The Game Core

[@OAndreDrumond]

Laura a real one! great channel.

[@laurafryer6321]

Thank you!

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

@@laurafryer6321 Im just sad id tech 4 with RTX 4090 maxing out mods looks better than id tech 6 while having zero texture or object pop in like id tech 7 because it implies id tech 4 is the chosen one.

[@raychii7361]

Funny how Dustin made this channel justice. This content it's gold.

[@laurafryer6321]

Thank you!

[@bpcgos]

Agree, this is the best channel about game developing straight from the devs

[@AndrewSF8898]

@@bpcgos This, along with Sakurai's channel on Making Games are great stuff. Are there any other developers doing this sort of thing?

[@TheRover1013]

@@AndrewSF8898 Tim Cain's channel 'CainOnGames' is pretty great and in a similar style.

[@elidasilva5558]

I love these insightful videos, every one that you make is such a treat

[@laurafryer6321]

Thank you!

[@AxionSurge]

Hello Laura - I'm not in game development but I had the core torn out of my favourite job thanks to patronage or cronyism. I'm in a better place now but thanks for giving me the vocabulary to communicate my experiences effectively.

[@laurafryer6321]

I'm sorry that happened to you. Thank you for watching and I'm glad I could help a little!

[@katemckinnon7323]

Thanks so much for sharing your expertise and experience with us. It suddenly makes so much more sense why studios (like Bethesda) usually don't try to develop multiple games at the same time. Working as a young architect, I remember how frustrated I would feel when getting pulled off of the cool big design project to go help finish a much less exciting project (like a school bathroom remodel) because our firm needed to pay the bills! How do you decide who gets to work on the "fun" stuff?

[@laurafryer6321]

Interesting to hear it's not just a problem in games. :) The fun stuff is usually reserved for the people best at starting a project which unfortunately are often the best at finishing too.

[@katemckinnon7323]

That's usually how it works for us, too! Seniority also factors in to who gets to actually work on the "design" portion of the project. The younger/less experienced architects get stuck doing construction details and other boring stuff. :( @@laurafryer6321

[@LordOfEnnui]

This channel is an incredible resource. I've met core teams in some Japanese animation studios, and seeing them interact really opened my eyes on how incredible art gets made. I'm an Indie dev,.and I'd really like your advice on how to build these cores.

[@Dyyne]

Laura, amazing videos. Thank you. Small feedback - sometimes the audio volume of the video is too high compared to your voice, like at 11:25 and a couple times in the XNA video. Otherwise, it’s fantastic 😊. Cheers!

[@garyyim6266]

I’m curious about your thoughts on Game Maker’s Toolkit’s series “Developing”. Watching Mark learn firsthand the difficulties of making a game remind me of what you seemed to have experienced over the last couple of decades.

[@laurafryer6321]

I checked out one of his videos and I liked it! Thanks for the pointer!

[@bassplayer2011ify]

Marathon is going to be interesting. Not just for the reasons you highlighted. The other big reason is its an extraction shooter. The reason this is worth highlighting is take a look at the landscape of this genre. The big three at the moment are Tarkov, Hell Divers, and Hunt Showdown with a few more sprinkled through out. All made buy either an independent studio or in the case of Hunt a small team in a larger studio. The major studios that have tried to make an extraction shooters (Ubisoft and Activision) shut them down with in a few years. So we shall see if third time is the charm. P.S. I can't recommend Hunt Showdown enough. If your sick of pay to win twitch shooters and battle royals give it try. All micro transactions in the game are purely cosmetic, its made using the Cryengine so it looks amazing, and imho has the best audio of any shooter ever made.

[@BinaryPixelGaming]

I'm curious to know what your thoughts are on how the Core is affected by increasingly lengthy game development cycles, especially in the big budget space. It's one thing to even establish a Core in the first place, but what about maintaining that Core when each title takes 4-5 years to ship? Especially considering the popularity of sequels and trilogies, I would imagine later entries would be at risk of lowered quality as the Core is more likely to be affected as time increases. Do you anticipate that studios will warm up to adopting shorter dev cycles to mitigate this, not to mention to mitigate against their game design idea not being outdated by the time the game releases?

[@laurafryer6321]

You're right..longer cycles make maintaining a core tougher! Shorter cycles help but there are some development realities that can make that difficult depending on the type of game. Play testing can prove out the ideas prior to investing more effort and there's much in game development that is never outdated which helps. Thank you for your comments!

[@teac117]

Branch merging a bunch of gits is always hilariously fun :P

[@synonys]

It’s sad what has happened to Bungie

[@adamtobin9440]

Would you ever go back to game development? Love to see you at Naughty Dog looks like they need some guidance on a direct path on what to do. Or is Sony the devil? lol Love your vids and perspective thank you. ☺

[@laurafryer6321]

Maybe someday. Sony is an interesting company and I have friends there that I would enjoy working with. Thank you for watching and I hope you have nice holidays!

[@adamtobin9440]

@@laurafryer6321 Thank you. Merry Christmas

[@adamtobin9440]

@@laurafryer6321 thank you and luv ur new video we need e3 I loved all of them cringe to greatness loved them all 😀

[@bunnerkins]

I heard that promoting technical talent to management is beginning to fall out of favour. Let's hope so.

[@laurafryer6321]

Agreed. Microsoft for example made it possible to advance without becoming a manager.

[@AzureSymbiote]

Ma'am, thank you for teaching us regarding the inner workings of the video game industry. I would ask you to reconsider your titles and thumbnails, however, because from a quick glance on my subscribtion feed, I thought this video was about black holes.

[@laurafryer6321]

Thanks for the suggestion.

[@DiogoPace]

I really hope Destiny 2 gets a happy ending, but it seems it’s that very core that today is the management that’s hurting it and the studio

[@bunnerkins]

It sounds like you have a lot of reverence for the talent. I would love to see a video on the unadulterated reality of how studios managed talent that were responsible for toxic workplaces.

[@joserosa5259]

How does Nintendo keep their developers for so long?

[@spvrda]

I'm guessing they pay them well and Japanese job culture encourages staying at one company. Not like people didn't leave at all though.

[@astranger448]

Well either Laura has been watching Swen Vincke (larian Studios, BG3) or Swen has been watching Laura. Or this is the way evolution works, similar problems lead to similar solutions.