#56 - Tutorials & Puzzles

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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Your Hosts and Their Games

• https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436180/Sunset_Moon/ — Wishlist Sunset Moon on Steam!
• https://www.play-asia.com/red-colony-trilogy/13/70fmjh — Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Switch!
• https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24596/Red_Colony_Uncensored_Threesome_Bundle/ — Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Steam!
• https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knifeboy-rebooted-switch/ — Buy KnifeBoy on Switch!
• https://store.steampowered.com/app/889130/KnifeBoy_Rebooted/ — Buy KnifeBoy on Steam!
• 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

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