Patrick Miller Releases New Book That Helps You Master Fighting Games

Patrick Miller, who some of you might also know as Pattheflip, has recently published his second book that centers around not just guiding new players through their first fighting game, but also helping them find their place in the FGC to get the best possible experience with this genre.

Best part? The book is entirely free and offered through itch.io with the "pay-what-you-want" model. The default suggestion is only $19.99, and if you want to support Pat, or find his advice to be helpful, we strongly encourage you to reward his efforts. After all, it's not very often that we actually get actual books around the topic of FGC and fighting games.

If you're skeptical about how a book might make you better at fighting games over something like a video guide or even a mentor, consider that a lot of improvement in fighting games is about having the right mentality, and having the understanding of what you should improve and why.

A lot of the time, what keeps us back is going around in circles without having a coherent goal, or repeatedly committing the same mistakes because we simply don't see them. This is where someone with experience comes in, and provides a new lens with which to reexamine the things you knew.

This should also be useful for those who are new to the FGC, because the social element is a huge part of enjoying fighting games to the fullest, but it's often not very straightforward. Where do you go? Are you good enough for locals? Can you run your own events? And if so, how do you go about doing it? Even people who have been a part of the FGC don't necessarily know the answer to this question, which is why it's invaluable to have all this available through a book that you can literally get for free.