The Last Guardian and the Language of Games

Game Design 101

🔴 Get bonus content by supporting Game Maker’s Toolkit - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/support/ 🔴 The Last Guardian depicts a bond between a boy and his beast. In this video, I look at the ways Fumito Ueda explores and draws this relationship through gameplay. Sources: STACK Presents: "Fumito Ueda on The Last Guardian" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRdX6l1ebsM&t=26s Games shown in this episode (in order of appearance): The Last Guardian (genDesign, 2016) Ico (Team Ico, 2001) Shadow of the Colossus (Team Ico, 2005) Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Ninja Theory, 2010) BioShock Infinite (Irrational Games, 2013) The Last of Us (Naughty Dog, 2013) Civilization V (Firaxis Games, 2010) Dark Souls (From Software, 2011) Undertale (Toby Fox, 2015) Papers, Please (Lucas Pope, 2013) Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (Starbreeze Studios, 2013) Music used in this episode: Sayonara (Blue Wednesday) Thoughtful (Lee Rosevere, Music for Podcasts 2) In a Moment (Lee Rosevere, Music for Podcasts 2) Sayonara (Blue Wednesday) Blue Wednesday: https://soundcloud.com/bluewednesday/sayonara Lee Rosevere, Music for Podcasts: https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-podcasts-2 Contribute translated subtitles - https://amara.org/v/C3BFN/

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Videos that look at the fundamental lessons of game design, applicable to pretty much every type of game