How to Successfully Fail as a Video Game Studio

How to Successfully Fail as a Video Game Studio is a tutorial teaching viewers how to fail as a video game studio, the tutorial features 9 steps. It was featured in Episode 107: From Developer to Defunct.

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The beginning and ending of the episode is How to Successfully Fail as a Video Game Studio in the episode, in the beginning of the episode the video is featured as the opening segment and in the ending it's featured as the closing segment.

Transcript
Scott Wozniak: ''Hey all, Scott here, nine steps ago I wanted to experience hardships and indigestion but then I discovered this nine step plan on how to successfully fail in the video game industry! And now I'm finally broke and depressed. So now it's time to spread that bankruptcy to you! Here's How to Successfully Fail as a Video Game Studio!''

Scott Wozniak: First off, please take a look at this!

[image of an article named "Nintendo Switch Sets All Time Sales Record" appears]

Scott Wozniak: ''Yeah, I shit myself too, this is some scary stuff. We want to do this, but fail.''

[image of text reading "Nintendo"]

Scott Wozniak: So maybe if we eliminate the n's, the t, the e, the d, and the o and throw in some a's, c's, an l, and an m. Well son of a bitch, we have ourselves a role model!

[the text now spells out "Acclaim"]

[in the regular video, Scott Wozniak wonders if a big studio buying another will keep it from shutting down]

Scott Wozniak: What are ya stupid?

[time passes in the normal video]

Scott Wozniak: So it's pretty easy to fail instead of succeeding in the video game industry, so let's dive into a few key examples of studios that succeeded at failing!

[cut to the end of the normal video]

Scott Wozniak: ''And there you go! Listen to me talk for thirteen minutes was step one of our nine step plan, we only have eight more to go until this Bankruptcy meter goes even further down- I can't go through with this we need to make money quick.''

[the text "The Video Game Industry" shows up and quickly changes to "The Soup Industry"]

Scott Wozniak: We're selling soup now.

[the ""How Anti-Bankrupt Are You?" Meter" goes from -125% to 200%]

Scott Wozniak: It always works.

Trivia

 * The tutorial was most likely on a VHS, judging by shakiness of the footage.