Animal Well: One Year Later! | Interview | PAX East 2024

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  • čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
  • Time to revisit one of our favorite games of last year's PAX!
    Animal Well is a Metroidvania-like game that has you guiding an amorphous blob through a beautiful, expansive, and secret-filled labyrinth. In this wide-ranging and in-depth interview, we catch up with the game's sole developer, Billy Basso, to discuss the last year of development, the appeal of building your own game engine, and more!
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    Chapters:
    00:00 - Intro
    00:20 - One year later...
    01:21 - Wrapping up development
    02:13 - Feedback from conventions
    03:43 - Why build your own game engine?
    07:03 - The challenges of engine development
    09:31 - Left brain / right brain
    11:58 - Release date and platforms
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Komentáře • 35

  • @Ajbolt89
    @Ajbolt89 Před 18 dny +33

    Cool interview, thanks for letting him express himself and just talk. It was super interesting.

  • @unbiasedfanboy5792
    @unbiasedfanboy5792 Před 13 dny +18

    Having completed the first layer of the animal well lasagna and digging well into the second I can say Billy Basso made a truly special game

  • @GodOfWarConnoisseur
    @GodOfWarConnoisseur Před 2 dny +1

    That Billy is a freaking genius in the craziest way like dude is a prodigy without a doubt.

  • @yutt
    @yutt Před 12 dny +13

    Dude's out here on the most obscure gaming CZcams channel doing great interviews.

    • @hypocriticgg
      @hypocriticgg  Před 9 dny +3

      He’s been very generous with his time for us!

    • @lordbobby198
      @lordbobby198 Před 7 dny

      Fr. I saw the sub count and expected more

  • @arctic-1878
    @arctic-1878 Před 7 dny +3

    Been playing this game the last couple of days, what an amazing and brilliant game! 10/10

  • @AZAMA___
    @AZAMA___ Před měsícem +7

    My old gamer antennas are tilting with EVERYTHING about that game ! It smells really really good, in particular considering the words of this cultured and hard working lad...
    In the line of Rain World, FEZ, Tunic, or Noita, this will be GLORIOUS 💫

  • @maciejsawtyruk5804
    @maciejsawtyruk5804 Před měsícem +9

    This guy is crazy

  • @Steve-lu1nc
    @Steve-lu1nc Před měsícem +49

    Maybe I'm ignorant, but a solo dev making the game, game engine and porting it to different platforms by himself is nuts to me

    • @hypocriticgg
      @hypocriticgg  Před měsícem +14

      It's incredibly ambitious, that's for sure!

    • @Terranigma23
      @Terranigma23 Před měsícem +12

      Yeah and especially that he optimized so much his game that it take only like 50 MB of data ahah. He is really the goat. 😁

    • @RobinsMusic
      @RobinsMusic Před 14 dny +5

      @@Terranigma2334 mb

  • @FlatThumb
    @FlatThumb Před měsícem +5

    I had no idea Animal Well was a solo-dev...very cool! Looking forward to playing it!

  • @RaginMasE
    @RaginMasE Před 15 dny +8

    Extremely clever man.

  • @LateNightGhost
    @LateNightGhost Před měsícem +4

    Pumped for Animal Well! 🔥 I really hope Billy's t-shirt is available to buy at some point :)

  • @thought_soup
    @thought_soup Před 2 dny

    Awesome interview!

  • @dschirm
    @dschirm Před měsícem +2

    Thanks for posting this interview, man! I've been stoked for Animal Well ever since dunkey announced that bigmode was gonna be publishing it, so I routinely check for any new interviews or updates and was excited to find this!

  • @malditasmarujas6144
    @malditasmarujas6144 Před 16 dny +2

    The game is absolutely great

  • @gusskipner9809
    @gusskipner9809 Před měsícem +2

    This dudes awesome, can't wait for Animal Well!

  • @BoyGameboyPH
    @BoyGameboyPH Před měsícem +3

    It would be crazy if there is also an ARG hidden here

  • @SPyKeTheGroundBreaker
    @SPyKeTheGroundBreaker Před 8 dny +1

    I've never seen this channel before today, but the fact that you are wearing a Halo 5 lanyard is way too much of a coincidence since Animal Well is "Halo 2 meets Halo 3."

  • @YamchaBro
    @YamchaBro Před měsícem +1

    great interview

  • @NMROSTA
    @NMROSTA Před 12 dny +1

    genius man who created one of the best diamond game ever made. It woud be interesting to know more about the psycological part of creating a game and how to handle the intense silence when the programing process is over. Thanks :)

  • @scubi1589
    @scubi1589 Před měsícem +2

    CANT WAIT❤

  • @oowaz
    @oowaz Před 12 dny

    very cool!

  • @MsHojat
    @MsHojat Před 12 dny

    This seems so crazy for a single-dev game. Namely just due to all the mechanics detail and animation detail and such. Like sure Stardew Valley is a great game with a lot of content and sprites and gameplay and such (and obviously takes a ton of work in it's own right, especially considering that it is written from "scratch" rather than using an engine), but it has nowhere near the crazy mechanics and animations that this has, which seems so much harder to code.

  • @ItsameAlex
    @ItsameAlex Před 3 dny

    cool

  • @JorelHill
    @JorelHill Před měsícem +2

    slay

  • @twohornedpuppet85
    @twohornedpuppet85 Před 13 dny

    Hey fellow REAPER user

  • @JamesonHuddle
    @JamesonHuddle Před 12 dny +1

    Is that a halo 5 lanyard? spooky.

  • @Hadkek
    @Hadkek Před 14 dny +2

    To be honest he's probably a once in a generation mind, but luckily he's pretty young so he'll probably be making games for a while