Thanks for all the great support the past 2 years - I’ve preserved the original post with links below:
Original Post (Video Links Here)
After FEE3 2018, I took a liking to recording LPs of projects in the community. As a hack creator and solo developer, getting feedback is incredibly important (and often difficult to get), and seeing someone else play your game while it’s in development is helpful in finding bugs, making fixes, and most importantly, seeing how other people approach your game and the experience they have. However, many projects usually don’t get much publicity or feedback until much later in dev, or until it’s complete. This usually leads to “finished” projects feeling incomplete or untested, leading to potentially frustrating experiences for players.
My focus is on the following areas:
- LPs of in-progress or recently completed ROM hacks w/ creator blessing to provide live feedback
- LPs of old ROM hacks to archive recordings / share my thoughts
- Design videos geared towards ROM hackers looking for inspiration, ideas, and advice
- Interviewing ROM hack creators to get their insights and perspective on their design process, inspiration, and advice
Chair encouraged me to share these here, so I will use this thread to post my archives and updates. I likely will not update this post with regular video uploads (there are a lot), but will post new LP playlists and archives of prior runs.
If you’re interested in having me playtest/LP your project, let me know here or shoot me a DM. I’m not particularly strict on which games I choose to record, but I generally want to work directly with the project creators since I want to ensure the feedback is constructive and collaborative, and actually being heard. Similarly, I prefer to record a version that either is about to release or recently released, versus something that is about to be outdated by a new version with fixes.
Let’s Plays
- Faith and Blood v.0.2.1 by Bloopy
- The Heroes We Deserve (3.18.19 Patch) by A_Reliable_Chair
- Dream of Five (Opening + A Route) by AstraLunaSol
- Dream of Five (B Route Only) by AstraLunaSol
- Seven Siblings v.05 by WarPath
- Legends of Avenir v.5 (Mercenary Path) by 1st_lieutenant_noguchi and Snakey1
- Souls of the Forest v8 by Scraiza
- Scourge of Proxima 1.63.3 by Z-Flare, Imperial, and the Headband Gang
- Death or Glory v2.5 by NYZGamer
- The Lonely Mirror v1.1 by caladrius
- The Eligors Spear v1.2 by Zarg
- The Road to Ruin v3.0.3 by Primefusion
- Fire Emblem: Aletheia v0.1 by knabepicer
- Sacred Echoes v1 by HyperGammaSpaces
- JP Hack 24-Jul by Pikmin1211
- Vision Quest v1.18 Hard Mode Iron Man by pandan
- Order of the Crimson Arm v1 by TheMaskedRaider
- Dreams of Twilight v1.2 by Knight_Moris
- Journeys v1.1 by MournfulRelic
- Book of Eden v2.0.1 Dev Patch by Rickochet
- The Sword of Heaven & Earth by 38%
Vanilla FE LPs
- FE6 IRON MAN ft. Xenith
Base Conversations // Hack Creator Interview Series
Fire Emblem Design (Full Playlist Link)
- DAGDAR - A Framework for Fire Emblem Map Design
- Archers: How to Make Them Worth Using
- Making Unique Map Objectives
- Armor Knights: How to Make Them Worth Using
- Cavaliers: And How to Make Them Less Busted
- Jeigans: Designing Your Early Game Prepromote
- FIANA - A framework for opening maps
- Playable Soldiers: How to Make Them Worth Using
- Iron Man - Designing your game for permadeath
- Skills - Using Them to Enhance Gameplay
- How to finish your Fire Emblem GBA ROM Hack
- Stat Boosters - How to Effectively Design them in Fire Emblem
- Humor & Dark Themes in Fire Emblem ROM Hacks
- Use AI2=06 “If Possible to attack in 2 actions, move towards enemy”
- Map Palettes
- Hacks to Play if You’re Developing a Hack
- Making the Hack “Smooth”
- Late Game Maps in Fire Emblem
- Fire Emblem Unit Design
- Feedback - How To Give & Respond to Feedback on Your FE Game
Chapter Analysis (Full playlist link)
- Why FE6 Ch11A is the Best Chapter IS Ever Made
- An off the cuff analysis of FE7 19xx
- FE7 Ch12: The right way to rout
- Road to Ruin Ch4. Anatomy of a good escape chapter
- FE7 Ch26 HHM: Breaking Down Battle Before Dawn
- Why Arcadia is Epic (FE6 Ch14 Analysis & Review)
- Making a Memorable Map - Order of the Crimson Arm Ch13
- Play Dream of Five
- Deviating From Standard Late Game FE (Order of the Crimson Arm Ch19)
- Fire Emblem Requiem is Sick
Other Videos:
- Hack Viewership & The Myth of [Complete] - Analysis of channel viewership
- Map Stream Archive - Live mapmaking
FEE3 2018 Showcases
FEE3 2019 Showcases
- Vision Quest
- Faith and Blood
- The Seven Siblings
- The Nameless Heroes
- Fallen Flame
- Tear Ring Saga Hard Mode
- Kaga Emblem
FEE3 2020 Showcases
- Vision Quest
- Last Heavenly Throne
- FERDOP
- JP Hack
- The Nameless Heroes
- The Seven Siblings
- The Heroes We Deserve 3
- The Four Kings
- Sun God’s Wrath
Strongly encourage you to follow the threads and join their project discords as well! Many of these projects have been updated since my recordings and most are still in active development.
Thanks all - enjoy!