Giant Beast Academy: Game Design

Awesome job @havochq! I'm so glad that you are part of the GB community!

So funny

Thanks so much for watching! :D I'm glad folks enjoyed this wonderful bit of silly game making. ^^

(I am indeed French-Canadian; Chariot was built in a custom 2D engine crafted by a talented R&D crew.)

@ibushido: Perfect.

One of my favorite features in a loooong time, please do this again!

This is amazing!!! Hope there are more in the future!

#MONETIZETHEDINGALINGS

Alex Zandra is an absolute treasure. Only five minutes in and I'm already loving this.

This was really hard to watch despite Alex working her magic, and keeping up with all of the ideas. For me, Dan made this whole thing really uncomfortable. I would love to see more of this type of content, but hope the next in the series goes a bit smoother.

Reedus hugging p1_hurt. It kind of hurts. Message received.

@bigsocrates: There was one in my head, but i never typed it down. Didn't see any in chat neither. Sorry!

I couldn't help but laugh my ass off during the stream. I was pretty much laughing every 5 minutes. Thanks for that i guess!

I wonder how interesting it would be to have Max Temkin act like this is the prototype to make a kickstarter page for. Like how interesting is it to talk about what a kickstarter page should have, how do you make a suitable video , what are your costs, what are you asking for , how do you design your stretch goals etc. Might not be as flashy as making a game though.

steve stoop's jump n dump shit show

soooooo in love with this!! and alex's pretty blue hair

@ibushido said:

Reedus loves his little poo- I mean stoop baby!

That was wonderful.

Yeah a lot of these programs that don't require much or any proper programming are great ways to get started, or to use even if you never want to learn actual programming.

30 minutes in and this is magical so far!

I had to come here to watch this after seeing the horrid nature of the youtube comments on this video.

Anything Vinny produces has low audio.

Super interesting stream, definitely would love to see more Academy streams in the future if possible

This was a pleasure to watch and made me want to go download Construct 2 and start making a game. Thanks Alex Zandra!

Alex, jazz game development is all about playing the lack of features, daddy-o!

I would really like to know the computer specs required to make a game using the software shown. I'm upgrading my PC might consider this as a possibility to include in my specifications.

Vinny: I'm going to ask a lot of dumb questions.

Dan. Me to.

Had me rolling with laughter.

@ibushido: that is my new phone background and screensaver.

This is so cool! Thanks for this feature GB! It's especially weird as I just yesterday I decided to download gamemaker and started learning a lot of these basics. I'm someone who I never thought was the kind of person who kid sit down and make a game, but a lot of these tools really make it much easier to mess around with different ideas. I'm going to continue dabbling in my free time.

"I am the one who poops."

Also I feel like developers watching this video will get PTSD from feature creep.

@havochq: You were on the Chariot team!? That's pretty awesome! I Never got around to buying it, but the two QLs's made it look like a great game.

I'm dying laughing. This is my new favorite feature. Please keep this going!

Alex: Oh, my god! That's great!

Dan: Can they pile up on the floor? Yeah, they need to pile up on the floor.

This was a great video. I loved Alex Zandra's enthusiasm for every dumb idea Vinny and Dan would come up with. I hope to see more of this feature in the future.

I used construct to make this game where you play a decapitated Quake guy head years ago:

http://www.thannymack.com/games/gib/

Construct was a great piece of software even then. Get out there and make some games everyone!

One of my favorite features in a while; watched it twice! Thanks!

Looking at the YouTube comments. I have concluded that the alt right really hates game design.

I've barely started watching this, but this is such a great idea for a feature. I can't wait to see what they make!

This was a lot of fun, and super interesting! Thanks!

i wish there was a way for this to be an almost mario maker style thing and the Gb community made levels or whatever using the gameplay rules these nuts have come up with. not gonna lie, i'm not through the whole video so this comment may be answered, but still.

This should be a series....Can this be a series? please? Giant Beast is pure magic.

Alex was delightful and put up with their bullshit with a smile on her face. Really fun stream.

this website just keeps getting better. would be great if they can make this a series and get NYU legends like frank lantz and robert yang

Not sure if anyone cares but all lists typically start with 0 in programming because the number specifies the offset. If A is a location then A[0] is that same location and A[1] is a location one step away from the location of A[0].

Pure bio digital jazz man!

I love this idea! What a great concept for a stream. The trio of Dan, Alex, and Vinny have such a weird and varied blend of dumb ideas. Huge props to @havochq for coming into the office and making this happen - as well as for willingly going along with all of their madness! Would love to see this feature extended out with a variety of guests.

(Chariot is wonderful and you should all play it, by the way.)

Fantastic stuff Giant BEAST. Carving your own path, love seeing the process. This has Vinny ALL over it. Fantastic guest to introduce a new video series.

This entire site is my Mecca!. Feels like a family. Any Bombers in OZ get at me. Deuces!. Love the shit outta all GB UNIVERSE.

Giant Bomb, a site about making video games. Very cool. Would love to see more stuff like this.

This was entirely too much fun. I'm bummed I missed the live stream.

I read up about construct 2 vs other engines and someone in the youtube comments also made this comment:

"Construct seems alright but not as user friendly as GameSalad, and not as powerful as GameMaker. If you can get it cheap, sure but both GameSalad and GameMaker are far cheaper than Construct's base price."

Anyone with experience can say how good gamesalad and gamemaker are? Honestly if it were up to me I would just jump right into UE4 since that seems to be the best available engine, but something tells me it is the most difficult to learn with no coding experience.

This would have been soooo amazing with Austin in one of those chairs! I love Dan, I just miss Austin, especially during moments like this where his participation would have been gold.