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Lecture: The Joy of Jams (Plus: channel updates!)
🕑 Added 2021-12-08 20:20:26 +0000 UTCHello!
So I sometimes give talks at universities and game studios around the globe. Last week I was invited to talk (virtually) at a game studio here in the UK - they're running an internal game jam, so asked me to speak about the value of doing jams, based on my experience running GMTK Game Jam.
I like to record myself practicing the talk so that I can provide them to Patrons as bonus content. So... here we go! You can watch it here.
While I've got you here, lemme give you a few updates
1) The next video on the channel is my annual "How accessible were this year's games?" video. That should be out this week. It's been 90% ready for a while, I've just been waiting for Halo Infinite to release.
2) Then it's my annual "deep dive into an innovative game" video. No spoilers on the game I've picked this year, but I'm excited to break it down. That's out in a couple weeks.
3) Thanks so much to everyone who took the GMTK Patreon survey. I'll be looking into those responses soon. I'll let you know what I find out, and what I want to do with the Patreon in 2022 in...
4) My big 2021 channel review post. That should drop after Christmas but before New Year's, I think.
5) There's also the reading list and playlist videos for December. As usual, the playlist will be my top 10 favourite games released in 2021. I often do something a little round-uppy for the reading list, too. We'll see.
I think that's it! Once all those are done I can put a bow on 2021, play some games, and get back into Unity for the next episode of Developing. And start planning 2022's GMTK episodes!
Speak soon, thanks!
Mark
Comments
alex dicarlo
Rimworld GMTK When mark? it must be done!!!!!!! "For the colony!"
Chris K
FYI, I'm pretty sure the Tomb Raider at around 17:30 is labeled wrong
jt
Super excited for 1 and 2! (Though gosh, can't believe we're already at the time of the year for it)
Chris K
I forget if someone brought this up last year, but for the reading list, it would be nice to distinguish anything that's new vs. anything that was already on a previous month's list.
Game Maker's Toolkit
Hey! The best way right now is using the tags (so if you click the "lectures" one at the bottom of this post it will take you to all the talks i've given to Patrons). I know that Patreon is introducing a better content archive system in 2022 which should help with this problem! Edit: as for Psychonauts 2, I'll keep it in mind!
Radu Nicolae
Any easy way to find the bonus video for late Patreon arrivals? Like a playlist of sorts. I'll also take this opportunity to ask for an On the Level episode from Psychonauts 2. I'm particularly interested in the Hospital/Casino level, because how do you come up with something like that?
