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Patreon Show December 2018 - A little trip up to London

Hello patrons!

Anni and I needed to pop up to London to film something outside the palace (you'll see why in a future episode) and we also wanted to check in on the new V&A exhibition on video g...

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NEW EPISODE: How Neopets was sold to Scientologists

Hello patrons!

So, erm, who remembers Neopets?

If you were a part of that community back in the early 2000s, you may be surprised to hear that it was owned by a group of very devout Scientolog...

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People Mail Gifts 2018

Hello everyone!

This is just a quick reminder that there's one week left to sign up to our PMG Secret Santa over on our Discord server. If you do sign up, you'll be assigned another patron to send a...

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Patreon Show November 2018 - Here are some YouTube channels that we like

Hey Patrons,

We're trying to move the Patreon Show to the first half of each month, as the second can get pretty hectic for us at the moment. So here we are!

In this month's show, Anni and I i...

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Behind-the-scenes: Catching up with Derek

Now that our 'Getting into the games industry' episode has been up for just over a week, we caught up with Derek to ask him what he thought about our telling of his story.

We also have some question...

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Update to the $20 rewards

 

Hello,

We are making changes to the $20 tier. The custom animation part is staying exactly the same because so far we have had a lot of fun working with you all on those bits.

The...

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Catching up with Derek - ask him your questions!

Hey behind-the-scenes patrons.

If you've watched latest episode you'll know it tells the story of Derek Wilks, an enthusiastic cinematic artist who lands his dream job in the games industry, only to...

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NEW EPISODE: Getting into the games industry

Given that we're called People Make Games, it only felt right to tell this particular story from a real person's perspective.

Thanks again to Derek Wilks for sharing his story.

Derek's You...

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Chris has a go at sound effects

Our next episode (out on Tuesday!) has a lot more animation than you'll have seen before. We wanted to compliment this work with some appropriate sound effects.

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The Red Dead game we almost ended up with

VIDEO URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS3Ml8-OPAc

Ahead of the release of Red Dead Redemptio...

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Patreon Show September 2018 - Meet Peggy the dog

Hello!

We've been thinking about our Patreon Show quite a bit over the last few weeks and have decided to try and have a bit more fun with it. 

This month's is much snappier than usual (c...

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Anni-mation: Having a nice time with Spider-Man

Hello!

We're currently working hard on the (surprisingly topical) next episode which you can expect at the end of the month, but in the meantime, Anni wanted to make something fun for you to look at...

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Patreon Show August 2018 - How we Anni-mate

We're a few days late on the Patreon Show for August, but it's been a big ol' month at PMG.

As you may have heard, we now have a full-time illustrator/animator on the team, which is BRILLIANT. She j...

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How an E3 Conference gets made

YOUTUBE URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cDM4qN_rTU

It's the biggest show in the video games...

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People Make Games just got bigger!

Hey, it’s Chris here off of People Make Games. We’ve got some pretty massive news to share today: the team has now officially doubled in size! Please give a warm welcome to Anni Sayers, PMG’s View Post

Behind the scenes at Creative Assembly

So, we visited the developers of Total War, Creative Assembly, ahead of putting together our Time Commanders episode.

Whilst we were there we filmed a great interview and shot some lovely b-roll and...

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Patreon Show (July 2018) - Chris calls his Dad

Hello again! We've tried to do a little more with the Patreon Show this month, as we felt the first ended up being a little static. Let us know what you think.

And don't say mean things about my dad...

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The TV Show that didn't want you to know it was a Video Game

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b61uwK2Bwps

Listen, this episode was always going t...

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Star Fox wallpapers

Hello!

Here are the mobile and desktop illustrations based on the most recent episode about Star Fox. 

Also wanted to say a big thanks to Jake who came up with the custom illustration in ...

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Chris is doing a podcast!

Those of you familiar with Cool Ghosts (a very pink video games website headed up by Matt Lees and Quintin Smith), may remember that I us...

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The British teenagers who taught Nintendo how to make Star Fox

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to4Ekb0kXiE

So this episode is a l...

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Custom illustration - Rag Doll Kung Fu

Wallpapers

Hey, here is the illustration based on the first episode about Rag Doll Kung Fu! I have done one for mobile dimensions and one for desktop dimensions (you should find the...

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Patreon Show - June 2018

Welcome to our very first Patreon Show!

We take a look back at the launch of People Make Games, our very first episode and pick out some interesting comments from YOU.

Have a question for next...

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Behind-the-scenes: Interview with Mark Healey

I spoke to a few different people while researching our first episode, but of course, one of those interviews was far more important than the rest.

You'll have seen clips from this already in our ma...

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Behind-the-scenes: Chris plays Rag Doll Kung Fu

We've got a couple of behind-the-scenes bits from our first episode, including this: a let's play of the incredibly bizarre Rag Doll Kung Fu.

This was recorded a couple of weeks before the main vide...

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The first non-Valve game on Steam

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ETzoaXUgmI

Alright then, here we ...

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Custom illustration/animation

Hello! I am Anni and I do the animation/illustration/graphics work for PMG. Thank you so much for supporting us and being part of this tier. I am really looking forward to working with you!

Before e...

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Hello, is this thing turned on?

Wow. This has been a wild couple of days.

Exactly 48 hours ago we launched the Patreon for People Make Games and things have gone so much better than we’d even dared to hope. The first stretch goa...

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