House of Games #56 - Tutorials & Puzzles

In this episode of the House of Games 🏠🎮, we delve into the world of video game tutorials 📚, puzzles 🧩, and hints 💡, discussing different approaches and how they help or annoy the player. 🎮🗣️🤔

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Chapters
00:00 Episode Intro
00:32 Episode Theme Introduction
01:14 Discussing Examples of Tutorials in Games
02:37 Valve
04:25 Red Colony Games
04:49 Xenoblade Chronicles
07:25 Final Fantasy
08:26 Fortnite
09:29 Website Tutorials
09:50 Legend of Zelda
10:59 Xenoblade Chronicles
11:44 Devil May Cry 4
13:14 Fallout 3
14:14 Assassin's Creed
15:29 Sunset Moon
18:33 The Witness
22:37 Nintendo
23:35 Red Colony Games
24:41 Frustration Controls When Switching From One Game to Another
25:35 Battlefield
26:16 Playing Fortnite and Winning
27:12 Implementing Tutorials
28:13 How I Got My Mom to Play Through Plants vs. Zombies
31:09 Sunset Moon
34:08 Discussing Puzzles in Games
35:03 Bioshock Infinite & The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
37:16 God of War & Horizon Forbidden West
38:36 Discussing Hints in Games
39:32 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
41:48 Uncharted
44:02 Bioshock
44:19 Valve
45:23 Uncharted
47:28 Mad Max: Fury Road
48:02 Quake
48:36 Valve
49:43 Nintendo
50:19 Pikmin
50:54 Legend of Zelda
51:50 Episode Outro

Your Hosts and Their Games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436180/Sunset_Moon/ - Wishlist Sunset Moon on Steam!
https://www.play-asia.com/red-colony-trilogy/13/70fmjh - Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Switch!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24596/Red_Colony_Uncensored_Threesome_Bundle/ - Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Steam!
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knifeboy-rebooted-switch/ - Buy KnifeBoy on Switch!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/889130/KnifeBoy_Rebooted/ - Buy KnifeBoy on Steam!
https://ottowretling.medium.com/list/game-development-427e99aefd01 - Read Otto's blog about game development!
https://discord.gg/mYM72SQ9CP - The discord server for Game Hub Umeå.

Games and Game Companies
https://www.square-enix-games.com/games/chrono-trigger - The homepage for Chrono Trigger.
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/xenoblade-chronicles-3-switch/ - The Nintendo store page for Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
https://www.fortnite.com/ - The homepage for Fortnite.
http://the-witness.net/ - The homepage for The Witness.
https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/skyrim10 - The homepage for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
https://bioshockinfinite.ghoststorygames.com/news - The homepage for BioShock Infinite.
https://www.playstation.com/games/horizon-forbidden-west - The homepage for Horizon Forbidden West.
https://finalfantasy.com/ - The homepage for the Final Fantasy franchise.
http://www.zelda.com/ - The homepage for The Legend of Zelda franchise.
http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/ - The homepage for the Assassin's Creed franchise.
https://fallout.bethesda.net/ - The homepage for the Fallout franchise
https://www.devilmaycry.com/ - The homepage for the Devil May Cry franchise.
https://kirby.nintendo.com/ - The homepage for the Kirby franchise.
https://battlefield.com/ - The homepage for the Battlefield franchise.
https://www.counter-strike.net/ - The homepage for the Counter-Strike franchise.
https://www.ea.com/ea-studios/popcap/plants-vs-zombies - The homepage for the Plants vs. Zombies franchise.
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/uncharted/ - The homepage for the Uncharted franchise.
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/god-of-war/ - The homepage for the God of War franchise.
https://quake.com/ - The homepage for the Quake franchise.
https://pikmin.com/ - The homepage for the Pikmin franchise.
https://www.half-life.com/ - The homepage for the Half-Life franchise.
https://www.valvesoftware.com/ - The homepage for Valve Software.

Other Links
https://youtu.be/l_u18_BKczg?si=kXyUFQVUt_LF8QpZ - "The average Bioshock player" by zakata69.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbzhHSexzpY - "How I Got My Mom to Play Through Plants vs. Zombies" by George Fan.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/ - The IMDB page for Mad Max: Fury Road.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant - The Wikipedia page for the Microsoft Office Assistant (Clippy).
https://www.videvo.net/video/top-view-of-a-little-boy-playing-with-a-shape-sorter-while-sitting-at-desk-in-a-montessori-school/1114106/ - Top View Of A Little Boy Playing With A Shape Sorter While Sitting At Desk In A Montessori School by Freepik.

Get all the links and the transcript for this episode right here: ⁠https://medium.com/@ottowretling/house-of-games-56-tutorials-puzzles-fd4e642acdb3