The Design of FTL & Into The Breach 

Maybe fatshark and vermintide 2?

It would be awesome if you could get a talk with Hopoo games about Risk of Rain 2. They had basically no marketing and sold 1Mil Units in their first month of Steam Early Access. I love the game so far and I think it would be great to see how Hopoo thinks about the development of RoR2

This might be a bit out of the way but i'm always awestruck at the process one of my favorite developers. Starsector is developed by Alexander Mosolov and while technically 'early access', each new full release of a new version (every year and a half or so) is a self-contained, fully playable experience. Always found it amazing how each version seems complete in its own way. The game features a deep combat system and fantastic AI and has been increasing to sandbox/campaign-tier of freedom for a while now. Also he's choosing not to engage in Steam Early Access or any kind of extra 'feature', relying almost on word of mouth for promotion. It has attracted a huge modding community and at this moment i consider it an unspoken indie jewel.

Do one on those guys that made Slay The Spire and their incredible game! It's become a bit of a phenomenon :D

@@Zarven1 Yes, please do this the Vermintide series

The tracks sound, to me, like they were inspired by different scifi shows.

C0mmand3r27 i Listen to the soundtrack at work from time to time. It’s like a warm blanket, making me calm while typing on the Computer.

Didn't realize this would get so many likes lol @noclip can we get a doc on how their OST was made?

I hear it praised often on Roguelike Radio but...I love playing with the music off and have never kept it on past the title screen! I always play while listening to podcasts and it just sounds right to me with the ambient sounds alone, particularly the weird garbled speech sound you'll hear in some places. I'll check it out purely as music to listen to though as it's been mentioned again but I don't think I'd get used to fighting battles with music - the calm intensity of isolated background noise while I pause and regroup is really engaging to me.

The C418 of space music

I'll add Team Cherry to that list but yeah, these devs are a breath of fresh air in the formulaic mess that has become the gaming industry

Could you make a list of games?

@@KaNawogirusa Well, out of the ones he's listed: Subset produced FTL: Faster Than LIght and Into The Breach. Klei is probably the biggest company on the list and do some publishing as well as their own production; their most famous game is Don't Starve, and their most recent is Oxygen Not Included. Supergiant made Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre, all of which are phenomenal, and Red Hook produced the extremely unique Darkest Dungeon.

@@KaNawogirusa What InchonDM said. :) I would add to the list Mark of the Ninja as my favourite Klei game. Everyone will have their favourites and there are plenty of games to choose from. I have never played, but hear great things about Papers, please; Salt & Sanctuary; Dead Cells; Cuphead and many more. But if you are looking for other smaller and more unique/experimental titles I would recommend looking up the publishers Paradox Interactive and Devolver Digital. Out of all of the "proper" publishers those are the ones willing to take risks on smaller "indie" titles. They produced things like Magica and Helldivers from Arrowhead for example.

KaNawogirusa I’d add Invisible Inc. for Klei, for a really unique take on making a turn based stealth game, with an Xcom kind of system. Especially a rare example of a stealth game where the guards don’t forget they spotted an intruder.

I somehow missed this game completely. It sounds great. Well there goes my week...

David Guild Trust me, your week will be gone before you know it. Breach can really suck you in sometimes...

Both that and FTL felt impossible to me until after dozens upon dozens of losses, it just clicked. I think a large part of that is how they look familiar but work altogether differently from similar looking games.

Yeah, loved the soundtrack too

And the graphics of the game and the graphic design choices are really good too.

It's my understanding that achievements like " All too often they are either pure "gimmies" (defeat Act 1 boss!) " are there to check how many players get that far in a game. Sometimes you get an achievement just for finishing the tutorial for example, or even just starting the game.

I think its one of the only games i have actually hunted for the achievements, but its mostly because you need to complete them to buy the mech squads

Yeah, that's a big element of FTL/Into the Breach design. I'm surprised they didn't touch it in the video.

I can quote this. Every words.

There's references!?

@@brad5426 There are pilots you can obtain from strange pods. Those pilots are from the FTL universe (one of them for example is a Zoltan)

I love it to death but Spelunky keeps the crown for me. I'd even give FTL the edge on concept and design as Spelunky is far more the culmination of decades of existing platformers and roguelike gameplay elements while FTL is incredibly unique (outside of boardgames which I know little about). Still, Spelunky brought me as much joy as Super Mario Bros 3 did as a small child - just with more fury and masochism.

I agree. FTL is a masterpiece.

Ftl is right up there next to dwarf fortress for me. Df just needs to be polished a bit more

@@gemstonegynoid7475 I must agree here, even though personally I had more fun with ftl overall, dwarf fortress' scope and ambition is awe inspiring.

fantastic game!

And not even necessarily true.

I sure hope so.

Why? Is small bad?

They don't look saddened at the slightest when they say this. If anything this thought helps them keep their sanity and independent perspective on game dev. They will not be pressured by overwhelming expectations, investors, fan service etc bullshit that happens in the larger studios and often ruins franchises. They will remain creatively free to experiment and not feel the obligation to be successful on a grand scale which usually just stales the gaming market.

I don't think by bigger they meant bigger budget, I think they meant it won't have a bigger impact on the medium / culture of games as ftl.

link? Always add a link.

@@MRApht Hey, try not to be a dick - "postmortem" in this context isn't widely known. The video in question has less than 100k views, and I doubt many videos in the series have reached the mainstream. And no, you don't get your smug satisfaction - lmgtfy isn't some secret, and no one's going to be clicking that link when the terms are in the link text.

@@robosergTV FTL: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P4Um97AUqp4.html Into the Breach: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s_I07Iq_2XM.html

And they have really good upgrades, like the one for the plane, to bombard 2 areas to eletro-smoke the vermins. Sorry, Bad English.

They are very strong although I think frozen titans (especially with mafan or Bethany) are still stronger than them since freezing is so powerful. But on the other hand killing power wise rusting hulks are almost unrivalled (especially with Kaz in the science mech)

@@Phantom_Kraken Are the Rusting Hulks the first ones you get given? They did seem very good

@@Table53 The cheapest squad to buy is the rusting hulks(so yes there practically your first new squad) and like I said they are very good honestly extremely good I’d go as far as to argue they have no weaknesses. So I wouldn’t bat an eye at anyone thinking there the strongest but I think frozen titans shouldn’t be discounted as a contender for number 1.

@@ComandanteKrizalid I love that all there upgrades are strong with each mech having so many you can get it makes each run unique because you can spec into so much

I like it but I'm freaking terrible at it. Only seen the final ship twice and never gotten it down.

@@Barthedanz played the game for 700+ hours, I've won 20 times. I didn't win for the entire first 500 hours. You'll get there in the end (my win rate is lower than 0.01%)

Oh damn, I broke my rule on never playing Early Access games today because I couldn't resist Factorio any more and turns out it was almost out

@@LocalContentShow it has been one of the most enjoyable early access games for some years now. but full release will be sweet. 10/10

Facts!

wow that's a hot take

I bought it like 2 or 3 months after it came out. I STILL haven't gotten every coin and achievement. I got other games to play and stuff going on. I just love that I'm able to get hooked on it every single time I come back. I'd argue it's definitely one of the few titles that is a "Perfect Game"

For a game design perspective I also think it's a perfect game

It's good, but I'd call it a puzzle game more than I would a strategy game

@@Table53 The distinction is fuzzy at best.

​@@LazyMaybe I think it's the scale that makes the difference. A 'strategy game' usually implies that the player can strategise, coming up with multiple plans to win and then executing one. Into the Breach on the other hand doesn't let players strategise, it's all about players reacting to a situation on the board. The gameplay of Into the Breach is almost identical to the 'gameplay' of newspaper chess puzzles.

@@Table53 have you played into the beach? It's all about making strategies, for example you can choose to damage your enemy or push it, or receive damage yourself, etc etc.... It's all about choices, there is never only one way to solve a level

@@KaNawogirusa I have, quite extensively. I wrote a full video on it too. I appreciated the game for a while, but it definitely doesn't feel like a strategy game to me. Those choices to damage and enemy or to push it are quite simple and usually its easy to work out what the best choice is, so easy in fact that sometimes it feels like you don't really get to choose at all. For example, if you had the choice to move a Vek and prevent building damage or damage a different Vek, you will always choose to prevent the building damage. The choice is there, but not really, because there was only one move that makes sense. That's why it feels like a puzzle to me, because instead of choosing how to defend you're finding that 'correct' move (in my example the one that prevents building damage) and playing that move. Finding the correct solution and plugging it in is the mechanic of a puzzle game. Chess puzzles are puzzles which use the mechanics of chess to create interesting chess themed puzzles. Into the Breach uses the _mechanics_ of a turn based strategy game to create strategy game themed puzzles.

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The Captain's Edition mod might scratch that itch. There's a ton of additional content but ultimately it wasn't for me.

FTL Multiverse = FTL 2.0

I was like 70 hours in when i got my first victory lmao

The most important part is to focus fire on the missiles to keep them down, it makes all a whole lot easier, if you get cloak the special barrage attack is a joke

@@rompevuevitos222 for sure, all my victories thus far have been with the cloak which is why I want to get one without it now

My first win was after 150 hours.

@@Kosaro1234 Without the cloak you'll need something else to sustain damage, repair drones and defense drones MK2 can help a lot You can use a high damage build with Chainguns and pre-igniters to kill before you take much damage, Hull missiles also do the trick and are less energy hungry If you wipe the crew before third phase you can cheat the fight with a Lanius crew member Bring SOME sort of missile at least in the first 2 phases to keep their missiles down

What did they say about a future game title?

#worth

Why everyone thinks that xcom when they see a turn based strategy game? In this instance, xcom and into the breach are not even close. Please be more open people.

@@muratcanagic I think that for many people who aren't super deep into the strategy genre, Xcom might be the only game like this they've ever seen. So with no frame of reference, they can't imagine how a game that looks so similar could play so differently.

@@HatMachine yeah exactly :)

Muratcan Agiç It defines a genre, like the way one might say ‘A Souls style game’ or ‘rougelike’ which is literally in reference to the game Rouge.

I literally did the same thing

i wish it was there too, then i could play it whereever i am! it would be so great to play ftl while walking to school or while on the toilet!

I think because of how license work they cant get it on google. They would have to get a seperate license with each brand of phone that uses google play.

Ruin as come to our family! I also bought that for the switch And would also buy ftl But ftl without mouse would be very tricky to play

TheMatrixster true, but the switch does have a touch screen.

TheMatrixster Mario Maker 2 is tv comparable. Everything is now done via menus, as opposed to the touch screen.

@@thematrixster it's a pause heavy game and, thus, easy to play with controllers.

FTL on iPad is actually very fun. Control are solid, plays great. I think it’d fit right in on the switch.

Arent there mods you can download?