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Game Maker's Toolkit

3 months

The Mind Over Magnet demo is now available on Steam! Please give it a go and add it to your wishlist. Any feedback, bugs or issues - my DMs are open.

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7 years

I finally figured out what Blake Shelton was reacting to in that "sexiest man alive" video

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6 years

Whoever coded the car avoidance AI on these sheep deserves a raise

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You: Video games won’t sell unless they’re filled with half naked women Nintendo, an intellectual:

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Gaming as a kid: Hell yeah, this game has 200 hours of content! This is amazing! Gaming as an adult: Fuck yes, this game can be completed in just 5 hours! This is amazing!

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3 years

A reminder that you’re not a true FromSoft fan if you use - Cheesing - Spirit Ashes - Co-op summoning - Magic - Fast travel - Swords - Levelling up - Armour - A controller - A television - Electricity

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4 years

I’m so sorry for doing this

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6 years

I don’t know why I made this

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6 years

game design

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6 years

Do it, you cowards

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7 years

Sony: “we have high fidelity torture porn and domestic violence” Nintendo: “we put a tiny hat on a dog and the dog does tricks”

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5 years

You know those bits in games where you have to slowly squeeze through a tight gap so the next bit of the level can stream in? Those are literally load-bearing walls.

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1 year

This is going to be very interesting to see in 2024...

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These are the game engines that people used to make 6835 game jam games, for GMTK Game Jam 2023. Congrats to @godotengine for passing 1000 games!

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7 years

EA: We couldn’t have cosmetic microtransactions in Battlefront 2 because the Star Wars canon is precious and video games must never mess with it Meanwhile...

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6 years

Last night’s Nintendo Direct was intense

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3 years

I can’t believe Microsoft just bought Tony Hawk’s mum and dad

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5 years

Was playing Metro: Exodus, and two enemies started the same death animation, at the same time…

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3 years

Just to make my stance clear: multiple companies have approached me with the idea of selling GMTK videos as NFTs. I’ve always said no - the whole thing seems utterly pointless, ecologically damaging, and riddled with scammers. I have less than zero interest in participating.

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4 years

Sometimes it can feel like the thing you're working on is complete and utter crap. These are four things you should remember, to remind you why you're not a good judge of character of your own work.

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8 years

Take me down to the Parallax City where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

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6 years

Only if there was a good narrative reason for her to be straight. Developers shouldn’t feel the need to shoehorn in straight characters just to tick diversity boxes.

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6 years

What if Ellie from The Last of Us Was Straight?

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4 years

Huh, weird timing! This sucks - the whole games industry is built on remixing, reimagining, and improving ideas, mechanics, and systems.

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4 years

WB Interactive has finally secured the patent to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War's signature Nemesis system after multiple failed attempts.

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6 years

It’s fantastic to see all of this queer representation at E3

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3 years

You know, I'm something of a collector. What do I collect? Why, the images that publishers tweet when they delay their games, of course.

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6 years

Imagine if Nintendo made a hyper realistic remake of Super Mario Bros, but it was still pixel art

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4 years

So I guess that time Peter Molyneux started crying during an interview is no longer my strangest interaction with a game developer

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3 years

Placing markers on my map to highlight bosses I don't feel strong enough to fight yet

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7 years

what the FUCK you guys how can young sheldon and old sheldon be in the same place at the same time what thE FUCk

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5 years

Absolutely chuffed to bits to let you know that I asked my best friend to marry me, and she said yes!

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4 years

Turns out money can't buy compassion, kindness, or - in this instance - a backbone. Byeeee

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4 years

Just got this in the post! An amazing way to finish off a horrible year. (Best part was the UPS man seeing the YouTube logo on the box and asking how many subscribers this was for!)

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4 years

Now he's back, I guess I can be political again. So, black lives matter. Crash Bandicoot is a war criminal. America, please vote for Biden this week. Etc etc.

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6 years

You: Spider-Man on PS4 is the best Spidey game ever! Me: In The Amazing Spider-Man on Amiga, 1/5th of the screen is taken up by a picture of Spider-Man that slowly turns into a skeleton as you take damage.

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7 years

Every Rick and Morty t-shirt is worse than the one before it

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4 years

I haven't spoken about the Notch situation because it's stupid and boring and childish, but I just want to clear some things up.

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6 years

The five stages of making a thing: 1) I’ve got an idea, and it’s going to be amazing! 2) This isn’t quite as good as I was imagining… 3) Oh my god I hate it 4) Let’s just get this finished so I can make something new 5) I’ve got an idea, and it’s going to be amazing!

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4 years

Woah now, let’s not aim too high, people

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14 days

These are the game engines that people used to make 7,711 game jam games, for GMTK Game Jam 2024. Congrats to @godotengine for the absolutely massive jump from last year!

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11 months

They'll let any old reprobate into EDGE magazine these days...

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7 years

To mark the closure of Dead Space creator Visceral Games, I would like to highlight this detailed animation for the world’s smallest ladder

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7 years

Can we take a second to appreciate how colourful, vibrant, and all together wonderful Nintendo's box art is on the Switch

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3 years

The time between companies announcing and cancelling their misguided NFT projects is getting so short, we’ll soon see a company reveal and then apologise and scrap their NFT roll-out within the exact same tweet

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1 year

Probably the worst thing I've done

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4 years

I’m so sorry for doing this

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2 years

I feel like there’s a very specific generation of people who were convinced that System of a Down wrote a song about The Legend of Zelda, which they exclusively distributed on Limewire.

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2 years

Introducing the Platformer Toolkit - a video essay that you can PLAY! Play it in your browser, on download on Windows or Mac, for free -

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4 years

Most game designers: We spent 2 years crafting a perfect tutorial that subtly teaches all the mechanics the player will need to know Demon's Souls: So we call this the Hint Heap

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6 years

Almost 4 years to the date I uploaded the first episode of Game Maker’s Toolkit, and I’ve just hit an enormous milestone. Thank you so much!

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3 months

AVGN’s first video was released in 2004, talking about the 1988 NES game Castlevania II - at the time, a 16 year old game. If AVGN uploaded his first video today and wanted to talk about a 16 year old game, it would be something from 2008, like Sonic Unleashed

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6 years

Game developers: if you’re ever feeling unproductive, remember that Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka developed two of the most influential games ever, Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda, *at the same time* and oh wait this isn’t helping is it

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6 years

Stan Lee on politics in comics

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6 years

The Gamer Babies are at it again

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6 years

“When I was your age, everyone used this website called Twitter. We checked it all day, every day!” “Wow grandpa, everyone must have really loved it!” “Oh no, it was horrible. We mostly just talked about how much we hated Twitter”.

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6 years

Oh my god

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5 years

Trying to play Call of Duty and, god dammit, not again…

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6 years

4 years ago today, I uploaded the first episode of Game Maker’s Toolkit. The channel now has 100 videos, including Boss Keys, Designing for Disability, GMTK Game Jams and more. Thanks for your support - got so many more videos I want to make!

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4 years

Uh oh…

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6 years

2018 has been pretty excellent for accessibility in games. Soon, inaccessible games will be the outliers. (Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, God of War, Celeste)

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6 years

I want to start a museum dedicated to third party Wii peripherals

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7 years

When my nephew sees my amiibos he'll be like "Donkey Kong game" and I'll show him Tropical Freeze. "Samus game", I'll show him Metroid Prime. But then he hits me with "Waluigi game" and I'm like, kid, it's time you learned: life ain't fair.

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2 years

I just released a huge Unity tutorial on YouTube. It's designed for those who just want to get the basics, and then learn the rest themselves. It covers everything from installing the engine, to writing your first ever line of code, to building an exe. Hope it helps!

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6 years

That hasn’t stopped, *checks notes*, 99% of video games from putting in subtitles. Get it together, Activision.

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Spyro Reignited Trilogy’s Lack of Subtitles Explained: “There’s No Industry Standard for Subtitles”

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5 years

You gotta give it up for video game writers, who have to find a thousand different ways to say “I need you to go to a place on the map and kill all the enemies there”

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4 years

I only made this thread because some people thought I broke the deal. Nope, I was happy to take one for the team. But it was in vain because Notch is addicted to social media and doesn't care who he hurts or offends in his narcissistic grab for fame.

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6 years

Nice! Shadow of the Tomb Raider lets you independently select the combat, exploration, and puzzle difficulty - to get rid of visual cues and puzzle hints, without making the combat harder.

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7 years

If you'd have told me last week that Sonic was good now and Donald Trump is siding with nazis I'd have been like fuck off! Really? Sonic!?

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2 years

Thought I might be able to use Bing's new AI chatbot as a research assistant. For my first question it made up a quote, linked to a source that doesn't contain that quote, attributed it to ME, and then got moody when I questioned it. My job is safe for now.

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2 years

In the new God of War, characters have a nasty habit of telling you the solutions to puzzles and combat strategies. I'm curious to hear from devs in the AAA space - is this a necessary evil of making games for huge audiences? (DM if you'd like to share thoughts anon!)

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7 years

Taking nerd gatekeeping to a whole new level: picking on a four year old kid

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4 years

You guys are gonna need to come up with a new composition

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4 years

This is super cute - Gillette has made Animal Crossing outfits to match diverse skin types for female characters, like vitiligo, eczema, and prosthetics. A reminder that powerful customisation tools are great for inclusivity!

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4 years

I got a lot of shitty messages - threats in my Twitter DMs, spam in my YouTube comments (I had to filter the word "Notch"), angry edge-lords in my email. Though there were a few good exchanges…

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6 years

How long before someone completes Dark Souls with the Poké Ball controller

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6 years

Stuck on rails, getting a sneak peek at the world you're about to explore. Has any individual gaming sequence been as influential as Half-Life's tram ride intro?

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7 years

Never forget that Indigo Prophecy has a secret video where a 3D David Cage dances with the game’s female lead (who’s in her underwear)

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6 years

I like it when sci-fi games pick some random future date for their name, because eventually it will no long sound futuristic, and just sound hilariously dated

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3 years

I've installed a piece of hardware that speeds up compile times in Unity by 100%

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6 years

After all this arguing about genres, turns out there’s only one *true* Metroidvania

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3 years

These are all real video game characters

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7 years

Gamers in 2024: Look, I'm fine with in-game advertising, DLC, season passes, cosmetic micro-transactions, time-savers, pay-to-win, and loot boxes, but putting a slot machine lever on the side of every Xbox is just one step too far!

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6 years

give the metroid license to the hollow knight developers you cowards

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9 years

A YouTuber has a quiet realisation

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4 years

Getting very close!

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6 years

The manual for Elder Scrolls 2 (1996) came with a note telling players to not save scum because “you will never see some of the most interesting aspects of the game unless you play through your mistakes”

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6 years

Didn’t you just have, like, 250 people who are really good at making Walking Dead games

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6 years

Telltale says "potential partners" could finish The Walking Dead.

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7 years

Cuphead is full of cheeky references. I particularly like this nod to the ending of the cat boss fight from Batman & Robin

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6 years

In 2014 GMTK was a video. In 2018 it’s 3 video series, talks and lectures around the world, one of the biggest game jams, weekly streaming, a Discord community, an influence on game developers, and the best job in the world. Thank you so much.

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Back in August, Minecraft maker Notch asked me to "drop the politics". I said I would if he deleted his Twitter account (the dude has posted racist, transphobic, and homophobic tweets, plus QAnon junk and more. He's a bad role model for the young Minecraft audience and should go)

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8 years

What the electoral map would look like if only Ubisoft designers voted

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4 years

We’re generally only impressed by things we can’t do - things that are beyond our own skill set. So, by definition, we aren’t going to be that impressed by the things we create. The end user, however, is perfectly able to find your work impressive.

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3 years

I just got my first vaccine dose! Hooray! Eat shit, Covid!

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1 year

These are the game engines that people used to make 6835 game jam games, for GMTK Game Jam 2023. Congrats to @godotengine for passing 1000 games!

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And now you know what it’s like for people who use screen readers, when some PR company does its big announcement tweet as an image without alt text or a link to a blog post

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Spent ages wondering why a new microphone sounded so terrible, only to realise I’ve been speaking into the wrong side. Hi, I’m a professional video creator.

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6 years

Stormy Daniels compares Trump’s penis to Toad from Mario Kart and can someone please stop this planet I want to get off

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4 years

YouTube has renamed “Videos” to “Content” on the dashboard 🤢

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4 years

Whoever seeded the random name generator in Anno 1800 was having an absolute ball that day

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6 years

Assist Modes like in Mario Odyssey have so many potential uses: new gamers, kids (my 4 yo nephew beat Odyssey with it), gamers with disabilities. Would love it if Nintendo revealed how many people used the mode.

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6 years

My mom doesn’t play games except for mobile, she saw my Mario Odyssey box and said the colors were pretty. I created a new game in assisted mode, it helps a bunch, has arrows on ground so she’s not lost, quickly understood the controls without my help

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4 years

Best game you ever received for Christmas… go! Mine was Mario & Luigi... an absolute gem.

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1 year

I decided to change the rules on using AI for the jam. A number of programmers were hurt that I was banning AI art, but not AI code. The concerns levelled against AI art are also applicable to code. I'm sorry if you felt I was devaluing the work you do.

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