24 hour exclusive - Playing Past Your Mistakes | Game Maker's Toolkit (Patreon)

So, I did this tweet recently. It's about a message in the manual for Elder Scrolls 2 about not reloading your save game when mishaps occur, and playing past your mistakes to see what stories occur.

And, it's a lovely sentiment - but if games really want to discourage save scumming then they need to design for that. And I though, hey, that would make for an interesting episode!

Which then reminded me of that scrapped GMTK episode about failure spectrums and dynamic goal shifting! Which was super relevant. So I took a bit of that script and made a whole new episode about playing past your mistakes.

Hope you like it!

I know I know it's showing the same games and genres I always do. Far Cry 2 and MGS V and Hitman and XCOM. So I'll try and give them a good holiday for the rest of the year. If you see me mention Clint Hocking or systemic game design again for the rest of 2018, slap my wrist.

Shouldn't be a problem as I have lots of GMTK stuff in the works. Still thinking about that non-combat video - need the perfect angle for that one. And got something on co-op / Overcooked, erm, cooking. And definitely want to touch on Spider-Man PS4's webslinging. And then episode three of designing for disability and the Symphony of the Night Boss Keys. 

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