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[@thomasbrush]

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[@matthiasbarnabas7154]

Really wanna learn making games from you...... Is there any opening for me to join. Please your reply will really be helpful 😊

[@SeriousGamer-pi7kw]

Thank you for reminding me, why I fell in love with games in the first place.

[@a.baciste1733]

Hmm... Never consciously realized that, but yep, it's definitely something to consider. No idea how I'll do that on my game, but worth thinking about it!

[@tientam779]

Not only do you explain the concept but you show how to implement it, how complex that can be, and also how rewarding it is for the player! Great insight!

[@RookDev]

Gotta enjoy the little things. Adding a gimmick is a great way to keep players engaged. Well done!

[@birk5989]

One thing like this that i noticed and personally love is Hearthstone. The clicking the dust sound, the interactable map. Good example on this

[@marlaoutatsgamingcollectibles]

In case you are wondering, in game design, this is called ''easy fun'' (in opposition to ''hard fun'') !

[@paluxyl.8682]

Little things in games are a must, I would even go that far and make always the main characters quirky, weak and even clumsy. For example wounds if you run against a wall, a chance (1%) of breaking a leg for just jumping on save ground, a chance of losing grip while climbing a ladder, a change of falling while running (starts very low and goes higher the more afraid the character is, also rises in darkness), extreme falldamage would be always in my games (in some cases would be falling just 1 meter down deadly).

[@Kuhtlass]

Well, now your game needs an achievement where you kill someone with poop.

[@hugowells656]

He should name the achievement "Shit happens" 😂.

[@gdronaque7443]

​@@hugowells656very creative 😅

[@gameboardgames]

I think this is great advice! As a solo dev working on his first big game (RoadHouse Manager), I wouldn't think funsies are high on the importance scale of stuff to make... but ya, can totally see how they are an important element. With no funsies, the game world doesn't feel like an interactive place. I know ya, in a FPS game and I come across a toilet, I always tried to flush it lol. And you get that little bit of disappointment as player if something looks like you can interact with it but you can't, no matter how useless that thing may be. It just goes a really long way to have these.

[@PaulMucci]

Now all you need to do is add an achievement system to the interactive objects. Makes people want to run around getting as many interactive achievements as possible. People who miss them may play again to make sure they get more.

[@skinnbag]

Thanks for the video, Thomas. I began my game development journey a couple of years ago but couldn't continue with it. I'm now planning to restart everything from scratch!

[@cyberduck1311]

There are actually great points, now I should go back to my project and add more interactable objects. Thanks for sharing with us Thomas!

[@pedrolota4670]

I think those little things are important things, to interact with the enviroment. I remember being kid and playing Max Payne, it had a lot of stuff to interact with.

[@SteveDFM]

Has publishing deal with 3DRealms... Makes toilet flush like in Duke3d. I'm glad they're passing on the torch! But I hope they washed their hands first...

[@error17_]

This behind the scenes is really cool!

[@SpookyNaz]

Breakable walls just itches my brain the right way

[@chrishewitt4654]

Idea: You should have a custom animation for a one or two enemies where, they freak out for a moment if you throw poop at them.

[@Infernal_toast]

3:34 IMAGINE NOT HAVING OPTION DATA TYPE (like in rust)

[@ThePC007]

I’m pretty sure C# has nullable types, so you could just use that.

[@Banx810]

Never thought of how these wee things are important but it’s so true!

[@SeriousGamer-pi7kw]

I guess this is the thing why minecraft is still relevant. Its entire gameplay is basically funnies.

[@prrithwirajbarman8389]

Full of fun

[@Oozaruborn]

Every dog in a game must be petable

[@fabrystyle7799]

Hi @thomas 👋 Your videos inspired me so much that I decided to try again after a few attempts in the past. 👍 I have a question: How closely can you recreate other games and legally publish them? 🤔 I'm working on a game that takes heavy inspiration and several mechanics and similarities to another game, and I don't want to get in trouble and eventually waste time and effort for nothing 🎮

[@lawrence9713]

Oh good, my first game is all about funsies, nothing else :)

[@Foxtrop13]

interactivity is always better

[@ZDashGD]

awesome, I learnt so much!

[@NostromoVA]

I think the concept is valid. Agency is very important to people. Agency is just a fancy psychological term for saying your actions make an impact on the world. If you are carrying a weapon that can kill, why can't it break a glass window, or smash that chair? It robs the player of being able to impact his/her environment. That's the fun. The hard part for the game dev is persistence. If the player smashes that window, saves and exits, and then reenters that space, that window better still be broken. Tracking all that is possible, but you better have a good system to keep up with hundreds, possibly thousands of "actors." You must save the new state on each object. Then you have to set up a loop on game start to reload the state of all those objects before the player is allowed back into that space. Yeah, that's simply bookkeeping, but if you make this contract with the player, you can't cheat them out of going back and admiring their "work." You can get around it if there is no backtracking upon entering a new space, however. Thanks for the practical side of scope creep. It is what has derailed all of my efforts thus far. This time I am just working on the MVP (Minimum Viable Playtest). But I start embellishing. I spent two hours today just auditioning sounds for a mechanical door. I don't even have a level yet, and I'm worried about how the door sounds. Perfectionist self-sabotage is your worst enemy...

[@Mrjononotbono]

Your game Twisted Tower has really come on. It looks excellent. Very Bioshock but that's fine because Bioshock is amazing so I welcome that! Will be buying when released! :)

[@visualLearner21st]

Hi Thomas Brush. Do you have any info on vector art in unity. I really would appreciate should you upload a video on the state of vector art if it is supported in unity or how to go about it. Thanks in advance

[@6IGNITION9]

Gabe Newell describes fun as "the degree to which the game recognizes and responds to the player's actions." "If I shoot at a wall and nothing happens, I'm getting a narcissistic injury. The world is ignoring me."

[@rehanali-fe4zt]

Watching the errors in console is so irritating for me as a programmer😖yet seeing game working with these "errors" is so satisfying for me😌. Because at work error means problem.

[@etistyle96]

Thumbnail : Thomas "what you need to make your first indie game" * click * Thomas playing with virtual toiletpaper for 10min straight YwY

[@ObsidianContraption]

I always thought little touches go a long way. It bugs me when i can't flush a toilet

[@devlogerio]

Thomas going full Max Payne in this one

[@blacknwhite1313]

Thank you 💚

[@ryanjdevlin87]

100% its the little things that add up to make a great game for sure. Just thinking about something like FF7... sure you have the amazing main story but how many people got lost playing with chocobo's for endless hours ??

[@thebrownfrog]

ty

[@MikeGemi]

Curious what your thoughts on this is. Is Larian Studios a indie studios? They are a private and independent company but are they Indie in the way we describe indie studios now?

[@flamart9703]

Мany years ago when I first heard the term "indie" it referred to independent solo developers. Logically, if there are two or more developers, they are no longer independent because they depend on each other. And nowadays, anything that isn't a triple-A company is called indie. :)

[@MikeGemi]

@@flamart9703 Haha yah for real. I do think it can be more than 1 developer but there is a limit. Budget and employee count plays into that

[@flamart9703]

​@@MikeGemi Well, I think there should be two words - indie for solo devs and neo-indie for the rest. So, Larian is neo-indie. :)

[@marcomoutinho7611]

I really dont know if I agree that we NEED it to ower first game

[@TRUFANATIC]

basically, game should be interactive

[@flamart9703]

The toilet things look like deformed homemade snickers. :)

[@DaftSheep]

Game in thumbnail: Death's Door. Great game!

[@TobiasSample]

Perhaps throwing a poop at enemies should aggro them

[@mattg1345]

Are your balloons popable ?

[@bathi1953]

any time you want to refractor your code,your find yourself Forgetting you old code .Cheers

[@thequipseeker]

Can't wait to play with toilet paper -- I mean twisted tower.

[@ClipsAndTips255]

Wayward souls is a master of funsies. good times

[@MonhooGameDevlogs]

Nice

[@eightsprites]

Next game: Flush it! 🚽

[@olitheone]

Here I am watching a video of someone throwing poop 🔥

[@jjones1032]

Thumbs up! Over is the only proper way to use toilet paper.

[@KoolakStudio]

cool

[@repertuaras]

So many if elses 😃

[@Johanthegnarler]

Ill do whatever it takes to remove this channel from my algorithm. Please, anyone help.

[@CoffeeAI201]

THOMAS WINS AGAIN!!!! 🤬🤘💪🏻

[@foochooz]

Hahahaha

[@kormsd]

Bro your code is disgusting, please learn to code before you sell a course

[@papsterling8376]

What games have you published with your pristine code?

[@kormsd]

@@papsterling8376 i published 3 , one of which has a 96% on steam with over a million players (throughout the franchise), i will not be sharing them due to privacy, I am a developer tho. Everyone should make games and I have no problem with that. However if I was selling you a course on how to write novels in English and my grammar is thanq u, plx next hAhaA! That would be a problem. His code obviously never went through pull requests, it lacks the most basic elements of encapsulation. Code is by no means the most important part of the game, in fact if its the worst code of all time and the game is great (altho unlikely) that's fantastic. I do have a problem with someone selling a course on something they clearly have 0 knowlege/experise on ALL THE WHILE presenting themselves as they do.