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24hr early access - The Rise and Fall of Britain's Bedroom Coders | Design Icons
🕑 Added 2020-09-29 12:45:01 +0000 UTCHello!
My game history series is back! This time, on my home turf with a look at the British games business. Hope you find it interesting, whether you're from here or not!
Mark
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Boz
Wow - great direction for Design Icons! Great job :)
drixkarasu
Really interesting video. Thanks Mark!
Richard Skolek
Honestly, I thought this would be pretty boring, and only decided to watch it because I love your videos. But it turned out to be really interesting. Thank you, and well done!
Really enjoyable. Would love to see a follow up.
I recently finished Netflix' High Score. 6 or so hour-long episodes and I still feel like even all of them put together are nothing compared to a single one of your videos 👌
Fardin Fahim
damn I had no idea snipperclips was made by a pair of british bedroom coders
Fantastic distillation of that whole period, I often look back at that period now and wonder what could have been. I grew up in the 80's had a spectrum and learned some code on it. But never went any further now I through a weird quirk of fate I teach Games Design to college students and I often think back to the early days of gaming, I am going to show this to my students today to give them an insight of what gaming looked like before consoles dominated. Also Mark, please tell me you have thought about doing a full feature documentary on something, I love the size of your videos because they are great to show in the classroom and use as an anchor for a lesson. But I could watch something much longer. If you ever think of kickstarting a project I would be there for it.
Matteo @Paleblue Narratives
It's mentioned among the sources/'find out more' :)
Game Maker's Toolkit
Balls! Well caught ;)
ZoidbergForPresident
Eve Online was out in 1984? Unreal! :D
Game Maker's Toolkit
Will do in future - didn't know this was an issue!
Paul Andrei
That Robocop song get's me every time!
Chris Lopo
Superb! There is also a documentary on the subject called "From Bedroom to Billions". I strongly recommend it if you want know more.
OSW Review
Thank u mark! Please consider including a link in the main text? It's a bit laborious to have to click out of the email, then click the thumbnail, then click watch later, then find that in the YouTube app. If it was just a link it'd open straight away in YT, cheers!
