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How Cuphead's Bosses (Try to) Kill You | Game Maker's Toolkit

New video! Will be going public tomorrow 

Next up: a bonus vid for Patrons to asneer some more Q&A questions. And then Boss Keys (with a little time off for Mario Odyssey!)

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24 hour preview - How Cuphead's Bosses (Try to) Kill You

New episode already?! What! I know, right. But here we are.

I really like Cuphead and wanted to talk about all the interesting attack patterns and phases and whatnot. And it should be the start of m...

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GMTK Extra: Three Other Approaches to Turn Timers

Hello! One thing I failed to mention in my latest episode was that some other tactical games have already found good solutions to XCOM 2's problem (i.e. how to make players speed up and take risks wit...

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GameClub 5 - Pick our next game!

Hello everyone! 

Sorry for the delay on GameClub. But let’s jump back into it.

This time, the theme is ambitious and interesting indie games - that just didn’t make it into the mainst...

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How Game Designers Protect Players From Themselves | Game Maker's Toolkit

New episode! Coming out this afternoon. Here's the description

A designer’s job often involves making sure players are...

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24 hour exclusive - How Game Designers Protect Players From Themselves

Hello super special $5 patron people. Here's an early sneak peek at next week's video.

This is a return to pure design stuff. Lot...

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Playlist (September 2017)

Hello! Got a handful of cool games from September to talk about! This is stuff that came out earlier in the month - I haven't had a chance to try out the super new stuff like Golf Story and Cuphead ye...

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GMTK Insider (September 2017)

Hey everyone!

In this issue of the GMTK Insider, I want to focus on something that might seem like a bit of a quick, throwaway part of the process - but actually involves a lot of time and work to g...

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New Episode - How AM2R and Samus Returns remade Metroid 2

Okay! I'm back. Wow, this took longer than I was expecting thanks to horrible illness stuff (and playing each of these games twice through).

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Q&A Part 1 - The GMTK Origin Story

Hello! I received way too many questions in my recent Q&A. Instead of making something too long, or giving rubbish answers, or ignoring half the questions, I...

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24 hour early access: How AM2R and Samus Returns remade Metroid 2

Okay! I'm back. Wow, this took longer than I was expecting thanks to horrible illness stuff (and playing each of these games twice through).

So 2017-09-27 13:15:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Reading List (September 2017)

Hello!

I know this is a bit early in the month, but because I can’t yet record any new scripts (this cold has left me sounding like a nightmare goblin from the mucus dimension for the time being -...

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Q&A! Ask me questions!

Hello. It's been a while since we last chatted!

So I finished the detective video and then dove straight into another huge project: this big Metroid 2 / AM2R / Samus Returns video. Which has involve...

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GMTK Insider special - Playing Detective

Hello! As promised, here's an additional bit of last month's GMTK Insider with notes on my latest video.

Research and wri...

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Watch early: What Makes a Good Detective Game? | Game Maker's Toolkit

Hello! Here's my new video, which is out tomorrow. I mine ancient DOS games, forgotten mobile apps, quirky indie titles, and games that aren’t even about solving crimes, for good murder mystery mech...

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24 hour exclusive access - Playing Detective

Hoo boy! This one has been a long time in the works. 

It required a lot of research. There's about 30 games shown, and maybe 10 more that I played but ended up not showing.

The script was...

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GMTK Insider (August 2017)

Hello all!

I decided to rename the newsletter. I used to talk about the games I’ve been playing, but this month I realised that it will all be covered in Game Maker’s Playlist or separate articl...

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Game Maker's Playlist (August 2017)

Hey $3 people! Here's your Playlist video for the month. I've also posted the text below if you'd prefer to read it!

Sonic Mania 

So, if you don’t know, this is a tribu...

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Reading List (August 2017)

Hello! Loads and loads of links for you this month, and tonnes of videos. Turns out, lots of people are making videos about games now! Eek! Better step up my game!

Tacoma

[Vid...

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Thoughts on Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (No spoilers)

Hey! So, I finished Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.

If you don’t know, this is a standalone Uncharted game, set after the events of Uncharted 4, and drops Nathan Drake in favour of Chloe Frazer (first...

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GameClub 4 - What did you think of Brothers?

Hello! Hopefully you enjoyed playing Brothers. If you never played it before, I'm sure you now appreciate why so many design bois and gurls harp on about how darn amazing it is.

Or maybe you hated i...

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Ask a Patron Answered! - Nintendo's Jordan Amaro

Hello! If you missed it earlier, I asked Patrons to submit questions to Jordan Amaro who has worked on Metal Gear Solid V, Resident Evil 7, and Splatoon 2. After receiving many insightful questions, J...

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What I'm Working On

Hey everyone!

I've been crunching hard on a video for the last few weeks, but it's finally coming together and I wanted to share some progress with you all - and maybe get some ideas in the process....

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds' dungeon design | Boss Keys

Boss Keys is coming towards its conclusion. But until then, we need to talk about dungeon orders, the three dungeon types, and renting hammers.

Don't forget to 2017-08-14 14:52:42 +0000 UTC View Post

24 hour preview - Boss Keys, A Link Between Worlds

Because Patreon is now monthly, $5 Patrons also get Boss Keys 24 hours early (and names in the credits, too).

The video's out tomorrow! Just two more episodes of Boss Keys to go - next time will be ...

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GameClub 4 - Let's Play Brothers!

Hey! So, the poll was a close one. But one game managed to snatch a narrow victory: Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons.

You can get the game on 2017-08-12 10:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post

How my Boss Key dungeon graphs work

Hello!

I’ve had some messages from viewers asking me to share more information about the graph system I created for analysing Zelda dungeons in my 2017-08-11 13:37:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Ask a Patron! - Nintendo’s Jordan Amaro

Hello!

I’m incredibly lucky to have some amazing people support me on Patreon. People who actually make video games instead of just talking about them on YouTube.

And so maybe it would be fu...

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GameClub 4 - Vote now!

Hello! Welcome back to GameClub.

Here’s how GameClub works: we pick a game, and then go play it. We discuss the game on Discord as we play, but avoid chatting about spoilers until a specific date....

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How YouTube Copyright Claims Work

Hello!

I’ve had a number of people tell me that they’re a bit scared to make YouTube videos about games, because they’ve heard spooky stories about copyright claims on game footage.

I wa...

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