Game Design Guide For 2D Platformer Design | #gamewisdom #gamedesign #indiegame #gamedev #platformer

For this new series, the game design guides look at specific genres and how to learn them through playing a variety of games in them. In this episode, I go with the 2D platformer - why its deceptively difficult to learn, and what are some games worthy of studying for either getting it right, or getting it not so right. 0:00 Intro 00:27 What you can learn from Platformer Design 10:42 The Wonderful World of Mario 17:06 SegaDont 24:29 Meaty Physics 32:14 Licensed Pain 35:05 Platforming the Hut 39:37 Dust Jumping 46:10 Approachable Jumps 50:14 Mysting a Response 54:48 Celestbrating Controls 1:00:52 Grounded Gameplay 1:08:00 Successful Shovels and Heavenly Hammers 1:18:04 Wrapping Up games mentioned: Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Meat Boy, N, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Pizza Tower, Dustforce, Lunark, Mystic Force, Celeste, Kya and the Wild Masks, Shovel Knight, Tiny Thor, Blues Brothers _____________________________________________________________ All videogame streams are now archived on my secondary channel:    / @game-wisdomgameplay   Books I've Written: https://www.routledge.com/search?auth... (top results) Additional Sites: Main Site: http://Game-Wisdom.com https://anchor.fm/gamewisdom Patreon:   / gwbycer   Paypal: http://paypal.me/GWBycer Twitter:   / gwbycer   Discord:   / discord   http://subscribeonandroid.com/game-wi... for Android and https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/g... for Itunes #gamedesign