What's up, peeps?
Two things are about to happen.
First, we're going to look inside this box at something
very cool--
Yes, we are--
And very brand new at Vat19.
Super cool.
And then--
Then we brainstorm ideas for the commercial
that we're going to make for it.
That is what we do.
Let's peep this.
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All right.
You ready for this?
Are you ready for this?
Bloxels, the hands-on do-it-yourself video game
maker.
You guys--
Super cool.
You guys.
You just-- I mean--
Just go ahead and peep this for a second.
Mm.
That's good peep.
Yeah, that's real good peep.
We've got to get into this box because this thing,
it lets you build your own video game.
Cue Gerald.
Say whaa?
Gerald?
Gerard?
Is it Gerard or Gerald?
[LAUGHTER]
OK, I got some instructions.
And there's the game board.
I'll let you take that.
OK.
Putting this over here.
So we've got-- yeah, the the game board
looks like it's 13-- it's a square so 13
by 13 little kind of divots here for the Bloxels to go into.
You kind of stick these on the board
and then you take a picture with your tablet of the board.
Then, it puts it in the app, the free app that you download,
and you can play the game that you design here.
So you can build levels, the actual ground and the water.
You can build characters on here.
Power-ups.
Yeah.
All sorts of stuff.
You design it all here and then it becomes digital
and you play it for real.
That's--
How cool is that?
That is so cool.
So let's just build a level.
Yeah.
So the green-- what are the green ones?
The green ones are terrain that you can walk on.
So this is your land.
Mm-hmm.
OK.
Then, the blue ones are water that you can swim in.
And then the red ones are hazards-- so like fire, lava.
OK.
So don't jump on the red ones.
Avoid the red.
Yellow ones are coins that you can put anywhere
and you can collect those as you go throughout the level.
Mario-style.
Yep, yep, yep.
Purple ones are bad guys.
So they can walk.
They can fly.
They can be sentries so they just shoot
at you from where they are.
This is awesome!
Pretty cool stuff.
So the pink ones are power-ups.
You can make bombs.
You can make them jet packs or health.
Oh!
Yeah.
And lastly, the white are signs that you
can put custom messages on to kind of guide people
through your level.
So if you're making kind of a puzzle-based game
where the sign might say, Go over here
and look for this thing over here.
Or it can be the end of the level.
You get to it and it's like--
Hurray!
Yeah.
So now that we've built our layout,
we need to take a picture of it.
So I'm going to open up the app there.
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All right.
So here's the menu.
We'll move around in here a little bit.
Nice.
We're just going to jump into Quick Start here and then
over to Boards, Start a New Board,
and we're going to take a picture.
OK.
So you just kind of--
Oh.
Yeah.
Just line it up.
Oh, look at that.
It even lets--
Hit Guides.
OK.
And that snaps a picture, puts it up in there,
and then there's our level.
And beyond taking pictures, you can go in here
and draw on the board, the digital version.
So if you wanted to add some coins,
you just go ahead and do that.
Oh, nice.
Really cool.
Yeah, so you can get a lot more detailed.
It looks like you can even change colors.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, you can get a little deeper into some custom colors.
So now that we've captured it, go ahead
and test it out with the little default skeleton guy here.
This is about as simple as it gets
and the skeleton guy is kind of cool.
But I think we can do a lot better than that
and get creative with these custom
characters that we can put in here.
So I think we should each take a board,
create a custom character, and then put them into the game.
Sounds awesome-- let's do it.
Let's do it.
I'm going to need all your purple.
You will need all my purple?
All your purple.
OK.
I think I'm going to need all your yellow.
Ah.
Got it.
Really cool to get your hands in there and just kind of--
Yeah, it's tangible.
It feels more interactive than sitting in front of a screen.
Yeah.
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All right.
So we're all done here.
We've got our little characters.
If you've seen the Creatables episode of Peep This,
then you know what these guys are.
But if you haven't, you should check it out.
That's right.
I've got the chubby purple banana man--
You do--
And the yellow hat.
With legs this time.
That's right.
It's got to be a character.
It's got to walk.
All right.
So let's take some pictures of these and get them in the game.
There you go.
That looks so awesome.
It looks like a hat with legs.
It does.
You think we should make the orange brown--
Yes--
Just like a brown boot?
Customize the colors a little bit here.
Yeah.
That looks nice.
Mm-hmm.
A little hat with some blue jeans on.
I think we need to animate these guys.
OK.
So once you take them into the game--
Mm-hmm--
Then they don't just kind of float.
They actually can move their legs.
They can move their arms.
You can animate them however you want.
So here, we're in the Characters part of the app.
Cool.
And you've got three different states.
States-- yeah, that's a good way to say it.
Idle's just when you're kind of not moving, sitting there idle
or looking around blinking.
Yeah.
So we've animated him here to kind of look around, blink,
like, I don't know what I'm doing.
You tell me.
Then, got a little walk animation--
[LAUGHTER]
Just kind of strutting his stuff there.
Got his tongue out.
Yeah.
He's looking for that ice cream cone.
That's right.
And then, you've got your jump animation.
That is really sweet.
Should we take our guy into our level?
Let's do it.
OK so this is like your starting point?
Yeah, you can kind of pick where you want your guy to start out.
OK.
So here's where you kind of assign what
you want your enemies to be.
OK.
I'll make him a sentry.
I'm going to keep him walking.
And then, you can make the power-ups.
You can assign what you want those to be.
Should we make it a jet pack?
If there's a question of life, should there be a jet pack,
the answer is always yes.
This one, I think, since it's a little harder
to get to-- it's way at the top--
I think it's going to be health.
OK.
You know where I'm going with that?
Ah.
Yeah.
So here's where you can type in your own text for that sign
we put in but I'm going to make it the end game-- game end
flag.
And let's jump in and see what our character does.
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So there's our chubby banana man running around--
Running around, yeah--
Grabbing blocks right now.
It can be coins.
Oh, no, I'm getting shot at.
All right.
So let's customize.
So here's a lot of the preset stuff
that they've built for you already.
Oh, sweet, yeah.
So you can add all those textures
to decorate the whole level so that it actually
looks more like a real game.
Mm-hmm.
Nice.
So here, I've made an ice cream cone, a swirl cone,
that's swirling like a barber pole, a barbershop pole.
That is awesome.
So I animated that-- pretty cool.
We'll make that the power-up.
There's no better way to represent health
than ice cream.
Yeah, definitely.
So I had to go ahead and animate the hat.
It's going to be our enemy so it's just
going to be waiting for a good guy to come out.
He looks pretty sinister there.
A sinister-looking hat if I've ever seen one.
And since it's a cowboy hat, I thought,
You've got to make it gallop.
OK.
So we've got the cowboy boots.
He's galloping along here, instead of walking.
I thought that was pretty funny.
And then, he's jumping.
[LAUGHTER]
He's very gleefully jumping.
It's a very happy hat.
It's a happy hat.
Happy hat-- cool.
Pop in a little sky and there you go.
We've got our level built and decorated--
Nice--
Complete with our fully-animated,
fully-customized characters and power-ups.
Can we play it?
I've been kind of driving.
You want to run it?
I'll run it.
I'll run this bad boy.
All right.
So this works just kind of like an Nintendo controller, right.
You've got left, right, forward, back, jump, shoot.
Yep.
And you can double jump.
So that's this.
There's my coins.
So if I go in here, I'm just going to kind
of swim for a second, right?
I didn't put a floor on the bottom so you can die.
OK.
[PEW PEW]
Man, that sentry is firing at you.
I got him.
Nice.
Can you get the coins with that?
Oh, is it possible?
Yeah, double jump.
Hey!
Nice moves.
Purple banana man.
It's a tricky jump.
What's up?
It's tall.
You've got to--
Oh!
You should have put the jet pack down here.
There it is.
Give me the coins.
Look, there's a walking hat up there.
It's not walking.
It's galloping.
Oh, he's galloping Sorry.
There we go.
Heyo, heyo, heyo.
Another tricky jump.
OK. how do you-- this is-- look at him looking around.
He's like--
I don't know what to do.
I'm not sure.
Can I do it?
Yes, you can, man.
Oh, got a little burnt.
I'm going to need that power-up.
Can I shoot it?
Oh, you took a shortcut.
Did I?
Yeah.
Oh, look at that.
OK.
Just bypassed the jet pack.
Oh, I'm not going to bypass.
I'm going to go back.
Oh, look at that, jet pack.
Oh there he goes.
Yeah.
He goes.
Whoo-hoo!
Nice.
What's up, kids?
We're going to get lost.
Oh, there we go.
There we go.
Soft landing.
OK.
So I've got to jump down in there, kill the hat,
and end the level.
[PEW PEW]
You got him.
Boom!
There it is.
Winner!
Nice.
And there's two Bloxels destroyed.
Oh, you've got three stars or blocks or whatever, three out
of three.
Nice!
100%
Collected nine coins.
Cool.
Man!
So now that we've looked at a lot of the details of Bloxels,
we're going to brainstorm some ideas for the upcoming
commercial.
Man.
Yeah, we could build any of the characters from Vat19.
We could do Hans Gretel with the furry coat and the glasses.
Christ Cadabra or John Cotton would be pretty funny.
That would be good.
He's going through his frat house.
You may not get inside of his frat house.
His frat house is his mom's house.
Yeah, you come across his mom.
John, put your clothes away.
Just kill bad guys, like pew, pew, pew, pew.
John!
Johnny!
This is actually pretty good for Redford
because Redford likes to do everything himself--
That's true--
Including making--
Video games--
His own video games.
I do that myself.
We could make maybe some of the products we sell.
Yeah, that's true.
The Gummy Bear game, Gummy Worm game.
We could each make ourselves, a little caricature of ourselves,
and have the Vat19 team.
Uh-huh.
Man, I bet people are going to make episodes,
like little shows out of this stuff, like animate the mouth--
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true--
All sorts of stuff.
You could do your own Let's Play.
That would be kind of awesome.
It'd be a very different way to do that.
Yeah.
I'd like to see Pewdiepie get his hands on this.
So that's just a handful of our ideas.
I'm sure you guys have plenty more.
So if you've got something you want
to see us make, leave a comment and we'll
read through all those and maybe you'll
see what you come up with in the video when it comes out,
in the commercial.
That's right, yeah.
As always with Peep This, we peep it and then you keep it.
So--
It's catchy.
It's cheesy and catchy.
Yeah.
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