Classic Game Postmortem - Bejeweled

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In this 2011 GDC talk, PopCap Games' Jason Kapalka delivers a postmortem of one of the most popular puzzle games of all time.
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@junpeiiori4720 5 лет назад

Bejeweled is among those games that are so simple and so addictive at the same time. Tetris, Minesweeper, Picross all share this behaviour. As an aspiring game developer myself, this type of game is really hard to come up with but dabbling with it really help understand the fundamentals of how a game effects the brain of the player. I really liked this talk. Thanks to GDC for sharing this.

@nfistfu 3 года назад

This guy earns points simply for repeating the question into the mic immediately after it's been asked.

@mineboom7377 2 года назад

Yeah, it's nice. Members of the crowd could be hard for each other to hear when they're too far away, so it helps that he's repeating their questions.

@Notester82 5 лет назад

Aaaaaaaa, it's very coolio to see Bejeweled as a main topic in a GDC talk! .u. Very glad it's available to watch now. Also had no idea about Colors Game's existence, holy heck.

@Wm7forthewin 2 года назад

Bejeweled is one of the best game franchises i've played. Glad to be here to hear this!

@titan-1802 Год назад

15:51 ah yes.. the four unused Gems... while 3 can be found in the files of the Older Revisions of Diamond Mine, poor Gem11 was absent from those.

@Sapphirekiller 3 года назад

My favourite match 3 game that's never replaced by others. 15:51 Pretty interesting to see that there are more than 7 gems.

@r.a.6459 Год назад

3900 hours played 2 Deluxe so far, over 14 years. Just a simple game. No BS blockers and microtransactions commonly seen in mobile Bejeweled clones

@Ldinos 5 лет назад

My favorite game from my favorite game designer guy. Even my youtube grew because of this game!

@MetalHorrorGamer 5 лет назад

When he talks he reminds me of John Carmack (ID Software). John usually says “Mmm” after some of his sentences, this guy kind of does that same thing.

@khaoscero 5 лет назад

very much so.

@SlyHikari03 Год назад

Yeah

@softestcat 5 лет назад

Thank you Jason Kapalka! This game is pretty much my life at times, love playing it to this day. Even the first game.

@MforMovesets 5 лет назад

I love Bejeweled and its optional payment concept. When I intended to work for a game's company making browser games (you know... payment walls... scam... ugh), I said I prefered this method of payment in mobile games, if any. So they told me "That's why they don't make money." Friggin German games industry. Absolute scum.

@softestcat 5 лет назад

Wait, Snackers is in every game? There's a cameo in a UFO in Twist and the SNACKERS code, her name appears on the leaderboard in 3, the Cat's Eye in Blitz (also maybe meows). Anyone know where she is in 1 and 2?

@saphirasorra2203 5 лет назад

I have no idea as well, so far as I know only Twist and Blitz...

@poseeley 5 лет назад

Next up, new release: Bejeweled 99

@comigogames 5 лет назад

Well, yeah, now it is indeed a classic game.

@MsHojat 5 лет назад

Why did Bejeweled Twist take 3 years to make when something like bejeweled 1 was so much shorter?

@raptunoc787 5 лет назад

Probably because it was a radical gameplay overhaul

@WooShell 3 года назад

Bejeweled definitely did not invent that game concept, not even "Color Game" did.. I recall playing a solitaire game with the same combine-three swapping concept back on my Amstrad CPC.. I think it came one one of those many magazine-bundled public domain discs. They only managed to market and micromonetize the shit out of that game concept.

@mineboom7377 2 года назад

Man, remember the mobile java version of Bejeweled? God, those controls were super clunky.

@IDontDoDrumCovers 5 лет назад

well now we need a talk on gorf, also marathon, really want to have a talk on marathon by jason jones

@LazarheaD 5 лет назад

I hate how EA has perverted PopCap into a souless live service company.

@MAJ0Rpyro 5 лет назад

www.geekwire.com/2014/interview-popcaps-john-vechey-says-mistakes-made-selling-ea-isnt-one/

@saphirasorra2203 5 лет назад

One of my reasons why I hate EA so much

@andrewsparkes8829 5 лет назад

Speaking of perverted, I'm not sure what sites Jason Kapalka has visited to affect his personal Google results, but that definitely doesn't show up at all when I google Pacman, PacMan, Pac-Man OR Pac Man.

@titan-1802 Год назад

@@andrewsparkes8829 The Algorithms and Search Results will change over time, obviously because this was years ago and things will change over time.

@siskavard 5 лет назад

Cool insight into a classic game

@fernando5208 5 лет назад

Such a honest and humble guy, great presentation!

@andrewsparkes8829 5 лет назад

It's only humble when you're not pulling other people under the bus with you. There was no need for the slight on Marble Madness. There was tons of ways to phrase the Marble Madness and coke thing other than the "Well, if they're letting in Marble Madness..." way which overwrote the coke thing anyway, since he full well knows the event planners did not have a coke-drenched machine themselves and WAS merely questioning that game's validity to be there. Also...intentionally lying but not saying what it is? What is the point of even watching the rest after he said that, since I won't even know what parts to trust and what part not to trust as truth? Humble guys don't manipulate people or put others down. Using scripted self-deprecation to mask an obvious superiority complex is not humble. He's arrogant as fuck, just with a mumbly, quiet voice. Don't mistake that for being humble.

@juanma4126 5 лет назад

@@andrewsparkes8829 The only lie was the justin bieber one, kinda obvious

@andrewsparkes8829 5 лет назад

@@juanma4126 Except he did that same, unfunny joke with many other photos in the presentation, so that repeated joke clearly wasn't the 'one' lie, since the variations of the joke were on different slides. I love how you call it "obvious" and yet totally missed that he used fake images throughout the presentation, not just the once. So that part was just him thinking he's funnier than he is, not the part where he's lying.

@QuietPenguinGaming Год назад

@@andrewsparkes8829 I agree completely. The guy starts off by attacking others and trying to justify why he should be there. Nothing about him screams honest or humble to me.

5 лет назад

This guys is crazy. Twist is the only good Bejeweled.

@Wm7forthewin 2 года назад

your crazy lol

@pokemongamer1587 Год назад

Why does Bejeweled 1 look slightly different in the presentation?

@TaylorMinecraftGaming Год назад

It's a screenshot of an older version.

@yukimori2104 5 лет назад

Thumbs up everyone admitting having played Pac Man in high school ... (Feels old now, ... thank you *self!* 😾)

@AeronwenTrewent 5 лет назад

I don't see a pic of women in bikinis when i google pacman - why is it on the screen?

@hurricanemixer 5 лет назад

This was from eight years ago. Algorithms and search results change. Either way he was probably just going for a joke, so who cares?

@numgun 5 лет назад

>Classic game >Bejeweled *puts gun in mouth*

@alec9001 5 лет назад

Bejeweled was released in 2000. It IS a classic game.

@saphirasorra2203 5 лет назад

Well, considering this is a 19 year-old (this year) game franchise.

@kylejennings819 5 лет назад

the "hmm" he does in between words is so weird/distracting. A guy I work with (grown man) does the same thing. nice guy, but it sounds like your pinching one off m8.