In this episode of the House of Games 🏠🎮, we delve into the world of video game tutorials 📚, puzzles 🧩, and hints 💡, discussing different approaches and how they help or annoy the player. 🎮🗣️🤔

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• https://ottowretling.medium.com/list/game-development-427e99aefd01 — Read Otto’s blog about game development!


• https://discord.gg/mYM72SQ9CP — The discord server for Game Hub Umeå.

Chapters

• 00:00 Episode Intro


• 00:32 Episode Theme Introduction


• 01:14 Discussing Examples of Tutorials in Games


• 02:37 Valve


• 04:25 Red Colony Games


• 04:49 Xenoblade Chronicles


• 07:25 Final Fantasy


• 08:26 Fortnite


• 09:29 Website Tutorials


• 09:50 Legend of Zelda


• 10:59 Xenoblade Chronicles


• 11:44 Devil May Cry 4


• 13:14 Fallout 3


• 14:14 Assassin’s Creed


• 15:29 Sunset Moon


• 18:33 The Witness


• 22:37 Nintendo


• 23:35 Red Colony Games


• 24:41 Frustration Controls When Switching From One Game to Another


• 25:35 Battlefield


• 26:16 Playing Fortnite and Winning


• 27:12 Implementing Tutorials


• 28:13 How I Got My Mom to Play Through Plants vs. Zombies


• 31:09 Sunset Moon


• 34:08 Discussing Puzzles in Games


• 35:03 Bioshock Infinite & The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim


• 37:16 God of War & Horizon Forbidden West


• 38:36 Discussing Hints in Games


• 39:32 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim


• 41:48 Uncharted


• 44:02 Bioshock


• 44:19 Valve


• 45:23 Uncharted


• 47:28 Mad Max: Fury Road


• 48:02 Quake


• 48:36 Valve


• 49:43 Nintendo


• 50:19 Pikmin


• 50:54 Legend of Zelda


• 51:50 Episode Outro

Get all the links and the transcript for this episode right here: https://medium.com/@ottowretling/house-of-games-56-tutorials-puzzles-fd4e642acdb3