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Great video , thanks for sharing

What a weird coincidence-your video just popped up right after I finished reading your book. Great book, by the way!

I bought your book and there is some really helpful gems in there both information and visuals

That 3 hours thing is kinda true, for me it's 4 hours though. It's fun to see someone else thinks the same way:)

Maaaaaatt thanks for the inspiring words ❤️

Just wanted to say thanks for the amazing book you've made! Not only is it highly inspiring, but it's one of the 10 tools I use on a daily basis to keep myself on track to continue to create!

How to do if you don't have 100 dollars to publish a game? Can we ask steam to take the 100 first generated dollars instead? Like a credit?

Loved the shirts tips!

Great talk but needs time stamps

I plan on doing marketing for indies since I've been a digital marketer since more than 12 years so I wonder...is going to GDC a good starting point for marketers? I'm already working with a studio but plan on expanding to more

So basically, the secret, basically, is to be independently wealthy before you start.

interesting story, I think comfort and familiarity is good sometimes, but if you want to get ahead you've gotta be uncomfortable to some degree

It's great to see Hbomb doing well! All hail the hero who brought James Somerton to justice! 🙏

Seeing Hbomb after the fallout is like talking with Death right before he is awaiting to seize your soul

Really interesting conversation and topic. I think trailers are an really important part in marketing and how many times you saw a really uninteresting trailer for a great game. @valadria: The Dicsount code for Dereks Course ist not clear or it does not work... 😞 Anyway, bought your book "How to make a videogame all by yourself" and really like it!! Great work.

Meeting Hbomb and not making the entire video about that ... I dunno.

Great video!

Great video!

The hbomberguy jumpscare was crazy

*takes notes* Also love your book!

Well, if anyone needs their deepl/google translate translations proof-read into Japanese, give me a shout. Translation systems are getting better and better but they still fall short of feeling 'natural' I'll need all of the dialogue in a single txt\doc file, maybe 10 pages max - I won't take on projects bigger than that (too busy with dev/teaching English in Japan) $5 a page. I can get my wife (Japanese) to double check the text comes across properly.

What did you do to make your book so successful?

At 2:40 mark I LMAO'd so loud and spit some danish on my screen that is the funniest most based reaction to his release 3 games a year statement. Love it.

Just added it to my wish list!

Would be cute if there was a little enemy who dirties things in Pixel Washer.

I will wishlist

Just TWO COMMENTS? Undeserved!

One thing that cracks me up about there being turkey legs at Ren Faires is that turkeys are native to the Americas, people certainly weren't eating them in Europe during the actual Renaissance.

I call that phenomenon: Waiting for Permission. I regularly encourage my team members to take the initiative, if they see a problem - fix it, tell me about it - and I have actively told them that I want them to ask forgiveness more often than they ask for permission. The results have been fantastic. It reminds me of Kaizen - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen - which is something I now actively apply to my personal life as well. Trying new things to make tiny improvements and changes all add up quickly - and if you don't then you spend your whole like "standing in line" waiting for the problem to solve itself.

Great talk, really awesome!

i feel _creating playable drafts_ and _pre‐production_ should be on this list just to remind all game developers to do it because doing it wrong or not doing it means that no amount of fine‐tuning can make the game good

maybe art direction should be on this list. good art is only possible once we have the art direction but to find the art direction we have to experiment a lot. and the art direction must be found in pre‐production since it affects the very fabric of the game - not just visuals and sound but also gameplay and the design philosophy. changing art direction mid‐development into more than just a reskin of the current game _will_ break the whole game into dust which is near‐impossible to reconnect - and even if you just upgrade the current art direction without changing the core, prepare to make a lot of unexpected changes so the new skin feels right.

i find shaders are much easier in Godot since that engine makes them as high‐level as reasonably possible. i never want to touch shaders in Unity but in Godot they're a really fun way to polish the graphics with stylish effects - i particularly like simple scalable vector shapes, sometimes with animation and often with programmed or textured fill patterns, as a cool alternative to simple image sprites

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The difference between film and games is agency. They're both visual media, but the director of a film has an abstract concept of a world and a concrete experience they guide the viewer through. The designer of a game has a concrete world and an abstract concept of an experience they introduce a player to. The film viewer has no control in the world, to move the camera. The game designer has no control in the world, to move the player. So the marriage of these, into story trailers / gameplay trailers really does benefit from someone who can speak both languages.

Great video! Lot of great advice!

Great video!

The ATM thing never would have happened in Spain.

The ATM thing never would have happened in Spain.

When it comes to driving, if everybody did the "no stacking" thing, judging which line to get in, as cars compress at the red light, which means changing lanes... all cars behind you slow, or pump the brakes, as you change lane... people want to move left, while others move right, because each perceives different things from different angles... It essentially leads to gridlock. This maps pretty well onto multithreading, and mutexes as you cross lanes. Of course, Game Theory dictates that well-behaved actors benefit more ... but only if everybody behaves well. If everybody is out for themselves, to optimize... well, gridlock; the well-behaved people generally get stuck in the onramp, trying to merge into people blocking them out. Mostly agree with the concept (breadth-first-search for worthwhile ideas, and then focus on a direction you find ... if your goal is innovation, and not just "love letter to your paramour games" or "labor of love, sales be damned".

Have you considered doing an audio book version for Audible? I’d get that!

people are like lemmings (classic game)

ever consider making a book on how to make a book?

What's your philosophy on DEI?

Such a cool video! Thank you Ryan Gosling for sharing your knowledge with us!

Fully agree with this sentiment, especially regarding indie developers, people starting out in creative fields and just life in general. I recently wrote an article about indie game success, interviewing a bunch of developers in the progress, and one of the key points that kept coming up in those interviews was the importance of embracing uniqueness - e.g. No Stacking. Quite like the metaphors you've used in this video to talk about this, well done!

Confused by the analogy why stacking would be the default option instead of exploring? I loathe standing in a queue, I'll check out the other options even if it means I have to requeue in the original line. Finding a niche? Is that a better way to describe the idea?

What about silver stacking?

What games did you make?