New-Gamer Watches #6 - How To Analyse A Video Game’s Design || Game Maker's Toolkit || 

Oh damn, watching game maker's toolkit is a great idea. It's really great at explaining game design concepts and helping grow appreciation of the art form. Regarding burnout, make sure to take breaks for yourself. Mental health above all

I love Hannah going from "be friends instead" to "hell yeah, M U R D E R". true gamer 😂

Great video! Speaking of GTK, I recommend watching his environmental storytelling one, that might be especially interesting for you as a writer as it mostly deals with location, background, scenery and what emotion they want to evoke.

Glad you took a break these videos wouldn't be fun if you weren't having fun making them

non-gamer Hannah: "be friends instead.", gamer Hannah: “Good. I can feel your anger. I am defenseless. Take your weapon. Strike me down with all your hatred, and your journey towards the dark side will be complete.”!

As a life long lover of video games, I really appreciate you taking the time to understand and learn about the medium and how it works beyond just some of the more traditional storytelling elements you looked for in trailers more in the past.

Welcome back, awesome lady. Hope you had a good break.

Yes! I'm loving this idea of you familiarising yourself with game design theory. As a writer, you will no doubt see a lot of similarities in the different schools of philosophy. Looking forward to more videos of this type!

Oh how things have changed xD Hannah in the Past: Be friends instead. Hannah now: Peng! Peng! Peng!

I was worried when I noticed that you hadn't uploaded in a while, but it's good to hear that you took some time for yourself. Great to see you back at it again, and make sure to take the rests and breaks you need!

Glad you found this: GMT was an instant follow when I discovered it 😊

I recommend Inside as a palette cleanser from TLOU to Mass Effect. Short (3hours) and not too complex.

I love how you’ve evolved from non-gamer to new gamer, cool to see

Not every game should have a save state LOCATION you have to find, but the ones that do and implement it well (Isolation being one, FromSoftware's game is another, more so checkpoints than save states but same-difference for their gameplay mechanics), it really does bring up the tension because every save state feels like a god send. Feels like genuine moment of relief.

Now that your a gamer Hannah a few quick games that take little time to beat but I think you might enjoy Little nightmares- puzzle horror game What remains of Edith Finch- quick story game Hellblade- combat driven story game Each is quick and can be beaten within about 6 hours of gameplay but are really good games to sink your teeth into

I would recommend the Sly Cooper games for learning 'gaming literacy', very fun but very forgiving, and has lots of different types of mechanics found in games in general.

as an aspiring 3D artist / game designer GMTK's videos were my gateway to so many concepts and design principles it's an awesome channel

editing in short clips from your streams was a great touch, loved it

Some stories and games can play on people's emotions like an instrument playing a song.

Glad you're feeling better after your break! Always important to look after yourself first :)

These game philosophy videos are a great call for an newer gamer like yourself. I would also suggest playing shorter games early on so you can kind of build up your experience with maybe a wider variety of games and seeing some of the differences and similarities and see what you like and what you don't and what might surprise you

Always take a break or switch it up if you feel the need to. You being excited for the content is super important. Also, very excited for you to learn more about how games work as you gain more experience playing them, there's a lot of interesting things too look into. 😊

If you're starting to look at the design philosophy of games, the director of some of the most legendary Nintendo games in recent years Masahiro Sakurai has been making a series of videos talking about what he's learned about the artistry of video game design and team management. They're fascinating and bite-sized videos, and coming from Sakurai it's like learning physics from Stephen Hawking himself.

This is such a fantastic evolution of your channel. Now you not only understand more than you did as an outside observer, but you have the Twitch clips to show yourself experiencing it when it actually happened to you So glad you decided to start playing games, and also glad the first one was Last of Us, one that luckily just so happened to be a kind of game you would like

I think Hannah should play journey, I think that would be a perfect shorter game to play and it would really suit the "be friends instead" mantra XD

I would love a "Game Maker's Tooltit" and "Author's Tooltkit"-collab. GMTK discusses how developers tweak numbers to try to change how players feel, which can go from cautious when far from a savepoint or low on ammo and/or healing potions, but it can also make a player infuriated and annoyed that if theys truggle too much to get past a certain point. Same if there is limited ammo and they have "wasted it" and now they suddenly cannot get past a tough monster because they literally have no more bullets to bring its health down. I know you said that you are not a fan of Brandon Sanderson, but I do enjoy his "How to write Sci-Fi and Fantasy"-classes on YouTuibe as it kinda demystifies to concept of writing. In the beginning I always thought an Author simply started at the first word and kept going through the pages. I had no idea there was Beta-readers and the thought of going back and re-writing whole chapters when something didn't invoke the correct feelings was completely foreign to me. Similar to when you read up on the Psychology of how a Supremarket is designed (how the customer must move between the aisles, why fruits and veggies are usually early on in the store despite them being very bad at having at the bottom of the bag, why they have candybars etc at the cashiers). So I would love if you watched more of these types of videos but for you to also connect it to your writing or writing in general. How would YOU try to invoke a feeling of dread in a reader? How would you make a reader feel that the protagonist was in immediate danger? How would you write so that a reader feels that the protagonist is vulnerable and exposed and that the aliens can attack from any corner at any time? Or just any of the "Toollkits" available to an Author. Like the joke of how to make a reader/viewer know who the bad guy is, just have the person kick a puppy.

Your videos are so entertaining can't wait for the next video!

Ooh, I'm so excited for you Hannah, to finally peek behind the curtain of game design. Unfortunately, most of the videos I'd recommend are 30+ min (and on the longer side, several hours), so they're probably not a good fit for the reaction format (or they'd require a _lot_ of editing), but I still love to see people engaging with games as art, and thinking critically about gaming. Also, and I hate to encouraging you to spread yourself too thin, but maybe you should consider making another channel for the full VODs? I'm not a Twitch user, and since I don't get notifications when VODs are uploaded unlisted, I tend to miss out on them. I'm a little ashamed that I haven't even finished watching the playthrough of The Last of Us 1, but it's hard to stay on top of that when the only way to see if a new video is up is to check the playlist. It's also easy to forget if they never come up in your notifications or recommendations. Edit: But, if you ARE looking for recommendations in this same vein, I recommend the youtube channels Adam Millard (The Architect of Games), Afterthoughts, and eurothug4000

You would probably enjoy Daryl Talks Games channel most, out of all the gaming analysis channels, because he focuses on simple concepts from our tactile lives and examines how they are utilized in video games. Trust me, I promise you all his videos have passion behind them, and the quality of his channel continues to grow.

Something that might help you on your gaming journey is to take some of the gaming personality or gaming motivation tests that are out there. That might help you find games that match what you are hoping to get from your gaming experiences.

one of the best ones he did, kinda clarified a few parts I'm struggling on when working on my hobby game project also, glad to see a new video from you~!

wow I really love to see your evolution. Can't wait for "New Game Dev Makes First Game" :D Also GMTK is a great channel. Hope you check out some more topics that interest you.

Cool to have you back! Good to see you taking a break from time to time. Also really happy to see you watch GMTK, his videos are great!

I love gmtk, this is definitely the crossover I never knew I needed

Glad to see you again I hope you had a nice and restful break! :3

More videos like this is such a good idea!!!!!!!!

Oh, damn, yeah, the burnout thing is a RU-vid content creator problem. I know you don't need Muppets like me telling you this, but please remember to take the time for yourself... bollocks to us lot! Health comes first.

What kind of timing developers choose to go with is always interesting. Really interesting to hear about Alien: Isolation's save system, because a lot of older games had something similar due to hardware limitations. Dragon Quest on the original NES comes to mind, especially when titles started getting ported over to Gameboy. Nothing like seeing your power turn from green to red and rushing to the nearest save point before your AA batteries run out! A lot of first-person shooters have gone down the path of "tactical, super-fast John Wick" reload. It was really jarring when I started playing Day of Infamy, which has more realistic reload mechanics. Reloading itself becomes dangerous, instead of running out of ammo. Now you're choosing whether you risk running out of bullets clearing an area or if you turn yourself into a sitting duck.

Hannah past : Non Gamer Reacts Hannah now : New Gamer Reacts Hannah 10 years from now : Game Creator reacts to other people playing my games

Babe wake up new Hannah vid dropped

Just like with almost everything else, gaming burnout is a real thing. Happens faster, the less thrilled you are with the games, but even with games that you absolutely love it happens eventually. Take breaks. Switch it up. Variety is the spice of life. Just make sure the spice you're consuming isn't poisonous.

I think this is the biggest reason I wasn't keen on you trying The Last of Us as your first game. There's a certain amount of familiarity required to achieve the "aesthetics" the developers intended for the players if the players are learning games for the first time, paying attention to other people watching them learn how to play a game, and the simple fact that it was more about your learning to play a game than it was about what makes The Last of Us such a landmark achievement for video games. It's kind of like asking a kid to go watch a movie with you at the theater, but they aren't used to sitting for two hours and the speakers are too loud, and they don't have any attachment to growing attached to stories like that yet. I'm glad you're playing games, but it's definitely worth it to play something on your own and for yourself.

I think its a good step, watching this analisis videos , and we also get more informed about games we love, and maybe some games calls your attention, and you can give it a try. Like tomb raider or Uncharted with good story, but more important, can make u feel you are in a adventure

one of my favorite games design was far cry 3, the game really make you feel the main character, a bit sneaky at the start cuz you are literally a rich kid who can't do shit, then a into a literal psycopath going after people zooming through fortresses not even trying to hide like you are some super human, shooting everyone, thowing knives and jumping people from underwater or from the top of a house and eating bullets like candy, not just that but at the start you do everything to leave the island but at the end you just like the main character, you don't want to leave anymore, at least not yet, you want to go after the people that bothered you and hurt your friends, you want to kill and make them suffer as they did you

Game Maker’s Toolkit has a lot of awesome stuff.

Hope you are feeling refreshed after your time off!

Damn, seeing a clip of Skyrim in here made me realize how cool that would be for your stream. Considering your story-making background as a writer, Skyrim allows you to be who you want to be. You can be an elven assassin for the dark brotherhood, join the thieves guild as an orc, or join the college for sorcerers. I like to make backstories and personalities for each character I create

Game mechanics are like ingredients in a dish, they don't all work together and you need to know what flavour you're aiming for.

It's similar to writing books, you have story and exposition tools to immerse, to inform, to make the reader feel something towards a person, situation or thing....and have to balance them appropriately! Just secretly wondering how you'd cope with a Bethesda game like Skyrim or Fallout 4 where you have TOO much freedom!

This was great, more GMTK reactions would be awesome

Hannah if you want to one hit kill the enemies play Assassins Creed, because you are doing so with the iconic HIDDEN BLADE (you will love it), And with decent combat they also have one of the best stories and lore.(Never start with AC 1)

Hannah: my favorite game is The Last of Us Any time she sees gameplay of the Last of Us: AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Video games are weirdly actually the perfect simulation tool for women to training themselves how to react in intense situations instead of just collapsing. Like your excitement when you find tape in TLOU, SEE, you're slowly getting it. Now if the game limited you MORE in supplies and ammo, you'd then have to start testing your skilling and taking more risks in stealth and melee combat to conserve what you barely already have. At the same time, learn more and more tiny things about the mechanics of the game. Learning the distance need to do a stealth joke, jogging when human enemies are around because they can't hear you, but infected will because as they slowly lose their eye sight due to the fungus, their hearing gets better etc. Resulting you having to crouch and REALLY slowly walk to not aggro them. Survival horror and on hard difficulties is the best training tool. Then you'll carry all that video game meta into the next game you play and so on and so on to the point you'll be able to pick and master a new game within like a few hours. All the accumulated knowledge on the mechanics of OTHER games has trained you and keeps training with every new game.

Burn out is very real. glad you are back!

She's back !!!

8:45 Its not just you. The whole rush from beating something hard is why dark souls series is ultra popular and to the point where it created a whole genre of games poeple refer to "souls-like" . Their whole concept is that every enemy is dangerous.

That was way Dark Souls was so hard. Because the game is punishing, you feel accomplished when you finally beat the boss or make progress through the level. If you didn't have that tension and a fair challenge, there isn't a sense of accomplishment when you overcome it. Which I think that dev always does a good job in.

Hannah is more gamer now than most gamers today

You pointing to last of us going aaahh!!! Made my day lol

Welcome back! Since you enjoy stealth kills, I wish I could recommend Dishonored, its a stealth focused game where you play an assassin with superpowers in a dark steampunk world, but the game may be too difficult for a beginner like yourself =o

I really think you would like the game Hades, half of the game is a visual novel which appeal to you as an author

Oh these are good. I'd be interested to see if this whole gaming journey will impact your writing down the line. It's a different set of tools to think about experiences. And as others said, do take those breaks. This is supposed to be fun. Mass Effect is cool if you like the action. I admit I wouldn't have pitched Doom when you started this but follow your gut. Rip and tear as the Doom Slayer says...

The reason you're always "full" during TLOU is because you're playing on an easier difficulty where they just throw supplies at you. Play on grounded if you want the TRUE horror survival experience in that world. You're lucky to get one bullet, fxcking gold mine if it's 3, half supplies, enemies detect you easier etc.

I caught the stream yesterday, and all I can say is... "Rip And Tear"

Welcome back hope you had a peacefull brake :D

How do I want them to feel: Annoyed. How do I make them feel that way: Take forever to change weapons, don't give enough resources, remove UI elements to indicate direction, and add gyro aim.

I think Skyrim and Subnautica are two games you'd really like.

Sorry to hear about you getting burned out, I certainly have weeks with my hobbies where I just ignore them completely, then come back roaring for more.

Ya I agree that small inventories in games tend to be one of the most frustrating things. Will say there are some game mechanics they add for Immersion to try make you feel in the world, but end up making you feel more annoyed instead. Since you like stealth killing might wanna check out the Assassin's Creed series. I just don't know if the earlier Assassin's Creed games are on new consoles.

Yes burnout is quite the problem for content creators in youtube from what I have heard. Remember to take breaks :D

Certified gamer moment

Can’t wait to see Hannah play dark souls or Zelda lol

"I can't take the weapons in the museum" ... Oh no. Not being able to take weapons is a video game trope. So many games you have to be frugal with ammo and such, but your enemies are bullet hoses and you can't pick up their guns or ammo.

since you like riot and league of legends world you should try the mageseeker it's a demacia story

That was cool! Please react to more theoretical stuff like this!

We need to figure out what genre you like so we can start recommending the top tier games in that genre. 👍

Story telling is so intertwined in game making even in games with "no" story.

i really hope that one day your discover Let's game it out RU-vid channel. This guy play games in very weird and hilarious way possible (like becoming a milloner in a literal homeless simulator or building unethical zoo that is a prison or abducting neighbours in sims 4). I think that you find his videos funny.

It could be interesting to see you play Hollow Knight (it also came up in a video you watched a while ago). Very different from the games you tried so far, and it's always interesting to watch people play it blindly.

Normally Mark Brown's videos are...brown. But this one seems to be one of his better ones. He is rather infamous for wafting a lot and not reaching a point and filling his videos with humbug jargon, but not this time thankfully. And yes, please do play Mass Effect and Doom 2016 (if and when you get the time) and avoid Callisto Protocal, it is poopy. (Mass Effect is my all time favorite Universe of all time).

were can i watch the mass effect gameplay ?

I'm telling you that listening to doom music adds to your gym gains, it sounds funny but it's true.

Breaks are good. Burnout sucks. Have fun being back 👍

You can always make backup videos and no one will know you had a break. 😉

So now that you're back. Where do I post my 42 page document of links I want you to see? (Jk of cause. Nice to see you again.)

Death stranding is new and differant.

You should react to Fallout: New Vegas is genius, And here's why by hbomberguy its a really good deep dive

You should play hollow knight

Awesome video, but the audio felt a bit unbalanced.

React to some yakuza is realy nice

I haven’t heard of this channel, though it reminds me of AoG who has similar game design essays: youtube.com/@ArchitectofGames

You should try to find a group of friends to play games with. Single player story driven games are great but nothing beats a good co-op/multiplayer session with some friends. I would highly recommend Valheim if you're looking for something that's not competetive and easy to enjoy. Don't get me wrong there is plenty of action but you can also spend a lot of time building, farming resources, and exploring.

Hard mod= empty empty empty....

Oh man you should play multiplayer games especially games like war thunder😂😂 I'm just kidding don't play them yet especially war thunder it's basically addicting and mental torcher maybe if you get more experienced in gaming

For how long can you be a 'new gamer' if you don't even try?

burnout is a real thing and whenever you take a break it''s 100% understandable with how much info is being thrown at you. lmao have a good day!