Mechanically Speaking: Shooting in First Person - [game array]

Support [game array] on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/gamearray Follow [game array] on twitter! https://twitter.com/gamearray Anyone with a passing interest in making first person shooters has to check out these two GDC talks with Jaime Griesemer: The first about balancing Halo 3’s sniper rifle: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012211/Design-in-Detail-Changing-the And another about balancing the plasma rifle: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014704/Design-in-Detail-Tuning-the Here are some other videos I’d suggest checking out as well: This great episode from Gamemaker’s Toolkit about orthogonal unit differentiation in Doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOObGjCA7Q RetroAhoy’s episode on Doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A4-SVUHQYI RetroAhoy’s episode on Quake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OipJYWhMi3k This GDC talk with Matthias Worch about Meaningful Choice in Game Level Design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEF4GVNzkUw&feature=youtu.be And this Ted Talk with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi about Flow: https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?language=en FOOTAGE FROM: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Crysis, Crysis 2, Destiny, Fallout 4, Far Cry 4, Alien Isolation, Battlefield 4, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Bioshock, Bioshock Infinite, Far Cry Blood Dragon, Far Cry 3, Call of Duty Black Ops 3, Catacomb 3D, Counter-Strike Global Offensive, Doom, Doom 2, DOOM, Fear, Halo Master Chief Collection, Halo 5, Halo: Reach, Heretic, Killing Floor 2, Marathon, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Resistance 3, Quake, Queak 3 Arena, Shadow Warrior, Turok, Alien Resurrection, Borderlands 2, Dear Esther, The Witness, Duke Nukem 3D, Duke Nukem Forever, Half-Life 2, Metro 2033: Last Light, Midi Maze, Overwatch, Perfect Dark, Vermintide, Call of Duty 2, Goldeneye, Left 4 Dead 2, STALKER, Star Wars Battlefront, Unreal Tournament. SOUNDTRACK: Behind Closed Doors by Otis McDonald Tarantula by MK2 Ever Felt pt 2 by Otis McDonald There You Go by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Funk Down by MK2 Ever Felt pt 1 by Otis McDonald Barge by Gunnar Olsen