How I designed Fruit Ninja 

They were testing for the spinoff, Human Ninja!

"I actually ended up being the lead designer for both"

​@@NoNameAtAll2 right side of the brain on one project and left on the other

LOL

@@NoNameAtAll2 talking about multitasking

inb4 he makes a video about Jetpack Joyride and throws in the fact that he designed Temple Run

@@dat_fast_boi and finishing the Temple Run video with he actually designed Flappybird

@K4T *very consistent youtuber* and finishing that video he throws in he designed earth

@@dylantocco6582 and finishing that video he throws in the fact that he designed your mom

​@@gamezone2996 gottem

Get fruit ninja classic! It's what I have and its great :P

Fruit Ninja Classic is still completely changed even from only a few years ago

@@alumlovescake ye cuz the iphone version has ads now

Same here 😭

Last time I played fruit ninja you had to get the blades from lootboxes instead of buying them normally.

Eh it's not survival it's just them milking it. But the concept isn't copyrightable and there are free versions (As he mentioned, the game can be made in a month!), so it's not some great loss to humanity that they milk it.

Companies do survive and make money without shilling micro transactions and battle passes and loot boxes. It’s unnecessary garbage placed there to feed money up the corporate ladder.

lmfao nah a lot of mobile games had microtransactions back then

Help i thought u were a bot for a sec

I am not that old but for now did the same fruit ninja after that jetpack joyride played it so long😮

long see no time.

why is chippy is in the comments of every recommended video to me

What? Terraria content in my Fruit Ninja videos?! 😋

@@menacingskull740 I spend a lot of my day on RU-vid aha!

Yeah definitely he deserved more. But he chose in that moment to be an employee and to have a steady income instead of doing it's own thing taking the risks... It's the same for every salaried person, not just creators

People overestimate this "system" as something incredibly stable and workable, forgetting that the people in charge don't just take money from poor employees, they take a lot of responsibility and risks, spending a ton of time, money, and emotional resources on something that may not work out and is just an attempt to create something cool. The employee will lose their job and may find a new one. The founder of the company may owe a lot of money to investors and not just lose everything, but really bind himself to pay off debts that arose after the attempt of undoubtedly creative people to do something cool.

That's how it works unfortunately, if you create a successful product, the company owns it, not you, even if you are the creator of it. In return though, you get a steady income, you don't have to worry about taking on financial risk and get a bit more 'freedom' to create without worrying about investors breathing down your neck constantly pressuring you to give them a financial return of the money they invested into your company. Personally, I would do the same thing, take on a job that provides a steady income, and if something does become successful, add that to my resume to potentially get my own investors once I felt I was financially stable enough to do so. It is risky though, even with a successful product (that you don't directly own, but created), may get you investment money for your next project, but that next project may fail and you can end up bankrupt/losing your house etc. Reality of creative enterprise sucks!

ppl talking about the risk of the employers while the Luke's team would literally be fired if they didn't land a title and their bosses surely made, and would continue making, more money than him.

@@acd6835 Except it's not stable or steady, is it? We know that devs are overworked and underpaid, and we know that they're laid of in droves whenever companies feel like it.

hahahahaha plot: his grandfather made Tetris

I know right

inb4 he claims to have made Subway Surfers

yeah lol

Based

Bro gonna say he made flappy bird

I swear😭

For real 😂

Fr

Yeah

EXACTLY

do iphones not have functional compasses anymore?

@@seab_ Wait what I thought they still have the app

you fell off :(

is still does lmao idk what he's on about@@idkpike

@@Samford_ you were never up to fall off to who won in the end

its just the phrasing

help

​@@SublimeWeaselwhat

@@user-co4wd3yy9n apparently the phrasing was so funny to me back then

@@SublimeWeasel no I'm talking about the line help

Vividly remember this aspect of it, loved achievement based unlocks

Same, it gave you a concrete goal to work towards whilst still keeping it simple. I'm not a native english speaker so as a child I only really knew really basic stuff, like say... fruit names and numbers, so the sinplicity of the individual achievments meant that I could kind of figure it out even though I didn't know exactly what most of them said.

Respect

@@moneyshifters game devs should normalize that instead of scummy DLC/mtx

What fruit ninja became is difficult for me to see because I loved the simple gameplay but it’s been infected with corporate greed now

You sure you're still not a child?

@@hedonist2104 People whose childhood was in the early 2010's are becoming adults now.

@@Jacxb16 how high are you?

@@hedonist2104 A 10 year old in 2014 is now 19, a 10 year old in 2010 is now 23. If 18-23 is your definition of child I'm pretty sure you're the high one. Yes, there are some people who are still children, like people who were 8 in 2014 are still in high school, but that's why I said BECOMING adults. I know, I'm shocked too time goes by quickly.

@@Jacxb16 you're adding a decade there buddy. 2023 - 2014 is 9 Test

Game developers usually love their games but are forced to deliver it early and unfinished because of budget reasons. The people in the business side are the ones who tend to not care about the game, not the other way around.

Most game developers care about the game they’re working on, assuming they actually want to work on it. Nobody joins that industry as a dev unless they love making video games

@@Dell-ol6hb Well, what about the garten of banban devs? They don’t care for the game, just money.

​@@HeyExclamationPointThat's why Dell said that "Most" of them care. There are always people thank wants only money.

@@Dany126PL Oh, didn’t see the *most* there. Sorry.

I distinctly remember balancing trying to get high scores and getting the achievements while playing the game. It made it so much more fun.

Hah

hi cold fusion 👋

*The victors write the history books, and while General Muscat revels in the sheer numbers of his sanitized kills and precious metal coins in his accounts, my people were almost exterminated and this was a genocide. We will rise again, and march the streets of California to avenge their deaths! Watch your back Muscat! - Captain Banana.*

hey, Dagogo big fan!, there are many game developer stories like that, u can make a documentary about it, even I have one...our game, square bird reached 100 million downloads made by three brothers and published by Moonee, working from India in our tiny "company" called Triangle games. so yeah many interesting stuffs

you

Capitalism and big corps love to fuck over the people who make their money

Yeh that's capitalism buddy. Boss gets all the cake

yeah, came to the comments to say this. I'm guessing he didn't even get some percentage of the profits, as surely even a small amount would have made him pretty wealthy

​@@raymondqiu8202 had he had the capital to pay everyone involved he'd have more of the cake. Instead he traded his idea, labor and time for continued employment and the chance to make a game he wanted. Had the game flopped the only people that lose out here are the people that put up the capital to develop a product that has almost no return on investment.

So it is good when the owner loses all his money trusting on his workers' work, but it's bad when he gets the revenue when there's success? Or the workers, risking years of their savings, lose money when the projects doesn't work or sell and therefore they get the revenue, in the very rare cases, when an investment success. Or they just don't have any responsability on the risking once it fails and so they wouldn't have any portion in the profit if it achieved...

I'm strapped into my jetpack

@@Abypar they’re both amazing in their own ways!

I'm here before it happens

​@@Abypar both

cant wait

Wow that is amazing, thank you for this message and I'm so glad that Jetpack was able to help! I was actually sick and in hospital a lot as a kid as well due to asthma, and used to spend a lot of my time there playing a Game and Watch. Fully understand how much a game can bring to a situation like that.

Я таксама з Беларусi!

​@@lukemuscatthanks for making jetpack joyride still play it sometimes

W MOM

@@r0m3s yep)

no pun intended

@@BBFHoolyit’ll be fruity if it’s intended

These videos SUСК! Mine are way BETTER! 🤑

I feel like this is part of the reason for fruit ninja's popularity among children back then

I lost my shit when he casually said the other game he worked on became jetpack joyride

You forgot about MDickie. His games were and still are top-tier.

what a sad childhood lmao

He makes it clear it wasn't singlehandedly, not to be pedantic

@@zac-1L take 😂

Most Devs care about their creation, but as he said in the video it's a product of a company and if the people at the top management want to make more money or want something to change, the Devs have no choice but to go with it, in the end of the day they're just employees who do what they are told to do

The best games are made with heart, not for profit.

​@@neutrin0329 without money you can't make good games. You need investors, if you can't make money no one will invest on your game.

No one can truly do what they want to because of money xd

fr

Hi Cary! Seems like you have Fruit Ninja as a part of your childhood too!

I'm surprised that you also played it Hope your community sees your comment

EYYY ITS CARY KEY HOLE

He lives

and he’s here too! Hi Cary!

I think one advantage we had was that we had been designing games for the Nintendo DS for a few years. So we had a bit of a head start in terms of understanding touchscreen interaction design!

And now most mobile games are just done by fake companies who copy-paste the same game into unity 50 times, change the assets a bit, add 50 ads per level, and then upload it onto all platforms while making and paying for people to see fake ads for those games. Kinda sad where the mobile game market has gone to now, if only there were more devs like Luke here who actually wanted to make a good game.

@@vic_710 They even go beyond that. Making fake ads that are supposed to prove that the game is not fake, but when you check out the game is just scam like any other.

@@vic_710 A big part of that is Unity itself. A huge portion of that engine is literally in-built engine features to display, integrate, and utilize advertisements. It's the primary reason that it's _the_ mobile game engine of choice. Unity has so many tools and make it so easy to include advertisements inside of your project that it gained a large portion of the mobile development base and created this feedback loop where new developers are also drawn to Unity because of how popular it is. Those new developers include ads because of how easy Unity makes it. Those ads create a lot of money, which creates new developers who are again drawn to Unity.

@@vic_710 Blame apple's developer's license prices tbh

Haha thats great, you must be one of the VERY FEW people who actually played Rocket Racing. I always wished it would attract some kind of speed running scene, because the game is nails and you can always shave 100ths of a second off times, haha.

@@lukemuscat I didn't play it but it looks really fun.

@@lukemuscat it doesn't matter that rocket racing failed. You made jet pack joyride which is 1 of my favorite games of all time for mobile. And fruit ninja was also really fun for a game that seems monotonous. It doesn't feel monotonous to me even though it looks like that.

@@lukemuscat I think with the current mobile gaming market, I genuinely would think it could succeed. It just was a game too ahead of it's time Currently the closest game I can think of for that game is rocket league sideswipe...the game's skill ceiling looks similar in terms of input controls and whatnot

@@lukemuscat hey!

Man I just knew he made those 5 otome games I had on my iPhone

real

"How I made flappy bird"

Fr

Half Brick Studios also made, uh… Dan the Man? Has anyone else played that?

Hahaha, yeah the laser sequences were indeed a bit of a beast. We used XML files to define positions, timings and behaviours for each sequence, and then just had lots of sequences the game could pick form and a difficulty rating for each so it could start easy and pick harder ones later. Pretty laborious, we didn't have any good visual tools for creating that kind of stuff!

he would be on the mount rushmore for nostalgia too lmao

In that mount we should have also early popcap games

And subway surfers and temple run

Can I see your code. I’ve been working on something similar. (If you could)

Yeah man , I am speechless about this , the person who pour his heart in game development is explaining concepts like he his still working under project , he was neglected from business side

Cause he was an employee not a shareholder or contractor and didn’t pitch his idea for capital. He chose job security consistent pay regardless of success and other employment benefits. He could have taken his fruit ninja idea to an investor and made the game himself, employing the 2 other creators and the rest of the crew. Had it flopped it would have lost all that capital. Learn basic economics please

@@tcideh4929 yeah the ceo pretty much fucked this guy in the ass but then again it was the easiest route

@@tcideh4929 also is not his idea though, its the company's idea

@@tcideh4929 lol you think that because you understand the risks and process for late-stage capitalism that makes it good? you can’t just spout a bunch of processes and think that you dunked on op for complaining about how stupid late stage capitalism is and how often the working people get robbed of merit for their work and IP. learn about other economic systems please

When Neuroscience Australia approached us with the idea, I was super keen, as my father had suffered from a heart attack just months earlier. I didn't find time to get into it deeper in this video, but the game tracked your performance in different segments of the screen with the idea that if you had suffered a loss of vision in a specific region, the game would be able to detect and perhaps be a tool to improve this. The game had lots of settings so you could change the size, speed and colors of the fruit so it could be tailored to different ability levels. I have no idea how successful or widely spread the trial was, but it felt very worth spending the time on that's for sure!

@@lukemuscathello, im doing a school project & i think i want to make a game that helps patients just like you described . Can you get back to me with more details it will help a ton!

"no pack openings, no loot chests, no special cards" well yes, because in your childhood those concepts didn't even exist in games

@@Omnis.satanica.potestas_omnis Weeeeell, not exactly...I mean, clash royale and other games became popular in 2016, when fruit ninja and jetpack joyride were still played with. With that phrase I meant that I prefer more "old school" games, like them. Nothing bad on appreciating pack openings or things like that, it was just my opinion 🤙🏻

@@Omnis.satanica.potestas_omnis It's almost like that's exactly what he's saying made the games special...

@@Omnis.satanica.potestas_omnis League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokemon are only a few extremely popular games I can think of off the top of my head, all of which either have pack opening, loot chests, and/or special cards. (Granted, WoW primarily gets money from their required subscription service.) You're not only a complete idiot who missed the point of OP's comment, but you're also a nincompoop who conveniently forgot that some of the most popular pre-2009 games of all time are loot games. These existed before Fruit Ninja.

@@Omnis.satanica.potestas_omnis yes, bc games weren't as focused on nickel and diming their players

It was very cool game and still is

Can you elaborate on how a game released in 2010 is creative for the time? Lmfaoo

@@nathanielpatterson6963 I remembered 2010 used to have quite gimmicky apps or games as it's trying to make use for the touch screen, and not necessarily simplicity. Halfbrick took advantage of that along with doodle jump and subway surfers

​@GIGACHAD shut up gigachad

@GIGACHAD ☝️🤓

​@GIGACHAD Cope harder

@GIGACHAD giganotchad

​@GIGACHAD cope

For real... I googled his net worth expecting it to be 10M+

Seriously, it brought in literally billions of dollars for his company and immediately after leaving, he's in a dorm room with $0 to his name. This isn't a success story, it's a cautionary tale

@@32BitJunkie capitalism in a nutshell. Workers produces the sum amount of worth but get the least amount of money

​@32BitJunkie He may not have all the money, but I bet if he was in a tough time there would be many supporting him.

@@32BitJunkie Id be greatful to have any game of mine end up half as popular as this regardless

This is so much more true than you know! He's a hand's down industry genius.

i wasnt even on a team and love fruit ninja till this day xd

or my first year of medical school lectures

But how is a company allowed to get in a such a big dept? To me it's just unreasonable to get a 300k loan and not being 100% sure you can pay it back. I mean, what if your idea doesn't work out and you spent the next century just paying back the loan?

@@matejmlakar5401 It's business man, there are no guarantees especially if you are taking risks to create cool new stuff.

​@@matejmlakar5401 "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." An age-old proverb which means if you never take any risks, you'll never achieve anything great. Another modern proverb is "You miss every shot you don't take". While it may seem stupid to go into debt over a game, you have to remember that some of the best games you've ever played may not have been created without fear of failure. That's all business. You take a risk with some people you trust, and you hope you get lucky enough to make it big. With the right amount of work and just a touch of luck, a record-breaking idea tops the charts. So, you can spend the rest of your life playing it safe; that's totally respectable and there's nothing wrong with that; or, you can make a difference and create a legacy for yourself. You just have to take risks.

Balls

​@@matejmlakar5401 In the grand scheme of game business, 300K is small potatoes.

This is what every game studio does though since forever. I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

​@@sunderark he's talking about the innovation and breaking out of the boring mold designed to make as much money as possible

@@sunderark not every game dev studio makes good games though, that's the hard part

especially the cheap ad

Same

How does it work now?

​@@nahometesfay1112You have to get starfruit to buy stuff

​@@lessalazar9068 fruit micro transactions

That'sso cute

Wholesome

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I wish I was you

We need more devs like this

That's quite bad.

Get a better attention span

Get off TikTok

@@Jay_0605 ??

⁠@@PouahFaytiktok is known to shorten your attention span due to its very short and quick video format, stay away from it…

jetpack joyride = best endless runner

he has only 11 videos ,kinda hard to have many subs at beginning

Tbf you have to incrementally increase your subscriber count

its how making a channel works you dont get 1 million subs by making one video

I also truly support passionate game developers all around the world, but I understand the problem we have now. Games are not the same anymore. I didn't meant games like a single "game", you know. Gaming has become very different and the main reason I find is it going mainstream. Just like every other thing, going mainstream always causes major shift of core principles etc. Just think about it, if you can make like $1 from hundreds of millions of people vs $10 from like some thousands of people? The choice is very intuitive. So... In the present era, games are supposed to be played for only some hours by many, MANY people, and the company is challenged to make a bank from that small span of time that they gain from people. People in today's date have so much to do, and every other year or so there's always some new trend, a new toy in the room that pops up and that's what everybody supposedly plays. This means, games for mainstream audience is a very small part of their lives, and there's nothing wrong with it. This is kind of the ultimate faith of every new toy that's going to happen. For once, it will be played whole heartedly for the whole day. Later, it will be put on side when a new toy comes in. (Have you watched Toy Story?) The old toy will be played for little time, and the producers of that toy have to feed the greed (the investors that help keep the ship afloat) by making whatever they could from the little shared of experience the old toy has left to give. I feel like the only way all of this can be stopped and gaming can go back to its roots is by treating companies as projects rather than a ship. Like, you create this company and then create the product that you wanted. Then when you feel like you're done giving with that project, you make everybody pack their bags and go home with whatever you made and kill the company. This will create other problems, such as what's going to happen with the game you made? What about the little userbase that still cares? You know, all that sentimental issues. Maybe being strict at the limitation of consumption is the only way? The people that are still left playing will find something else anyways. But then again, the companies have way more uses than just a being startup for some project, like giving jobs, becoming rich etc. Companies are assets and we really need to do something about it.

The Problem is, that the majority of the Devs truly care about what they create. Apex Legends and Overwatch Devs for example want to create a great game. the real problem are the people above them. giving them impossible deadlines, where they are forced to rush the process and makes them unable to put in a lot of love. all that for money. thats why you get all the alpha access and unfinished games....

Bro same

ok but not single-handedly at all

I hate ur pfp

He didn’t design the entire game

@@cheated4687 what they mean is that he came up with the og idea

yeah i mean its the internet, if he didnt..... you know where that goes.

@@Shwanksy okay...

@@willoverdoseonmusic im only joking around lol

I know, the new fruit ninja just makes me sad now... 😔

hey guys, do you know that theres a dude who cracked the old version? so its still playable! search it on yt

arcade is goated i remember getting like 1300 for the first time before they added levels and different blades and shi

Jesus loves all of you! Turn to him before it’s too late!

@@skither4305 shut up bum i worship the devil fr

It took us13 year to figure that he made fruit ninja

well, Linus Torvalds, James Baxter

There's levels to this shit

they are denominated Gods

@@Dyl_With_A_Cam ⁹9⁹999⁹

@@Dyl_With_A_Cam there are*

i always liked how simple mobile games were, i feel like once phones got the levels of processing power they have today games just became console and pc games with a touchscreen and it lost the charm.

Yeah, sad that they have to ruin every mobile game with ads every 10 seconds and 3 different currencies.

Same i remember dying to get new backgrounds HAHAHHA

I also remember it very fondly. I used to play it on my friend's I-Phone in 6th grade all the time. I went looking for the game again 10 years later, DLed it, realized the game had become so heavily monetized, I lost interest quickly.

nobel peace prize is for making more peace through countries as in political matters such as war

He also created temple run and Flappy bird

that's not how nobel peace prize work

@@22karot he did not make flappy bird

@@22karot those comments were joking my guy

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