flip is a pandora box. Sometimes he cuts when prime tells him to sometimes he doesn't. Man is showing who does the cuts.

The game is very addictive, It makes sense that they worked for a gambling company before VS.

I love the classic arcade feel of the game, and I honestly think the sound design is the big reason for it being so addicting

I wonder how many generally good solo games are on steam that never caught attention of some media person and remain unknown for public.

17:14 I'm a game developer and I 100% agree with this. Adding even a small amount of decent looking placeholder and polish feels really good and makes your playtesting more enjoyable

I watched that first video the day it came out, I was part of that spike. So happy for this guy. He made something amazing. You're probably going to cover this but using the casino style sounds really helps the dopamine loop, made to be addictive in the best way.

FYI In italy we have the tradition to keep the Christmas tree until epifany. So no, he was not late in removing it.. perfect timing actually lol

Regarding Thor and raising the price from $3 to $5 for VS, he said he didn't like it. It was coming from the perspective of taking advantage of your customers, a cash grab basically. I mostly agree with Thor's point, but disagree in the case of VS specifically, because I think $3 was undervalued. If I'm not mistaken, the $5 version of the game has a lot more content than the original $3 release. I don't think anybody who would pay for the $3 version will feel taken advantage of for the $5 version.

The idea of having a group of friends to do a show and tell with personal projects they made is so cool. Wish some of my buddies care enough to create some things!

"Commodore 64 cassettes..." shows new fangled 3.5" floppies... 💀

0:42 before FPS genre got it's name all 3D FPS games were called Doom-clones

Dude takes the Christmas tee down the day after Christmas. Prime: classic taking the Christmas tree down super super late.

27:54 what do you mean? According to the Christian tradition, Christmas decorations are supposed to be put down at feast of Epiphany which is typically the 6th o January.

i just had an idea for a video format. something in between an interview and a reaction. the interviewee would have a script and maybe a slide show, and the interviewer would react as it's being presented, but also ask questions, but then they would go on tangents and eventually get back to the script (not questions at the end but like an in person style reaction

I wrote some code for taxes, and it also was fun in a weird way. Tax laws have exceptions, and exceptions in exceptions (i made it 5 exceptions deep). Sometimes laws are twisting basic math, you need to divide 10 by seven without a reminder 😅

Never forget: Minecraft started as an indie game.

yooo ridge racer is soooo good! also i found your channel recently and it's great stuff - great blend of informative and entertaining!

4:20 I can't describe how perfect this is .. made my day :D

for what it's worth the star is called a pentagram regardless of its orientation, but wrapping it in a circle like that turns it into a pentacle which is one with sussy connotations to some

"Making the game he likes" - solid win here. This is key in so many creative pursuits. The book *Steal Like an Artist* hits on this point (and Gandhi, so that's cool - "Be the change you want to see in the world," which includes making games 🙂)

phaser mentioned let's gooo

An hour long video about my favorite steam deck game? *grabs popcorn*

What a legend. Just going out there and doing it. Whatever it takes

he worked from 2:00 a.m. on his project and the worked 8 hours in the office , so relatable... i work 12 hours, 4 days a week, including night shifts and last months i am working on pretty much big project at home in free time wherever i can, i must say it is very exhausting, but until i still have a drive - i will be doing it.

The psychology of this is quite easy to get. Combine dopamine trap and power fantasy.

good job flip i like when you leave fun stuff in

Flip flip flip flip

As an Asmongold Mod (and simp) my Primeagen pipeline was Asmon -> PirateSoftware -> Now I'm here.

I have an unhealthy obsession with survivor style games.

Wow that Battletoads memory is so real. I was the tunnel kid. My dad and brother would hand me the controller to get to the next level. I think there was a warp that skipped the ice level right? And went to the snake level. Then you could warp on the snake level too and skip to the upward elevator level.

15:44 He says you should know when to continue or walk away and my first thought is "The Gambler" Shout out to hattybin for hitting the mark on that one. You da real MVP. You gotta know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away, know when to run. Lol

I just started watching splattercat vids for a short time and saw the vamp survivors vid when it came out and went ahead and bought it straight away b/c is was looking for some little cheap fun things to fill some time with. Fun in retrospect to have been able to ride this little wave from so close to the origin.

28:00 If you're a traditionalist, the Christmas season ends on the Epiphany (5th of Jan, the "12th day of Christmas"), so 7th of Jan doesn't seem particularly late?

love this

Hopefully Prime reacts to other game documentaries like this :D

It's really ironic how nowadays you are less scared to draw a pentagram than a cross.

Crimsonland was my first introduction to these types of games

"His arms were wheels" LMAO

Primeagen and Asmon, my two reactors that burn on a 16, 20 or 30 min video for 1 hour least

I have a different take on only building things to "prototype stage": It really depends on what your goals are. I often work on projects just as a research project to learn something new or better understand how something works. I also write code just purely for entertainment. There are also things I write as a utility for my own use that I never make into something someone else will ever use (example: Photoshop's radial blur sucks so I wrote my own radial blur as a command line program that only reads and writes raw images. Same for gausian blur, fractal noise, etc. They are much easier for *my* workflow than using Photoshop.)

Omg I just applied for Workiva 😂

Vampire

Nice

I would like to see you talk with thor about the vampire survivors price increase

before the 30:00, me : why Thor say it need to raise $2 ? after the 30:00, me : why it only cost $3?

Holocure mentioned!!!

Animal Well documentary next 🙏

It feels like prime's gonna make a 30 min video for a 30 sec short reaction.

Bro, imagine the amount of "vampire survivors" that we would have if ppl does'n have to wake up 2 am to be able to work on what they love? We really need more free time to follow our passions...

Parasite Eve was one of my favorites, I hardly hear people talk about that one.

21:35 This (investing time for things that others don't care about) applies to so many things: at least to music and photography (for those I have personal experience). Eventually you'll care about details that no one else will notice or care about excluding, obviously, some other musicians and photographers. You still have to do it because otherwise what are you doing? Producing stuff that you don't care about? That you think is basic shit? And you'll just continue doing stuff that you can do in your sleep? I.e. something you'd do for minimum wage. It's fine if you're getting paid but in most cases, you're not.

When you were thinking about the word for level scaling, were you maybe thinking of Skill Based Matchmaking (SSBM) like where it tries to match similar MMR players? I guess it could be kind of argued that level scaling NPCs is SSBM but for PvE games

Regarding the work sounding awful but being fun in practice, manufacturing companies are a ton of fun.

The specific name of "level scaling with protagonist" is rubber banding, in case you are still wondering

Ah yes, the game that melted my phone's battery. I remember gold farming in winter, leaving my phone outside on the balcony, in order not to overheat. Good times!

The fact you never played MKI is actually more outstanding than Vampire Survivors being developed in JS !

why would he wake up at 2 lol I mean I program in the evening is it about being more fresh for his side project than from his work?

It's an iteration of tower defense except your tower is moving with you.

NOCLIP!!!!!

6:00 my favorite game for playstation was Dynasty Warriors. I haven't played any of their games since. Maybe I should try one out, I haven't played a one on one fighter since Soul Caliber 2. I wonder how the new Dynasty Warriors will compare to Soul Caliber 6.

Breaking news--- this game was hot like 2 years ago. You gotta keep up with the times, bro.

"be normal" - the guy has all nintendo console history in his shelf...

Garlic Andy here. Garlic and Bible are the best, don’t listen to anyone who says something else ;)

Late comment but it's normal in the UK and Ireland to take the tree down on the 6th or 7th of jan

mozambique is a pewpew? i thought it was 2 to the chest, 1 to the head?

Maintaining the JS version seems ridiculous, but Luca seems to be acting like a classic artist... Prototype as fast as possible with the media you know. It's like his version of a napkin drawing.

The reason so many people pushed back on the "use ai generated images for prototyping" is because we shouldn't be normalising using stolen artwork, even if it's not for the final product. I agree, it's super important to have your game look good in the development stage for motivation and testing. But a free asset pack will do that way better, take considerably less time, and use art on the terms of the artist, without costing any money. People will eventually show off their prototype to their friends or social media, even if it might not be the best thing to do, but that advertises the artist who made the pack and it's one of the reasons they make free assets. Also, you might be unintentionally persuading people to spend money and time on midjourney to get their art to look better or how they want it. Where as that transitional stage of starting to spend money on your project would be better spent supporting the artists on asset packs these AIs steal from.

Made the cross on the bible into a plus sign. Not to avoid controversy, but because vampires hate arithmetic.

9:28 what the f is that ad

It's interesting that devs are now selling the experience of flash games to zoomers

21:55 that feeling of releasing a game but no one caring hurts so much lol. You spend all this time on something, you know all the issues but you still publish it because you hope that you're just overly critical and then you put it out and dead silence. My game wasn't complicated or particularly pretty but I put in work to make it feel as good as I could, and it's still not enough. I'd recommend putting a number of small games out and just burn through that feeling a few times, eventually you'll build an audience (they say).

feels illegal being this early to a video

39:35 "Vampire Survivors 2 will be in PHP." Sure...why not? The only downside is that PHP doesn't really have a lot of extensions to interface with graphical libraries like OpenGL and what does exist are mostly prototype sorts of things. So that will be the major pain point, but PHP can handle a game loop just fine. Is it the best language for writing an action game in? Probably not. Then again, Kingdom of Loathing still exists and no one's really sure what language it is written in.

You know Parasite Eve? Played as a 9 year old with my friend and boy we were scared to sleep lmao

Been trying to use Stable Diffusion for game art for weeks. News Flash: It always sucks. It won't make sprite sheets. The negative prompts for 2D pixel art are trash. Recommend AI when it actually produces good results. Right now it's an absolute waste of time. I gave up and bought some $2-$7 assets. Assets I bought came with a character generator. I hacked the generator to produce even more animations! Couldn't be happier!

I follow Splattercat, and he sold the game for me, esp at that price point

What Thor said was that no one should just increase the price because their game got popular, it is trying to squeeze extra money from people after you already made a lot of money, the only excusable reason would be because a currency depreciated a lot really fast. The argument is not that the game is not worth 2 usd more, the argument is that the original price is what the dev/publisher thought it was worth, and after the fact they change the price, alienating new users because it costs more.

Playstation games: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Silent hill series Fatal frames series

Parasite eve was amazing!

ThePrimeagen: "I never played Monkey Island" Shame on you.

Made with phaser. I love phaser.

Those aren't even Commodore 64 disks, and he said cassettes :)

I could never beat race with a rat in battletoads, it was impossible

You are thinking of McDonalds jobs in the United States. It's not the same in Europe. In the USA you go to McDonalds if you can't afford real food. Here going To McDonnalds is an indulgence if you have disposable income.

no one remebers jet moto, twisted metal, final fantasy, legend of dragoon. ps1 was amazing

Pentagrams aren’t demonic, the use of pentagrams was to create barriers and protection.

I can't get the motivation to do anything

You have never played monkey island? What?! sacrilegious! Go back to your basement and do not come out until you finish at last 1 monkey island. Also, you do not need to tell HR about this.

i use arch btw

I also played the shit out of Magic Survival on android :D

It was fun and then I got OP and didn’t need to play any more lol

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"I learned all my satanism from DOOM". Oh dear... Parental advisory required is going to make a comeback... What have you done... DX isn't Hell, but it's a surefire (pun intended) gateway to the place. You sell half your soul and burn the other half. p.s. i don't think the price hike was a major thing. It's A LOT of new content for $2. And it's TOTALLY different to go $3>$5 than $30>$50, it's the same scaling but not the same absolute difference.

Your mom is amazing

Monkey Island best game ever

"Thanks Biden" for the inflation. Classic!

The worst thing is when you have to play a 2 hour tutorial to just GET TO THE GAME. Sometimes you want to spend an age customizing your character, but not always.

Vampire Survivors clone after Tower Defence????

every Tesla has it :)

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