How To Fail At Puzzle Games 

well.. it is. ...technically.

@@Artindi_technally_

Ha ha. I might need to make a part two now so I can steal your joke. :)

There's a completely opposite but way more frustrating thing than really convoluted puzzles. Puzzles which are ridiculously easy to *solve* but the solution is insanely hard to *execute* . Like, imagine you had a chamber with three stone disks, each so large they can cover a doorway, but they have an opening you could walk through. Now, you have to move them so that the doors line up, opening the path. The trick is, you have to use levers that take long to reset, and if you move them in the wrong order (which is revealed through trial and error), the doors reset. Oh, you finally did it? Well, the next room has this, but 5 times! The solution: mad easy. In fact I just came up with that ^^ The execution? Might take you hours.

Seriously, why do some games make it so unbelievably obvious what the solution is

That would be how it goes for sure. Lol :)

yellow paint

That's what I'm talk'n 'bout!

I hope we don't fail at that! :)

Yeah, cause it's a puzzle how we still have any friends after making this game.

Thanks! Glad you liked it and my efforts where not in vain. :)

@@Artindi I guarantee you they were not, i will be watching the other videos as soon as I can, really liked it man keep it up

There was background music? I need to turn the volume up...

Suggestion: do "how to fail at accessibility" next. It would include stuff like "never add settings to your game" or "make the game as loud as possible, make cutscenes unskipable, cuz you really worked on that, you can't allow people to straight up skip that" and "most importantly, don't make important parts of gameplay stand out from decoration, as it would remove the realism, the player has to be as confused as possible"

@@TabooRetka701 Sounds like a good idea. :)

On this sort of topic, this is why I love how the Talos Principle gives you a ridiculously fast sprint by puzzle game standards. Makes doing parts of puzzles you know how to do a lot more enjoyable.

Oh, here's one, there's one puzzle I remember being absolutely horrible, made you travel between different worlds to see if you were correct. But now add that you need to do it 4 times in a row or more and your puzzle will be absolutely horrible! Enjoy!

Truly one of the hardest puzzles of them all. :)

I still do not understand how Meryl wanting to breed with Snake ( while being mind controlled by a mantis ) has to do with her codec radio signal being in the guide book I threw away .

Bonus points if you have two characters that you switch between, who have at no point been established to have any kind of telepathic link nor walkie-talkies or any way of communicating with each other, yet the player is expected to see information with one character and then input it using the other. What's a fourth wall, anyway? =O

@@hazukichanx408Batman Arkham Knight am I right?

No! I mean... what walls? I don't know what you're talking about.

Puzzle-crafting is actually a separate skillset from puzzle-solving. It can be an overlapping interest, but generally requires its own practice & intentionality. Like, do you want to make a "comfortable" puzzle, or a puzzle-set rewarding patience & growing familiarity? Or perhaps one that challenges the conventions of its genre to create a new genre (e.g. acrostics vs cryptics vs "normal" crosswords)? It's really similar to game-dev in that respect - you need to understand your target audience, and settle in your head what it is that you want to accomplish. And then practice, practice, practice 😄 No one hits the bulls' eye the first time - give it a try, and see how far you can go!

Actually it can be good to take a few days or even a few weeks off, as long as you come back to it, I've always found I'm more motivated and get a lot done when I do that. :)

@@Artindi Thanks man it's appreciated :3

I for sure will. Thanks! :D

Thats true He is speaking to the whole gaming Community basically everyone IS Adresse with a cute Animation

It's only been two weeks. :) I used to put them out ever few months. lol.

What happens when you run out of genres?

Me too! ;D

I hope so! or... I mean, I hope not? lol

I would for sure need to learn more about MMO's and what makes them count as one, but I'm sure there are plenty of ways to fail at making those, :) (but to be honest I don't know how soon I would make a video about one as an MMO is not typically made by an indie developer.)

How to fail at making an MMO: 1. Be an indie developer. 2. Don't research server infrastructure 3. Use the phrase "realistic science based dragons" in your pitch statement

1. Banal quests are great in singleplayer rpgs, but they really shine in MMOs, since you’re stressed for content to churn out to keep your players playing for longer. And speaking of playing for longer, don’t just stop at banal either; make the quests tedious as hell, too. They should always be “gather/kill X amount of things” and make those things as far or as rare as possible. Actually, they should be in dungeons specifically, and it shouldn’t matter where you put them, as long as it’s the longest dungeon possible, and that quest progress can only be locked in by completing the dungeon, so dying once or crashing means you get to do the whole thing all over again. Wait a minute, did I say “X amount of things”? Noooo, instead of one quest where you kill 30 of these guys, it should be a series of 30 quests where you have to kill a single of the same enemy type for every one. Bonus points when there are in fact numerous of those guys within that dungeon, but it doesn’t matter since each quest only takes… one… You know what, I can’t do this anymore. The Bossbot suit quest in ToonTown Online is one of the worst quests I ever sat through in an MMO.

@@TheMamaluigi300 hmm good tips

(lovingly btw, not a hate comment)

I mean, you are not wrong. We seem to be susceptible to things that look good. What a weakness we all have. :)

do you mean "the witness"?

Yay! Another comment on my video on how to fail! ;)

oh it's on the todo list. :)

Thanks! Technically a great comment! :)

@@Artindi thank you

lol, thanks for following the tutorial so closely, seems you knew what to do before I even pointed it out? ;)

What? Huh? I have no idea what you are talking about. ;)

boy I hope so. :)

MediEvil?

Take them as a quick way to see how others have failed, to help you avoid the same pitfalls. Of course everyone will fail at some point in indie game development, but this only helps us become better at it. Don't let the fear of failure hold you back, because after all, the best way to fail is to never try.

Why thank you. :)

That's not how you follow a tutorial! ;)

I would be happy with just being a RU-vidr that can feed himself. :)

Dear god… what game is this?

The Dark Souls of puzzle games, that sound brutal.

@@Artindi like I saw a game that was really cryptic like I dont know

Im sorry but what about dark souls is cryptic?

@@UgliusRodentia darksouls is hard

@@simonw.1223 I...guess so. the reputation is really badly exaggerated. it's not easy, that's for sure. but you said it was cryptic, thats what I was asking about. what about dark souls is cryptic?