10 Game Design Lessons from 10 Years of GMTK

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  @GMTK · 1 year ago · pinned

  Mind Over Magnet launches next week! <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2685900/Mind_Over_Magnet/">https://store.steampowered.com/app/2685900/Mind_Over_Magnet/</a>

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  @nerusongear · 1 year ago

  I remember that Mark Brown talking about Game Design and I was thinking &quot;Who is this man and why does he have me engaged so much about design?&quot; and now, I attribute part of my indie success to your videos. Thanks Mark!

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  @Adam-oy6nc · 1 year ago

  You&apos;d be hard-pressed to find any game dev worth their salt that hasn&apos;t heard of GMTK. It&apos;s been an amazing 10 years and here&apos;s to many more!

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  @Robertganca · 1 year ago

  A QA Joke: <br><br>A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. <br>Orders 0 beers. <br>Orders 99999999999 beers. <br>Orders a lizard.<br>Orders -1 beers. <br>Orders a ueicksjdhd.<br><br>First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

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  @mightymaster8752 · 1 year ago

  This is THE channel that started my game design career. Thanks mark for 10 years of exploring what makes a game! And more importantly, thanks for sharing it with US!

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  @philraco_once_again · 1 year ago

  lesson 6 is probably one of the most important lessons i learned from this channel. once you detach yourself from the idea that your game must be a specific way because it was made in a certain genre, it becomes easier to make your game more fun since you&apos;re not trying to meet yourself to impossible standards, but also because you&apos;re thinking of how you can do things on your own and come up with new ideas.

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  @CheesecakeMilitia · 1 year ago

  I think it&apos;s telling how you&apos;ve found your success on YouTube, Mark - there have always been great GDC talks and design theorists on the internet, but your skills at script writing, visual artistry, and of course snappy editing have made something so fantastic that even Masahiro Sakurai wanted to emulate it. I appreciate how you&apos;ve evolved your opinions over the years and taken a more holistic appreciation of the artform of games. Wishing all the best for Mind Over Magnet&apos;s success and all the future insights you&apos;re able to derive from it.

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  @Bonelord69 · 1 year ago

  The expert isnt the guy who knows everything beforehand, but the guy who has a real genuine excitement to improve and learn more. Faking it IS making it! Proud of you man.

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  @daydonahue8796 · 1 year ago

  Hi, Ringling College Game Art student here. Thought you&apos;d want to know that several of my game design and history classes in my 3 years here have pulled up your videos in class as examples/learning material. Just yesterday, my Visual Development class used your UI design video to prep us for our UI/UX assignment. Crazy to see you&apos;ve come this far! 🔥

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  @DramaticFlora · 1 year ago

  While you arent an ultimate authority on game design i have found little that inspires me and pushes my brain in just the right way to come up with some new idea as your channel. So thank you for all the many hours of hard work you&apos;ve done that have helped &nbsp;me and many others on our own journies in life

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  @gabiruuuuuuuuu · 1 year ago

  I can’t imagine how liberating it must be to say that 10 years ago you started all this without really knowing anything about game design hahah<br><br>You should be immensely proud &nbsp;that, even if the begginings were humble, you’re now without a doubt a major inspiration to game designers, definitely one of the biggest I can think of. <br><br>You deserve it, Mark. Cheers!

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  @MassiveiusBiggus · 1 month ago

  Thank you, Mark Brown. This video saved my life.<br>I was going through a devastating divorce and considered ending it all one evening. I was about to jump into my car and drive to the tallest bridge in the area... but somehow I&apos;ve stumbled upon your video while sitting on my phone, watched it and got so bored that I fell asleep. Woke up the next morning feeling better.<br>Thank you again.

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