Hey patrons,
If you enjoyed our most recent episode on the surprisingly long-lasting appeal of Cookie Clicker, then you might like to join us as we chat all over it.
Hope you're d...
2020-07-07 13:30:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
Just a quick heads up to say that I'll be hopping onto GameSpot's Play For All stream this evening to help raise money to support both the Black Lives Matter movement and direct relief...
2020-07-03 13:19:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone.
As you might have seen over the last week or so, dozens of people have now come forwards to share their experiences of sexual and emotional abuse within the games industry.
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Hey, remember Cookie Clicker? I certainly do.
I think it was probably the first idle game I'd ever played and back in 2013/14, I was obsessed with it... for about two weeks. But it turns out,...
2020-06-25 14:12:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
So, erm, yes. This one's a little different for the channel.
With the sporting world in shutdown, we sent Quinns to investigate Second Life instead. To be more precise, we wanted...
2020-05-26 13:11:40 +0000 UTC View Post
About 20 months ago now, I wrote a somewhat optimistic email to Noclip's Danny o' Dwyer, pitching a documentary on one of my favourite video game series: Total War.
2020-05-12 06:22:15 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
If you’ll forgive a little self-indulgence, we’d like to celebrate our first video reaching a whopping one million views on YouTube. Published over a year ago now, it is o...
2020-05-08 18:35:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, I have just finished working on a collection of designs in a new style! These prints are available as part of the $20 tier and those patrons will receive a random one of these each month for...
2020-05-05 14:33:37 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's Patreon Show, I share some thoughts on the types of stories we want to tell going forwards.
And Anni gives me a haircut. Thanks Anni.
2020-04-30 17:08:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
Today's story is one we've been hoping to tell for some time now. It begins in the early 1980s with an attorney called John Joseph Kirby, a man whose surname may seem like qui...
2020-04-23 14:19:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Not the best timing for PMG's new sports correspondent, as he discovers all sporting events have now been cancelled forever.
Until that changes, Quinns first turns his attention towards...
2020-04-09 13:10:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone,
So this video's a little different to our usual episodes.
To be entirely honest with you, I've been struggling with work a little bit over the last few weeks. In our las...
2020-03-27 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone,
Hope you're doing well out there.
If you enjoyed Quinns' very first episode on the channel, you might like to hear some more from him and Anni about how we made it. Or l...
2020-03-20 12:40:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Listen, we're sorry about the thumbnail. You can blame Cube from the PMG Discord...
2020-03-13 17:26:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time! Quinns is here with his first video for People Make Games and we think it's a corker.
Join him as he explores the world of Kabaddi, a playground sport that's gone pro and swept acr...
2020-03-12 13:32:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Well this is new, isn't it?!
We decided to have Quinns join in with the directors' commentary for our Infiminer episode because he something of a history with Zach Barth, the game's cre...
2020-03-10 14:17:28 +0000 UTC View Post
We tell the story of Infiniminer's Zach Barth, the designer who inspired Minecraft and then had to watch it make billions.
There are some amazing anecdotes in this one, like when Zach was wor...
2020-02-27 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Join Anni and myself as we take a look back at one of our favourite videos on the channel, last month's trip to Hong Kong to interview Blitzchung.
We're super, super proud...
2020-02-18 14:35:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
We're really excited to announce that the People Make Games team is expanding!!
Anni and I have been looking for a way to bring more fantastic stories to ...
2020-02-13 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons!
Let's have a chat about (by some distance) the biggest journey we've made as People Make Games and the story we found on the other side of it.
Thanks for your support this ...
2020-01-30 12:42:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Earlier this month we travelled to Hong Kong to meet Blitzchung, the Hearthstone player who made headlines around the world last year following a post-match interview in which he voiced his support...
2020-01-23 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
As we get ready to start our 20-hour journey home tomorrow, I thought I'd check in and let you know that we've just finished our third and final interview in Hong Kong.
I think you're going t...
2020-01-12 09:10:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Before next month's trip to Hong Kong, we take a quick look back at the last month of People Make Games.
It's been one hell of a year, from investigating a religious group in Germany to havin...
2019-12-19 13:08:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
I've sort of given the surprise away in the title of this post, haven't I? Never mind. For our next PMG episode, we're going to Hong Kong.
Early next mo...
2019-12-17 12:12:46 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
It's Chris here, with something of a spontaneous blog post for you. Actually, I'm not sure if you're still meant to call them blog posts if they're published on Patreon. What ...
2019-11-30 17:37:24 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to say goodbye to my copy of Prototype for the Xbox 360, once and for all.
After being snubbed by CEX, we decide to take a look at what happens when you try to recycle a video...
2019-11-28 15:22:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
It's been a little while since we've published a Patreon Show, cheers for sticking with us.
Things have settled down a bit now since the Athene documentary went li...
2019-10-29 12:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
Thanks so much for your patience as we worked away on this piece. It has been a huge, draining thing to put together for Anni and myself, but we think this is a story that needs ...
2019-10-07 10:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey patrons,
You might have noticed that we've sort of disappeared since our last video was published ...
2019-09-12 13:15:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the story of a weapon in Wolfenstein: ET that sounded so powerful, it was leading to players getting more kills.
They'd eventually ask for it to be nerfed, thinking the weapon da...
2019-08-29 14:34:42 +0000 UTC View Post