How to Make Games

[@bigcman120]

Always nice to see someone encouraging aspiring game makers. Patiently awaiting progress on your personal project. As far as design goes, Game Designers typically are meant to answer a lot of the foundational questions of a game; "How do I play?" "What game is this like?" "How should this section feel?" etc. with the art and code specifications resulting from answering those questions in extreme detail. The Fallout Devs have released some of the Game Design Documents for the older titles and they're worth looking through just to see how much planning can go into a project before code is even written.

[@VirtualDreamers]

It's my pleasure! Update on the game should be coming up on June 24th if all goes well. I'm working on a major content push right now and it's turned into a major video project into itself (7 games in 1 week). Hope is to show just how much can be produced by recognizing limitations in the design process and by learning from what has been done before. Design wise, your explanation is pretty spot on. I see way too many people thinking game design is just coming up with an idea when really, it's far more about refining ideas to be real products. In my game's case, the core idea of "VR Dating Sim RPG about overcoming yourself" requires breaking down each element and asking important questions about how each system should interplay. "Why are we combining these 3 elements together? How can we make them synergize into something greater than their parts?" These kinds of Questions are way more useful than random ideas and far more often help towards making a game better in the long run. Hopefully, the way I answered these questions will come through in the upcoming videos (game will likely be almost unrecognizable from it's April appearance by late July) I spend FAR more time on my iPad notes app than I do in Visual Studio so I can totally see how the Fallout Devs would have done likewise in their efforts. It's just easier to design things on paper/by sketching it out than it is in the editor. I burned a lot of time last month by doing that exact thing and didn't end up getting past it till I deleted most of what I had done, went to the iPad drawing board, and sketched out my solution there before coming back to the code.

[@VirtualDreamers]

Video releases are going to be a bit different from the norm for the next week. Working on making 7 VR games over the course of the next week so that's going to be eating a chunk into my video work time 😅. Should have a fun story to tell by the end of it though.

[@cherubini15]

Gotta love the last clip of the tip number 2 🥴

[@VirtualDreamers]

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[@robertarcher5833]

Facinating, I didn't expect this kind of video to appear here. I am enjoying this.

[@VirtualDreamers]

Hoping to try out new topics and types of videos on the channel since I've kind of covered the usual fair pretty thoroughly at this point 😂. Since I'm working on a game myself, I'll probably be covering game development a lot more often. Next game dev type video should be coming up on 6/24 after I finish the 1 week challenge I set for myself of developing 7 VR games in 1 week (they'll all be within my main game 😅)

[@garbagecans9553]

I love it that you are making videos again:). Keep it up! :)

[@VirtualDreamers]

I'm glad you're enjoying the videos! Plan is to have 3 videos a week for the foreseeable future 😁

[@SouthHill_]

4:14 Ha ha ha ha... HAHHAHAHA Ahhh... Heh.

[@VirtualDreamers]

Had to show some pride! That's our first game of many South😆. Admittedly, I would want to meet the original Extra Credits crew just to tell them: "You guys just got a lucky guess 😬!"

[@jasontang9192]

So you are making game?

[@VirtualDreamers]

Indeed 😁. Started work at the beginning of March. Hoping to do another update video in a few days. Working on something special for it though 😅 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mp_NcneBrMhqrtU&ab_channel=VirtualDreamers

[@FadyMC]

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