Post by TruelyMostWanted on Jul 17, 2018 10:08:13 GMT -5
Hello guys. Some of you may know me under the name MostWanted38 and some of you as MillionaireWanted38 (the channel, that uploads weekly US episode packages). My name is Lars, i'm 21 years old and since a few years active in the Millionaire "scene".
i've joined this forum last year but i'm a more silent person i guess.
For this audition i do something i've never telled that detailed.
I tell you my almost 3 year long story of how i got to WWTBAM in general and developing "Millionaire Simulator"
NOTE: The story contains a bunch of links & videos. These are essential points to the plot.
They show you how i, my channel and my content/project evolved over the years (2015-today)
Already in my childhood i watched a lot of shows on TV, including WWTBAM (Germany: Wer Wird Millionär) and shows like Deal Or No Deal). I really enjoyed the music and its design and the host. And i bought almost every single CD and DVD Game of my countries version when i was younger (until Age 16). i found YouTube videos of international versions. I was interested in getting more informations about this phenomenon.
With that beeing said, lets start the story.
And it all begans 1-2 years later. When i was 17 (Late 2014)
At that time i started trying make my first 2D Game with Visual Studio and C#
I wanted to make something of my own. I was pretty early interested in coding/programming.
While gettings ideas for my project i thought lets try to make a Millionaire Game...
It took some time. For around half a year, i was trying to make a game by the princip of "Try and Error". I didnt know that much of how to make good code or work with 2D Drawn Elements like Rect on a Windows Form. But i tried and didnt give up.. And i got some
results. However in the meantime i was working on my own Logo , which should look like at WWTBAM Logo (video below)
I was collecting the classic sountracks and made my way.
In June 2015 i was looking for a good Millionaire Game. I saw some YouTube videos of a few ppl. who made their own host screen software + game. So i tried to find one of them and buy it.. Funny enough the search lead me to ebay, where i found just what i was looking for. A Game with a host screen, Tv screen and the player screen
(known as: werwirdmillionar.blogspot.com/p/das-pc-spiel.html )
So i was the first one who bought that game for a price, that the developer didnt expect. 35€ as it costs today.
I got to know the person who manages this WWTBAM-Blog and the guy who developed it.
And his game had everything i was searching for. Sounds from Classic, Rave, Clock and Shuffle and it worked.
I asked if i can use his sounds to prototype my game. He agreed.
So i talked a lot with the developer via skype, later then WhatsApp and i gave him Input on his game: reported bugs and, gave him ideas, showed him the international versions, gave him hints what could be done better. In the meantime i asked him
"Hey can i make a video of your game? and use it on YouTube?" He said Yes, cuz it was like free advert for him.
And thats the real point were my channel transformed into a Millionaire Channel and it all began!
So i uploaded the first video (it currently is the 2nd most seen video on my channel)
(DE)Let's Show: Wer Wird Millionär - PC Game 2015
And the journey began! Weekly Lets Play videos of it (see the video/playlist above) and playing offscreen with family and friends.
In the meantime i was developing mine further.. Adding some fancy stuff and somehow it worked..
While i was using the Millionaire Software from ebay, i thought okay how can you make this even more attractive..
How can you gain more viewers... A studio or at least some more animations would be nice...
What about a remake of the german studio?
Using Color Key (Black) to remove background of the game and add a 2nd video-track with the studio there..
Well thats what i did..
Season 1 - Episode 42.. I recreated the german opening (first try) and
i used my Cinema 4D made Studio to add some animation to the lets play
And that was the result:
WER WIRD MILLIONÄR? 2016 [042] - ICH PRÄSENTIERE: MEIN ERBAUTES STUDIO v1.0.0
I liked how it looked like.. but it wasnt enough for me.. So 1 week later...
Season 1 - Episode 43...
Reworked Studio Animations, same opening
WER WIRD MILLIONÄR? [043] ►DAS ÜBERARBEITETE WWM-STUDIO v2.0.0
And thats how the Season continued.
Moving on to 2016
At Episode 50 (August 2018), the end of my first season, i telled about the US Version.. Chris Harrison is moving to Vegas!
And that was already a point were i wanted to see how they continue with the classic episodes..
During the process of Season 1, i found his Premier Episodes 1 + 76
So i decided.. Okay the music is great, i like the lights lets built that thing for Season 2!
So lets built that Studio, that logo and a new opening!
Over the End of Season 1 i was already developing on this US Re-Classic Version..
And in August of 2016 i returned with Season 2...
This time
-> My Software
-> Editing: Making Animation Scenes in C4D + Vegas and cut them into the video
WER WIRD MILLIONÄR? [S2-001] - Lasset die Spiele beginnen! ► Let's Play Wer Wird Millionär?
Now from here on the story goes from Lets Play to GameDev.
Already at the end of the first Season i was getting tired of cutting in all the animations piece by piece
and make them fit to the music.. i was searching for something... a Game Engine..
I played "The Forest" and i knew it was made with the Unity Engine. So i decided to take a look at this and make some research.
Found out, "Oh it works with C#! Nice!" so no second thoughts, downloading it and trying to work with it somehow..
The first gameplay version / studio i added.. Was the US Studio, since i needed it for the season.
This game of mine was developed during the lets plays. And the first version was done soon enough..
Season 2 - Episode 16
WER WIRD MILLIONÄR? [S2-016] - Meine WWM Software(Vorstellung) ► Let's Play Wer Wird Millionär?
I was working on it week by week.. While the videos continued the game evolved..
Season 2 - Episode 36 ("Spotlights", First Few Camera Animations, US Graphics for Question, few more SFX)
S2-E36
And shortly after that S2-E36 i've started "MillionaireWanted38" to collect US Episodes, as you know the channel today.
i wanted to have at least one complete Season of the US Version.
So parallel work. On the main channel, continuing developing the game, on the 2nd channel recording, cutting and uploading episodes..
And my 2nd Season ended with a few new things..
the Moneytree-Screen in its first version, the big player screen in the studio was usable
While the show took a break on the main channel, the work continued on MillionaireWanted.. Uploading.. Uploading..
But i'm not done yet
i found the channel AKKASTUDIOS. The channel who uploaded a lot of Australias Millionaire Hot Seat
I returned for a 3rd Season in my game. This time it was the Millionaire Hot Seat.
This was the one version which wasnt in the game i bought on ebay.. so i tried to find the HotSeat sounds and
worked on the game. Tried to figure out how to make a good overview for the status of the contestants and done..
New Opening, New Studio, New Gameplay , totally selfmade:
SEASON 3
WER WIRD MILLIONÄR? [S03-Ep.01] - Willkommen auf dem Heißen Stuhl! ► Let's Play WWM
Also during the season, improvements, changes, bugfixes, whatever...
After that season i said, that i was too much Millionaire.. And stopped making seasons..
I developed my game offscreen, make some studios, UI, the different gameplays...
During the development i got to a point where i had to say "STOP!"
Why that? Well the game worked... It looked nice for a first try..
But i couldnt find any structure in my code.. It was gone..
I didnt see a system behind it anymore and i made the first rework..
Without deleting any of the classes i wrote.. Changes over changes over changes..
In the end the code was "okay" and i was able to continue..
in between i registered to this forum and VK to stay updated about everything.
Also i found the gameshows.ru/forum. 3 huge sources for news and various things.
(Registered here since Oct 19, 2016)
Anyway after some more months i didnt like my game anymore..
I had a better system in mind.. a whole new structure, a new plan
I was studying Informatics for almost a year and already got some
nice way to think about stuff..
So total rework!
Excluded all previous done gameplay versions,
Excluded the studios (they're still inside, but currently not usable)
I took a week , planned my system behind the game and then i erased all the progress
that i coded so far and rebuilt it from the ground..
Both the studios got a rework, the graphics, the menues.. everything!
So it was time again...
SEASON 4!
Classic Gameplay, current German Studio , 3/4 Lifelines (Classic/Risk)
and 15 Questions to €1.000.000, Old Opening from Season 1!
[DE] Gameplay ► Wer Wird Millionär? | Season 4 | Episode 1
After 5 Weeks, i evolved the studio and i made a new opening + Halloween 2017 Special (bloody themed studio)
This is the Halloween Special, featuring the new selfmade Opening (Remake of the German "Wer Wird Millionär?" Opening):
[DE] Gameplay ► Wer Wird Millionär? | Season 4 | "HALLOWEEN-SPECIAL" Episode 17
As you can see, the further the timeline goes , the further the Season & the episode, the more did evolve.
And in the End of 2017 i started streaming on Twitch.
I streamed my game and played it with the Twitch Chat. And they liked it.
So at Christmas last year, i decided to make a Live "Christmas WWTBAM" Lets Play on Twitch
and continued the season with Live Episodes:
[DE] Wer Wird Millionär? (2017) - Das Weihnachts-Special | Season 4 [TWITCH 23.12.2017]
And i thought, to make this the ultimative viewer game, lets develop it for twitch only.
So the current plan is to add a Twitch Chatbot + Multiplayer Features
A lot of new Animations and so on.
My name got known as MostWanted38 with the Millionaire Lets Plays and even more as MillionaireWanted38 who uploads
too many US Episodes (currently 460 episodes)
And yeah thats my way until today.
I guess you guys are interested in seeing some of my current work?
Here are a few examples of my current work:
[DE] My New "Wer Wird Millionär?" Logo
[AT] My New "Die Millionenshow" Logo
A few weeks ago, the first version of my Animation System (already thrown away xD)
Total rework of Animation System + first test inside the German studio: (preparations for the UK 20th Anniversary Studio)
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443522027694063623/462939786672603165/Q11_Design4.mp4
German Studio - Outro (no Credits) , with the Hot Seat Background as layer for animation
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443522027694063623/466012251485110272/Outro_Special.mp4
same test with US Outro Colors
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443522027694063623/466228022907764746/Outro_USDesign_MovingTexture.mp4
Then i was constructing the UK - 20th Anniversary studio
media.discordapp.net/attachments/443522027694063623/467331331898998804/unknown.png
Currently working on that studio in the game (Animation Colors are completely customizable)
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443522027694063623/468195208304132107/UK20_LetsPLay_V3.mp4
And yes thats it i hope this application wasnt too long.
A few people know already about my work, e.g. retched, millichris and ThePasch
and also if you see my Logo inside the videos or the MW38, thats my "TV Station"
Also the last few posts/media files were posted in my MillionaireWanted38 Discord discord.gg/VBQXmPk
Everybody is Welcome to the Channels Community Discord
Also 1 thing i didnt mention above..
I started a project called "WWTBAM Question Editor". Currently the project is offline for a rework because of safety reasons
and new server structure. But it will restart within the next weeks. Its for people to make their own questions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqQTkaofCk8
I hope all these links dont sound like they are just advert. They should show you what content i create
So i hope you guys liked this well galery of my work and it showed you a few things about me.
So will all this said, it would be an honour to gain access to the Fan Games section. I really would like to see what other ppl make. I know that retched makes his software. We both write relativly often in Discord or in his stream, while he is developing.
We both run MillionaireWanted38 and i got to know him pretty good too over the past 2 seasons of Syndicated Millionaire
I really like this forum and i would like to become a bigger part of it, by beeing a content creator.
I'm sorry for my writing style. Sometimes i misstranslate from german to english so it ruins the grammar of the sentence that i wanna write. Anyway i hope you like this audition. Thanks for taking time and reading this. The end result of how you guys voted on this audition wont influence the way i think of this forum.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask here
With best regards
MostWanted38 / MillionaireWanted38 / Lars
i've joined this forum last year but i'm a more silent person i guess.
For this audition i do something i've never telled that detailed.
I tell you my almost 3 year long story of how i got to WWTBAM in general and developing "Millionaire Simulator"
NOTE: The story contains a bunch of links & videos. These are essential points to the plot.
They show you how i, my channel and my content/project evolved over the years (2015-today)
Already in my childhood i watched a lot of shows on TV, including WWTBAM (Germany: Wer Wird Millionär) and shows like Deal Or No Deal). I really enjoyed the music and its design and the host. And i bought almost every single CD and DVD Game of my countries version when i was younger (until Age 16). i found YouTube videos of international versions. I was interested in getting more informations about this phenomenon.
With that beeing said, lets start the story.
And it all begans 1-2 years later. When i was 17 (Late 2014)
At that time i started trying make my first 2D Game with Visual Studio and C#
I wanted to make something of my own. I was pretty early interested in coding/programming.
While gettings ideas for my project i thought lets try to make a Millionaire Game...
It took some time. For around half a year, i was trying to make a game by the princip of "Try and Error". I didnt know that much of how to make good code or work with 2D Drawn Elements like Rect on a Windows Form. But i tried and didnt give up.. And i got some
results. However in the meantime i was working on my own Logo , which should look like at WWTBAM Logo (video below)
I was collecting the classic sountracks and made my way.
In June 2015 i was looking for a good Millionaire Game. I saw some YouTube videos of a few ppl. who made their own host screen software + game. So i tried to find one of them and buy it.. Funny enough the search lead me to ebay, where i found just what i was looking for. A Game with a host screen, Tv screen and the player screen
(known as: werwirdmillionar.blogspot.com/p/das-pc-spiel.html )
So i was the first one who bought that game for a price, that the developer didnt expect. 35€ as it costs today.
I got to know the person who manages this WWTBAM-Blog and the guy who developed it.
And his game had everything i was searching for. Sounds from Classic, Rave, Clock and Shuffle and it worked.
I asked if i can use his sounds to prototype my game. He agreed.
So i talked a lot with the developer via skype, later then WhatsApp and i gave him Input on his game: reported bugs and, gave him ideas, showed him the international versions, gave him hints what could be done better. In the meantime i asked him
"Hey can i make a video of your game? and use it on YouTube?" He said Yes, cuz it was like free advert for him.
And thats the real point were my channel transformed into a Millionaire Channel and it all began!
So i uploaded the first video (it currently is the 2nd most seen video on my channel)
(DE)Let's Show: Wer Wird Millionär - PC Game 2015
And the journey began! Weekly Lets Play videos of it (see the video/playlist above) and playing offscreen with family and friends.
In the meantime i was developing mine further.. Adding some fancy stuff and somehow it worked..
While i was using the Millionaire Software from ebay, i thought okay how can you make this even more attractive..
How can you gain more viewers... A studio or at least some more animations would be nice...
What about a remake of the german studio?
Using Color Key (Black) to remove background of the game and add a 2nd video-track with the studio there..
Well thats what i did..
Season 1 - Episode 42.. I recreated the german opening (first try) and
i used my Cinema 4D made Studio to add some animation to the lets play
And that was the result:
WER WIRD MILLIONÄR? 2016 [042] - ICH PRÄSENTIERE: MEIN ERBAUTES STUDIO v1.0.0
I liked how it looked like.. but it wasnt enough for me.. So 1 week later...
Season 1 - Episode 43...
Reworked Studio Animations, same opening
WER WIRD MILLIONÄR? [043] ►DAS ÜBERARBEITETE WWM-STUDIO v2.0.0
And thats how the Season continued.
Moving on to 2016
At Episode 50 (August 2018), the end of my first season, i telled about the US Version.. Chris Harrison is moving to Vegas!
And that was already a point were i wanted to see how they continue with the classic episodes..
During the process of Season 1, i found his Premier Episodes 1 + 76
So i decided.. Okay the music is great, i like the lights lets built that thing for Season 2!
So lets built that Studio, that logo and a new opening!
Over the End of Season 1 i was already developing on this US Re-Classic Version..
And in August of 2016 i returned with Season 2...
This time
-> My Software
-> Editing: Making Animation Scenes in C4D + Vegas and cut them into the video
WER WIRD MILLIONÄR? [S2-001] - Lasset die Spiele beginnen! ► Let's Play Wer Wird Millionär?
Now from here on the story goes from Lets Play to GameDev.
Already at the end of the first Season i was getting tired of cutting in all the animations piece by piece
and make them fit to the music.. i was searching for something... a Game Engine..
I played "The Forest" and i knew it was made with the Unity Engine. So i decided to take a look at this and make some research.
Found out, "Oh it works with C#! Nice!" so no second thoughts, downloading it and trying to work with it somehow..
The first gameplay version / studio i added.. Was the US Studio, since i needed it for the season.
This game of mine was developed during the lets plays. And the first version was done soon enough..
Season 2 - Episode 16
WER WIRD MILLIONÄR? [S2-016] - Meine WWM Software(Vorstellung) ► Let's Play Wer Wird Millionär?
I was working on it week by week.. While the videos continued the game evolved..
Season 2 - Episode 36 ("Spotlights", First Few Camera Animations, US Graphics for Question, few more SFX)
S2-E36
And shortly after that S2-E36 i've started "MillionaireWanted38" to collect US Episodes, as you know the channel today.
i wanted to have at least one complete Season of the US Version.
So parallel work. On the main channel, continuing developing the game, on the 2nd channel recording, cutting and uploading episodes..
And my 2nd Season ended with a few new things..
the Moneytree-Screen in its first version, the big player screen in the studio was usable
While the show took a break on the main channel, the work continued on MillionaireWanted.. Uploading.. Uploading..
But i'm not done yet
i found the channel AKKASTUDIOS. The channel who uploaded a lot of Australias Millionaire Hot Seat
I returned for a 3rd Season in my game. This time it was the Millionaire Hot Seat.
This was the one version which wasnt in the game i bought on ebay.. so i tried to find the HotSeat sounds and
worked on the game. Tried to figure out how to make a good overview for the status of the contestants and done..
New Opening, New Studio, New Gameplay , totally selfmade:
SEASON 3
WER WIRD MILLIONÄR? [S03-Ep.01] - Willkommen auf dem Heißen Stuhl! ► Let's Play WWM
Also during the season, improvements, changes, bugfixes, whatever...
After that season i said, that i was too much Millionaire.. And stopped making seasons..
I developed my game offscreen, make some studios, UI, the different gameplays...
During the development i got to a point where i had to say "STOP!"
Why that? Well the game worked... It looked nice for a first try..
But i couldnt find any structure in my code.. It was gone..
I didnt see a system behind it anymore and i made the first rework..
Without deleting any of the classes i wrote.. Changes over changes over changes..
In the end the code was "okay" and i was able to continue..
in between i registered to this forum and VK to stay updated about everything.
Also i found the gameshows.ru/forum. 3 huge sources for news and various things.
(Registered here since Oct 19, 2016)
Anyway after some more months i didnt like my game anymore..
I had a better system in mind.. a whole new structure, a new plan
I was studying Informatics for almost a year and already got some
nice way to think about stuff..
So total rework!
Excluded all previous done gameplay versions,
Excluded the studios (they're still inside, but currently not usable)
I took a week , planned my system behind the game and then i erased all the progress
that i coded so far and rebuilt it from the ground..
Both the studios got a rework, the graphics, the menues.. everything!
So it was time again...
SEASON 4!
Classic Gameplay, current German Studio , 3/4 Lifelines (Classic/Risk)
and 15 Questions to €1.000.000, Old Opening from Season 1!
[DE] Gameplay ► Wer Wird Millionär? | Season 4 | Episode 1
After 5 Weeks, i evolved the studio and i made a new opening + Halloween 2017 Special (bloody themed studio)
This is the Halloween Special, featuring the new selfmade Opening (Remake of the German "Wer Wird Millionär?" Opening):
[DE] Gameplay ► Wer Wird Millionär? | Season 4 | "HALLOWEEN-SPECIAL" Episode 17
As you can see, the further the timeline goes , the further the Season & the episode, the more did evolve.
And in the End of 2017 i started streaming on Twitch.
I streamed my game and played it with the Twitch Chat. And they liked it.
So at Christmas last year, i decided to make a Live "Christmas WWTBAM" Lets Play on Twitch
and continued the season with Live Episodes:
[DE] Wer Wird Millionär? (2017) - Das Weihnachts-Special | Season 4 [TWITCH 23.12.2017]
And i thought, to make this the ultimative viewer game, lets develop it for twitch only.
So the current plan is to add a Twitch Chatbot + Multiplayer Features
A lot of new Animations and so on.
My name got known as MostWanted38 with the Millionaire Lets Plays and even more as MillionaireWanted38 who uploads
too many US Episodes
(currently 460 episodes)And yeah thats my way until today.
I guess you guys are interested in seeing some of my current work?
Here are a few examples of my current work:
[DE] My New "Wer Wird Millionär?" Logo
[AT] My New "Die Millionenshow" Logo
A few weeks ago, the first version of my Animation System (already thrown away xD)
Total rework of Animation System + first test inside the German studio: (preparations for the UK 20th Anniversary Studio)
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443522027694063623/462939786672603165/Q11_Design4.mp4
German Studio - Outro (no Credits) , with the Hot Seat Background as layer for animation
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443522027694063623/466012251485110272/Outro_Special.mp4
same test with US Outro Colors
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443522027694063623/466228022907764746/Outro_USDesign_MovingTexture.mp4
Then i was constructing the UK - 20th Anniversary studio
media.discordapp.net/attachments/443522027694063623/467331331898998804/unknown.png
Currently working on that studio in the game (Animation Colors are completely customizable)
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443522027694063623/468195208304132107/UK20_LetsPLay_V3.mp4
And yes thats it
i hope this application wasnt too long.A few people know already about my work, e.g. retched, millichris and ThePasch
and also if you see my Logo inside the videos or the MW38, thats my "TV Station"
Also the last few posts/media files were posted in my MillionaireWanted38 Discord discord.gg/VBQXmPk
Everybody is Welcome to the Channels Community Discord
Also 1 thing i didnt mention above..
I started a project called "WWTBAM Question Editor". Currently the project is offline for a rework because of safety reasons
and new server structure. But it will restart within the next weeks. Its for people to make their own questions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqQTkaofCk8
I hope all these links dont sound like they are just advert. They should show you what content i create
So i hope you guys liked this well galery of my work and it showed you a few things about me.
So will all this said, it would be an honour to gain access to the Fan Games section. I really would like to see what other ppl make. I know that retched makes his software. We both write relativly often in Discord or in his stream, while he is developing.
We both run MillionaireWanted38 and i got to know him pretty good too over the past 2 seasons of Syndicated Millionaire
I really like this forum and i would like to become a bigger part of it, by beeing a content creator.
I'm sorry for my writing style. Sometimes i misstranslate from german to english so it ruins the grammar of the sentence that i wanna write. Anyway i hope you like this audition. Thanks for taking time and reading this. The end result of how you guys voted on this audition wont influence the way i think of this forum.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask here
With best regards
MostWanted38 / MillionaireWanted38 / Lars
