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INTRODUCTION

EVO Moment #37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS96auqau0

THE BASICS

What are fighting games, and how do they work? An introduction to the genre, and the basic rundown of their universal mechanics and concepts.

• Analysis: Why Button Mashing Doesn't Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R0hbe8HZj0

• An introduction to the system mechanics to fighting games, in a general sense that should be easy to understand for the average person.

• Self-explanatory: What makes 2D games and 3D games so different from each other?

• Also self-explanatory: This is a simple introduction that will set up the dive for the other videos.

CULTURE

[Some backstory] Playing with others, an in-depth view of going past “playing online against a bunch of randoms.” What kind of things can you expect at events? What can you find out there?

• FGC: Rise of the Fighting Game Community [FULL MOVIE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkdCdrzj7Ik

• A light introduction to the fighting game community, focuses on a couple of players, and introduces a few tournaments.

• What goes through the mind of the community members when it comes to tournaments?

• What is EVO? What is it? How did it start?

• The recent years, retold.

[The life of …] ...How have some of the current fighting game series survived? How have they influenced the sphere of fighting games as a whole? Which ones were saved, and by what or who? What have people done to sustain the FGC?

• Inside Combo Breaker - Games, Culture, and the Midwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXoHFeG5Baw

• Insight into fighting game tournaments

• Under Night In-Birth, a game in the anime genre that rose to popularity and won in prominence over the others due to pure passion of the players.

• Tekken, its competitive history, and a focus on the Tekken 7 North American tour early in the game’s life. Features several players and their perspective on the game.

• Fighting Tuesdays! These are the locals in Tokyo’s Red Bull Sphere. What does it take to grow and feed a scene?

• The face behind Core-A Gaming, the man who created the first two Analysis video, and many others (on his Youtube channel).

• The tumultuous history of Nintendo’s most popular franchise

STORYLINES

Live either the origin or life of a player throughout fighting game history. What have they done? Who are they?

• The Story of Leffen: The God Slayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m5RnRySsEU

• Learn about the villain and God Slayer of Smash.

• The origin story of Arslan Ash, the nobody from Pakistan who became a Tekken God.

• (Street Fighter) What makes fighting games so great?

• The greatest Nether Realm Studios and one of the best Dragonball FighterZ players of all time!

DLC

Some of the hypest matches in fighting game history.

• Combo Breaker 2018 BlazBlue Central Fiction Grand Finals SKD vs Fenritti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfxr5Vl2UTA

Supplementary information: Fighting Games Glossary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_fighting_games