 so it happened guys my book the essential guide to create multiplayer games at go dot four just launched on friday december 22 so you can already order your your current purchase buy guys can some english speaker please explain that to me what's the difference between buy and purchase please comment below so you can already order you can already order your paperback cover version of the book guys how awesome is that i wish my my my physical copy of the book was delivered already because it it would take some time before i get my hands on it but you can already order yours and you can already order your kindle version as well as my observation here because some people ask this a lot at some pages i think that is on the last page or at the first page there is a qr code so you can get a pdf version of the book as well so if you purchase for instance the paperback cover version copy of the book you will get a qr code that you can that will point out to a link so you can get a pdf version as well so you can read it on your computer for instance so that's it in this video i want to talk about what happened this year because i work a lot on this book and what will happen next year so the plane is the new years resolution for the channel so let's get started so first things first you can see that we have some new stuff in the background of the channel right i didn't actually finish setting up everything i still have to wait a second yeah add those to the background guys please help me find out a cool layout for them to put them here somewhere in the in the wall the background wall this from okami can you guys see that i don't know and i don't have any visual feedback yet so and this from Kirby which is my favorite one i already have though i already had so what happened is that i moved guys i'm i'm in a new apartment so i moved from my actual house which is the my family house to a new apartment because basically ever for my family died and the whole idea is that i will be able to create more content because i won't have to deal with my family issues i will have some time to actually work more with more focus so to sum up everything basically i just work on the book the whole year the whole year i spent working on the book because it was a very challenging task which helped me grow a lot as a developer for real because i learned just like a lot of stuff during the the process of writing this book especially guys i need to delegate some tasks to other people i can't do everything alone and this is something that i will that i will deal with this year so i will probably hire some people to help me editing videos and actually making sure that probably just Q&A right so QQA yeah QA quality assurance of the the products that i will make but yeah this year was basically working on the platform essentials trying to balance between the platform essentials cookbook stuff and essential guides to create multiplayer game stuff but at some point i had to decide which product will have my focus and i decided that i should deliver the essential guides to create uh online multiplayer games first which left me with the platform essentials cookbook with just the very essentials so the book is not published yet but now guys there are a an amazon editor an amazon author i will be able to publish my books there on amazon as well guys this is amazing i'm very thrilled to actually start publishing my books on amazon as well because besides itchy itchio is a cool platform which people that will probably just be aware more heated up for purchasing my products itchio don't doesn't help with marketing they don't help keep you up with your sales especially when you are not selling games right and assets so if you are selling books you're not making a lot of you're not making what they want basically so uh i will publish my books on amazon next year talking about that i think that well guys this is what happened this year i had a lot of family issues and i had and i had to work on this uh book as well so i had to balance out everything and yeah it was a a very it was one of the best years of my life at the same time it was one of the most the messier ones as well but let's talk about some good stuff let's talk about what will happen next year so as i say the platform essential script book is not done yet there are some still there are still some stuff missing because when i was making the pre-order campaign i promised to some people that i will deliver some cool stuff because we had 10 slots for custom recipes people could ask custom recipes are basically just tutorials requests related to the book content so the book topic in this case platformer games so people could ask for custom tutorials regarding platforming and we had we have 10 custom recipes to deliver so this is this will be my focus from january to finish up this and when i finish them guys i have to increase the price of the book itself because what happens i don't know if you guys already know how each io works but you can set up tiers uh for your book for your for your products so you have like a price tiers right so for instance platform essentials cookbook has three tiers at the moment one there is uh just the book itself the second tiers the second tier allows you to have access to a asset pack which is basically just the recipes with everything laid out so can just basically import them into your projects and the third tier is is the project that we were making in the series from youtube right which is something that i had i have to finish as well so the series is basically making a platforming game using these recipes we were using the kings and pigs asset pack to make this and i will have to finish this game which is something that i planned out as well to actually finish the game and publish it on steam but we will talk about this a little bit later so this is it guys we have to create some sense of urgency here because i will increase the price of the book but those who already have the book will not have to pay nothing else when i make this upgrade so be aware if you want to purchase the book at the current price you can go to the link in the description as well and get it because the platform essentials cookbook is also amazing guys i'm making i'm selling just stuff here in the same video well let's move on to the next project this year will be awesome guys so the next project is oh i have everything note down here so this is why i'm looking down so the next stuff the next project is the platform essentials course which will be my first ever course guys so what i have in mind is i will release the course as a individual product after i finish creating the content for the course but as i create each chapter i will post videos in the members area of the channel yeah guys i will create my first member the first members area here in the channel as well so uh there will be exclusive content for people in the members area when i launch this project we'll we'll talk more about that but members will have access to the to the course classes before everyone else everyone else's guys this will be very cool so this is one of the the first uh so this yeah the second project that i will work the next year let's move on to the third project so the third project that i will work this next year is the platform essentials template so if you guys don't know uh platformers template was my first ever product launched but i feel that i failed in delivering what i wanted in this um in this product um the things were good they worked they were very high quality but i didn't have the skills i didn't have the skills to create engaging features and actually leverage on the the things that we already had so i felt like i failed into delivering the actual value that you guys deserve so i decided to pause the project uh people that already bought it still have access to everything there it was made i think that's for good too yeah if i remember correctly but uh so i decided to really focusing on creating platformer stuff this is why this is the reason behind uh there are so much platformer stuff here in the channel because i don't want to fail again i want to make a high quality product that you guys are proud of and i am proud of as well so i will work on this platformer essentials template hand you all which i think that i will take a screenshot so i can pause there but these are the list of features guys look look how much stuff uh is waiting for us so for instance we will have things like an options menu template a main menu template with continue button load button achievement we'll have a load saving and loading system we will also have input remapping controller remapping uh some audio effects input buffering special actions caster and all of and all other cool stuff so this is the other product that i will work the next year releasing the platform essentials template so you can use a template to create get platformer games like in industry in like industry scale so one after the other well let's move on to the next project so to wrap up everything so the platform essentials cookbook the platform essentials course the platform essentials template i will create a platform essentials game and i will release it on steam so you guys will follow all the process from publishing to setting up with steam api and all this stuff here in the channel as well i want to share this kind of content because i think that it lacks this uh there's nowhere i think that at least with go dot where we can find like how we can publish games go dot games in steam and wrap up with the steam launcher and all this stuff so i want to share this with you guys as well this will be the last thing that we'll do in this year so we start up with the platform essentials cookbook the course the template and then we will wrap up the the year with the platform essentials game so this is the plan for the next year i want to thank you guys so much for staying with me this year even though i didn't create much content here but you guys are very patient and i want to thank you so much for being with me throughout this journey there's a lot of stuff to come uh in the future uh merry christmas so i wish you guys a very very happy new year as well and let's keep up together keep developing and until the next year see you there