I PLAYED YOUR GAMES! | Feedback on Game Design. (Part 3)

[@DrunkGeko]

That teabag earring is so charming

[@JonasTyroller]

No, you are breathtaking.

[@keithparker5625]

@@JonasTyroller Whoa, calm down Keanu. lol

[@silasclausen8297]

And destructing XD

[@QUEEN_Donut]

It’s a earbag

[@Pilin34]

No

[@chaosordeal294]

DON'T back up your game regularly. Use Git to turn your development folder into a repository. Sync your repository to Github and you won't lose your files even if your computer is crushed in a bizarre steamroller accident. Git and Github are free. Tutorials to do all of this are all over KZbin and elsewhere. You won't have to make multiple copies of your project, you will be able to revive past versions, and you will never lose another file. In 2019, indies have the same tools the pros have, and great lot of them are free.

[@eugene719]

Wish there were more channels that did this

[@darltrash]

There is an spanish channel called "Guinxu", he reviews games from his subs mostly every day.

[@eugene719]

@@darltrash unfortunately I dont speak danish

[@JonasTyroller]

Only a matter of time. There is more than enough demand. :)

[@darltrash]

@@eugene719 Unfortunately, But you should check his channel, he haves some pretty good games

[@matheuscrepory7013]

There another one in Brazilian Portuguese, If i recall the channel is Amdre Young. He does it in comical approach, and he asks the subs to put some intentionally bad games in the pile, and god, they put A LOT, specially troll games.

[@salbertus2578]

Thanks for playing my game Darkness and a Crowd! Ill be sure to work on the confusing parts and simplifying the UI.

[@thomasi.4981]

From what I saw I agree with the feedback he had. Anything you can do to make it more immersive and maintain the atmosphere will really serve to make it awesome. UI is *the* main issue, so once you deal with that, the only real thing that is prominent is what he talked about toward the end where it feels like a long tutorial because you just go over a checklist of mechanics one after the other.

[@weihangkhoo1254]

Thanks Jonas ! I love your feedback and I will keep improving my game!

[@JonasTyroller]

Awesome. Do that. We need more epic Tower Defense games like yours.

[@shroomcraftgames]

thank you so much for playing our game moonlight maze we will take all the feedback and improve on it

[@JonasTyroller]

You're welcome. Thanks a lot for sending it in. Excellent thumbnail material. ;)

[@shroomcraftgames]

@@JonasTyroller anytime bro!

[@ridlr9299]

"vertical" (*horizontal*), "vertical" (*horizontal*), "vertical" (*horizontal*)

[@SyankaCreature]

oh

[@DawnosaurDev]

Thanks so much for playing my game Your channel is really inspirational to other game devs :)

[@JonasTyroller]

Thanks for submitting your game. :) Really enjoyed it. Keep at it.

[@bart3580]

Thanks for the feedback on Powerlust! I appreciate it! I haven't really thought about it before, but you're right, that last screen of the trailer looked kinda bad.

[@JonasTyroller]

Still pretty solid trailer, though. Did you have to do a lot of performance optimization to get Powerlust running on mobile?

[@bart3580]

@@JonasTyroller I did yeah, although it's still not perfect, especially on older phones. Will probably work on optimization from time to time. My secret hope is that when I finish the game no one will use slow/old phones ;D

[@achetillergames6911]

It's so nice of you to give other developers feedback (and attention) :)

[@JonasTyroller]

I'm trying.

[@andreamassa2176]

Thank you very much Jonas for testing my game. I've already started developing an improved version. And I will follow your valuable advice. Soon I will start a devlog in which I will be able to show progress and gather criticisms and suggestions. Thanks again!!

[@JonasTyroller]

Awesome. Looking forward to that. Good luck! :)

[@achilleus2009]

Hi! Everyone, who are developing a game, use github or other project version control. They are not hard to learn and can mostly be used with desktop applications. Make a habit of everytime you complete a feature, you push it to github. I guarentee that is better than lose months of progress due to corrupted files or broken ssd! Also I recommended keeping at least one "tutorial repository", where to keep all done tutorials and/or your playground tests with different features or game prototypes.

[@monishvyas2749]

Description is key to mobile game as game title and description can shot up your visibility in the app store. I would also suggest using keywords (Golden rule: using exactly 5 times) in description, title and short description as well.

[@JonasTyroller]

Thanks for the interesting insights. True, the description probably matters quite a bit for SEO. Didn't think about that.

[@mikaxms]

35:36 Wow that game looks amazing XD

[@JonasTyroller]

Ohh. Wow. You're right. :O

[@unitysparticlesystem]

One of the most attractive AI s I have ever seen

[@goldencookie5456]

Could you please review already very successful games, and dissect how and why they became so popular, and what kind of key components the creators used for the game? I think that would be very very interesting and I think people including me will learn a lot from it.

[@moocowp4970]

I'm a bit late to watching this vid and seeing this, but if you haven't watched it already, I recommend watching Game Maker's Toolkit, it's a channel which does deep dives into what good games do well (with the videos on particular topics).

[@stumbling]

The mushroom maze game totally needs to ditch the step limit and just have number of steps taken as your score.

[@sivyx22]

your step count is part of the puzzle.

[@picumtg5631]

"No people are interested in the non VR" Subway Surfers devs laughing in Monaco

[@bucketofgames5498]

so glad i found this series, actually pretty cool seeing other beginner devs

[@GunnarClovis]

I love all your videos, Jonas, (you're probably in my top ten favorite KZbinrs), but this series is always by far my favorite!

[@mikaxms]

RollerPlay = Subway Surfers + VR

[@Jess_stpierre]

I think it's great that you're trying out other people's games and giving feedback! I'm sure it's helping a lot of people!

[@BubbleAgain]

Huh... My game wasnt here. Guess i’ll just have to get higher luck for next time.

[@JonasTyroller]

Yes. I apologize. The amount of submissions is getting really high. Wish I could play more games. Hopefully next time. :)

[@handlol]

GG bro Better luck next time!

[@BillyMan]

While u r playing games and want to drink tea at the same time.... DO WHAT JONAS DID

[@gooseladdergames5860]

Thanks for playing our game DOUBLE INVASION!! Sorry you weren't able to get to the actual puzzles. We will fix the opening to be clearer on what you need to do. Our steam store page is finally up if you could add it to the description: store.steampowered.com/app/1128680/DOUBLE_INVASION/ Thanks again, Jonas!

[@mom0367]

Idk who made the final one but, it'd be a good idea to not show UI elements until they are needed, like the passive and special slots shouldn't show up until you have passive or special abilities, so people don't get overwhelmed.

[@PxlDev]

24:57 Says every gamer in the world

[@safi3968]

How to be a pro game developer: PUT TEABAGS INSIDE YOUR HEADPHONES LIKE THIS 1:37

[@chaosordeal294]

I'm trying to create my own game, but I can't get the teabag to stay in my headphones.

[@welton.king.v]

great video - I find a lot of inspiration in these people's games

[@donsanchodelapanza]

Ohhh I played Light Wanderer on my phone a while back, nice to come across it here, very cool game

[@zig8925]

love the teabag

[@JonasTyroller]

Yes. I got the best styles.

[@zig8925]

@@JonasTyroller you groovin

[@Rzorclw]

I legit just found you, and I love your channel :D This is such a good idea for a series.

[@JonasTyroller]

Very nice. Welcome to the club. :D

[@Rzorclw]

@@JonasTyroller :D

[@СвятийотецьПігідій]

Good advises. We need more videos like this.

[@DeepFriedOreoOffline]

"Ahahaha, I have foild your plan! You can't tea-bag me, I have tea-bagged myself!"

[@tobiasdodd9521]

Wow! Cosmos looks very nice, but with my glasses it kind of punched me in the gut right away. The glow makes me feel like my glasses are dirty and it took me time for my eyes to adjust.

[@cbergersmusic3379]

That’s true. Some games have too much blur/glow, and it’s ok to have glow effects on certain things but it seems like nearly everything in that game has glow.

[@sugar2000galaxy]

Man, must sucks getting a game project corrupted. Backing up a project is so important! Oh and my games didn't got showed :(

[@JonasTyroller]

Sorry to hear that. The amount of submissions is just really huge. Thanks a lot for sending it in, though. :)

[@sugar2000galaxy]

@@JonasTyroller it's fine. Including all the games submitted will probably take forever to record and edit.

[@jussivalter]

Last one was the best. It's my favourite definetly. Please make it complete :) And I love the game that reminds me classic dungeon keeper -game.

[@bigmistqke]

Would love to see another one of these!

[@MichoSchmidt]

Always fun the see others game, great videos like always!

[@chaosmastermind]

That dwarf game is very very Dungeon Keeper-y. But I like that about it. I love that game. It also reminds me of Evil Genius.

[@randominternetuser5123]

Your channel is so underrated :/

[@JonasTyroller]

No worries. I feel absolutely fairly treated by YT. Channel is growing. It just takes some time. :)

[@mr_h831]

In dev mobile games are actually quite common. I play a beta one myself. It's an idle clicker game. Or that's what it'd be called on PC anyway. Pretty neato game. As to why it's common, i can only guess it's because it helps for feedback. You can set the reviews for dev eyes only, when the game is in beta. So it's kinda like how you collect your data for your game you're making. :D

[@jcd9456]

I dont know if you have this series already but can you do a game analysis? Like how a particular Indi game was made.? Is it your thing or its GMTK's thing?

[@asciidude]

4:33, just realized he had a tea bag LOL

[@maurosanchez2524]

I thought about sending you my first game (I'm just starting) but it lacks music and I didn't have enough time to finish that, so I will be sending it to you the next time. Great earring!

[@maurosanchez2524]

Oh and next time maybe you can put a few seconds of the video showing a random selection so nobody gets bothered about you don't playing their game xD It's understandable that you can't you must have a really bunch of mails. Keep being great

[@danek9517]

Good vid, but I think you should pick the games you play based on "email quality" or something like that. Like how interesting the screenshots are, if there are any etc...

[@ChrisD__]

There's already too much marketing related competition between developers, a random lottery is a nice change.

[@JonasTyroller]

As this is a feedback series I don't want the game quality to be a deciding factor. The e-mail quality is not something that makes me play a game but it is something that can make me not play a game. If I feel like 0 effort was put into the e-mail I don't feel particularly inclined to give feedback. - Usually not the case, though. Most e-mails are quite solid. :)

[@froyorex4856]

I think the slow momentum was designed to be there.(due to the electric shocks)

[@erathor9120]

Well maybe next time my game will make it on the list. Tnx for the vid.

[@theemeraldfalcon9184]

a new vid! YAY!

[@JonasTyroller]

Yay. :)

[@FilletDev]

13:49 you can tell this guy just discovered post processing

[@DeathxStrike18]

I actually have talked with the dev of moonlight maze and gave feedback cool to see it featured

[@REAL-NANO]

Woohoo! Love the Jonas plays vids😀

[@JonasTyroller]

Awesome. Glad to hear it. :D

[@Dnobagav49]

Your ear ornament... black tea or Oolong??? Great vid btw... awesome what you guys do for the indie dev community!

[@sumanlata2541]

That earbag looks very good on you

[@3shego]

Vertical rock, vertical rock, vertical rock, vertical rock, last time he calls out the rock he said Horizontal 👏

[@HabiasaDeveloper]

I love your feedback, and make me easily to make logic and more a game. How to change voice in the game Will You Snail, and I'll change my youtube channel icon lol. Add more feedback video :)

[@crazyfingers619]

Great videos! You deserve more views IMO, keep it up.

[@timbelion3765]

Hope you will play my game some day. I really like how are you giving equal opportunities to all game devs.

[@SparkeyAvalon]

2:38 Why don't game developers use git or other source control solutions? Is it really just a software developer thing? (I started working as a soft developer before I got into game making.)

[@younlok1081]

where u are asking us i missed two times ): also why u have a tea bag in your ear

[@faxxer1724]

In the community tab of his youtube channel

[@JonasTyroller]

I announce these videos in the community tab of this YT channel and on Discord. :)

[@younlok1081]

@@JonasTyroller cool i hope i will not miss the next one

[@cbergersmusic3379]

The teabag is fer Fashiun1!

[@lek0754]

One day you will play my game and i will impress you, one day.

[@profmonkey0756]

24:55 its a subway surfer knockoff game

[@Cipherix_]

I’m currently working on a game and would love for you to play, how do i submit it?

[@Lugmillord]

Teebeutel of fame.

[@sanin8621]

26:22 HOW?! HOW?! Please make a tutorial how to make text like this, so it deosn't follow the Player.

[@ChrisD__]

What engine are you using? Godot has viewport 3D Sprites, and Unity has TextMeshPro. I don't make 2D games in Unity so I have no idea how to do that, Unity isn't very intuitive...

[@kingleon5720]

If you use Unity you create a Canvas and important set the render mode to World Space than you just add a text than you can move it around and place it there where you want

[@ChrisD__]

@@kingleon5720 Ah, it's almost the same as Godot! Input works through on the 3D canvas right?

[@sanin8621]

@@kingleon5720 Thank you very much! It worked

[@kingleon5720]

​@@ChrisD__ I don't know exactly what you mean ? Sorry haven't used Godot yet.

[@simulify8726]

Hello Jonas!, Can you start some Tutorials either on first person shooter or air fighting game?

[@JonasTyroller]

I guess I could... but do I wanna? I'd prefer to focus on short tutorial series for now. :)

[@chahdchahid4841]

Celebrating 20k

[@pablo2495]

RollerPlay reminds me of Subway Surfers a lot. It almost seems like a rip-off, but it is a good bit different. I feel like they could’ve made it seem a good bit different visually or whatever.

[@broodjekaas6805]

I was gonna say your earing looks like a teabag. But then a took a second look. And the teabag playrd me with uno revurse

[@Rohan-uu4ju]

The tower defence game was just 2d dungeon defenders

[@Portal2Fan1234]

What about try any of our games?

[@idlenoodle2385]

MORE GAME REVIEWSS PLS

[@sythatsokmontrey8879]

1:31 is a name of time theory creater call deja vuu

[@DeclianX]

Why does jonas have a tea bag ???

[@donutbedum9837]

Is that teabag an earplug

[@shadoweagle5843]

Warum hast du 'nen Teebeutel um dein Ohr hängen?!

[@legyoshi7225]

Why did i see vr subway surfers

[@blacknova5939]

nice earings bro

[@phylliselago5847]

Why do you have a tea bag?

[@tiagotiagot]

Always make backups

[@mikaxms]

Ah teabags, I missed your announcement of submitting games again. Next time, could you do it so that there’s the little red notification thingy?

[@JonasTyroller]

The little red notification thingy? Not sure what you mean. You can assign yourself the @PingMeForAnnouncements role on Discord if you don't want to miss it. :)

[@mikaxms]

Jonas Tyroller When someone @ you on Discord, there’s the little red notification letting you know. I think it usually happens happens when the moderators do an @everyone post in announcements. Though, I’ll also try your suggestion about adding myself.

[@sujansarkar3720]

Why you ware a tea bag on your ear....?

[@afrodieter8891]

How can I send him a game to check?

[@milk_choc7889]

When he's accepting them, he makes a community post.

[@OxySacura]

Play Saga CCG Dust and Magic

[@omerfarukbykl6097]

9:50 While i am watching My sister said You look like Draco from Harry Potter @jonastyroller

[@AndrzejGieraltCreative]

Jonas you are so helpful to startup indie devs, it is great. If anyone would have a moment to check out my first devlog, I’d really appreciate it :)

[@Aryan-pp1hl]

Sir, how to spawn random enemy in random place please help sir sir sir Edit : in 2d

[@sugar2000galaxy]

To do it, follow this: Instantiate([the object], new Vector2(Random.Range([minX],[maxX]),Random.Range([minY],[maxY])), transform.rotation); Change the things in [ ].

[@desmondmies3095]

I'm so sad that i wasn't able to send my Tower Defense.. :'( (ps: best ad at the end)

[@JonasTyroller]

No worries. We'll do this again. Thank you. :P

[@ZenoDovahkiin]

That not how tea bag are.

[@stefdevs]

I for one want to thank you for NOT playing my game so that it can be even better by the time you do play it ;)

[@ghosttiger38]

I start the video, and I have to instantly pause it because there's a teabag being used as an earing... Sorry, what?

[@Affax]

I hoped you would have played my game... D:

[@JonasTyroller]

I got 100+ sumbissions and picked the games completely at random this time. Apologies. Wish I could play more. Which one was yours?

[@Affax]

@@JonasTyroller CHA0S, and well, the random thing explains it a lot. I put some time making the email :D It would take you ages to play every game.

[@JonasTyroller]

@@Affax Ahhhhh. I see. Can that already be played in multiplayer?

[@Affax]

@@JonasTyroller Yeap, but I'm actually stopping the development of it. It also had weapons but my video explains why i'm stopping. Thanks :D

[@Chiken1]

this week i once again asked you to send me your indie games so? TWIOAAYTSMYIG?

[@takis76]

Why are you wearing a bag of tea on your ear?

[@braxim2261]

Again you don't played my game called Labyrinth of the Cube 2 😲😲😭😭😧😢😦

[@JonasTyroller]

I'm sorry. I did't skip you on purpose. Just picked 10 at random out or 100+ submissions. Hopefully next time. :)

[@davidirimia6463]

12:00 this is the kind of game you play while you're on mushrooms

[@kapcapkapcap6104]

27:16

[@sil3nt810]

"constructive feedback" nope

[@sil3nt810]

dont mind me i actually love these videos!

[@chahdchahid4841]

Celebrating 20k

[@JonasTyroller]

Not yet. Still at 19. :P