One of the things we love most about working on People Make Games is having the time to really think about how we want to visualise each story.
From the big reveal in 2019-08-16 10:45:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
We're now eight days into August, which means it's the perfect time to publish July's Patreon Show.
We've got a little behind-the-scenes footage from filmi...
2019-08-08 12:23:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We get a bit weird in this one, folks.
After reading a tweet that suggested the infamous Nuclear Gandhi bug in Civilization might never have happened, Chris falls down a rabbit hole so big it...
2019-07-31 13:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
So here's a cool announcement that I've been desperately trying not to spoil for the last few months: I'm going to be filming a guest documentary for Noclip on the histo...
2019-07-17 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever since we published our 'Getting into the games industry' episode last year, we've been looking to tell a story about unions and the kind of impact they might be able to have in this space.
... 2019-07-15 11:12:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I regret this thumbnail choice immediately.
In this month's Patreon Show we talk about visiting Versailles to loiter outside an office for a day, the time I met Tom Felton off of Harry Potter...
2019-07-04 16:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons.
So as we mentioned in our last post, Chris went to visit the Blizzard office in Versailles earlier this month.
He went there to find out more about the 134 people set to lo...
2019-06-28 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey behind-the-scenes patrons!
We really enjoyed talking over our Fortnite dance move story back...
2019-06-19 09:59:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons,
I went to visit the Notre-Dame this morning and just like all the other tourists who'd come to gather around the cathedral as it undergoes reconstruction, I didn't really know wh...
2019-06-10 19:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Apologies for being a few days late on last month's Patreon Show, but it's been another busy old month for PMG.
Let us tell you all about it!
2019-06-04 15:34:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Before Fable, there was Wishworld.
Join us as we track down a working build of that original game and (eventually) discover a concept nothing like Lionhead's blockbuster RPG.
We'l...
2019-05-31 13:18:52 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
You might have heard us briefly mention this in our latest video, but People Make Games...
2019-05-27 10:20:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, it's our birthday! Exactly 12 months ago today, Chris left his old job at Eurogamer and launched People Make Games on the very same afternoon. It was a bit of a day.
But you know what?...
2019-05-16 12:45:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone.
Just a quick update to let you know that we've been doing some spring cleaning around the People Make Games Discord server. If you haven't logged on in a while, you'll notice a ...
2019-05-14 15:14:26 +0000 UTC View PostHello, you may have noticed that in the last two PMG episodes we haven’t included a custom animation. This was for a few different reasons so I’d like to explain the thought process and the sol...
2019-05-01 11:33:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons,
It's nearly May! Better squeeze this month's episode in while there's still time. We go into why we have been super busy this month and not just because of all the...
2019-04-30 14:28:31 +0000 UTC View Post
After putting together a collection of every game he's ever made, we asked Peter Molyneux to talk us through the highs and lows of 30+ years as a game designer.
As I mention at the star...
2019-04-25 13:24:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello behind-the-scenes patrons!
We're trying something a little different today. It usually takes Anni and I a little while to stop hating a new episode once we've finally managed to get it ...
2019-04-03 08:38:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As you'll probably have noticed over the last few months, Anni and I have started to lose our passion for telling cool stories about video games and how they're made. We think it's time for a chang...
2019-04-01 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Anni and I are going to be at EGX Rezzed next week and it'd be great to see some of you there, if you'd like to say hello. If you do see either of us, please ask for a PMG pin...
2019-03-28 14:08:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons!
So we don't usually get to do this, but today we're going to talk a little bit about the next episode we're working on for People Make Games. It's going to be pretty different ...
2019-03-25 11:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post
You've probably heard about the lawsuit Epic Games has been contending with over some of the dance moves they've included in Fortnite. They've recreated a whole bunch including the Floss, the Milly...
2019-03-21 15:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
In May, PMG will be having its first birthday! To celebrate we thought it would be cool to try out some T-shirt designs. Hopefully this is something you would be interested in. We’re...
2019-02-28 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
That title doesn't really have a lot to do with this month's Patreon Show, sorry, but I can't stop thinking about the wonderful acceptance speech she gave after winning herself an Oscar. Olivia Col...
2019-02-27 12:22:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I've fancied doing an episode on Football Manager for a while now. There are loads of brilliant stories about how that game gets made and the crossover it has with football in the real world.
Well, this has been a bit of a weird day.
As part of our last episode, we sent Queen Elizabeth II a copy of Gavin & Stacey on DVD because we thought that was a funny thing to send to an a...
2019-02-14 13:42:55 +0000 UTC View PostBack when Anni and I had respectable full-time jobs at Gamer Network (the parent company of Eurogamer), we were introduced to the idea of an offsite. It’s a pretty simple thing: once a year, you ...
2019-01-28 15:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons.
We've changed things around with our Patreon Show (again), to make it all a little snappier to watch and allow us to have a bit more fun with the edit. January felt like the righ...
2019-01-23 13:51:26 +0000 UTC View Post
About a decade ago, the Queen was sent a golden Nintendo Wii as part of a PR stunt for a forgotten Wii game called Big Family Games, but she never actually received it. Why not? Where is it now? 2019-01-17 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons,
If you’ve been following the news in the UK over the last couple of days you’ll have seen that we needed to close the second-biggest airport in the country bec...
2018-12-21 12:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post