Adam Millard - The Architect of Games

Quick update RE: apple store subscriptions

So if you're subscribed to other patreon people you've probably already heard about this but just in case you're not I'll tell you about it as well.

For Capitalism Reasons apple is forcing patreon to give them a cut of all patreon pledges made through the IOS app (30%), and in response Patreon have enabled an automatic price increase for all subscriptions made on apple products to compen...

How "Good Design" Ruins Games

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Arctic Eggs is a badly designed game. It's unfair, it's confusing and it's controls, well, they barely work. Under every possible metric it is designed wrong - in a way that's counter to what's generally accepted to be good design,...

Architect Address June 2024

Hello hello and welcome to this, the Architect Address, a very special series of videos just for you patrons all about what’s going on with the channel lately and what irritating delays I’ve been dealing with. Whhooof. Okay, so before we get into any of the stuff I actually want to talk about let’s just quickly run over me getting sick/ I made a whooole song and dance about feeling really...

How YOU Wrote Rimworld's Best Story

(Hi! Sorry for the lateness of this video, as I talk about at the end, I got Covid and it knocked me on my ass for a few weeks which really put a dent in my whole speech in the last video, I'll talk about it more in the Architect Address just want to say sorry here too!)

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Videogames Will Never Escape The Elements (and neither will you)

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It seems like you can't take two steps inside a videogaming without running into elemental weaknesses and resistances, elemental systemic mechanics, characters with elemental theming and even e...

Architect Address March 2024

Hello one and all and welcome to this - the architect address, wow huh I said I’d make the next few videos quickly and boy was I wrong wasn’t I jeeeeesus christ. Yeah, so, after taking a bit of a break post christmas it turns out everything that could have gone wrong went wrong and uh, to be honest it was pretty miserable but I’m not going to dwell on that because it would be what is know...

EARLY ACCESS The Forbidden Fun of Breaking Games

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There's nothing more satisfying in videogames than a big fun power fantasy - what could compare to the awesome feeling of crushing your enemies in style and becoming master of all you survey?... But if power fantasies are so simple, then why do so m...

EARLY ACCESS - You Can Never Play The Same Game Twice

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There's no more frustrating feeling in videogaming than wanting to  recapture an experience that you've already had and can never find  again. Solving a puzzle for the first time, uncovering a secret, the  feeling of playi...

Architect Address - 2023 In Review

Hello hello and welcome to this, the architect address! In case you didn't know, and that’s looking to be quite a few of you because damn we’ve got quite a few fresh faces around here since I last did one of these, this is a sort of irregular slightly improvised wrap up thing I release once every few videos to catch you up on my thoughts about particular videos, what’s going on with the c...

Architect Address November 2023

Oh well look who it is it’s… you… you’ve got a lot of nerve showing up here after what you did back in 92 heck, well in case you’ve forgotten in your many years as a fugitive this is, err, the architect address that thing I do where I talk about some stuff, cool right?

Anyway I tend to ramble a bit too long at the start of these things so let’s get right into talking about an ...

I was on a podcast (bonus!)

Hi patrons, as you might recall from the most recent video, I was on a podcast! This is the bonus segment kindly provided by Darkfry for your viewing enjoyment as well in which I immediately get the definition of the word eminent wrong. 

Architect Address Sept 2023

Well well well wot do we have here then a couple of miscreants up to no good if I do say so myself probably lookin' to watch and or read some of that there architect address aren’t you well… you’re in the right place! Hello there and welcome to this, the architect address, a very special perk of patreon access which mostly comprises me rambling on for a few minutes about my thoughts on th...

EARLY ACCESS - Why Do We STILL Hate Tutorials?

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Teaching people how to play videogames is a subject that's gotten more and more...

RPGs Were Never About Roleplaying

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Role Playing Games, as they are sometimes called, are some of the longest-lived and most popular genres of videogame out there - to the point that they're older than videogames themselves. However,  in spite of their consistent presence in our c...

Architect Address July 2023

What’s up, how are you doing and welcome one and all to this: the architect address - hoo boy it’s a hot one right now I have been melting all week and I’ve got my windows closed to record this so let’s get on with it. This is what’s known in certain circles as the Architect Address, a secret update video especially for you lovely patrons where I talk about some stuff that’s been go...

EARLY ACCESS: Videogames Have A Creativity Problem (and it's not the one you think)

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Creativity, artistry and self expression are all universal aspects of  human existence - they've been around since the dawn of history, and will be around much longer than any of us... so why is it seemingly so difficult for vide...

How Tears Of The Kingdom Keeps You Playing Forever

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Tears of the Kingdom is a compulsively playable game, with many people losing hundreds of hours to its impossible-to-resist charms - but what distinguishes Link's latest outing from the many many games stuck languishing in our backlogs that we intended to keep playing, but coul...

Architect Address May 2023

Hello! Welcome to the architect address! It’s a special patrons only series of videos where you and me, yeah that’s right just us two, have a little chat about some things that have been going on with the channel lately and I talk about some videos that have come out recently too.

So, first up, I want to talk about where we are right now, the patreon, as you might recall I’ve been d...

Terra Nil Claims It's A Reverse Citybuilder. It Isn't.

Terra Nil is a weird videogame, it claims to be a citybuilder with a reversed environmental theme, and yet, when it comes to delivering the fun you'd expect out of a citybuilder... Terra Nil just can't deliver - what gives? Is Terra Nil just a bad game coasting on false advertising, or is there something more going on here?

After clawing their way out from the ruins of their fallen civili...

EARLY ACCESS - Why Atomic Heart Fails To Live Up To Its Inspiration

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Atomic Heart and Bioshock are two games that are inexorably linked across time, one established...

Architect Address March 2023

Hey what’s up it’s the architect address! Welcome one and all come in come in take a seat there are biscuits  off to the side only take one each though they’re very expensive okay right you good? Awesome, let’s get on with things. This is an… infrequent series of videos I create  for you patrons in order to give some extra insight into the last few videos and what’s been g...

DIRECTOR'S CUT- How Dark Souls (accidentally) Taught You Cowardice

Hello hello hello and welcome one and all to this, the Director’s cut, a little bonus bit of patreon-exclusive goodness where I talk about something that I couldn’t squeeze into an already overstuffed video! This time, I want to talk about scoring - and how it relates to all the entry level strategy stuff that I was talking about in the main video.

See, in today’s modern videogaming...

EARLY ACCESS - How Dark Souls (accidentally) Taught You Cowardice

As tough as its reputation may be, Dark Souls tries its best to give brand new players a helping hand as they find their barings in its hardcore world - unfortunately, the manner Dark Souls does this... accidentally tricks people into playing in a cowardly, risk averse way - meaning they have less fun, and are less willing to try and master the  game's intricacies.

Entry Level Strate...

EARLY ACCESS- Vampire Survivors Only Works Because We're Stupid

You are terrible at maths. Sorry, someone had to say it. However, it's  not all bad news - so is every other human being ever to live! You're  ALL awful when it comes to numbers! Whilst you don't always realize it,  humans have an incredibly flawed understanding of everything from size  to statistics, changing the way we perceive and think about numbers,  particularly i...

Architect Address - January 2023

Well hello there, it’s been a little while but I’m back and ready to dazzle you all with the first architect address of 2023, which is… somewhat predictably not actually about 2023 at all and is instead a little look back at the previous year, and some of the videos I released in the last hectic dash to the finish line.

Let’s start with 2022 at large and I think it’s been an int...

DIRECTOR'S CUT - 5 More 2022 Games You Should Have Played

Hey hey hey, it’s me, here with a very special end-of-year replacement for the Director’s cut. Normally this is a segment that goes out to $3 people and above but I thought seeing as it’s just game recommendations I could be charitable and let you all see five bonus games that I really wanted to put on the Games You Should Have Played list but wasn’t able to for a variety of reasons. Wh...

EARLY ACCESS - 20(22) Games You Should Have Played

Okay I really need to look into youtube processing this one took HOURS!

As 2022 comes to a close, it's time to look back and reflect on a jam-packed year in videogaming - so many great games got released in the last twelve months from fast paced action thrillrides to thought provoking genre-busters that it's no wonder that a bunch of great videogames didn't get the time in the spotlight ...

EARLY ACCESS - What Makes A Good Companion Character?

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Where would we be without companions: The sidekicks, allies and general hangers-on that accompany us through all the best videogames? Honestly, we'd probably be a lot happier, because most of them are annoying as hell - but why is that? Why are so many charact...

EARLY ACCESS - Why Is It So Easy To Break Videogame Economies?

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There's something... off about videogame economics. Regardless of when  the game was made, who by and what it's about - it's remarkably easy to  crack a game's systems open and use them to find the optimal means of  making money, even when that mea...

Architect Address - November 2022

Whaaaat!? It’s the architect address!? Crazy! Who could have possibly seen this coming??? Err, you probably seeing as you clicked on this video. Anyway, the architect address is a semi regular what I’ve been up to recently mini vlog thing that I put out occasionally for all patrons where I just sort of ramble on for about five minutes about a variety of topics and the first one on my list i...