24hr early access - The Rise and Fall of Britain's Bedroom Coders | Design Icons
Added 2020-09-29 12:45:01 +0000 UTC
Hello!
My game history series is back! This time, on my home turf with a look at the British games business. Hope you find it interesting, whether you're from here or not!
Mark
Wow - great direction for Design Icons! Great job :)
Boz
2020-10-01 17:49:27 +0000 UTC
Really interesting video. Thanks Mark!
drixkarasu
2020-10-01 11:40:26 +0000 UTC
Honestly, I thought this would be pretty boring, and only decided to watch it because I love your videos. But it turned out to be really interesting. Thank you, and well done!
Richard Skolek
2020-10-01 06:38:27 +0000 UTC
Really enjoyable. Would love to see a follow up.
2020-09-30 19:15:05 +0000 UTC
I recently finished Netflix' High Score. 6 or so hour-long episodes and I still feel like even all of them put together are nothing compared to a single one of your videos 👌
2020-09-30 17:08:06 +0000 UTC
damn I had no idea snipperclips was made by a pair of british bedroom coders
Fardin Fahim
2020-09-30 16:18:37 +0000 UTC
Fantastic distillation of that whole period, I often look back at that period now and wonder what could have been. I grew up in the 80's had a spectrum and learned some code on it. But never went any further now I through a weird quirk of fate I teach Games Design to college students and I often think back to the early days of gaming, I am going to show this to my students today to give them an insight of what gaming looked like before consoles dominated.
Also Mark, please tell me you have thought about doing a full feature documentary on something, I love the size of your videos because they are great to show in the classroom and use as an anchor for a lesson. But I could watch something much longer. If you ever think of kickstarting a project I would be there for it.
2020-09-30 10:28:14 +0000 UTC
It's mentioned among the sources/'find out more' :)
Matteo @Paleblue Narratives
2020-09-29 16:48:14 +0000 UTC
Balls! Well caught ;)
Game Maker's Toolkit
2020-09-29 15:09:40 +0000 UTC
Eve Online was out in 1984? Unreal! :D
ZoidbergForPresident
2020-09-29 14:03:58 +0000 UTC
Will do in future - didn't know this was an issue!
Game Maker's Toolkit
2020-09-29 14:03:39 +0000 UTC
That Robocop song get's me every time!
Paul Andrei
2020-09-29 13:55:58 +0000 UTC
Superb! There is also a documentary on the subject called "From Bedroom to Billions". I strongly recommend it if you want know more.
Chris Lopo
2020-09-29 13:39:55 +0000 UTC
Thank u mark! Please consider including a link in the main text? It's a bit laborious to have to click out of the email, then click the thumbnail, then click watch later, then find that in the YouTube app. If it was just a link it'd open straight away in YT, cheers!
OSW Review
2020-09-29 13:30:31 +0000 UTC