I have resigned from my position at The Escapist/Gamurs in response to the treatment of my collogues. I love this team and will stand by them. I personally own the license to Design Delve and it WILL be continuing! Where is the question.. i guess we'll find out. Love you guys <3
I had always struggled to get people to click on my series when i was at The Escapist but the outpouring of support from the Second Wind community who have given my show a chance and said they loved it has literally blown me away 🤯 I love this community. Thank you so much ♥️
I'm very excited to announce the name of our next adventure, Second Wind (
@SecondWindGroup
).
@YahtzeeCroshaw
and I will be live tomorrow at 11 AM CT to discuss our plans, where to support and when the first videos will drop.
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Wouldn’t be here today without Nick, he’s helped me reach heights as a content creator I didn’t think were possible and even when my numbers were low he still believed in me despite corporate pushback. Can’t wait to see what the future brings our amazing team. Love ya broski ✊
Just wanna give a quick shout out to
@JM8andLudo
as I've been crunching some numbers this morning.
Found his videos in a random Reddit post and knew right away that he was super talented and just needed a platform to help him with branding and reach.
Really proud of him.
Can we go ONE day without the corpo’s ruining the lives of thousands of artists that, mind you, made them the money they sleep on. In the wise words of Abraham Lincoln “GET TEH FUCK”
I don't know if this will make anyone as emotional as it did me, but no part of the process of putting together next week's first Fully Ramblomatic episode required the use of Windows Movie Maker.
Re-introducing Design Delve, hosted by
@JM8andLudo
.
An all-new episode premieres on Second Wind on Thursday, November 16th at Noon ET!
Art by
@CheshireIlustra
!
A new episode of Design Delve is now available in which
@JM8andLudo
explains how to irresponsibly make an asset flip.
Not inspired by recent events or anything!
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This week on Design Delve,
@JM8andLudo
rank all of the From Software souls games' healing systems.
Watch:
Presented by Let Bions Be Bygones (
@BohemianPulp
).
A brand-new episode of Design Delve has just dropped from
@JM8andLudo
, taking a look at what might just be the worst puzzle design of all-time...
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As someone who has had the pleasure to play this already, it is a GEM. Yahtzee’s style, strengths and comedy shine through in every inch of its world making each gameplay interaction a treat. Strongly recommend a wishlist 🦐
So,
@MTNDEWGaming
.
You’ve basically been the fuel for me to get
@SecondWindGroup
up and running this week.
(I’m healthy, I stick to one a day before anyone worries about me 😂)
Interested in partnering with us?
Could be fun!
The ultra-talented
@JavedLSterritt
did great work giving
@JM8andLudo
's Design Delve branding a fresh coat of paint!
Check out the new logo, with a new episode dropping tomorrow!
We've re-released the
@seaofstarsgame
episode of Design Delve on Second Wind!
This episode takes a look at the design of underwater temples in games with Sea of Stars Creative Director, Thierry Boulanger and
@JM8andLudo
!
Sometimes I find it hard to work because Ludo is just chillin, huggin her toy dog. How could she do this to me? If this weeks episode is late it’s because she’s getting fuss.
15 years of working in games media to get to this moment.
The excitement around what we're doing with
@SecondWindGroup
has me the happiest I've ever felt in my life.
We're going to make you all proud and really bring something fresh and exciting to games / entertainment.
Say hello to the pets of Second Wind as we celebrate 300,000 subscribers as we head into our second week!
We're building something incredible here and we're glad to have you all along for the journey!
So great to see more of our shows finally get the attention they truly deserved.
Proud of
@JM8andLudo
and over the moon more people will finally tune into this fantastic show.
Are invincibility frames holding FromSoftware back?
@JM8andLudo
finished Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, and this week's episode of Design Delve digs into that very question.
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Such a surreal experience at GDC. First time meeting devs I’ve known online for years, first time being recognised by fans of Design Delve. This entire trip somehow made me even MORE excited for what we have in store for all of you from Second Wind. Love this community 💕 🏂
This week's episode of Design Delve is now available, with
@JM8andLudo
discussing how games have gotten so pretty that it's actually making his job as a level designer more difficult.
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Presented by
@MyFamiliarRPG
.
Introducing Fully Ramblomatic, the brand new review show from
@YahtzeeCroshaw
!
Premieres on Second Wind on Wednesday, November 15th at Noon ET.
Branding done by
@JavedLSterritt
. New music theme by
@JamesElseyMusic
.
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Back in March we attended GDC 2024.
Join
@YahtzeeCroshaw
and
@JM8andLudo
as they take you on a little adventure through GDC and the games they checked out!
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What a great way to start off the new year as we have officially passed 400,000 subscribers!
We've also just turned-on Annual Memberships on Patreon with a 10% discount if you'd like to support our work!
Onto 500,000!
New episode of Design Delve out from
@JM8andLudo
taking a look back at the horror design of Alien: Isolation!
You may have seen this episode previously, but there's some minor changes you may want to pay attention to...
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A new episode of Design Delve is now available from
@JM8andLudo
!
This week we're looking at the design of looter shooters, and why so many of these games still don't understand the appeal of loot.
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So excited to start the Dev Heads podcast!
Such a breadth of experience between us in education, indie, double and triple A. The guests we have interested in joining are some of my hero’s and the amount of KNOWLEDGE we can squeeze out of their brain boxes is gunna be NUTS! 🧠🦐
This week's episode of Design Delve is now available, with
@JM8andLudo
discussing the use of health bars in games and if they're actively making games worse.
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Presented by Death Trick Double Blind (
@DT_DoubleBlind
), out on Steam and Switch Mar 14th
On my way to Poland for a press event. First time doing one of these things solo. What’s a good opening line for me to spew to all the other “Media, Journo, SCUM”?
Make it classy I wanna leave an impression.
Adventure is Nigh is back!
Join us in 15 minutes for the re-premiere of Season 3 of the show. Even if you're not a fan of D&D, we highly suggest giving AiN a go!
It's edited down, animated, has fantastic storytelling and it's got all the comedy you can handle.
Who's gunna be picking up one of these Limited Run Design Delve Founder shirts? 🧙♀️Wanna see pics if you do!! P.s More Design Delve merch on the way we're just re-designing the logo <3
Really looking forward to the next Design Delve. SUPER special guest on the episode that’s from one of my favourite games recently. Can’t wait to share it with you all 👹
This was meant to be a "remaster" but tbh i rewrote the entire thing and added 4 more minutes to the run time so its basically brand new xD To support us going ham on simple tasks in the future consider checking out our patreon
Every little helps <3
Got into a fight last night with some dude named “Grifloth” over the state of DEI in games. He lost but suddenly the sun went out and now I have this strange mark on my neck. Is this a hate symbol or something? Who casually carries a branding iron around anywho?
Dusting off this old thing...
As of today I am no longer employed at The Escapist / Gamurs. I'm proud of the amazing shows that we produced, but I'm MORE proud of our commitment to stick together through all this. Please consider following us here:
Come join us on Saturday, November 11th for the official
@SecondWindGroup
launch party stream!
Fun party games, giveaways, and just good times.
Want to sponsor or provide some game codes for giveaways?
Email: nickjcal242
@gmail
.com!
Toddling away making Design Delve with Ludo in our own little world, only to open Twitter to see our colleagues and close friends in the industry being harassed over blatant conspiracies. Peeps just looking for shit to get mad about so they can pretend they have a personality 🥴
We're just getting started!
Semi-Ramblomatic, Chronicle (The Stuff of Legends 2.0), New show from Darren Mooney, 3MR 2.0 and more are on the way!
Your support through Patreon has been utterly mind-blowing and we're going to make every dollar you support us with worth it.
Next episode of Design Delve is on Shadow of the Erdtree. Not talking about its difficulty spike or anything but instead diving into one simple mechanic that has potentially been holding back the series for years and how Fromsoft may be shifting focus... See you Friday 👹
Both a Design Delve AND the first episode of Dev Heads came out of the same day?! Go check them out gang because I’ll tell you what, my mind be mush. 🦐
Amazing opportunity to get a chance to sit down with some of the team from
@CDPROJEKTRED
to discuss their rise from the ashes. What a wonderful bunch of people.
Very excited to share that in our first six months of operation we have surpassed 25,000,000 video views on YouTube!
Great milestone to cap off an incredible first six months.
Was a pleasure to have
@Mortdog
on for this episode of Design Delve. TFT is one of my favourite games and it was eye opening to peer behind the curtain on how it’s balanced. Somehow even more chaotic than I thought 👹
This week's Design Delve episode is now available with
@JM8andLudo
and
@Mortdog
exploring why it's so hard to balance multiplayer games.
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Presented by Let Bions Be Bygones (
@BohemianPulp
).
@mossbag69
You have no idea how much this means to me, boss. I'm a huge fan of your content, thank you so much for sharing mine :D You've made my year!
I have literally thrown hands with a badger and I’ll do it again. Was a wonderful time hanging out with the OSP crew 💕 looking forward to more in the future!
On this episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast: We're joined by
@JM8andLudo
to discuss his ultimate arch-enemy... Badgers.
(The OSPodcast is available on all Podcast platforms!)
-B
Worked really hard on this new format, next episode is a HUGE interview with the
@seaofstarsgame
game director so keep an eye out in a couple weeks for that!!
Excited to share that the first episode of our rebooted Design Delve series is now available for everyone on The Escapist!
@DesignDelve
and I took the show back to the drawing board to make it a bit more unique and fun, adapting the ZP art style to another new format!
And that's a wrap on our first ever charity stream on Second Wind!
After 12 hours, together with the community we raised $12,159.69 (nice) for
@AbleGamers
!
Thanks to everyone that stopped by and donated!
This week's episode of Design Delve is now available with
@JM8andLudo
interviewing
@Billy_Basso
, the developer of Animal Well about how he designed the game's many secrets!
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Presented by
@NeonDoctrine
and My Lovely Empress.
Very excited to announce Dev Heads, a new every other week podcast coming to Second Wind featuring
@JM8andLudo
, Tina Sanchez (
@Teanah
) and Mike Tsarouhas (
@mikee_vo
).
A completely
#gamedev
hosted podcast with experience ranging from indie all the way to AAA!
Cont.
Javed is one of the most talented people I've ever had the pleasure of working with. I am SOOOO ready for the Design Delve logo re-imagining 🧙♀️what a wizard.
Could never have predicted how this year was gonna end.
What started off as a pretty mild year creatively ended with a bang when
@SecondWindGroup
launched with a whole new slate of shows. Had the chance to work on branding for the whole suite.
(Design Delve by
@MrYomarz
)
I’m at Heathrow waiting for my flight to San Francisco for GDC and playing the people watching game of “Are they a game dev?”
So far I have a suspicion that every single person at terminal 2 might be a dev in disguise…
Set a reminder for the first episode of DEV HEADS tomorrow 🤌🏻 so excited to be a host for this and we’ve got some BIG things planned! Watch this space. Literally. Watch it tomorrow.
TOMORROW we launch our brand-new Dev Heads Podcast featuring
@JM8andLudo
,
@Teanah
and
@mikee_vo
!
A completely game dev hosted podcast featuring experiences ranging from the indiest of indie all the way to Apex Legends!
Set a reminder:
You're all invited to our six-month celebration event for Second Wind on May 30th LIVE on YouTube.
New announcements, teasers for upcoming things, raffling off some game consoles, giving away a ton of game codes, releasing a new set of merch and more!
@Harlack
Its takes a lot to look our demons in the face every single day. ESPECIALLY when times get tough and it shows such an insane amount of strength that I wish I had a percentage of.
Proud to call you my friend and to be one of those Idiots along side you brother 💕
Why do devs INSIST on putting bullshit affixes onto the end of their titles? They have these snappy and memorable titles and then just add a bunch of nonsense to it.
Snappy Title: Flying Song of the Grinch Wind Reduxe Prime
This can’t be helping with marketing? Can it? Shit..
Just wanted to introduce you guys & gals to the latest edition to my family for those who haven’t met her yet on stream. This is Ludo! I hope you look forward to seeing lots more upd8s about this angel. Also Hey! I never usually tweet but that’s about to change.
If any of you wonderful dev lot are gunna be at GDC I’d love to meet up and potentially make a Design Delve episode with you 😁 if you have ideas or just wanna hang my DMs are open!!
The Second Wind team is heading to GDC in March!
We're taking
@YahtzeeCroshaw
,
@JM8andLudo
and myself to check out a variety of games, do some interviews and we'll do our usual round-up diary videos at the end of each day!
Email is in bio if you have cool stuff to show us!
The latest Anatomy video is now available, taking a look at one of my favorites from last year, Returnal.
@JM8GameDesign
breaks down the rise and fall of the game's atmospheric design.
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Man, we've got some really cool potential partnerships in the works that are both beneficial monetarily for us AND super cool creatively that our community is gonna be all over if they go through.
The support lately has been insane. The passion in the gaming sphere is what made me take a risk a year ago and take another one this year.
I'd gladly work 80 hours like this over 40 doing anything else.
Was a big decision that took me and Nick a while to devise the right way to do it but it’s wonderful to see it’s made a positive impact while also allowing me to cover a wider range of interesting design topics! Big ups to Nick for letting me experiment to find what works best 💕
Did a little branding update and a slight concept change on Anatomy (now Design Delve) with JM8 (
@DesignDelve
) and the numbers are looking great.
Don't be afraid to pivot your content when necessary!
In just a minute,
@JM8andLudo
and I are going live with some Rainbow Six Siege for a "we just decided to stream" on Twitch.
We'll be on the main Second Wind Twitch channel som come hangout over there!
Really hope this game runs for tonight’s stream. Been trying to play for two evenings straight and only got into a handful of matches successfully. Guess we’ll see 🤞
We're dropping the "Early Access" model for our content due to the amount of support we've already received, and to not segment our audience.
We've updated the $5 tier on Patreon to include Ad-Free Podcasts and Written Columns from various Second Wind writers instead!
Only 3 more days left on the Adventure is Nigh! x Red Dragon Inn wombo combo board game! if you kickstart it I will personally send you a picture of Ludo. (just dm me your receipt for Ludo pics)