Hey, I hope you enjoyed the video. Here are some common questions that usually come up with this format: *Will you do this again?* Yes. *How can I send you my game?* I announce these videos a week or two beforehand together with instructions on how to participate. The best way not to miss the next application phase is to join us on Discord (link in description) and grab the @PingMeForAnnouncements role. :) *When will do this again?* I don't know. I'd assume in a few months maybe? Depends on how much you smash that like button. :P *Where is the subscribe button? I really want to press it.* The subscribe button is the big red button right under the video. It's carrying the letters "subscribe", so you can't really miss it. WARNING! There is a common issue for people who are already subscribed. If you can't find the red button, that means you have to unsubscribe first. Otherwise subscribing won't work.
Nice - I think I’ll be ready to submit something next time! Not sure if it’s going to be at the level as these, but it’s my first one and it’d be good to get some feedback!
I mean, if your graphics is burned onto toast, your frame rate is only going to be as fast as you can stick bread on the toaster, so you might as well play with max graphics, right?
Just a tip if I were u I wouldn’t describe ur game as “short yet unique” in the steam description. It makes the buyer question how much content they are going to receive. There is no reason to say anything remotely bad about ur game in the description, and it’s not misleading to not say “short”. Obviously don’t lie, but there’s no reason for that to be in. Otherwise great video and game :).
Ye, and if you have a short amount of gameplay, try to take your main game mechanic and make it an infinite game mode. That way if they want more gameplay, they can get it and you don't have to make more story, unique levels, etc.
Though a little disappointed that my game didn’t make it in, this was still a great video! You really inspire me and I’ve taken a lot of your advice to heart,, I love the things you do, never stop, my guy
Ey, thanks for participating. Appreciate the kind words. Wish you all the best for your game project and hope I get to play it some time in the future. :)
Oh yeah. My favorite game was that snail game, Will You Snail? It looked super polished, plus you’ve definitely never played it before just like everything else on the list. /s (though Will You Snail? looks great and I can’t wait until the full release :)
Agreed the game will you snail looked soo good and I would definitely subscribe to the creator of the game if they made a youtube channel to show progress to the game. Glad to see Jonas giving credit to other devolopers like the devoloper of will you snail.
Thanks for this vid! I completely redesigned my game sense you said "don't combine skill and puzzle." I decided to take out the skill part and after then I came with a much better idea that makes the game actually unique and enforces more memory and puzzle-solving from the player.
Jonas: 25:14 "But then, why am I a rocket and the enemies are squares" Also Jonas: Making a game where the player is a snail and the enemies are triangles/a floating emoji.
In germany we call people like Jonas "Ehrenmann" thank you Jonas for your Videos many of them helped me to improve my game idea and I wish that one day I can defeat my depression and show you what I created.
Thanks Jonas for the time you take to play all these games and your willingness to always give detailed feedback!! Lots of interesting stuff & hopefully I will be able to apply a lot of the tips in this video to my game Tempered Flames as well.
A little critique for Will You Snail; As far as I can tell, you have mostly single-screen levels and when you die you go back to the beginning of the screen, much like Celeste. If that’s correct, then I love the way you handled death and punishment in a game where you’re SUPPOSED to die. It’s genius. If you didn’t handle death in a non-frustrating way, then playing your game won’t be fun, since, like I assumed earlier, it looks like you’re supposed to die a lot. Also, it looks like you have a double jump in your game, but there doesn’t appear to be anything telegraphing whether you still have the double jump, like Celeste has changing hair colors. Maybe you could have some sort of visual effect, like a vignette, or maybe change the snail’s color. When you jump, it looks like there’s a blue circle that appears where you do, but when you double jump it’s exactly the same, so maybe you could change that. (Celeste is my favorite game lol) That’s my critique. Other than those things, the game is perfect and looks REALLY good, I’ll definitely be wishlisting it on Steam.
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback. Appreciate it. In Will You Snail I already have the double jump indicator for underwater levels. In most other levels the jump is so short that it's not super necessary. Unlike in celeste, there are no other in air moves like dashes, wall jumps etc. On the other hand I suppose having and indicator for that wouldn't hurt either so I'll definitely think about it and see if I can come up with a good idea for it. Thank you! :)
@@JonasTyroller oh my gosh one of my favorite game devs and personal heroes replied to me, and he said that he’d take my critique into consideration! Thank you so much!!! I must be dreaming.
300 mails? Ooph! That sounds overwhelming. You really got a great community! Some of the games also look very polished already. I'm impressed! 12:20 "Obviously I've never played this game, that's why I'm starting it from my IDE." That snail game looks weird. I don't know what the creator was trying to say with it. Guess I'll check it out when it's out ;P 18:15 Settlers of Catan vibes. 21:55 Du redest aber ziemlich übertrieben betont :D
Wow these guys are so talented . I am working on some games but they do not look anything like these games . I do however have an idea for a game that I would like to see you take a shot at making . It is a post apocalyptic skateboarding game where you kill zombies with the blades on your customized skateboard . I do not want to sell myself short but I do not think that I am going to be able to make it . I got the idea from playing all of the Tony Hawk games but I have also played a lot of zombie games such as all the Resident Evil games , State of Decay , Left For Dead etc... so I thought why not combine the two I am sure that would sell however I can not make it so you guys can have that idea. I played a Metal gear solid game that is probably responsible for at least %20 of that idea .
I didn’t send my game in time sadly, I hope I could do this next time, btw the video is great, more games in less time is much better idea then playing only 3 games in video.
I loved seeing Horde being shown off! I remember seeing the WIP shots during the jam and thinking "I'm gonna submit my jam entry but this game is gonna murder it." lol. It's such an awesome idea and definitely wanted to see it go farther. Also the "Will You Snail?" game looked like a lot fun; wonder where I've seen it before 🤔 It's awesome to see you play and critique games from other creators. My favorite part of the indie game dev scene has been the community and how really nerdy and cool most people are. Awesome video as always!
Awesome video Jonas!! Not surprised my game didn't get picked(after all Phagocytes was my first game ever XD). Keep uploading quality videos like these!!
I like these kind of videos whe you play other peoples games cuz you give them feedback and the person whos watching i think you give you give them encouragment to start there own game too
LOVE THIS CHANNEL! Thanks for doing this Jonas! Also when you talked about the puzzle-platformer game. It got me thinking... and then I realized I think Zelda Breath of the wild does this. Either you're solving a puzzle or you're doing something with combat.. never both at the same time though... maybe I'm wrong?
Wanted to get my game ready to send, but I ultimately thought that the game wasn't really good enough to do so, since it was a 5 day game jam game. Anyway, great video! Many of the games are looking really good!
Hello wonderful game devs! How do I express a character personality from animations? Personality traits such as lazy/relaxed, Hot headed trash talker, and someone pretending to be a normal cactus when actually being alive.
Daaammmnn am I the only one whose ears were completely destroyed in the screens where you showed the title of the next game by this super loud, super high pitched sound?
I liked pretty much every game, they look fantastic and have so much potential, and even in an early state most of them were substantialy polished. Also a little feedback regarding to the video, the high end of the sound effect that plays in the game titles is so annoying, it feels like my brain is being drilled, so check that frequency peak in that SFX because it´s irritating, but amazing video. I hope to send you my demo for the next one!
Hey Jonas I have a good idea of creating my first puzzle game but having trouble getting ideas for it. think you could make a video on this subject please.
1:22 this game needs a lot of thought around performance and it will be great, for starters maybe only the very first zombies have some logic, the others can be empty shells that just follow, also a manager that manages them all in 1 script, it looks like each of them have individual logic attached to them
For the second game what you could do is add some better complimenting colors. Lower the Saturation, use more contrast composition etc. Make the level borders more interesting
Feedback. The zombies should 'hoard' when you walk near other zombies. If they are alive, they should kill them and move on. Leaving the body for x time until it stands as a zombie. Instead of a blood spatter. they area attracted to noise. So make it a sound icon. If there were ways to split your zombies and leave them so you can get attention of police then make noise to call in the zombies from the opposite side.
Wow, i feel like you covered a lot really fast. You didn't say too much tó each game, but that probably means that you're giving the advice to the problems that stick out most.
Hey, I hope you enjoyed the video. Here are some common questions that usually come up with this format:
*Will you do this again?*
Yes.
*How can I send you my game?*
I announce these videos a week or two beforehand together with instructions on how to participate. The best way not to miss the next application phase is to join us on Discord (link in description) and grab the @PingMeForAnnouncements role. :)
*When will do this again?*
I don't know. I'd assume in a few months maybe? Depends on how much you smash that like button. :P
*Where is the subscribe button? I really want to press it.*
The subscribe button is the big red button right under the video. It's carrying the letters "subscribe", so you can't really miss it. WARNING! There is a common issue for people who are already subscribed. If you can't find the red button, that means you have to unsubscribe first. Otherwise subscribing won't work.
Yes I just found it, I need to press it!
Can you remove the high-pitched whine in the neon transition screen?
Nice - I think I’ll be ready to submit something next time! Not sure if it’s going to be at the level as these, but it’s my first one and it’d be good to get some feedback!
FLATLAND VOL.1 on Steam. Someone stole your game idea and look.
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Hi! I'm the dev for brainstormed, just to say THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This was huge for me. :)
that game was crazy! definitely something I'd play while just chilling. The art is amazing!
@George Henry hey man just to say your a great help and i really appreciate all your doing. Keep it up man :)
@@theletterg2370 thanks!
It looks surreal. Is this going to be a ‘outer wilds’ type game where you explore the lore of this strange place.
The aesthetic was cool.
What was the game about?🤔
Hey Jonas. I play on a toaster. Thanks for adding graphics settings to "Will You Snail?"
It really is an underated controller method
@@tobyk5091 Agreed.
WYS is not quite as toaster friendly as I'd like yet. Still working on it. I'll try my best. :P
As long as it's playable :P
I mean, if your graphics is burned onto toast, your frame rate is only going to be as fast as you can stick bread on the toaster, so you might as well play with max graphics, right?
This is the TH-cam I like, Independent creators creating the universe.So much upgrade in Quality of games!🔥
The quality of the games you sent me this time was pretty insane indeed. Had a blast playing them. :D
I like how a little mistake like not leaving a space after period makes an URL
Just a tip if I were u I wouldn’t describe ur game as “short yet unique” in the steam description. It makes the buyer question how much content they are going to receive. There is no reason to say anything remotely bad about ur game in the description, and it’s not misleading to not say “short”. Obviously don’t lie, but there’s no reason for that to be in. Otherwise great video and game :).
Ye, and if you have a short amount of gameplay, try to take your main game mechanic and make it an infinite game mode. That way if they want more gameplay, they can get it and you don't have to make more story, unique levels, etc.
What happened here? There was a huge quality increase from the last uploads - well done jonas!
Happy to hear that. Thank you. :)
I loved it too
i actually remember playing horde, it was made for a weekly game jam and it was really fun
Weekly game jam week 150
Thanks for checking out My Beautiful Paper Smile!
Though a little disappointed that my game didn’t make it in, this was still a great video! You really inspire me and I’ve taken a lot of your advice to heart,, I love the things you do, never stop, my guy
Where can i play your game?
Ey, thanks for participating. Appreciate the kind words. Wish you all the best for your game project and hope I get to play it some time in the future. :)
You can post your games on the discord so others can try it out.
Oh yeah. My favorite game was that snail game, Will You Snail? It looked super polished, plus you’ve definitely never played it before just like everything else on the list.
/s (though Will You Snail? looks great and I can’t wait until the full release :)
Agreed the game will you snail looked soo good and I would definitely subscribe to the creator of the game if they made a youtube channel to show progress to the game. Glad to see Jonas giving credit to other devolopers like the devoloper of will you snail.
Haha. Thank you!! :D
Thanks for this vid! I completely redesigned my game sense you said "don't combine skill and puzzle." I decided to take out the skill part and after then I came with a much better idea that makes the game actually unique and enforces more memory and puzzle-solving from the player.
Jonas: 25:14 "But then, why am I a rocket and the enemies are squares"
Also Jonas: Making a game where the player is a snail and the enemies are triangles/a floating emoji.
In the snowy game it would be cool to see a grapple to save yourself from sliding into water, or to climb obstacles!
Couldn't help noticing when Jonas starting playing his game "Will you snail?":
Jonas: "You are a snail in this game"
Enemy AI: "Hello HUMAN!" :)
Hey! Thank you so much for the feedback on Rift World Jonas! I hear you, faster movement!!
Thank god there's another one of these! I live for this series. Keep up the awesome work Jonas!
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11:55 marketing 10/10
acting 10/10
gameplay 10/10
wishlisted 10/10
In germany we call people like Jonas "Ehrenmann" thank you Jonas for your Videos many of them helped me to improve my game idea and I wish that one day I can defeat my depression and show you what I created.
Do u know if jonas is from Germany? Thought he would live in skandinavia
@@stn6428 no he's German
the quality of your videos are increasing hugely from video to video, can i give you a virtual hug? :)
Thanks Jonas for the time you take to play all these games and your willingness to always give detailed feedback!! Lots of interesting stuff & hopefully I will be able to apply a lot of the tips in this video to my game Tempered Flames as well.
A little critique for Will You Snail;
As far as I can tell, you have mostly single-screen levels and when you die you go back to the beginning of the screen, much like Celeste.
If that’s correct, then I love the way you handled death and punishment in a game where you’re SUPPOSED to die.
It’s genius.
If you didn’t handle death in a non-frustrating way, then playing your game won’t be fun, since, like I assumed earlier, it looks like you’re supposed to die a lot.
Also, it looks like you have a double jump in your game, but there doesn’t appear to be anything telegraphing whether you still have the double jump, like Celeste has changing hair colors. Maybe you could have some sort of visual effect, like a vignette, or maybe change the snail’s color.
When you jump, it looks like there’s a blue circle that appears where you do, but when you double jump it’s exactly the same, so maybe you could change that.
(Celeste is my favorite game lol)
That’s my critique.
Other than those things, the game is perfect and looks REALLY good, I’ll definitely be wishlisting it on Steam.
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback. Appreciate it. In Will You Snail I already have the double jump indicator for underwater levels. In most other levels the jump is so short that it's not super necessary. Unlike in celeste, there are no other in air moves like dashes, wall jumps etc. On the other hand I suppose having and indicator for that wouldn't hurt either so I'll definitely think about it and see if I can come up with a good idea for it. Thank you! :)
@@JonasTyroller oh my gosh one of my favorite game devs and personal heroes replied to me, and he said that he’d take my critique into consideration!
Thank you so much!!!
I must be dreaming.
The video editing style was insane, way better in my opinion.Well done Jonas!
Cool video. You pushed me to release my game in time to submit. Too bad I was not picked this time, will try again next time :)
So cool that you play subscribers games, your a great person!
300 mails? Ooph! That sounds overwhelming. You really got a great community! Some of the games also look very polished already. I'm impressed! 12:20 "Obviously I've never played this game, that's why I'm starting it from my IDE." That snail game looks weird. I don't know what the creator was trying to say with it. Guess I'll check it out when it's out ;P 18:15 Settlers of Catan vibes. 21:55 Du redest aber ziemlich übertrieben betont :D
11:50
I would recommend putting a little compass on the screen to tell the player were to go.
Very cool that my friend Nick's game made it in (Rift World)! It's getting constant work done and the current build is pretty nice!
You didnt play Dwerve 😢 (Tower Defense RPG)
You misspelled defense, because I'm pretty sure your game doesn't revolve around respecting the towers. Love your tutorials by the way.
Ok lol
No way... Pixel Pete is here. I love your channel ❤👍
You should have a video where you replay some of these games that had updates after your advice
I am in a vacation of game dev watching anime....one piece .....how could I Miss a video of this legend......I remembered when you was 5.6k subs
Wow these guys are so talented . I am working on some games but they do not look anything like these games . I do however have an idea for a game that I would like to see you take a shot at making . It is a post apocalyptic skateboarding game where you kill zombies with the blades on your customized skateboard . I do not want to sell myself short but I do not think that I am going to be able to make it . I got the idea from playing all of the Tony Hawk games but I have also played a lot of zombie games such as all the Resident Evil games , State of Decay , Left For Dead etc... so I thought why not combine the two I am sure that would sell however I can not make it so you guys can have that idea. I played a Metal gear solid game that is probably responsible for at least %20 of that idea .
German lessons with Jonas (21:50) made a previously not scary horror game really creepy instead. They should hire you as a voice actor! :D
Lol. :D
I didn’t send my game in time sadly, I hope I could do this next time, btw the video is great, more games in less time is much better idea then playing only 3 games in video.
That sneaky plug in the middle ;)
All the games look awesome tho!
Could you make another episode? :)
these videos are so damn fun to watch!!
I loved seeing Horde being shown off! I remember seeing the WIP shots during the jam and thinking "I'm gonna submit my jam entry but this game is gonna murder it." lol. It's such an awesome idea and definitely wanted to see it go farther.
Also the "Will You Snail?" game looked like a lot fun; wonder where I've seen it before 🤔
It's awesome to see you play and critique games from other creators. My favorite part of the indie game dev scene has been the community and how really nerdy and cool most people are.
Awesome video as always!
hMmMmM tHaT "WiLL yOU sNAiL" gAme L0okS iNtErEsTiNG
I love that he played his own game stroking his ego the whole time
You know that feeling when you sweat the whole video waiting to hear what's he going to say about your game and your game doesn't appear.
Awesome video Jonas!! Not surprised my game didn't get picked(after all Phagocytes was my first game ever XD). Keep uploading quality videos like these!!
Great video. Not only you tested the games you enhanced a couple of them :)
Love Adventure's style!
The production value has really increased
I like these kind of videos whe you play other peoples games cuz you give them feedback and the person whos watching i think you give you give them encouragment to start there own game too
i really love theses videos! thx jonas! :)
That was some sneaky self-promotion Jonas 👀
9:09 frick billy.
yeah he don't let us to get milk
@@adnelblanco7883 i once saw billy mixing oj (cringe) with milk. 😱
all my homies hate billy
W H E E Z E
@@int4_t yep.
LOVE THIS CHANNEL! Thanks for doing this Jonas! Also when you talked about the puzzle-platformer game. It got me thinking... and then I realized I think Zelda Breath of the wild does this. Either you're solving a puzzle or you're doing something with combat.. never both at the same time though... maybe I'm wrong?
Wow, that self promotion was extremely subtle and worked amazing xD
The jump sound effect in adventure sounds exactly like a jump sound effect I made in a game. It’s crazy how similar it is.
Wanted to get my game ready to send, but I ultimately thought that the game wasn't really good enough to do so, since it was a 5 day game jam game.
Anyway, great video! Many of the games are looking really good!
Alot of these games looked great! Whats the best way to submit our games to have a chance of getting them played next time you decide to do this? 😀
Hello wonderful game devs!
How do I express a character personality from animations? Personality traits such as lazy/relaxed, Hot headed trash talker, and someone pretending to be a normal cactus when actually being alive.
Neues Format „Deutsch-Unterricht mit Jonas“😂
Ich wusste nicht einmal das er Deutsch kann XD
FuchsYT er hat ja gesagt er hat in Berlin Game School gemacht.
Achso, ich habe noch nicht so viel von ihm geschaut :D
Wishlisted will you snail. Loved this video and learned so much. Hope when I start my projects I will implement them :).
My man really just turned into the hulk at 11:04
I am also very glad to be part of your team in Will You Snail! :D
Jonas Tyroller: *Dies a bunch of times*
Jonas Tyroller: Oh yeah, yes, I like this, yes!
Thanks for making these video's! Although Ive never given you my game I love them And get lots of new stuff to learn!
Happy to hear that. Thank you. :)
Your video just got a lot more interesting
These vids are amazing... could watch ‘em all day!
"This just makes me scared of going crazy" fore shadowing
The game at 4:36 is pretty much the exact same game I sent, just done much better. At least I technically still get feedback!
Daaammmnn am I the only one whose ears were completely destroyed in the screens where you showed the title of the next game by this super loud, super high pitched sound?
Really enjoy the content! The in betweens with different fonts and sfx are interesting, could be improved, but good none the less, keep it up!
What font did you use for the titles of the games?
No idea as I didn't edit the video this time. Sorry. :D
13:45 'Stop hitting yourself!' Your game look really nice. The snail is pretty cute.
I liked pretty much every game, they look fantastic and have so much potential, and even in an early state most of them were substantialy polished. Also a little feedback regarding to the video, the high end of the sound effect that plays in the game titles is so annoying, it feels like my brain is being drilled, so check that frequency peak in that SFX because it´s irritating, but amazing video. I hope to send you my demo for the next one!
You should make a video telling us about good boss game design
I think that Deadfall game would be really cool if it was pirate themed, 1v1 battles with your friends could be pretty cool as well! 🙃
How do you verify someone's not sneaked something malicious into the games?
DANI WHERE DID YOU HIDE HIM
haha i see sneaky dani reference
NICE cant wait for more episodes :D
Awesome video 👍 Awesome edit with high quality 👍 Awesome comments 🎮 Please upload your videos at least every two weeks
25:25 Dani: *challenge accepted*
U ARE ONE OF THE REASONS I ENTERED THE DEV GAMING INDUSTRY.
I SWEAR U ARE AMAZING AND PHENOMENAL PERSON. SUPPORT U UNTIL I DIE🔥❤❤
Its like a mobile game zombie tsunami but this time its in 3D looking forward to see it in Googleplay or AppleArcade
The snail game loooks kind of difficult even to discover why the snail died so easily in your video.
Hey Jonas I have a good idea of creating my first puzzle game but having trouble getting ideas for it. think you could make a video on this subject please.
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The zombie games and the tower defense have potential
I've heard the music in the Dreadfall game before.. it's something german i don't quite remember what. (i live in germany too)
1:22 this game needs a lot of thought around performance and it will be great, for starters maybe only the very first zombies have some logic, the others can be empty shells that just follow, also a manager that manages them all in 1 script, it looks like each of them have individual logic attached to them
Those games look really promising
Congrats for the devs
11:53 wow what an amazing game, can't wait for release. I wonder who it's by... ??
For the second game what you could do is add some better complimenting colors. Lower the Saturation, use more contrast composition etc. Make the level borders more interesting
OMG the game horde is in my jam and the creator gave me feedback and I saw the game there it is amazing
8:53 that laugh cured my sleep schedule
Feedback. The zombies should 'hoard' when you walk near other zombies. If they are alive, they should kill them and move on. Leaving the body for x time until it stands as a zombie.
Instead of a blood spatter. they area attracted to noise. So make it a sound icon. If there were ways to split your zombies and leave them so you can get attention of police then make noise to call in the zombies from the opposite side.
Dang, that wys neon light text looks great. Good quality increase
And here I am being a huge fan of puzzle platformers.
I love the series where he plays games so i can learn by other's mistakes
This channel is really underrated.
Almost everyone who has watched so far has commented
Almost 8k have watched but about 200 has commented....
Nah
Ok ?
not me
ooh shit
That snail game is pretty cool, I wonder who made it
Wow, i feel like you covered a lot really fast. You didn't say too much tó each game, but that probably means that you're giving the advice to the problems that stick out most.
*"I made the best game in the world*
*In my dreams"*
To think, he was one of the first to play my beautiful paper smile
Nice vid! Good stuff!
if you see this you missed that Will you snail is in the description abowe
The sfx in the 4th game reminded me of amanita design
i know it's old but still.
you can force a lot of steam games into a specific language by adding the launch option "-culture=en" without the quotes.