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How Game Publishers Buy Crunch OverseasPeople Make Games2021-03-04 | We spoke to game developers from Malaysia and Indonesia to better understand how AAA game publishers profit from other people doing their crunch overseas.
Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersInvestigation: Who’s Telling the Truth about Disco Elysium?People Make Games2023-05-29 | Following the explosive allegations that Disco Elysium has been stolen from its original creators, People Make Games uncovers a far more nuanced story than the one you may have heard so far. Buckle in, this is a big one.
0:00:00 - Introduction: The Story So Far 0:08:30 - Chapter 1: Follow The Money 0:31:56 - Chapter 2: Interviewing Ilmar 0:53:27 - Chapter 3: Others Come Forward 1:30:46 - Chapter 4: Robert, Rostov & Helen 2:16:00 - So what do we make of all this?We Entered the World of Microsoft Excel eSports & Got Our Asses BeatPeople Make Games2023-03-15 | Hiring a green screen and letting Quinns loose on the topic of Excel as an eSport seemed like a good idea at the time, but honestly, we should have seen this coming. Here's a very weird video we've made.
0:00 - 1:13 Introduction 1:14 - 3:41 What is Excel Though 3:42 - 6:03 The Grim Birth of Excel eSports 6:04 - 12:53 Meet Excel eSports! 12:54 - 22:39 We try it for Ourselves 22:40 - 25:29 A Dark Vision of the FutureWorking at Valve: A Fearless Adventure or Lord of the Flies?People Make Games2023-01-25 | What's it actually like working for Valve Corporation? Over the last few months, People Make Games has interviewed 16 current and former Valve employees about the inner workings of one of gaming's most mysterious companies. A place with no bosses (not even Gabe Newell, claims Valve), no job titles and you're free to pick the work that matters most to you. But how true is any of that, in reality?
0:00 - 4:02 How much do you know about Valve Corporation? 4:03 - 5:17 Introducing Valve's somewhat fanatic Employee Handbook 5:18 - 7:31 Welcome to Flatland 7:32 - 8:46 Not everybody's the "right fit" for Valve 8:47 - 10:40 How Valve functions without managers 10:41 - 18:00 Stack ranking 18:01 - 24:54 Valve has a diversity crisis 24:55 - 28:18 How do people get fired? 28:19 - 30:08 Steam makes this a very different company 30:09 - 35:40 Disagreement over Black Lives Matter 35:41 - 41:13 Does Steam have a greater responsibility to society? 41:14 - 42:03 Is this truly a "structureless" company? 42:04 - 45:56 Valve isn't returning our emails 45:57 - 47:42 Support People Make Games (please)How Valve is Profiting from Steams Back-Door CasinosPeople Make Games2022-11-07 | Despite some major controversies in the past, games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive continue to support a thriving, unregulated gambling scene. And these days, Valve seems pretty disinterested about trying to police this space. We take a look at what that's meant for players who've gambled away life-altering amounts of money and try to make sense of Valve's decision not to step in and do something about it.
0:00 - 1:52 Intro 1:53 - 14:57 The creation of Steam's back-door casinos 14:58 - 22:31 Speaking to CS:GO's problem gamblers 22:32 - 23:21 Why this problem is bigger than CS:GO 23:22 - 33:23 How Valve profits from these sites 33:24 - 36:23 Taking these questions to ValveThe Games Industry Is Failing the Working ClassPeople Make Games2022-08-18 | Why are so few working class people employed by the games industry?
And Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersThe Video Game Developers Resisting Russias InvasionPeople Make Games2022-06-16 | We meet some of the Ukrainian game developers living through the invasion of their home, from a refugee who escaped into Western Europe, to a fresh recruit in the Territorial Defence.
00:00 - Intro 00:46 - We meet a Ukranian dev forced to flee Ukraine 07:04 - Frogware's CEO on keeping the studio going 11:44 - Two Ukranian developers still in Kyiv 16:39 - A game developer who signed up to fight 19:18 - Raising money for Ukraine
#ukraine #ukrainewarMaking Sense of VRChat, the Metaverse People Actually LikePeople Make Games2022-05-17 | Mark Zuckerberg may have unconvincingly sold you his version of the Metaverse, but let us show you another.
00:00 - ThE mEtAvErSe 02:14 - We fail to understand VRChat 07:20 - We start to understand VRChat 25:03 - The scene's troubled futureInvestigating Three Indie Superstars Accused of Emotional AbusePeople Make Games2022-03-18 | What began as an investigation into the collapse of a single indie studio became something much bigger, as more and more developers came forwards to share their stories.
00:00 - Indie games have a founder problem 04:15 - Ken Wong & Mountains 16:55 - Steve Gaynor & Fullbright 22:52 - Robin Hunicke & Funomena 34:42 - What can we learn from all of this?🎠 Help, we are not financially sustainable 🎠People Make Games2022-01-27 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/PeopleMakeGamesRoblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.People Make Games2021-12-13 | Following our last video on Roblox, players and creators began getting in touch with their own stories to share. Here are some of those stories.
00:00 - Intro 3:33 - Roblox's Unregulated Managers 10:01 - Moderation & Child Safety 19:40 - Roblox's Collectible Market 28:41 - Roblox's Black Markets 32:17 - Some Kind Of ConclusionThe Inside Story of Mass Effect 3s Endings, Finally ToldPeople Make Games2021-10-21 | Almost a decade on from the release of Mass Effect 3, we talk to those who worked on it about the gigantic backlash prompted by the game's endings.
Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersInvestigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game DevelopersPeople Make Games2021-08-19 | With Roblox Corporation now being valued at more than $45 billion, we ask whether the kids making the vast majority of its content are being taken advantage of?
Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersThe Game Prototype That Had to Be Banned by Its Own StudioPeople Make Games2021-07-20 | After the huge success of games like Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, Halfbrick Studios began prototyping some new ideas for their next game. This is the story behind one of those prototypes; a game that caused so many problems within the studio, its creators were forced to ban it from being played entirely.
Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersComic Artists Are Waging a War, and We Joined the FrontlinesPeople Make Games2021-06-02 | We entered the War for Rayuba, one of the largest Original Character Tournaments in the world.
#OriginalCharacterTournament #WarForRayubaUbisofts Blockchain Experiments Are Bad for the PlanetPeople Make Games2021-05-13 | For the last four years, Ubisoft has been experimenting with blockchain projects, hoping to find a new revenue stream for the $1.5 billion games company. But does it have a stance on how this stuff directly affects the climate crisis?
Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersBehind-the-scenes at a World Class Escape RoomPeople Make Games2021-02-04 | Join us as we sneak behind-the-scenes at an award-winning Escape Room and find out what goes into designing the perfect puzzle box.
Thanks so much to Brighton-based Pier Pressure for letting us pick apart their Loot the Lanes room. They've got a bunch more: pierpressure.co.ukThe System Behind Hades Astounding DialoguePeople Make Games2020-11-19 | How does Hades always know what to say and when to say it?
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Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersWhat Is Blaseball And Why Is It Taking over the Internet?People Make Games2020-10-14 | Blaseball is so much more than just a game about baseball. Here's Quinns to get you up to speed.
Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersWhy Subnautica Owes Its Success to This ButtonPeople Make Games2020-09-10 | How do you design a game like Subnautica? With a bit of help, it turns out.
Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersCan You Really Get Rich in the Worlds Only Cash-Based MMO?People Make Games2020-08-13 | Quinns delves into the bizarre world of Entropia Universe.
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Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersWhy Have These People Been Playing Cookie Clicker for SEVEN YEARS?People Make Games2020-06-25 | Cookie Clicker is still going strong in 2020. Let's find out why.
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Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersInside Second Lifes Most Expensive BrothelPeople Make Games2020-05-26 | We sent Quinns to explore the world of sex work in Second Life.
Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersKirbys Forgotten Connection to the Civil Rights MovementPeople Make Games2020-04-23 | In the 1980s, an attorney named John Kirby was hired by Nintendo. Check out Campfire Pro for yourself: http://bit.ly/CampfireProPMG2
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Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersThis Game is Helping Me Cope Right NowPeople Make Games2020-03-27 | A game of Kind Words and strangers...
#KindWordsIts Time You Knew About Kabaddi: The Ancient Game Thats Gone ProPeople Make Games2020-03-12 | Quinns dives headfirst into Kabaddi, India's fastest-growing sport.
#Kabaddi #IndiaThe Game That Inspired Minecraft, But Never Made a PennyPeople Make Games2020-02-27 | Before Minecraft, there was another game: Infiniminer.
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#Minecraft #InfiniminerWe Visit the Hearthstone Pro Silenced by BlizzardPeople Make Games2020-01-23 | We travelled to Hong Kong to meet Blitzchung, the Hearthstone player banned by Blizzard last year.
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#Hearthstone #BlitzchungWhat Happens When You Try to Recycle a Video Game?People Make Games2019-11-28 | We take a look at what happens when you try to recycle a video game, plastic box and all.
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Design and art direction by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersInvestigating Athene, the Youtuber Who Started a ReligionPeople Make Games2019-10-07 | While investigating claims of Athene emotionally abusing a volunteer he worked with, we ended up becoming a part of the story ourselves.
Additional reporting by Anni Sayers: twitter.com/anni_sayersWhy the Sound of a Gun Had to Be Nerfed in Wolfenstein: Enemy TerritoryPeople Make Games2019-08-29 | The curious case of a weapon that sounded so good, players thought it was overpowered.
#Wolfenstein #WolfensteinEnemyTerritoryDid Nuclear Gandhi Ever Really Happen in Civilization?People Make Games2019-07-31 | We investigate* one of gaming's most infamous bugs, Civilization's Nuclear Gandhi.
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#NuclearGandhi #CivilizationThe 134 People That Blizzard Entertainment Is Trying to Lay OffPeople Make Games2019-06-28 | We visit Versailles to get a glimpse at what can happen when the games industry unionises.
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#Blizzard #BlizzardEntertainmentThe Fable Prototype Youve Never Seen BeforePeople Make Games2019-05-31 | Before Fable, there was Wishworld. Let's take a look at what that game was originally going to be.
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#Fable #WishworldWe Showed Peter Molyneux Every Game Hes Ever MadePeople Make Games2019-04-25 | Peter Molyneux walks us through his entire career, from Populous, to Black & White, to Fable.
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#Fortnite #CarltonDanceHow Football Manager Helped a Goalie Score for His CountryPeople Make Games2019-02-21 | Thanks to Football Manager, goalkeeper Kai Mckenzie-Lyle scored a last-minute header for Guyana. Here's his story.
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About a decade ago, the Queen was sent a golden console as part of a PR stunt for a forgotten Wii game called Big Family Games, but she never actually received it. Why not? Where is it now?
#GoldenWiiHow Neopets Was Sold to ScientologistsPeople Make Games2018-11-29 | Hey, who remembers Neopets? If you used the site back in the early 2000s, you might be surprised to learn that it was once owned by a group of devout Scientologists.
Join Chris as he investigates the link between virtual pets and Scientology.
#Neopets #ScientologyThe Human Cost of Telltale Going BrokePeople Make Games2018-10-22 | Given that we're called People Make Games, it only felt right to tell the story of Telltale through a real person's perspective.
#Telltale #TelltaleGamesThe Red Dead Game We Never PlayedPeople Make Games2018-09-28 | Ahead of the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, we take a look back at where the series actually began, before even Rockstar Games was involved.
#RedDeadRevolverHow Ubisoft Plans an E3 ConferencePeople Make Games2018-08-30 | It's the biggest show in the video games calendar each year, but how does it actually come together? We speak to the team behind Ubisoft's E3 conference.
#Ubisoft #E3The TV Show that didnt want you to know it was a Video GamePeople Make Games2018-07-26 | Here's the story of how Total War ended up on the telly as a show called Time Commanders. Three episodes into People Make Games and Chris has become entirely self-indulgent in the topics he's researching.
#TimeCommanders #TotalWarThe Teenagers Who Taught Nintendo How to Make Star FoxPeople Make Games2018-06-30 | In today's episode of People Make Games, we tell the story of three British teenagers who somehow ended up leading the way on the development of a Nintendo classic.
#StarFox #NintendoThe First Non-Valve Game on SteamPeople Make Games2018-06-04 | In our very first episode of People Make Games, we take a look at the bizarre story behind Rag Doll Kung Fu, the first non-Valve game on Steam.
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