done. Very very well done. I would definitely say that this developer has Jonas Monk or Yonas Monk. I'm not sure how to say it. This uh this individual has talent for sure. No is my name and I ride the turtles back. [Music] Great music. This game is so mysterious that I don't need a setup. I'm serious. So that that the sound of my staff is a little weak. Sound design is the the

worst per uh the the lowest grade for this game. Everything else is great. The sound design is really rough. It's not really rough. The sound design is the worst part. So like when he raises his staff, it needs to be so you want to hear every movement. But when he raises it, you notice it's silent. There's no there's nothing. Also, I want to hear this guy's voice. Something like that, right? We want to hear all the nitty-gritty sounds. Hey buddy. Hello Pyets. How are you? Or Poder. I'm going to go on an adventure now.

Yeah. [Music] Oh, don't drown myself again. That felt a little unfair to be honest with you. Oh my word, guys. As good as the music is, can you imagine this with some Hollow Night music like Green Path? Oh, do I do it? Do I do it? So, like this soaring orchestral almost like it's a film. It's beautiful, but it doesn't necessarily drive me and and make me want to keep playing. Um whereas a a song like Green Path from the Hollow Knights, obviously, you know, good luck ever getting a song as good as Christopher Lens, but like something like this.

Listen, hopefully the music isn't conflicting. I just can't mute the music. [Music] [Music] [Music] So it drives you, right? Whereas the the music currently playing is beautiful, of course, but um here I'll turn the sound up. So this is like kind of Han Zimmerish. Great for film, but for a game I feel like we need like a something like

[Music] something like that. But this is sort of just this slow kind of sleepy. So I would say the music is beautiful, but man, I don't know if it's fitting the game. That's just my opinion. It's very subjective. Hello. Thank you for the gems. This is obviously a very good game. If anyone's curious what my thoughts are, it's very good. I'd get rid of the specular. That's just me. I would get rid of all the specular if I'm if if we're going to use tune shading and we're not going to use Look at all this interactivity. I freaking love that stuff, man.

That's great. [Music] No. Yes. It's not necessarily more layers to the music. Look, in fact, I would argue that that games like this, they have a delicate look. I know a little bit about these kind of games because this is kind of what my old games used to look like. Not 3D, but like this 2D vibe or this sort of tuny simplistic vibe. You don't want too many layers necessarily, but you do want a this sort of arpeggiated rhythm. [Music] And it's kind of sneaky that I mean we could I could show you what I mean here. Um I wonder if uh any of my songs would actually work with this game. It probably would. Just FYI. Let's take a look here. If we open it up, let's say Never Song. Let's listen to Neverwood Cemetery. [Music]

here. There we go. [Music] So, this is more of like a cave level, but this is kind of if it were me, this is the kind of music I would have. [Music] Yep. [Music] I need to get back to this style of game. I need to make another game like this. I'm feeling very inspired. [Music] This is a great song. Who wrote this? Um, so yeah, so far so good. This game

feels awesome. Gather more energy. Oh, got it. Hello. [Music] What's this? Oh, he prays. Okay. Okay. Come on. Whoa. Cool. Guys, I think you should know that 90% of what I've said in the live stream for

this game is all opinion. I think it's a great game, though. I don't honestly I don't think anything needs to change. I think the sound is a little the sound could use some work, but um yeah, his hair looks like it's a bone. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It's a toal to. Did you see that? It's a toal. Oh, you got my brain gems. Oh, here is my brain gems. Yeah, I wish there was rhythmic music. Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't. Wait, what?

[Music] Those definitely need to wiggle. And I want to cut those so bad. Yeah, UI is good. Actually, I would say all of this game is solid. It's a solid title. [Music] So, I guess you need to jump on that quicker. [Music] Now, okay, the coyote time is kind of rough. Oh, listen to that piano.

A little bit of rhythm would be would go so far here. Oh, [Music] [Music] yeah. Do you know what this game makes me think about? How I need to make a game like this again. I need to get done with Twisted Tower and move on.

Yeah. Okay. I'm running. What is that? I seem to be alone on my way. Still I leave these messages behind for those who may wish to follow. For myself, for my memories. If only this endless rain would stop. What? So there's like storytelling there, but it's super abstract. This is great. One of the big things that I I like to try and do with with my

art styles, a priority for me is time. Time of day. Uh I think time of day is super duper important to communicate with visuals. And if if if people can't guess some kind of relative time like noon, evening, morning, I I that always bothers me. I can't quite figure out the time here. It kind of feels like 11:00 a.m., but it kind of feels like 8:00 p.m. or like 700 p.m. I don't know. So, as beautiful as it is, I do wish that I could kind of figure out like what's the time, you know? Also, again, with sound, another thing to keep in mind, guys, is this is so easy to do and but so many so many game developers forget this. Um if we open up let me open let me show you something guys. Uh bog ambience

bo and ambience is so important. Give me just a sec here guys. So sound like this. It might be a little loud but I'm trying to show show you kind of what you can do. Wow. It's like alive now. [Music] Yeah, sound could make this game twice as good. Awesome. Very, very good. Great game, honestly. So, let's go ahead and um let's go ahead and make a vote here,

guys. We're going to do a vote. Let me take a look and see what our games were. Um, yeah, sound is sound is your best friend. Easy, easy, easy. It's the easiest thing to add to your game, at least for me. Um, which game will get the best I'm writing the poll. Which game will get the best score on Steam? Uh, what what were the games we had? Omno, that was just because I'm going to some of you might forget. That's that um boy with scarf game. Uh, then there is dude, where's my beer? And then the third option was slimy. So before we do that guys, I'm going to shill one more time. Um, in all seriousness though, in all seriousness though, if you if you want to master 2D art, and it for those of you who are

curious, if you're like, well, what what is why should I listen to this guy? Um, this is my game Never Song. So this is all this is 2D art that I did. Um, and then also pinstripe. This is pinstripe. Um, again, 2D art done that I that 2D art that I've done. Bro, I saw someone's chat on the screen and it was yellow. I thought that it was a mixed review and my heart stopped. Okay, we're good. We're very positive. Thank god. We're almost at 2,000 reviews. That's cool. Um, but yeah, I'm a 2D artist. Also, if you want to learn from the developer, that's me. and also um Felipe for my third game, Twisted Tower. If you want to learn how to do 3D art, the 3D art course is below and it's totally free if you enroll in the 2D art course. So, you can get the 2D art course and the 3D art course completely free. Uh you can get the 2D art course

for 25% off and then the 3D course completely free, but only for the next day or so. I extended it from yesterday. Um so, check it out below. see if it's something you're interested in. Um, you're going to learn everything that I've learned in the last, I don't know, 15 years of doing game art. Um, so yeah, check it out. Okay, let's go ahead and post this poll. You guys ready? Let's post this poll. See which game is going to do the best on Steam. I'm going to Here's what I'm going to do just to prove I I I'm not going to have it on my screen. I want to start the poll and I'm going to wait. Oh, I can see it. I was just gonna say, well, I like to make a prediction. So, my prediction is going to be Omno 90%. Then 7% the slime game and then 3% the Where's

My Beer game. That's my my prediction. Was I really featured by Time? It does sound like a lie, doesn't it? Who is this He all the He's These YouTubers, all they ever do is lie and sell courses. No. Yeah, it was featured by Time magazine. Here's here's the article right here. Pitstripe is a harrowing trip through hell you have to play. Yeah, my games have been featured all over the place. And then also I think Rolling Stone did a Thomas Brush feature for some reason back when I was younger. You know, here we go. Glickel. So Glickel, which was owned by Rolling Stone. Oh, too bad the the article got destroyed. This was a post

from Armor Games in 2017, which was my which is my publisher. Glick of Rolling Stone magazine talked with Thomas Brush about his indie game about the afterlife. Oh, too bad. That's gone. Let's see. Rolling Stone also maybe did one about Never Song. I'm not sure. But yeah, I guess I can't say that anymore because it's gone. But yeah, you can see that it is there. Meet the oneman team behind the indie hit pinstripe. And that's rollingstone.com. So, I'm just kind of proving trying to prove myself here. Um, okay. You guys ready to take a look at these uh the final score? Let us take a look, ladies and gentlemen. Um, let's see here. So, we officially have 80% going to Omno.

We have 10% going to dude, Where's My Beer? And 10% going to Slimy. Uh, what is it? Why is it that Omno did well? Overwhelmingly. So, I like to do this. I like to try and figure out why a game is doing well. I think the reason Omno is doing well is three things. It's unique. It's unique. It just looks different. Is the gameplay unique? Heck no. That game play is very generic. But man, you can get away with a really strong atmosphere and a unique vibe. Number two, art style is great. Number three, it's emotional. it. For some reason, you feel like you're soaring when you play that game and there's just a a spiritual connection that you have something. There's some kind of spiritual connection. So, yeah, absolutely. A6 Giddy World, great world,

great vibe and ambience. Yep, that's exactly it. Um Henry says, "I think the fact that it's 3D gave it a big leg up." Yeah, I think so. Probably. Man, guys, I'm nervous though, you know, because I'm finishing up my game Twisted Tower. three, four years of development, I can't even remember. And I've played that game so many times that none of it's exciting to me. The exploration, the the vibes, the atmosphere, the spookiness, all of that's gone. I'm just playing what feels like a husk of a game. Has anyone felt that way? By the way, when you're making your games, you just like look at it and you're like, I know everything about this world. Nothing is mysterious to me. It's just boring. Um, that's how I feel right now. I just played Twisted Tower like 80% of the game today. And I was just like, so it looks like Slimy is winning, which that makes sense. And that's not because, look, honestly, guys, none of

these games were bad. Were they? None of them were bad. Um, so who to to the developer of Dude Wears My Beer, who's watching, right? Hopefully you're watching now at some point just so you can get some feedback. It's not a bad game. It's just Omno. It It's just more viable. Uh Slimy Slimy, I wouldn't say Slimy is viable commercially unless it just has this big break for some reason and there's a streamer who just loves that kind of game. Omno is viable. Omno, in my opinion, is something like a $500,000 to a million dollars in revenue. Let's double check and see. It's It's been out. So, let's double check and see if I'm right. Um, yep. And I may have seen the review count, so that might me estimating that is

probably a little bit bit disingenuous. I can't remember if I've seen the review count in the past, but looking at judging from these reviews, we're looking at somewhere around, you know, $500,000 if this is a $15 game. Let's see. 20. Dang. So, overall, we're looking at around a 91%. That's awesome. Seriously. Um, so yeah, we're looking at something like $500,000 to a million. Now, we there's also Switch, Xbox, PlayStation. So, yeah, I could be wrong, but that's my estimation of how much this game is made. Probably something like 600. Um, so yeah. Yeah. All right, guys. Check out the course below. See if it's something you're interested in. Maybe I'll do a live stream tomorrow.