Unfortunately, JW has most likely removed the playable presentation from his Dropbox.

"Just fill your game with love and tiny details." What a beautiful quote..

"If you have a button that does something in your game, you need to give the player a reason not to press it, otherwise you may as well perform that action automatically all the time" I liked that point!

"All i did was move them back a couple of pixels, because that's what happens when you get shot in real life too" Jan Willem Nijman 2013

"You might as well put a lot of shooting in there, because it's my only way to communicate with this sad world."

"Don't put things in your game that hurt people physically". Best advice ever.

Jan: _I put a sleep(20) when every enemy dies_ Also Jan: _Put more enemies and more bullets because it's more fun_ Me playing Nuclear Throne: _Why does it freeze when lots of enemies dies at once? wtf This is a powerful computer_

List of game feel additions mentioned by JW: 7:24 shitty platform shooter 8:28 basic animations and sound 9:03 lower enemy hp 9:28 higher rate of fire 9:45 more enemies 10:13 bigger bullets 10:39 muzzle flash 10:58 faster bullets 11:19 less accuracy 11:46 impact effects (when bullets collide, add an effect) 12:10 hit animation 12:42 enemy knockback 13:18 permanence 14:49 camera lerp 15:27 camera position 16:36 screen shake 17:15 player knockback 18:06 sleep (momentary pause when hitting enemy) 19:52 gun delay (animation) 20:01 gun kickback (animation) 20:23 strafing 20:36 little shells 21:43 more bass 23:16 super machine gun 23:54 random explosion 23:59 faster enemies 24:40 more enemies 25:09 even higher rate of fire, camera kick (move camera in opposite direction of shooting) 26:47 bigger explosions 27:54 even more permanence (smoke in explosion) 29:04 meaning (player can die), death animation 31:00 game balancing

As an aspiring gamedev, I've learned a lot. I'll put a meaningful triple machinegun that shoots explosions in my game.

I re-watch this video religiously when I need to beef my game up

"There are way more other peoples than yous" -Jan Willem Nijman 2013

This has to be one of the most awkward, yet beautifully quotable talks I've ever heard. My favorite: "Games should have meaning, and triple machine guns."

So much great information. Thank you! @30:58 the game enemy was pretty much synced up with the guy walking across the stage.

at 17 minutes in, he mentions give the player a reason NOT to hold the button inn. in Luftrausers, they accomplished this beautifully with both the shooting and the throttle control. not firing allows your plane to repair (a second or two is enough) and not throttling allows you to stall and tumble. like turning around and firing behind you at pursuers.

Whether you find this interesting or not, I think everyone can see that this presentation is innovative and very effective at communicating its point. Excellent presentation.

I got a chuckle that the camera was on such an unstable and often-jostled mount while filming a talk about screen shake...

This is one of the best, most in-depth, most immediately helpful talk I've ever seen on improving gameplay. Thank you Jan and Rami.

Just a little trick for sleep in GM:S - since it's been removed, instead you can simply set the room speed to something low, set an alarm for 1 step, and reset the game back to normal FPS after that 1 step. Also, amazing talk!

I think with regards to screenshakes (related to one of the questions at 32:30) most of the recent games have them as configurable and even can be disabled. Adding details with game feel is great, but allowing the player to customize his game feel is even better. If screenshake or any other visual detail is part of your wanted game feel, have it less (or not) customizable.

Tiny Tiny Things but it makes a huge difference

This presentation is genius. Really great points. The one thing I disagree with is the screen movement. A few times as he quickly moved back and forth it started to make me feel sick. I think it was just for demonstration, because the moving camera works great in Luftrausers. Maybe it shouldn't be controlled directly by the player's button inputs and rather the screen as a whole (which is what he said it does in Luftrausers).

About the 'sleep' trick, I was playing 'Risk of Rain', which usually ends up with the player being incredibly overpowered and doing massive damage to a lot of enemies in the map, and at some point the game was moving incredibly slowly. I thought it was the game not handling all the damage I did, having to calculate all lifesteal I had and such, but it might possibly have been that they didn't limit their sleep effect; effectively creating lagg when you do too much damage to too many enemies. Anyway, interesting talk, good points to use in games, even those that do not use guns.

Only the response of the audience to the addition of more bass at 21:53 proves its effectivity. I love it.

the file is offline for some strange dropbox policy, someone can upload a backup ?

My inspiration has been restored

I don't know if it's a language barrier, but he brushes over some really deep concepts that seem like they are stunted mostly by a struggle for words. I love this talk, and I've watched it a few times now. I actually got luftrausers after I first watched this, and now I see all those little bits, and I like the game even more for it. these bits are totally design parts. some of them definitely change the game mechanic, but mostly they really just make the game more compelling. I'm definitely taking these concepts to my development.

thanks for the tips JW, now I can make my own Vlambeer games!

Holy shit, this explains why Liero is so awesome

I'm not convinced the sleep feature is a good one personally. But I will steal all the rest for sure. Played the demo. I love that he even polished the transition buttons to add sound and a background color and as viewport animation. I think it is just so ingrained in him to juice everything that he even juiced buttons that weren't part of gameplay.

Wow!! loved this video. Amazing talk! SO GOOD.

Super Awesome presentation :) My screen is still shaking with excitement - from all that feel good game-play :)

The reason why the camera lerp and the gun lag feel good is because it makes both of those objects act like they're physical objects with inertia.

This video is gold

would someone please elaborate on the SLEEP dynamic a little more? does it pause game play for x msecs or just pause the enemy movement for x msecs? thanks 

JW can you flip the super plasma cannon switch?

top stuff!!! thank you very much :)

it's funny, it's like the answer is always "more, more, more", if you go further in his phylosophie, you end up with a crazy game, i'm wondering where's the limit in adding fx and stuff like this...

Does anyone have any copies that could be uploaded on any share site if possible?

Thanks Jan...learned a lot today =)

It's nice to see someone constantly working on games essentially confirming my own thoughts on game design.

Awesome video!

here.. after announcement.. that he is back with 100% ownership of Vlambeer.. can't wait to see what he will launch ...

where can we download the presentation? 19:02

Almost all of those however many "quick things" could simply be explained by saying you need to make a good "sandbox" for your game-even games you don't think of as "sandbox" games (be it puzzlers or platform games or whatever). Everything that makes sense to the player, that they'd expect to be there, that they'd expect to see or have happen if they shoot something, jump on something, break something etc, should be present in a good sandbox. It's all the little details. If something dies, leave them there. if a guy gets shot, show some effect of that on him. Show some effect of the gun shooting, and have a proper sound for it. If something looks like it should be breakable, make it breakable, and make it actually break into parts. If it looks like a player should be able to climb a small wall then let them. All that kind of stuff. And, if you have all that stuff-it's mostly all just common sense stuff that you simply have to be observant about to realise it probably needs to be added to whatever bit/thing in your game-you'll already be well on your way to making a game that is at least fun in and of itself just to play (and watch and listen to). Also, I agree with most of what he showed, but when he added in that "better camera", the one that quickly moved to the side the player was facing to show more of the screen, it was too much imo. It moved way too quickly from side to side when you turned and was slightly sickness inducing. The underlying principle was correct but that specific execution was a wee bit OTT. That's where a really good game designer would continue to tweak the values over and over until it just "felt" perfect-which I presume he does in his actual games. It's the kind of thing Nintendo nails on a regular basis; all that little stuff that if you make it just a little bit faster or slower, or less or more, or whatever, can make a game go from feeling good to feeling great-in terms of how it simply "feels" to control that player and move around in and interact with the world. And, the same issue is true of the screen-shake at times also. Once he added in the random explosions on the enemies it became a little bit too much, to the point it can once again just be a bit headache inducing. Watch your game, play it over and over, try a few different amounts of shake, turn it off and off, and find the precise balance that adds to the game but doesn't overwhelm it. It's funny how it seems like basic and obvious stuff, but most game creators miss a lot of it; certainly a lot of indies just churning out games in a few weeks or months using simple game creation software like Unity and Game Maker. And absolutely the vast majority of developers shovelling out stuff on the likes of iOS and Android. I should know . . . but at least I try to add as much of that stuff as possible in my games (within my admittedly limited art and coding abilities).

Awesome :) Tnx

Wow I just sort of haphazardly thought I'd check out this video a bit, and now I have a favorite person in the world... I didn't even know that was a thing.

I'm a slow artist so I feel it's gonna take me a long time to program and create art for the game I'm not really good at pixel art or animation it's something I really wanna try ....Does anyone have any tips

He doesn't like the term of """"""Game Feel"""""", yet has a long talk where he uses the term talks about how the games feel, and how small additions changes the feel of the game... so yeah, Game Feel is a good catch-all term for how games feel.

5:50 is the only part of the video you need to watch to understand the presentation. That flash animation to make it "more exciting" is literally the whole point and it probably wasn't even meant to be an intentional meta thing, he's just that good at it.

Its basically a how to make a Michael Bay movie...

ty ty great tips..im only 20 mins in and very enlighted

I maded a shooting game i also included everything he said gameplay feels amazing

This is the best talk I've ever watched.

This is an excellent presentation. All of the stuff in here is stuff I will use (when i work out how to do it of course!). Juicing up games is vital. Top quality stuff. Jan seemed very nervous here, but he seemed to rise above those nerves, make everybody laugh and get across a bunch of vital information in an extremely elegant and eloquent manner. Keep up the good work. Oh, and Vlambeer stuff is wicked awesome.

This is very much the 2D action game bible. The only thing I might add to the list are parallax backgrounds.

This guy is rad (and clever) and I haven't played a bad game by Vlambeer. They understand that gameplay has to feel good and they know how to get it there.

This is an interesting tutorial for aesthetics rather than design. It doesn't apply to everyone, but it can help out.

Luftlasers and Nuclear Throne became popular and recognizable in indie gamemarket )))

When my mom arrives with a specific perfume on my side, I remember gunbound at his best time. So, I think you can apply smells to games.

What sound software did he use to make those sound? I didn't catch what he said.

8 years later, still actual

Man Cave Story got this right aaaaages ago. Love the video.

Is there a way to get the playable file anymore?

This is like the Age of Empires cheat "bigdaddy". Speedy exploding men in black cars

Press "D" for meaning

Most amazing advice I ever heard for making games thanks man you are cool.

Has anyone got the Source code for this.?

This is the best talk about game feel that I ever saw

nice to see this video and know i figured most of the tricks out myself :)

I learned a lot, thank you!

30个Tricks： 1、基础的动画和音效。 2、降低敌人血量。 3、增加攻击频率，因为是仅有的攻击方式。 4、放一个很多血的敌人，不如放很多血量低的敌人。 5、子弹得做大一点。 6、添加枪口动画，在开枪的第一帧。 7、子弹速度更快。 8、减少一些射击方向上的精度。 9、添加子弹撞击的特效。 10、添加敌人被攻击的特效。 11、 敌人受到攻击有被击退的效果（游戏中是偏移两个像素） 12、重要：战斗过的场景要永久保存，哪怕你已经切换了地图。这样子能告诉玩家他曾经来过这个地方（这也是为什么电影中的枪战会选择在酒吧拍摄的原因） 13、相机插值移动，轻微的滞后于角色移动。 14、因为这是一个射击游戏而非主角的的游戏，相机的移动应该随着移动提供更开阔的视野。 15、相机的射击抖动。 16、射击时角色被击退，给了玩家增加了更多的交互。 17、sleep：子弹打中敌人后会让游戏暂停20豪秒，让玩家大脑接受已经打中了的信息。 19、武器滞后于角色移动，呈现捏在手机的效果。 20、武器开枪动画。 21、开枪阶段不能进行角色翻转，未开枪阶段进行角色翻转。 22、留下弹壳。 23、更多的低音。 24、超级武器。 25、敌军死亡时，33%几率产生爆炸。 26、敌人速度更快。 27、更多的敌人。 28、相机抖动方向和射击瞄准方向成反方向。 29、更大的爆炸特效。 30、可以添加一些烟雾特效。 31、玩家需要死亡，将死亡帧数放慢来做死亡慢动作。

Dose anyone know "gun delay" and "gun kick" mean? I didn't get the point

great presentation showing the development of the game feel. It´s not about the age it´s about the passion for games.

Still brilliant. I need to memorize the entire thing.

Link in description is dead :(

Interesting. Little things make so much difference

awesome talk man, some really practical tips about making games as opposed to the vague general advice about game development you often see devs talking about.

Lmao the story about the sound around 23:00 reminds me that in one game (I think maybe day of defeat?) people said that one of the guns was more powerful than it's german counterpart or something but it turned out that they both had identical stats it was just that one of them sounded better. So the guy nerfed the audio of the gun and then everyone stopped saying it was OP and that it was balanced lol.

i think Shaun's platformer shooter was inspired by this?

He reminds me of Lex Luthor from Batman vs Superman... Some reeeeeally great simple advices though.

How can I make a games?

hero

erg inspirerend

The poor guy sounds so nervous at the start.

Person on the phone but sitting in the front row.

How old is JW ?

screenshake

great presentation, awful camera view :/

does anyone have that cactus talk where finishing your game is like giving birth

Skip The Intro : 7:22

you can get the source here drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRDev8MAFcaSWZnWm84U0VrOGs/view

This is pretty awesome TY Vlambeer and Dutch GAME GARDEN!

Gun godz is awesome

teach this

JW Did Micheal Bay inspire you?

wow thats quite complex

This is by far the best video I have ever seen about game development. Really changed my perspective!

Go to 6:50 to skip intro

the Michael bay of video games

nice video,but something missing:BLOOD,a lot of blood and gore