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took me a while to find out yeah that that was that was bs that was bs right

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there that was crap game development is notorious for long

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hours job instability and early burnout so when Gigabyte reached out to sponsor

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this video featuring their aero 16 and aero17 creator laptops we thought hey

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these things are super powerful why don't we try them out as a game

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development workstation i mean how hard could it really be it's really hard

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seriously fun fact this guy actually came to us from the

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game development industry so all right ploof what did you manage to make in the

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12 hours that i budgeted for this project i mean it's pretty much drag and

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drop these days right uh sort of actually i mean in some ways yes it's a

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lot easier than 20 years ago instead of creating an engine from scratch you can

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purchase or depending on your business model and revenue even freely use a

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number of development kits like unreal engine game maker studio or unity like

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we've got here today they graciously lent us a pro license to make this video

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yep that's a pretty normal thing that happens a lot okay

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suck it haters anyway that's the game that's it yeah enough

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enough i know better than to think that's the game oh god

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oh my god what is this

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oh my goodness so uh when i went to make this guy the actual sprite like it

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didn't work for some reason so i had to use a different sprite for the jumping

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and falling animations uh-huh so it would actually show up otherwise you'd

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be invisible while you were in the air ah cool that would oh hell yeah so

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as you guys can see it's a simple 2d platformer even though ploof has game

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development experience it's mostly in level design and art so rather than

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trying to scratch build something he chose a really excellent tutorial from

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coding in flow that you guys could actually also follow along with we're

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going to have that link down below now that i know that you're a level designer

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i actually have much much higher

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expectations what's funny about this is please don't please don't have high

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expectations i made it in like 12 hours

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the thing is that like now that i know that someone else did all the animation

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and programming sure and that your background actually is level design i

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know i do have high expectations i mean i really feel like that saw was placed

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very poorly for for level flow oh sure yeah this is

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level one and this should be a lot easier

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considering the time invested it is kind of impressive though so we used free

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assets from the unity asset store namely pixel adventure one by pixel frog free

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casual game sfx by dusty room and casual

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game bgm number five by bgm and there's

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some pretty cool details in here yeah everything's animated uh the saws are

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actually rotating they're not animated to rotate so they're physically like

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rotating in that space one of the problems with that is that it's got the

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bounce box on it or your your collision box so if the collision box isn't

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perfectly square it'll kill you a little differently based on where the saw is

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it's fully animated there's background music i added like an actual start

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screen there's a end screen for when you get to the end see there's the checkered

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flag you're a winner um and if this was actually built out

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the quit button should actually close the game right now it doesn't do

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anything because we're just in unity and it's called jump for joy it's the best game ever it's not i mean this is really

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cool so whether it's an indie aaa or project that lies

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somewhere in between you can use these types of templates as a base to start

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from and then slowly add maps unique

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gameplay mechanics hazards and enemies and bring your creation to life i mean

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it is really cool when you think about how someone with absolutely zero

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experience could come in and create something like this though yeah it might

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take them a few more hours a few a few tutorials in i was actually

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starting to move forward a little bit on my own because i remembered how to do it i remember how to do it yeah not not so

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much the coding aspect of it because i was never a programmer i didn't do well in all my

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programming classes but i can follow a script and i know

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when to look for missing things that should be there tell me something though

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how does the sponsor fit into all this

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so developer kits and engines they have become a bit more robust over the years

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but you still need assets and you need code to tell those assets what to do so

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you write your own code in visual studio for c and then for smaller games or

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light scripts it doesn't take a lot of processing power a general rule is that

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outside of specific roles like audio design and you know high poly model

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creation you only need a bit more performance to develop the game than

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your recommended specs to run it and the main reason you even need that extra bit

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is that the optimization happens at the end which would be why so many games end

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up being left poorly optimized because that's when you ran out of money i mean

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what percentage of the game development process is that tidying everything up

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optimization it's the 80 20 rule right 80 of your work is happening at the end

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of the project so then what we showed here today no offense

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could have been done on a pretty basic laptop but with either the aero 16 or

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the arrow 17 i mean would you say we've got enough grunt to deal with aaa game

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development like a god of war or horizon level game i mean they've got a core i9

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rtx 3080 ti level mobile GPU ddr5

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desktop class performance right i mean obviously we didn't have the assets on

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hand to load up a project like that but from my past experience other than

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waiting longer when making major changes or compiling code or building the

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project the experience isn't that different compared to a high-end desktop

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obviously the biggest benefit of using a laptop for a project like this is the

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portability and built-in battery i mean last friday we actually lost power to

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our building i had to leave um my apartment still had power so i basically

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saved the project packed the laptop up and headed home luckily it wasn't

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raining but if you got caught in the rain with a laptop make sure to get

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subscribed for upcoming video about laptop repair yeah that one's gonna be

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really good colin's working on that we've got a bunch of different laptops and we're going to like simulate

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horrible situations and see how bad it is to repair them now i don't know what

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your deal is here maybe you just want to flex a little bit but you said i'm

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supposed to try your student project now oh yeah sure so if we have time let's do

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it let's do it i want to try it all right all right it's great heroes of space here we go whoa whoa wow i'm

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getting like a very captain keane kind of yeah we're going for like metal slug

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meets like captain keane or something similar oh there's a weird bug where his

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um what's going on there oh my god okay that bug's not supposed to happen what

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he's going fast so those are the projectiles and i don't know but i don't know why they're getting stuck it worked

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fine at home oh my god okay something's messed up maybe it's the aspect ratio or

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something oh whoa i just got to go right up to him i mean what's the point if you

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have to it's broken sword gun i mean he did work

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on gears it's broken i've worked on real games this this one is a real game it's

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just also super broken did i die am i stuck here no i think

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you're stuck can you shoot him can you shoot him and kill him nope you're just slowly taking damage oh nice

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are they supposed to be shooting at me too yeah yeah all the projectiles are just broken right now

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i don't know why normally they shoot at you and stuff it worked when i played it

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i was like oh sweet everything works still and it's like 3d and everything yeah so we ow

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yeah these guys drop bombs and they're a little hard to shoot when your projectiles don't work properly okay

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let's try loading it back up i don't want to see that problem okay now just shoot and see if

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everything hey see i know it worked wow

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it's got like record recording everything yeah it's got screen shake we

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worked a lot to actually get that stuff to feel really good um there's a whole

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video by i think verbier or something where they talk about like how screen

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shake and just knock back makes a game feel a lot better how much fun would it

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be to play a game sitting right next to one of the lead developers so that you

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can criticize them in person when things suck

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like a bomb falls it would be exactly this fun and it's great

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final level uh is there a bunch there's a boss yeah there's a bus

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that's pretty much it i don't think we really had an end screen anyway

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so a lot of your stuff wouldn't really

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benefit from like color calibrated 4k

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OLED display but 16 by 10 aspect ratio

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ability to hook up up to three additional displays like there's no way

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you'd work on a single monitor no no there's too much you need so you got two

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Thunderbolt 4 ports one HDMI port with the included adapter majiggy it is sort

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of a bummer for like a more professional oriented machine that you have to have

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an adapter for Ethernet usb type-a it's got a DisplayPort and an HDMI on it but

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at least they include it and it's compact so you know you don't have to like run out

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and buy extra stuff so then final question going back to

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the first game was making that game easy

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god no oh you meant the first game oh i thought you meant this one no oh yeah

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the first game was a lot easier so if you don't mind using pre-made assets and

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following tutorials making a game can be easy but not only will that barely get

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you out the door anytime something does go wrong due to a missed tutorial step

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or a typo in your code you're gonna have a much harder time troubleshooting so

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for ploof obviously having enough experience to build something like the

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second game we looked at today it's gonna help a fair bit but if you don't

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know anything about c sharp you might not know to look for a missing semicolon

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our misplaced bracket let alone something more complex so if you've never used unity or another program

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common issues that people might fix every day could seem as mysterious as

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our product lineup just what will come next at lttstore.com screwdriver uh no

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no probably other things but in the meantime you can check out our sweatpants big thanks to Gigabyte for

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sponsoring this video so that we could pay proof to develop games once again

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this time using the aero16 creator laptop not your best work on top of the

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great specs we talked about earlier it's also just got solid construction with a

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cnc aluminum body it comes with Windows hello and microsoft azure ai and wi-fi

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6e to make sure you've always got the best wireless connection whenever you're

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not using the included wired Ethernet connection when you're downloading or

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uploading huge asset files so you can check it out at the link down below

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thanks for watching are you developer looking for something to take to and from work or are you thinking about

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making indie games in your spare time let us know in the comments and if you

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like this video make sure to check out our tour of monolith productions from a

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few years ago to see what a real studio looks like hint it has a lot of people

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who look kind of like this in it but more more nick on the beach