This guy is a good talker

"Everyone feels like a fraud and that's fine. There's no problem." "That's the way creatives work." I knew about imposter syndrome but it was a revelation to hear someone I admire, so confidently say we all feel this way.

Awesome talk. Love Vlambeer. They are probably the biggest reason I am using Game Maker rather than something else right now.

46:23 "Try and put yourself in as many situations where you can fail Because every time you fail you learn and you will learn faster than you will learn if you succeed." Love that so much I'm going to turn my ideas into reality

Words cannot describe how kick ass this talk was. (What? ... I know these are words)

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Video might be "old" but these ideas, this mindset, is timeless. I will do my best to make use of this, thank you so much!

This was an awesome talk, more so because of his attitude and natural ability to talk to a crowd but genuine also. I love the community of game developers...

Lesson 1 starts @19:45

Wow Rami. Thanks for one of the best presentations I've seen on the topic. Amazing.

These devs are 2 of the greatest people to live, they really have passion and are so creative about their games. proud to play their masterpieces!

This is the best game design speech I've ever heard.

Big motivational boost. Awesome man!

Awesome video. Really like this kind of thing. Would love to see more. Keep it up.

Love their games so much. Excellent developer.

This was the reason I went to egx 2018. much respect to this guy.

Still holds up, amazing 👏

This is an amazing goldmine!

yay ive been looking for this video (went missing) thank you

The best talk ever!

Fucking legend. I was lucky to be in this year's gamelab, where he made another talk

Very nice to hear this! I've been an Independent Game Developer for a few years.

vlambeer talks are always good talk

Who the heck disliked this goldmine?

Thanks for this!

The person that negotiated with him is watching this, and he's pissed.

One of the best I ever see. :D

this video unlocks legendary items. i feel OP.

Man, you rock.

Fabulous, funny and informative

The "Give more than you take" advice it awesome. However I do feel I am not experienced enough to "give".

this man is a legend

Love these devs

great talk, thank you!

Super Crate Box got cloned with Muffin Knight and Ridiculous Fishing got cloned with Ninja Fishing. I feel sorry for these guys.

the game really talks to you you might want it to turn out one way but it will become it's own beast and you have to support that beast

Tip: 1.5 speed, if you dont have time. Very good talk, just too slow for a very busy schedule.

Great video.

I love it how he says "You"

great speech.

Backstory finishes at 19:05

insightful talk

+++ PURE GOLD +++

Being from South Africa. I can say that although we do have a big smart phone market. Gaming has been big here since the late 80s

OMG... I love this guy :O

Great talk.

Any idea which books were suggested in this talk?

1:01:35 that scared look into the camera when he says dont assume XD

Was that lucas is the front row?

My reason for making games is that I want to make games that I want to play. Right now, I'm figuring out 3d graphics because I don't have enough money to buy Devil Daggers, but I still want to play it, so I'm making my own personal Devil Daggers. What then, should I do if play testers respond negatively to what you consider to be the most fun part of the game?

The jump on the "Y" button game is Skyrim.

just a small loan of a million dollars

where did you get that T? link me plz

48:54 what books is he talking about?

Nice job there! Oh and a nice day to everyone reading this! :)

Ohnoooo that green shirted dude

I'm really narked off that their fishing game (which I own and I loved playing) got cloned. In fact I wonder if I bought the clone version. Did they ever recoup their money legally ? I think Polygon did an article about it, I'm going to dig it out.

This guy is the reason I made a twitter account

how did the other company get radical fishing to sell? they made it from scratch?

I enjoyed this vid, but the part of South Africa is not correct. We have been gaming hard since the Atari 2600 and Sinclair zx spectrum days.

at 1:09:08 I have heard this "riddle" so many times in my life that IMMEDIATELY I knew where he was going with it.

The whole talk about game maker and going where the game takes you and not making the game in your head because computers dont work like that... it all means to me that they develop games lazily, meaning they stop when something is hard, when theres a technical limitation they work it into the game instead of trying to brake that limitation and go past it. Which may be actually a good way to make games on a low budgetif you manage to make them look like they have some value but i dont think is a rule rule...

Most of my ideas are certainly remixes lol.

Just FYI!!! The guys who made SERIOUS SAM!! Are about as FAR REMOVED from SUITS as you can get!!!! They are SERIOUS game players.. and LOVER OF GAMES..

They've taken images from people's head when they dream and made identifyable images. I think it's possible.

Did he go into computer science?

"I hear alot of people say 'Game maker can't make games' " AND THEN UNDERTALE CAME OUT.

This is why I will NEVER be a great game developer...I didn't drop out of college. In fact I'm days away from finishing. :|

1:07:00 He had to delve into identitarianism. Don't handicap yourself over superficial guilt. There are people born with horrible disabilities, but we don't insult them by handicapping ourselves to match them. Life happens. Someone can be a refugee from a country with a poor education system, or be someone from an abusive household. Got me angry this did.

Poor girl at 30:35 just trying to help then gives up lol

I have tons of game ideas but no money to make them.

Man rich kid: A Computer for a 6 year old in 80s. And 12 copies of game.

I never understand why people think living off ramen noodles is a sign of being poor.. YES they are cheap.. but holy FUCK are they nice!!! and its always told like.. OMG!! the first second we got ANY money at all.. those noodles were 86'ed for something nicer.. like.. BOILED RICE!!! I buy ramen noodles all the time.. they are fucking delicious.!!!

he really seems to like himself

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*cough* *cough* Fucking skyrim and their jump button.

I was following him on twitter, but I didn't know why, LOL, "he is popular" I thought. But now I know why. (yet I'm not following him anymore, I'm sure he's not sorry for that).

I have to disagree a bit, some things are not games no matter how you spin it. For example, a "game" which is eighty percent cut scenes and twenty percent gameplay, you are not really playing but semi interacting with a movie.

Pro-Tip: If you want to hire minorities - then go for it. Put your money where your mouth is rather than shaming others into hiring minorities. Be sure to pay them the same too.

Dude, everybody knew where you were going with that riddle. And that basically disproves your premise.

a tad pretentious

An interesting talk. But not really helpful

43:00 Soooo cringey when he asked that guy to come up with a game idea and he couldn't. Talk about 2nd hand embarrassment!

Everything was great until the SJW hive mind appeared at the end.

Despite there being a few decent pieces of advice, he lost all credibility when he started suggesting the industry was exclusive toward women at around 1hr 5mins. How would a field exclusive toward women have as their most Publicly Recognizable figure for over 20 consecutive years Be a Woman? From her earliest works for the Apple series until long after she was out of the industry, ROBERTA WILLIAMS was the only developer most people in the public could name. If you want to try to explain to people like Bonnie Ross (HALO) and Kim Swift (Portal, Left 4 Dead, etc), and all the other women behind the most popular franchises in games that they aren't supposed to be there, by all means, try - but please record it so we can all laugh along with them as they openly mock your ignorance. Nothing in the game industry is exclusive toward women. No development house rejects women. Some actually Do reject men, but that's for another discussion. The only thing that might keep a woman with dreams of creating games from doing so -- is people as ignorant as this guy who would tell her she can't because it is a "male" field. And that is why I take such issue with his suggestion that it is the case. Not because he's wrong - which he so obviously is, but because of the harm he may do to those listening to him as a 'credible' source if they believe that his nonsensical suggestion is actually found in the industry itself. -- Here's a clue. The game industry doesn't care what's in your pants, who you're sleeping with at home, or what your politics are. They care what skills and ideas you bring to the table and how much profit they can make from both.