Off the Wall - Season 4, Episode 14: The “Booliards” Team: Nomlan & Spebby

SYNOPSIS: @nomlan & @Spebby talks about Booliards, their friend @Flodotelito the crazy artist of Booliards, learning from the game-making experiences. Team communication. Keeping yourself focused. Game piracy.

Music by @Animattronic: https://animattronic.ca

TOPICS

- How did Booliards come to be?

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  Booliards

  by Spebby

  Pool x Arcade Game

  Game

  689 Views

  (Everyone)

- Game jam games

• Tower of Towers, won a Brazilian game jam competition

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  Tower of Towers

  by Flodotelito

  Explore the forbidden Tower of Towers and find all the acorns in it!

  Game

  43,125 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• Egg Rush got a $10 check from Newgrounds

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  Egg Rush

  by Flodotelito

  A cracking arcadey beat-em-up

  Game

  17,130 Views

  (Ages 13+)

- How the Booliards LORE disagreement got solved

- How to organize a project

- Learning from the making mods

• Steam Workshop: Easter Island
• Steam Workshop: Christmas In July

- Game design philosophy

- Approach to time management

• You have to keep yourself focused
• You can get to interesting ideas if you drift off
• Game jams are good practice
• Finding goals for yourself
• If you come up with a good idea write it down
• Pass the idea around to your friends and discuss it

- Journaling the progress

- Expectations of releasing a game

• Nomlan: "I just hope at least three people find it and have as much fun with it as possible."
• Spebby: "We always have realistic expectations when we make a game. Make things that are fun to make and fun for people to play."

- Playing games is not the same as understanding how to make them

• There are all these moving parts
• The least glamorous parts of the game take the most amount of time
• It is a lot more difficult to fix issues than just pointing them out

- The quality of the experience is more important than quantity

• Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
• Before Your Eyes
• Assemble with care
• Risk of Rain
• The Binding of Isaac

- Games that have a good balance

• Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
• Spelunky 2
• Risk of Rain
• Terraria

- Game piracy is necessary for the preservation of the media

• An alternative is not provided
• it's important to have access to emulation

- How big of a part do finances play in the development of a game?

• This is a hobby right now and we are losing money

- Inspirational games

• 

  Fruity Tower

  by Prox276

  Savor the Heights, Brave the Fall, Make them Pay

  Game

  60,280 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  Gappy's Playground

  by LeviRamirez

  A prototype showcase of my next commercial project, starring Gappy :-)

  Game

  20,954 Views

  (Everyone)

- Unconventional, surreal

• Everything is Egg

- Define happiness

• It's great when things work
• Funny gargoyle
• Ghosts

- The "Joe Rogan" segment

• Eating yummy bugs
• Appalachian man with big teeth - 1
• Appalachian man with big teeth - 2
• Funkin' Bad - Vs. Walter White [Friday Night Funkin' X Breaking Bad]
• Friday Night Funkin' VS /v/-tan Zord Update: Sneed

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