It's truly remarkable how it starts out as a genuinely good idea for a game, then it rapidly devolves into a fully enshittified game that buries any good ideas it may have had in layers of predatory and unnecessary BS.
Sometimes, man, jerma comes up with the most impressive shit. I still remember the time he said “memories become well-acted plays that you gradually become the audience for.”
i made a poem based on it actually memories become well acted plays that we r the audience for perspective fade from view as feelings dominate the actors minds context gives way for actions, forever highlighted as u access these moments, these failed photographs, being months since the actors have read the script, details begin to change these things begin to blend, romeo never questioning his role in mcbeth all the context for this viewing is what happens now, reinterpreting the part to best fit today u enter the theater, and yet, all you see is a reflective of now in every monologue and stunt … and yet it brings with it solace regardless no one in the crowd cares to point out the inaccuracy, the misinformation, the lack of props, because after all, its ur first time here it always is
The initial candle idea was great, but when he started going into the whole 2 bullets, then the lobby, that’s basically how scope creep happens to indie game devs lmao
Okay so it's a 3$ free game that costs 5¢ where the only thing you can pick up is a candle but also you can pick up a gun with two bullets that you have to save to shoot an alien coming out of your arm also the candle burns for 4 hours and the game takes 1 hour to finish with a battle pass and microtransactions and a hunger mechanic also a health mechanic and also the game can hear you and will blow out the candle if youre too loud with a bright and cheery lobby with photo realistic puppies and kittens and cars to drive around a race track
I feel like the first concept was genuine and then he kept on kneecapping it because he got really embarrassed about how it sounded now that he said it out loud
Jerma at minute 1: "My idea is survival horror game with an unique real time mechanic" Jerma at minute 15: "My idea is a multi-level dark pattern battle pass lobby on top of that where you pet dogs and play basketball that deletes itself"
The idea of a game with thirst and hunger mechanics where the first unlockable perk just completely disables those mechanics is so fucking funny Jerma is a genius game developer
The fact that the 'monster' has jiggle physics just made imagination more fertile, can you imagine a actual fucking scary horror game monster, but when he turns his back you can see an absolutely gigantic jiggly dumptruck
i stop listening for literally 10 seconds and he goes from talking about it being late at night for him to doing a fake medicine commercial for a pill that stops "reverse gravitational full headache syndrome"
Might not be an original idea but it's still impressive he came up with it by himself, when that happens to me i'm like "☝️🤓 I guess great minds really DO think alike!!"
@timothymark your only light source is tinderboxes and lantern oil. If you waste your tinderboxes and burn through your oil, you're effectively blind. And when you're in the dark, your sanity bleeds away and you eventually die.
I think Jerma absolutely should run some game jams. I feel like he'd be able to come up with some great prompts for it. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if he's already done it tbh. Also off topic, but I love ur profile pic!
I'm jealous and sad for you. You get to see so many funny bits for the first time. But he is in soft retirement and we don't often see new jerma as much as old jerma
In terms of speedrunning, I'd love a candle prestige, where you see how many runs you can do before the candle runs out. Like Pizza Tower's Teleport mechanic.
Games like this are when jerma is at his best. Hes always great but when he likes a game then he can just build and build from himself and its amazing to see
The live service candle game: there's a lighthouse and it's like if bioshock never went underwater or into the clouds but it just revolves around the lighthouse but the lighthouse is powered by a giant candle and after 4 months the game ends
- Torch mechanics - Dark atmosphere - Makes you want to shoot yourself - Lobby is the best part of the game (majula) - Pet mechanics (ds2 has pigs) - A bunch of issues the devs dont care about - piramid scheme This is dark souls 2
I love how the end of the video became a tangent that had nothing to do with the Candle and was about how Jerma got headaches for being upside-down in Australia (????) lmao
someone said this is chat but "horror game with a light timer before it goes dark" is LITERALLY FNAF 1, the whole thing is managing the power to make it through the night
The candle seems like something Daniel Mullins would make, where an indie dev creates the game your in and just keeps adding parts to it until it makes no sense
I wonder if the candle is in the same continuity as jerma’s other game where the earth’s 5 most powerful hereos heroes become evil soon after defeating the ultimate villain
@ should’ve specified. Does Jerma think the earth rotates along the horizontal axis”, because he said everyone will be “upside down” “later” in the day
I can't believe he started with an interesting, simple premise and instantly fucking dumpstered it
When you start the game a voice says "The Candle" like in Scorn
We just witnessed an inspired indie dev experience scope creep and project retirement in the span of 17 minutes.
underrated reply, hurt immeasurably to read. i've been there, i've done this. i've done this💀
*scope creep* ^🔍
LMAO I don't think I've had a game idea where this hasn't happened
I can't believe Jerma was the lead developer on Star Citizen and FNF.
It's bizarre how you could use Jerma's completely hypothetical game as a textbook example of feature creep.
Candle burns in real time over 4 hours.
Game can be finished in 1 hour.
You can apparently starve and become dehydrated in this time.
The more he talks about it, the worse the game becomes
It's truly remarkable how it starts out as a genuinely good idea for a game, then it rapidly devolves into a fully enshittified game that buries any good ideas it may have had in layers of predatory and unnecessary BS.
Jiggle physics
Yeah, thanks for explaining the joke for us dude
Sometimes, man, jerma comes up with the most impressive shit. I still remember the time he said “memories become well-acted plays that you gradually become the audience for.”
he was high tho
i made a poem based on it actually
memories become well acted plays that we r the audience for
perspective fade from view as feelings dominate the actors minds
context gives way for actions, forever highlighted
as u access these moments, these failed photographs, being months since the actors have read the script, details begin to change
these things begin to blend, romeo never questioning his role in mcbeth
all the context for this viewing is what happens now, reinterpreting the part to best fit today
u enter the theater, and yet, all you see is a reflective of now in every monologue and stunt
… and yet it brings with it solace regardless
no one in the crowd cares to point out the inaccuracy, the misinformation, the lack of props, because after all, its ur first time here
it always is
@@lamergamer8211there's too much vague language in this to be satisfying to me
The inner machinations of his mind are in a ligma
@@JonathanNormandy simpleflips ass quotation
The initial candle idea was great, but when he started going into the whole 2 bullets, then the lobby, that’s basically how scope creep happens to indie game devs lmao
the lobby with dog training and racing and stuff, made me laugh out loud at how stupid it was haha
@@Lucas_Jeffrey that made me instantly go 'kojima would do that'
nah at that point he was just doing a bit
@@pauloricardo-wn6ps that being a bit does not mean it never happened in real life... every joke has a kernel of truth...
@@mersherekojima once scope crept so hard that he ended up inventing the camera.
Okay so it's a 3$ free game that costs 5¢ where the only thing you can pick up is a candle but also you can pick up a gun with two bullets that you have to save to shoot an alien coming out of your arm also the candle burns for 4 hours and the game takes 1 hour to finish with a battle pass and microtransactions and a hunger mechanic also a health mechanic and also the game can hear you and will blow out the candle if youre too loud with a bright and cheery lobby with photo realistic puppies and kittens and cars to drive around a race track
Ai generated prompt
"tell me what I should add next in the comments" ah game.
with no updates
forgot the basketball match and the thirst system
@@userofusername4981 AI generated andy
I feel like the first concept was genuine and then he kept on kneecapping it because he got really embarrassed about how it sounded now that he said it out loud
All his spoons have burn marks on them due to the Candle
"5 cents a life" this is an arcade game
an arcade game you can take home. and it gives you a virus
Jerma at minute 1: "My idea is survival horror game with an unique real time mechanic"
Jerma at minute 15: "My idea is a multi-level dark pattern battle pass lobby on top of that where you pet dogs and play basketball that deletes itself"
The idea of a game with thirst and hunger mechanics where the first unlockable perk just completely disables those mechanics is so fucking funny Jerma is a genius game developer
“Jiggle physics… THICK BONES in every finger.” Bruh what💀
Horny ass game devs have made it to horror games. We'll never get free of the ZERKING MENACE
The fact that the 'monster' has jiggle physics just made imagination more fertile, can you imagine a actual fucking scary horror game monster, but when he turns his back you can see an absolutely gigantic jiggly dumptruck
i stop listening for literally 10 seconds and he goes from talking about it being late at night for him to doing a fake medicine commercial for a pill that stops "reverse gravitational full headache syndrome"
I can’t believe devs bloated the game with so many microtransactions, I think it’s time they release The Candle Classic honestly
Off topic, but I love your profile picture!
@ Thanks!
A harrah game
Jerma just wants people to see what he sees after 4 hours, darkness and melted candle wax.
Favorite chat comment: “can we put this guy down”
It's so funny that 15,000 raiders came and left but he was too distracted by his own game idea
This is basically amnesia the bunker
Might not be an original idea but it's still impressive he came up with it by himself, when that happens to me i'm like "☝️🤓 I guess great minds really DO think alike!!"
do you have a candle that goes out in that game? i have to play it
@timothymark your only light source is tinderboxes and lantern oil. If you waste your tinderboxes and burn through your oil, you're effectively blind. And when you're in the dark, your sanity bleeds away and you eventually die.
@@timothymark
No but it has a gun with two bullets
@@timothymarknot a candle but a generator, except you can refill it, if it goes out you have to rely on a noisy flashlight
very scorn-like game
The Scamdle
I honestly want to try and make something like that now, it would be awesome to have a game jam with "The Candle" as the theme loll
I think Jerma absolutely should run some game jams. I feel like he'd be able to come up with some great prompts for it. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if he's already done it tbh.
Also off topic, but I love ur profile pic!
@@gakulon Thanks!! I commissioned it from a close friend of mine :D
@@itspaci reminds me of Moomins
@@vargskelethor It is!! It's a genderbent Snufkin :D
Just rlly funny thinking holding a big ass candle with your demon hand for an hour while you try to shoot something with the other hand
I regularly come to this video just to hear him whisper smoothly "The Candle, rated R" into my ear
This was my first jerma stream LMAO i loved it 😭
just remember he gets 7% of the gross revenue of your first stream experience, non-negotiable
I'm jealous and sad for you. You get to see so many funny bits for the first time. But he is in soft retirement and we don't often see new jerma as much as old jerma
In terms of speedrunning, I'd love a candle prestige, where you see how many runs you can do before the candle runs out. Like Pizza Tower's Teleport mechanic.
teleport mechanic? i haent kept up with the new updates
@titanic_monarch796 I'm just referring to when you run through the Pizza Portal for Lap 2. Teleport was the first word that came to my head.
That's just Oneshot but for a guy who's stuck in the days when Amnesia was the top game to Let's play
Games like this are when jerma is at his best. Hes always great but when he likes a game then he can just build and build from himself and its amazing to see
"candle" said in the same tone as S C O R N
Griffinsteed andy
Literally just castle griffinsteed in reverse
The live service candle game: there's a lighthouse and it's like if bioshock never went underwater or into the clouds but it just revolves around the lighthouse but the lighthouse is powered by a giant candle and after 4 months the game ends
Jerma inventing Dark Souls 2 in 2024:
- Torch mechanics
- Dark atmosphere
- Makes you want to shoot yourself
- Lobby is the best part of the game (majula)
- Pet mechanics (ds2 has pigs)
- A bunch of issues the devs dont care about
- piramid scheme
This is dark souls 2
when he said no pausing.....
@@Maquinoide-001 love the (ds2 has pigs), best part of the comment
Also describes The Long Dark
@@HollyQualia ds1 has pigs
I had flashbacks to the jerma popsicle
'Behind the scenes Jerma' is codeword for high jerma
Test tube andy
genius kojerma
In all honestally, this idea isn't that bad if you think about it...
if jerma made a video game I'd 100% play it
Youre so unique for that
@@GenghisGunt someones gotta peep the horror sooner or later
I would stop you.
you should play grotto beasts on tabletop sim, then.
@@MetaWhiteYoshi true i should
I love how the end of the video became a tangent that had nothing to do with the Candle and was about how Jerma got headaches for being upside-down in Australia (????) lmao
someone said this is chat but "horror game with a light timer before it goes dark" is LITERALLY FNAF 1, the whole thing is managing the power to make it through the night
Sounds more like Amnesia
@Naev0w0 true, but I know zero about amnesia, fnaf was just the closest I thought to timed game with limited resources
how greedy, he doesn't give a shit
Hes inside the mind of the executive who came up with Concord, amazing
I only know about Concord's existence because y'all won't stop whining about an already dead game. Nails on a fucking chalkboard.
The game sounds absolutely miserable
oh no, he's giving ideas to Bethesda
Imagine if he'd made a career out of doing the Castle Griffinsteed concept over and over. Just coding terrible games and playing them on stream.
i want to play the candle
The candle seems like something Daniel Mullins would make, where an indie dev creates the game your in and just keeps adding parts to it until it makes no sense
Remember how he used to tease the Dollhouse on stream? Well guess what. The Candle. 2025.
5 years ago he would actually commit to the bit and actually make the game
I wonder if the candle is in the same continuity as jerma’s other game where the earth’s 5 most powerful hereos heroes become evil soon after defeating the ultimate villain
THEY CALL HIM THE CANDLE
I love the one comment "IVF-Andy"
Good mini fishing game to game and I will play it for hours
Kojima doesn't hold a candle to Jerma's genius.
I fell asleep to this last night
He's a genuine 🤯🤯 test tube babies are our future!!
I have an idea for a streamer who starts every stream with a few minutes worth of sanity and when its over he slowly becomes more and more deranged
jerma just described fear and hunger game
15:10 Does Jerma think the Earth rotates horizontally?
... do you think it rotates vertically???
@ should’ve specified. Does Jerma think the earth rotates along the horizontal axis”, because he said everyone will be “upside down” “later” in the day
Wow the end of the video hes so obviously high
jerma would so NOT get the good ending for that game
Options are:
- Yes
- Yes
- Look at how Sassy I am
Jerma just described Veilguard lmao
I could see this being a good theme for a game jam, honestly. CandleJam when?
THE CANDLE
Jerma should be a Roblox game dev 😂
reminds me of A Dark Quiet Death a little
Stone of Ajia
Unrelated, but I'd love to see Jerma talking with Doctor K
Dow-jing
still so weird seeing ecco2k uploading jerma clips keep it up ecco ❤
6:10 every roblox game
i might have to make this game
I wonder what happened to him to make him come up with this. Like Nightmare On Tummy Ache St Escape From The Oreo Monster.
Can someone please work on that game? I wanna play the candle so fucking badly
Careful sharing your game ideas with Pirate Software, Jerma. At least if you want your games to be playable in the future.
How dare you! There's nobody in the industry with more experience or knowledge than the legendary Maldavius Figtree.
Doesn't this game already exist? Swore it's a board game.
Wait is it that dungeon crawler board game that’s really dark and involves using light to traverse?
Lmao when was this
It was sunday
It was 50 years ago
All this reminds me of Fear and Hunger x) ( wich is a good game btw )
So Fortnite?
THIS IS GENIUS, JEREMY. GEREMY. GENREMY. GENERMY. GENIUMY. GENIUSY. ok
S C O R- i mean, 𝖈 𝖆 𝖓 𝖉 𝖑 𝖊