I Created Fat Dino on April 1st, 2019. It's been 3 years. Now that's what I called a one long joke. Thank you guys

I've been looking at all these fake mobile phone game ads and been wanting to see a video of someone downloading them all and comparing them to their ads. This is even better. Perfect timing Dino.

Dino: Tries to play game Game: Doesn't exist Dino: "Fine. I'll do it myself"

As someone who absolutely hates most mobile game advertisements, seeing this guy not only call out the company for intentional false advertisement, and THEN making the game shown in the advertisement… this guy is my hero XD

3 things I think you should add/change. 1. Make your characters a little faster. 2. Lose a portion of your characters based on how high the number of enemies is. 3. Make "Download" popups appear that freeze your inputs until you click on "Cancel". I know you created this over a year ago, but

Game looks good! It's just a shame that only 1% of people can solve the IMPOSSIBLE questions in the game.

My favorite part about these fake games is when the player in the ad "trips up" and seemingly can't decide between something like x4 and -20, so opts for the -20.

im still weirded out about how they manage to sell a great game that happens to be easy to develop and entertaining. and then SURPRISE the game is nothing like it

I was just wishing that we could have an actual game like this specific ad, then I found your video tonight. Thanks for making this!

I like how the ad was essentially a "left vs right" combat game, and your version legit became a math game that kids could learn from. And it happened accidentally, at that.

I've been looking for this specific kind of content thank you so much!

You took us through your thought processes in such a clear and comic way. There's a lot more depth to this video than the making of a mobile phone game. It's very impressive and enjoyable! I even think this could become a full game with more work, like, add reasons there are gates, voice-over for immersion, etc. Random e.g. off the top of my head, not auto-scrolling, you have to penetrate an enemy's mountain defence by a long tunnel into the mountain, and there are space portals along the tunnel which enable you to call in reinforcements, but you have to link them to friendly bases in the galaxy which have different numbers of soldiers available, represented by a maths function, but you have only 5 seconds to choose a base because the portal de-activates once your presence is reported.... etc etc

Make the game speed up over time, and even the "easy" mode would probably get pretty challenging without adding much complexity to the game.

The ad shows an amazing game. The fact it’s absolutely nothing like it ought to be illegal.

I think having to maneuver past the enemies so they don't touch you would have added the the challenge and engagement of the game too. Gives your brain something else to worry about while solving the problem

I have so much respect for this video, people need to capitalize on these ideas way more!

"The enemies is kida dumb Let's make it smart" The enemies: *started running and T-bag on the units*

Suggestions: -Make the movement speed accelerate the further you are -More complicated formulas as time goes on -Leaderboards so you can flex your brain -More options the further you are (so, like, 3 or 4 formulas)

Man love your work its awesome and the commentary took it to the next level

the adds are always way better. I actually had this same idea and I've been wanting to do exactly this. so happy to see you did it! I've been following you since 2019 and you've helped me greatly in this hobby of game development that I have a passion for.

This seems almost like a studying tool, would be cool if you could make it so people could implement things like quizlets into it

I think in that fake game you were supposed to lose units on every fight, aka (number of units) - (number of zombies) so it has a kind of survival feel

That was a really interesting video into simple game development process. It was also interesting to know that THAT game did not previously exist. I have seen it so much.

This is really cool! I love seeing behind the scenes on these.

Meanwhile, some shady company is probably going to steal footage of this video to promote a game that looks nothing like it.

Making it so you lose immediately when choosing the wrong answer destroys the appeal of the game

following u I have been following you since the beginning and the truth is that you are very creative and you deserve this resounding success, keep it up my friend.

How to study for your math exam:

In my opinion, from a game design point of view, instant killing someone as punishment for choosing the wrong option is bad, it takes off the sense of "will I get stronger, or weaker to defeat enemies?". It makes the increasing army pointless, because if you miss, they'll just instantly explode, instead of not surviving the increased zombies and then exploding, it's like a "you missed, try again" screen turning it more to an puzzle "choose the right door" type of game, instead of an arcade how-far-can-you-go game. The punishment should be less harsh, yet still nerve-racking, taking the ad as an example, but actually balancing the punishment: You have 4 units, + 5 or * 2? If you choose the wrong one (* 2), you'll still get a bit stronger, but not that much, you would still survive the next wave, but if you keep increasing the army the slowest way, or making more mistakes, you would be overcomed by the zombies. That makes it a more interesting gameplay, as a roguelike situation, where if you miss, you may be close to depending on luck and skill to get back on foot again, but keep getting it right, and you will consistently survive. Of course the ad is designed in a way where the end seem quite impossible, that one famous "omg he's so dumb, can you do better?" bait to make you download the game, increasing the difficulty in a raising slope way would make it a nice challenge with a bit of "phews", instead of giving you 3 enemies and then a huge boss fight like the ad.

Imagine if more people did this and just slapped their version on the google app marketplace to blow the other cheap asses away for their scum tactics. It's mad work and hella props are deserved mate. Such a good video

your work is insane!!! amazing job!

You should make it so the amount of enemies in the next area are enough so that if you chose the optimal path, you can defeat them. If you choose the wrong path, you'll be outnumbered and if you survive, you lose some units.

small suggestion: make the enemies collide into your units, deducting your points when they do so, instead of just exploding when you pick the wrong choice (this way the enemies are irrelevant). Also for easy mode you can speed up the game like how jetpack joyride or subway surfer works.

Fat Dino: "But aren't they smart enough?" Enemies: **T-bags aggressively**

this is pretty frickin cool! you have great taste and talent in art too.

I really thought there would be a ton of youtube videos on this but the search results are so bare.... awesome video!

We need this to become a series! there's so much content here and you make it all amazing 💯

4:46 *"Let's make them smart"* *The enemies can now teabag*

man really awesome video please dont stop posting !!

Love it, can't wait for you to design the stickman game. You did the darn right thing doing this game you are an legend. Would love to have at least one round of failure so the first bad decision didn't kill me (maybe an easy mode) but on the other hand, learning by doing i guess :) keep on going.

I feel like dying on a mistake isn't what the ad version was doing. It just increased the chance you COULD lose, so the player would still have a chance to continue after but it would be much harder. It was never about solving math problems but just increasing your unit count to survive for as long as possible. Still your version looks interesting too.

I did the same thing for those pin games. Maybe if all gamedevs turned those fake games into real ones we can overthrow these companies. Gamedevs Unite! x)

Great job, crazy how you made it somewhat playable!

Clever idea, like it. Do more, I’d watch :)

I love this, but I have one piece of constructive criticism: the enemies seem kind of like window-dressing. Aren't the _enemies_ supposed to be the reason you lose (getting outmatched), and not just the game deciding "you haven't minmaxed optimally, _die"_ ?

So they made a small game for the ad itself...but decided to make a completely different game from scratch instead of just finishing the first game. If there's one thing that will never fail you, it's society's disappointment.

This is the best i have saw in a long time. The people making fake ads should really be ashamed. I mean if they make the add look good why cant they make a game and sell it, maybe its because they have no skills besides animating somthing. Thank you very much, Great Work!! :)))

The funny thing is that these companies did develop those prototypes for their ads

Wow, I've never clicked on one of the ads but the games looked at least moderately fun. Cool to see one with some actual passion behind it.

Holyshet. This will help a lot of people get into game making. Good stuffs as always my dude.

Love this! Please expand on it if possible. Some Traps, Bosses, and even some weirder "non-expression" choices, like "Weight of a Hippo" VS "Seconds in a Disney Line" or something

You are genius! Just started subscribe

Something that occured to me as I was watching was that, if you wanted more "immersion", your mechanical units should probably have different stepping sound effects, but for a game that was essentially programmed on the equivalent to the back of a napkin on an idle afternoon, this is something I would want to play too.

The equation at 10:02 (X=4!) is wrong, when you cross the checkpoint it gives you 3 units but it should have given you 24

Suggestions: ***Changing the losing condition: -Implement or fake a way for zombies to deal damage so that u could have a lil bit of gameplay within every stage. If enemies are to the center and u just go straigh, u'll lose more units. If they are to the left and u go thru the right u save units.. but u might want to choose the left option making the game more interesting -this would mean u loos when u run out of units and not when u make a suboptimal decision, which makes a lot more sense to me. But ye u'd need to come up with an algorithm to decide how many enemies to put on each stage ***pace seems a lil slow? Amazing job, tho, congratulations and thanks for sharing

Dude please sell this and make more fake ads games.. make them advertise now for YOU and teach them a lesson finally 😂 you’re my hero

To be honest with a little bit of polish of the math this would be a great game to improve math skills for school kids!

since the game is endless the speed you go at should increase over time so it actually gets harder and harder

How are you not one the biggest channels on youtube yet? Your channel is phenominal

THIS IS SO COOL!!! Nice work there buddy

immediately ending the game after marking a bad decision kinda defeats the point so I'd say that was a bad call

I skipped to the end to see the gameplay and it literally looks like an official game, well done

The way go make this actually challenging would be to force the player to lock into a lane with 2 or 3 consecutive modifiers. Otherwise you're just very easily deciding the better of 2 obvious options.

not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed

This is exactly what i wanted lol, every time i see those adds im like,why do they make a fake add with a game that looks cool for a shitty game instead of making the game that they are actually advertising wich looks simple af, and the few that actually are what they advertise are crammed with adds that make them unplayable

I prefer the "losign at the end" way. that way you can create finite levels and let bad decisions ripple throught the level

I’ve been seeing variants of that ad a LOT on Instagram lately. Good to see someone actually made an real game based on that.

this was really cool to watch nice job :)

There's a way to make the game more interesting! 1. The number of enemies should not be based on how many characters the player has. Let Y be the number of enemies and, for every area, there's a 90% chance that Y get's modified by the best possible operation of the two presented to the player. On hard mode, that percentage is increased to 100%. Also, the number of enemies should never be decreased by more than, say, 20%. 2. Now, make each enemy and player unit have some hit points and their weapons should cause some damage. Have them fight a real fight! Enemies can't make past their original area, but the player can pass even without killing all the enemies. 3. The player's units never heal, so, if he wants them to restore all the hitpoints, he must chose a "heal" operation. For added excitement, you could always pare a "heal" operation with an "increase damage" operation, which won't restore hitpoints, but will increase the damage of all the units by +1. Exciting stuff!

This is just amazing! Other ads I see are decesion making games

Looking forward to a more optimised version of this game. Was very fun to play.

Rly like how you put actual work behind an ad :-D

Needs an acceleration mechanic that caps out so that difficulty scales as you play. The game should move difficulties upwards at say wave 50. combat is fine but the animations should be more dynamic. Rockets, bombs, flamethrowers etc.

Best thing to improve this is to keep ramping the speed up gradually to a cap, keep the complexity of the equations simple, but as you go the reward for correct answers get thinner, and the consequence for mistakes become greater. Also need a "I've been through this many gates" number at the top to show progress and high score.

I have an idea like that as well but it's like the ones you usually see in war heroes

Everytime I see the ad for this game I am always thinking something like "I'd play this, if it was true" and today I found this video. Great stuff!

I swear the stuff mobile games can get away without getting in trouble is mind blowing. At least you helped this concept become something more than just a fake ad. Nice job.

You should have kept the original ending instead, building up a big army, you can make a few mistakes if they’re small but every mistake compounds to you losing more units, if you make enough mistakes you won’t be strong enough to defeat the final horde. Regardless this looks amazing and it’s wild that you can make a better real and better fake game than these guys can.

Awesome!! I'd like to see soemthing similar where it is round based and you get coins to upgrade your troops instead. Would be fun

Oh my god, I LOVE this idea. Please do it forever, I love you.

There's a slight problem I noticed, in all these mobile games the enemies don't spawn depending on how much you have they just go up as time goes on, your goal is to keep or gain more units then the enemies so that failing math don't let you win

By my personal experience, I found out that for infinity runners, seems to be a better option to keep the player position static and move the scenario in his direction. This way you prevent giant transform values for the player position, which can cause some weird bugs. Also, great stuff. Keep it up

What a champ, you made my favourite anoying ad fake game

Legit thought the same thing when I saw that ad, thanks for making the game

Very good! The only problems I would say are how it's so dark and you can barely see the enemies and how you can't "win"

Very cool my man but I'm a bit baffled that you added an awful death system resulting from choosing a bad math choice rather than making the zombies fight your characters and just ending the game when your troops reach 0

Thank god you came into my recommendations I was planning to make such game next month, Since now its out there I will try something else!

Thanks for making this!

8:00 - wow. Really goes to show how important lighting is. I'm going to take this to heart with all CG stuff I do.

Definitely a cool outcome, and I could actually see some use for it with some tweaks to be used as a learning tool for kids. Teach them things like addition etc., with different difficulty levels depending on what you're trying to learn. It obviously has it's limit, but the potential is definitely there.

I really enjoyed this short journey. So much so, I had to subscribe right away. However, (just a little feedback here) the harsh black screen cuts in the video made me think my TV is malfunctioning.

Man, you are so talented.

Interesting. The version I have seen in ads wasn't infinite, there was a boss at the end. And it wasn't an instant loss if you picked a wrong value. Instead it looked like there were a certain number of enemies in each area, and if you had few units than enemies, you lost y/2 units, where y was the number of enemies. If you lost all you units or weren't strong enough to beat the boss, that was game over. Maybe you could code it where each gate adds (or subtracts, or even sets) a number of enemies based on the more powerful equation. Then you might be able to survive a few bad choices. But this is really cool and looks a lot better.

A upgrade system would be interesting like for example you could increase the resistance of zombies to make the game harder or increase the players speed to make the game go faster.

Your the best! This was heaps of fun

Find your video at 3am. Want to download it immediadly lmao you're genius !

The thing doesn't have to be infinite, the ad doesn't look like it's infinite. Instead, it can be in stages, where each stage has a fixed number of segments. Within the segments, getting right or wrong doesn't matter a lot, unless you keep getting it wrong and is horribly under powered. But after the segments, there is a giant wave that you can only beat if you get it all right (or some percentage thereof to allow a few minor mistakes). If you beat the giant wave, you beat the stage and can move onto the next one. And each stage can have increasing difficulty in the complexity of formulas. You can "tier" the formulas and each level has a higher percentage chance to spawn higher formulas, thus allowing for an almost infinite number of difficulty levels overall.

Wow, never thought I would see Drongo, Wraith, Murdock, and Howitzer in a mobile game that actually looks polished. Well done

What an amazing video idea, gj!

I think it'd actually be cool to have it so you do 10 or so questions and then you have to fight the big horde of zombies. It would allow for you to make maybe one mistake and still live, but if you aced it you could survive the horde with people to spare kind of like you're getting an extra life for the next round of questions. Also it'd look cool to get rushed by basically a boss