How to make your game 2X as fun! - (In No Time.) 

Was this useful? Which other tips do you have for making a fun game?

I've been watching a load of your videos in the last couple of days and I'm just so impressed! Especially videos like this one where you give tips; I think you're 100% correct on pretty much everything you say. I wish I'd seen these videos when I was starting out - would have saved me a lot of time!

Very nice although the camera thing did hurt my eyes a lot

I don't really like how many platformers have a slow walk speed, and a run button. This makes you hold the run button for most of the game. This is why, in my own platformer project, I made the default speed fast, to entirely remove the need for a run button.

EA: huh? microtransactions? alright

i'd say have the speed increase over time, if you were only comfortable with 50% bonus speed at first then your players are probably the same.

Hey, Jonas, nice video. I would really love to see more videos of where you take a boring game and add interesting decisions to it. I've been digging into this subjects a lot myself, and I found a fantastic book called Situational Game Design by Brian Upton. If you want to get a formal/deeper understanding of what makes game situations feel playful I definitely recommend you read it :)

A tiny amount of camera movement? hahah! That's a lot! It would likely give me a headache after a while! It could be reduced to 1/2 or even 1/4 and probably be better -- enough shake so that you can feel it but not so much that it is constantly buzzing or moving around so much Thanks for the tips! I haven't thought about the micro decisions before, and it definitely adds a whole dimension to the gameplay, i'll be keeping it in mind. Colours, speed and camera work are also all 100% good things to keep in mind. Game speed I find is often the first barrier of fun in people's first games, so definitely agree.

- Add directions - Make decisions affect gameplay - Good colour scheme - Gameplay speed - Camera movement

Tip: slowing the player's movement is one of the worst things you could do. You must let the players feel in control. Look at DOOM or Mario, and how fun it makes the game with the movement alone

My god, when you showed of the first gameplay with the better gun behaviour it was almost too intense for me to watch! So many tight situations!

As you play your own game, you get better and more experienced at it, so the speed that you can play at will be different from the speed a new player can play at. It's important to be aware of that, and to get feedback from other people.

Very interesting opinions. I actually liked the original color scheme and the static camera much better. Other than that, these seem like good ideas. Thanks for sharing.

I only have 2 issues with your example game: • The rings should be Yellow, like one of the player colors, instead of blending in with the floor as if the transparency was 50% • The screen shake is Way too exaggerated so that I'd likely have motion sickness if I actually played the game instead of just watching it. Most games only shake the screen horizontally Or vertically, and only by 1 or 2 logical pixels (which are different from actual pixels as they are a reference unit) Everything else is correct and makes this video Very useful.

Yay taking more time but the content is of better quality. Great work!

the thumbnail: *DOUBLE DOUBLE THE THE FUN FUN*

Jonas: How do you make your game more fun? Dani: Unity's particle system is a- Jonas: STAHP

You're a saint for doing all of this for everyone. I will definitely be using you as one of my inspirations and mentors for making my own games. So thank you.

I got a idea. The game speeds up every second, but every time you collect a coin, the game slows down a tad. That way, the coins aren't completely useless and have a purpose

I like alll your advices, except for the last one. I HATE games that shake constantly. That's something old awesome games never had and never needed.

If the rings don't actually do anything, they feel like pointless distractions. In all games like this I know, they give a temporary powerup, like invulnerability, triple fire or piercing attacks. Also, am I the only one who HATES screen shake?

1) Interesting micro decisions. Some challenge to find best solution. Trade offs. 0:23 2) Good color schemes. Useful link coolors.co 2:58 3) Speed and pacing. Usually too slow. 3:42 4) Effects, directional effects. 4:18 5) Camera movement. Screen shake. 5:17

This is amazing! Subbed. One little feedback - camera movement caused motion sickness for me personally, so consider moving it to gameplay options

i find most games too fast... the best option is to let the player adjust how speed & how advanced graphics! for example a LOT of mobile games use way too much effects & i would love to turn them off to the basic minimum because the LAG & the distraction... screen shakes & fancy particles should be able to be turned off. having more custom options lets more people play & have fun!

5:21 who else got motion sick watching that?

Glad I came across your channel. These are some really good tips!

I was liek "wat are you doing, it's too fast already". Then I realized I watch RU-vid at 2x.

This was great, thank you

Thanks a bunch, this advice is pretty invaluable

Watching this in 2x speed and I just thought you were insanely good at this game

Wow, really good tips, thanks Joyner!!!!!!!

Congrats Jonas for 1000 Subs!

Was expecting some stuff I've already heard from the art of screenshake but this was actually super unique and cool! I love the tips and even making a turn-based game this is giving me tons of ideas. Keep up the great work dude

honnestly the camera movement is more dizzying than exciting

Really cool tips, thank you for sharing!

I find I usually need to slow down my games. Good video.

This reminds me of my problem with the Witcher 3. Very nice game, but 90% of all enemies - even it the hardest difficulty - can be beat with hit and dodge repeatedly. It just takes more time. In most cases you don't even need the Signs. It's kind of sad for a game otherwise this polished, the again it's more about the visuals and the story I guess.

These tips were amazing, great job. Camera shake was way too strong imo but still a great tip

Great videos, love ur personality.

been working on a game for two years i have found my way to most of these trick, wish I would have seen your channel 2 years ago.

The Minimum Viable Prototype i made on Oct 22 2020 started out being too fast for my playtester, so I had to slow it down by what feels like 50% (not by actually slowing the character but by growing the viewport). After that, I could only increase the actual character speed by what feels like 10% before it became too fast for myself. This already sounds like a great start!

Make the targets different colors, one of the colors wipes 70% of the screen and stuns the enemies for a second. A different color target gives you another heart. Another one would be it turns on a fan that pushes all the enemies away from you for 2 seconds and disables new ones spawning for a few seconds. A target could even make your character blink and destroy them on contact for a few seconds. You don't want pressure on the player all the time, back off a little and let them relax. People need a little down time to regroup and think up a new strategy.

Wow, this was super helpfull! Thanks a lot. I directly created TODOs for the tipps that you talked about!

wow... subbed a couple days before.. Your points are pure gold here and in other vids.. Im literally making a checklist based from your vids. Also seeing that some points are checked in my current developed game is so pleasing :)

Nice Nice Nice Nice! Really useful!! Nice!

I feel like im skydiving and he is giving me instructions on how to make a game

Why am I watching this. I have a test tomorrow and have never even written a single line of code

Absolutely fantastic! Really excellent points and having the example in the background with very concrete use cases was wonderful I just discovered your channel, but liked, subbed, all that Awesome work

Love your videos! Keep 'em coming! 😊

Really a great channel!

Why does he sound so much like a robot?

These videos are gold.

For the goal rings looking the wrong color, why not swap colors? Ring becomes the yellow color that the ship is, ship becomes the dark wall color, walls become dark blue background color, and background becomes light blue ring color? That might look better.

I was gonna make a "2X the speed" joke, but then the video just straight up said it unironically.

One of the best vids I have ever seen about game design. So simple and so effective. Just fantastic!

If you add camera shaking, add an option to turn it off. It's incredibly annoying when the camera shakes for some people.

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you are aware that there is such thing as a game that's too improved

Risk/Reward Ratio Every action the player can do should boost one element while draining another

Dude you're absolutely insane, super talented and smart about this, it's insane how much the game improved by just slowing the movement, keep up the great work. Also great fan of Superflight and Islanders

I think micro-desicions with two equal solutions can be interesting if one of them has a (higher / different) cost - in FTL faster than light, for example, it is often equal weather you fire a rocket or not - firing the rocket costs ammunition, not firing costs time and possibly health. Neither option is necessarily better than the other in any given situation unless you're in the final stage of the final boss where leftover ammunition doesn't matter afterwards.

Thanks Jonas! I believe you are going to massively successful.

Dude, you must select English when you upload the video, so that RU-vid can create the English subtitles correctly

I really wanted this. I didn't know how this showed up in my feed but thanks a lot! Simple tips but actually very useful and easy to miss

Yaknow what this game reminds me of? Those old arcade games! If this was an arcade game, i think it would've kicked butt! Like really, this would have been a fairly popular arcade game.

Gotta be honest: camera shale is overated. Kinda makes me sick actually. It's hard to focus when my camera is going nuts while i shoot stuff. It's like thosw terribly shot fight scenes from big movies, where there's nothing but camera shakes and jump cuts. It's just a little jarring to me personally. But hey, it's your game. You make it how ya like it. And if that includes camera shakes, then fine. :) Just have fun is all.

This f****** video needs a better title. Spent so long looking for this f****** video. So glad I found it. And bookmarked it.

This is a great game idea...so...im gonna just...yknow.... *zoink* ... (Not copying, gonna just take this as a base)

We were making an F-Zero -like game for a school project and the speed of the ships was 3. Someone suggested the game could be faster and just as an experiment I set it to 5, that's 66% faster. It was awesome. We were making a racing game based on super fast ships and we had forgotten to actually make the game fast.

Undertale does this really well for example, sparing an enemy removes the gain of xp but improves your general “karma” with the games ending, and killing an enemy gives you xp but reduces the”karma” and each choice has consequences to the ending of the game

I agree with a lot of this, but there are some issues 1. I agree with the general premise of micro decisions, but you can't look at just that. Yes, slowing your speed does make more interesting decision making, but it also makes the game clunky. Players will likely like the first version better even if it lacks choice simply because it's more fluid. It feels smoother. There may be better ways to achieve the same thing, such as maybe making the controls less tight with the laser or making it so you are locked into type for a certain amount of time before changing. 2. Some aesthetics are questionable. Your original explosions looked better. The enemies blowing up away from the impact is less natural. Explosions should be from the point of impact because that's what normally happens in real life. Likewise, the screen shakes can frustrate players if they happen a lot.

Speed up your game: More: More: A bit more: Now your game became: Hotline Miami

I’ve also noticed that the goals are basically useless, why not make them give small buffs? (Like run speed so getting goals is faster, or bonus hp so losing games after a lot of goals is harder)

About pacing: a good rule of thumb to anything you believe might affect pacing, double it or cut it in half, one at a time - and see if that has any effect.

100% explains why Minecraft is not fun (even though "interesting")

So i am currently working on an RPG where you play as a blue circle with a face with some inspiration from the classic paper mario games. You have 10 HP and 5 FP You also have 2 attacks Bash and Basher Bash does less damage than Basher but Basher costs more FP to use than Bash And you have 2 types of items Pretzels and Candy Pretzels restores HP while Candy restores FP. And you also have strategies Flea which fleas the fight and Defend which reduces the amount of damage you take during your opponents turn. Now this is pretty much a basic RPG and i wanted to make it fun so i looked up this video and i have some ideas for new enemies that might be interesting. The Theif which steals some items from you giving you the choice to either attempt to kill the theif before he steals your items or use up your items so he doesn't steal it. Or the BOMB which after a few turns explodes and damages both the other enemies and the player character you can either kill the BOMB before he explodes saving you from the damage but this also means the enemies won't get hit or you can defend which reduces the amount of damage you take but also explodes killing the other enemies. And then theirs the healer which heals the other enemies and itself. Bash won't deal enough damage to it so you might wanna use Basher. And the Box Box which doesn't attack you but summons other enemies so you might wanna target this enemy before it summons more. Now i pretty much gave away the the solutions to beating these enemies on your own but if your fighting more of these enemies like for example the Theif and Healer you might wanna think twice. Also i know i am not that experienced in gaming but i still wanna give you advice. Maybe give the rings you collect in your game a reason to collect. Cause without a reason the player might just focus on survival instead of collecting the rings. Like maybe have the rings clear an entire screen of enemies if you collect enough or maybe it gives your attacks more attack power or maybe it temporary removes the speed limitation. Or maybe instead of a reward for doing so give them a punishment for not doing so such as an instant game over or more enemies or maybe not being able to attack at all. In general just give the rings you collect a reason to collect cause otherwise they will be ignored.

Unfortunately, 0 times 2 is still 0 :(

I love video but I must say the last addition (Camera shake) was bit excessive & disorienting to look at. All in all, goof content!

2 x 0 is still 0

Both the camera movement and making the goals not stand out against the blue are both terrible things for accessability you just made your game worse for huge groups of people

One more think I'd like to add When the player walks there should be a particle like the enemy's get when they did it would look nice

Why not dynamically adjust the speed asked on how well the player is doing? That way it automatically adjusts to your player’s skill level and can always remain challenging.

I watched this video twice and I'm able quadruple it.

Used this trick 100 times, with an original fun of 5, my fun is now 5*2^100

5:21 How to trigger the majority of rocket league players.

EA : MircoDecisions??....More like Micro-Transcations

hi Jonas, i really liked your project. Is there any way i can get hands on this awesome project of yours?

I agree with all of the rest but in this case the camera movement and screen shake were too much for me. It makes the whole game messy and hard to follow.

Very cool walkthrough. Appreciated!

Ngl Jonas kinda sounds like a robot I hope if I’m right he doesn’t terminate me for knowing this LeL

Well i think we can break it to appeal (look) and engagement (game play) after that you can manage your game fun factor.

Will definitely be implementing some of these tips in my own game! Thanks Jonas!

thank you Jonas...💜💜💜This video is so helpful 👌

this was helpful but im not a big fan of packing in as much action in as little time as possible. i think it's more interesting to leave more time for decision making.

This video is amazing. The idea that you are telling is really simple and "obvious", but you managed to tell it in really transparent and good way, so many new developers could see why stuff that you talked about is important.

can you make thats same game tutorial for unity? or pleasr can you or anyone here tell me how to build this game in unity? pleaeeese. thx

I think you are a very underrated content maker. I love the videos you make and it helps me out A LOT on my own journey of becoming a full time indie game developer. Keep it up!

I love how engaging and fun this video was!

So would this game be showed here be considered 2d then? Since it’s like top down? Or how does that work

I just want to know how do u make those enemy collisions while following player.