Playing Past Your Mistakes

🔴 Get bonus content by supporting Game Maker’s Toolkit - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/support/ 🔴 In the manual for Elder Scrolls 2, Bethesda encouraged players to avoid reloading a save game after making mistakes. So why should gamers follow this advice, and how can designers help them play past their screw ups? Sources The Illusion of Intelligence | Bungie http://halo.bungie.org/misc/gdc.2002.... Find out more Metal Gear Solid V’s Failure Spectrum | Tom Francis https://www.pentadact.com/2015-09-13-... [ZIP] Fault Tolerance - from Intentionality to Improvisation | Clint Hocking http://clicknothing.typepad.com/Desig... Darkest Dungeon: A Design Postmortem | GDC Vault https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023435... GD Column 17: Water Finds a Crack | Designer Notes https://www.designer-notes.com/?p=369 Games shown in this episode (in order of appearance) Splinter Cell: Blacklist (Ubisoft Toronto, 2013) Valkyria Chronicles (Sega, 2008) Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Studios, 2016) Hitman (iO Interactive, 2016) Into the Breach (Subset Games, 2018) Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal, 2017) Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (Arkane Studios, 2017) The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Bethesda Softworks, 1996) Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal, 2008) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 2017) Gunpoint (Suspicious Developments, 2013) XCOM 2 (Firaxis, 2016) Invisible, Inc. (Klei Entertainment, 2015) Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions, 2015) Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Kojima Productions, 2014) Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games, 2018) Call of Duty: WWII (Sledgehammer Games, 2017) The Last of Us (Naughty Dog, 2013) Mark of the Ninja (Klei Entertainment, 2012) Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Monolith Productions, 2017) Pyre (Supergiant Games, 2017) The Long Dark (Hinterland Studio, 2014) Dead Rising 2 (Capcom Vancouver, 2010) Dark Souls (From Software, 2011) Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments, 2017) Music used in this episode is by Chris Zabriskie https://chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com Contribute translated subtitles - https://amara.org/v/C3BE6/