 Happy New Year guys, I hope you're ready for 2024 because we have some cool stuff to come but in this video I want to announce I'm trio guys to announce that the most waited first version of the platform essentials cookbook It's out. So let's talk about that the platform essentials cookbook. It's like a culinary guide for game development Especially for making platforming games we grew up for of course the book is packed with 12 Recipes which are basically game design patterns that in this case are aimed towards making platforming games So we have patterns like basic moving characters moving platforms path following platforms path following enemies and also a minimal combat system called Hazard to deal which is very cool because it allows you to turn anything into a destructible object or to make like Fighting and combat systems as well. Guys I made this book in such a way that it is very versatile and easy to manage each recipe is self-contained So you don't have to read through the whole book to make your platform again Maybe you already have your basic player movement on place And you just need to know how you can turn an object into an interactive object So you can go straight up to the interactive error to do recipe and you can make your in your Object the object of your game interactable. I made this because I want you guys to be able to just freely implement Mechanics in your game and don't have to be like spending hours and hours reading a book just to learn a bit of Stuff here and there and memorize the stuff. No, I want this to be a Reference manual that you can go to whenever you need and you don't have to spend processing power of your brain Having to memorize stuff. No, the book will be there You can consult it whatever and whatever you want only when you need specific bits of information I also want to thank you so much for your support. Your support has been invaluable Even before this official release the book has been in early access for almost a year a year But even though it has been a top seller on each dollar for almost a year guys This would not be possible without your support. So I like to thank you so much for that But not only that not only the purchase but but of course each purchase Helped me a lot because it helped pay the bills and keep up with this project But guys each feedback each comment that you left each rating that you left on each dollar As well helped shape this book into what it is now, which I'm very proud of the final product that we come out with So I'm very very thankful for you guys for being like this amazing community Oh, by the way, remember that in the pre-order campaign I had a reward for people that paid 30 bucks called custom recipes. These custom recipes are basically tutorial requests related to Platforming games. So we have like wall jump rebbling hook We have like web or shopping key biting and other requests that I'll be working next So they are up next in my oven guys your comments your likes your shares your feedback and of course your support especially your Financial support are the key ingredients the secret ingredients if you will for the success of this journey So as we step into the next year, let's keep up together. Let's stay together throughout this journey. So that's it Happy new year everyone. Oh, by the way, the book is up at my each IO page So big dev dot each dot IO slash Pathformer dash essentials are put in the description so you can grab your copy and create amazing games guys So that's it. Happy new year everyone keep developing and until the next time. See you next year