Dead Island 2 Tour is out now on my channel! Even if you don't usually play those type of games you may still find the easter eggs fun and interesting!
Really wonderful talk, it’s neat hearing a confirmation of what I already saw to be evident in the results: A passion in the work beyond just delivering the product.
The Hogwarts legacy music truly does not get enough recognition. It's difficult enough to create a compelling game soundtrack, but to make a soundtrack that needs to be not only compelling, but also sound INDISTINGUISHABLE from John Williams' iconic soundtrack is truly amazing. I genuinely can't tell the difference between the movie soundtrack and the game. Mind blowing.
The amount of detail in this is actually insane, half of this stuff I've never even thought about. That book freaking out when on fire is amazing 🤣🔥 Huge shoutout to Lee and everyone else on the team, you guys are legends 🙌🏾❤
You can definitely feel the people who made this castle had a real love for the source material as you walk through it. Infact after my play through i actually spent many hours going through all the castle and designed my own marauders map based on this layout as the most definitive version of the castle ever. Actually surprised me despite how much is in the castle ingame, there's still so much unused space i filled up with just about every room ever referenced in the books. With news of a possible hogwarts legeacy 2 in the future, i do wonder how much more they might add i'll have to fit into my map =P Plus really interesting to hear there was like 3 or 4 more areas on the overworld map, first i've heard of that. Would be really cool to see concept art or something of the full map, and what was originally planned and what was cut
The one good thing about the next game is that the hard work is already done in terms of hogwarts and the grounds from the last game hopefully the story will be even better
@13:22 - I’m happy you included this anecdote. I’m currently working in the industry as a concept artist and experiencing a similar situation. This helps me to remember to remain persistent (but not obnoxious) even when a good idea is waved aside for one reason or another. Happens a lot in design, as is normal, but every once in a while a supervisor needs some external motivation to nudge them in the right direction. Those puzzle doors, especially once the solving key was learned, were a welcome addition to castle exploration.
One of my favorite things about the development process is the way that you really, truly bring the spaces to life! Your exquisite and meticulous attention to detail enables us to suspend our disbelief while we play, and make us feel like we're sincerely in your world! To "lift the veil" with these videos gives us, the players, incredible insight into that incredible process! Thank you for making this video, I'm excited to see more!
@@dan-gamedev HAHHAHA, thanks for the response! Honestly, I felt such a strong connection with this game. I work in special effects for film and museum exhibit design, and it is always a joy listening to someone talk shop and their creative process, I just never thought I would hear from a game dev like this. It really is special. I'll tune in to every one you make:)
I’m in love with the art noveau architecture mixture with the old gothic style of the castle. One underrated room is in the north hall - the centaur paintings, and the greenhouses and the DADA tower. Just wish there weren’t 95 bloody merlin trials and perhaps just 20, same with treasure vaults.😅
Completely randomly fell into this thanks to The Algorithm. Really cool to have the guy who built my favorite digital castle working on my favorite digital spaceships!
I still feel the unicorn and a couple of the others made it pretty quick to figure out, I’m just annoyed that puzzle is never different. The first one was interesting to figure out, then it just became a chore.
If you know anything about math that’s how it has to be done. If you have 1-10 you can’t combine the numbers to represent 20/30/40 etc and gets even more difficult when trying to represent 100/1000. That is why Roman numerals are so confusing. 0-9 you can do every number very easily.
I recently replayed this game. First time was a revelation! On the last replay, I started noticing things that I would trade for more Hogwarts specific contents. Like all the meaningless caves and all the merlin trials, I would trade all of them for more mysteries and quests in Hogwarts Castle and in the Forbidden Forest. Anyway, it is obvious that this game is a product of love from the devs. I really hope this isn't the end of this franchise. This game made enough money for the next one to happen.
@@dan-gamedev I was watching your vidoe ,and notice your friend , said they left half way though, do they mean that they "leave" half way though production of the game and if so why?
I want more, this is so good, and if you haven't tried the game Outward, it was made by a small team but it's absolutely amazing, and if possibly I would love to hear their thought process.
@@zuldero true but lee saying, left, right, left, left,left and me going the completely wrong way multiple times would probably be a bit less entertaining haha, the next dev tour will be much longer
I hope they make Hogwarts bigger in the next game, and more reasons to spend time there. 40% smaller open world, 40% more more depth in Hogwarts with classes and activities.
@@dan-gamedev I have a question: Why isn't wizard's chess in Hogwarts Legacy not included as a mini game? You should have asked your friend about that. As in Harry Potter and The Order Of The phonix Game you can play wizard's chess.
Can you ask him about the big cuts? Like the "night gameplay" in the castle, restricted movement at night was cut by the looks of it? Thanks so much for this vid it's so interesting as a level designer myself!
@@EJHRB as a level designer yourself I hope you understand Lee wouldn't be allowed to go into alot of stuff like that so out of respect I avoided those type of questions unless he brought it up himself
Wish they would fix the damn butterfly glitch that keeps us from getting to 100% in some players' games. There is no way to get rid of it. I am missing a Niffler statue though everything is 100% except for that one thing. The map says I collected everything, and I checked guides taking me to every that type of collectable chest and the other ones, too, including triple checking all the ones in the room of requirement pet worlds.
So cool to see the passion behind the scenes and it’s the corporate overlords that harmed the game. I think this could have been one of the best games developed in the last few years if they had another year to work on it. Hopefully the next game will be an improvement and not just them phoning it in because Harry Potter sells.
@@flooid5506 I don't know myself, but I suspect the level of detail and amount of people walking around would cause issues with performance if you were moving fast through the streets on a broom, when youre far away from things the detail level drops so that's why you can fly near it but not wizzing around the city centre
The only thing I can think of in the castle that doesn't feel right to me is the moving stairs. The "movement" is just appearing and disappearing so they never lead to different places and it doesn't look great. The fact that the stairs are the only thing I didn't like in the massive castle is a testament to the absolutely fantastic design of the castle.
Really valid point, it was something I asked about but it was cut out of the video, there is alot of contributing factors to why they aren't like the movie stairs, a key one was they wanted to have large cylindrical towers but to do the movie style stairs the rooms would need to become more square and loose a bit of what makes them feel special in the process
@@dan-gamedev Interesting, thank you for that information! They are hard to do. I don't think they are all that great in the movies either. I love the round tower and understand the choices.. if I did it I would have tried to make them spawn in a few different ways - perhaps steeper at times so they bypassed a floor - but it's still just a minor niggle and I'm guessing they tried a lot of things before settling for the way it is.
In my second playthrough, I just treat the game like a LEGO game when characters are talking-- DESTROY EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE DESTROYED WITH CONFRINGO, especially in the Undercroft
The chalkboard "knows where it is.." at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't by subtracting where it is from where it isn't. sorry not sorry 🤣
We cant know exactly how it works without lee revealing tech secrets, but I suspect there is some kind of mark-up on different room volumes and it uses that, however I prefer your idea
damn "we didn't have enough budget to make this very cool thing for the castle" really seems to be a theme here.... I wonder why you guys spend ALL that money on an emty map that you proudly state"you need 30 min on broom to travel through". incredibly stupid design choices where made here ❤
Every game ever made has had to have scope changed, whether it be something tiny or something massive. Gamers just don't really hear about it, it's a shame because developers care just as much, if not more about their games than the players do, there was a period where Lee talks about him and his team working extra hours to get something into the game. Unfortunately there isn't infinite time and resources, so very intelligent decisions need to be made to prioritise what's most important to the game. Keep in mind a lot of teams are involved in AAA projects so it may be that one team has bandwidth to do it but the others might not so priorities need to be considered together. I hope this helps you understand why decisions in games get made, but I can say with certainty that there is usually more to things than you realise.
Harsher than I would have worded it but I agree with the sentiment. If I want boring open worlds I'll play assassin's creed, horizon, etc. What's never been done before is an open world BUILDING and I really wanted more of that.
@@dan-gamedev while I have a lot of feelings for how the game turned out, i enjoyed this little window into the making of the game a lot. it was fun to listen to, even if i wanted something different from it. the guy sounds like a passionate dude and i greatly respect his craft. i just didn't care much for how the game turned. it looked good, but the narative and characters... man they even managed to make incredibly likeable characters for the professors and then we go to their classes like once. they treat you and everyone around like a first year too. the damn writing makes no sense at all and i could list a lot of those things. i really hope they listen to the critique people have, should they try on another on. also i don't think avalanche never made a game like this before and for that alone they wanted a bit too much. it was a great feat none the less and i will keep an eye on future developments.
compared the one in the movies, this hogwarts is absolutely trash, graphics are muddy like its a 2011 game, npcs are soulles, optimisation does not exist. they made a hogwarts game without quidditch :D you failed as developers, but the title was so big that it became the best seller
Dead Island 2 Tour is out now on my channel! Even if you don't usually play those type of games you may still find the easter eggs fun and interesting!
Golden recommendation by youtube here
@@Keksanut glad to see I have appeased the algorithm god's
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Really wonderful talk, it’s neat hearing a confirmation of what I already saw to be evident in the results: A passion in the work beyond just delivering the product.
The part about passion was so perfect.
The Hogwarts legacy music truly does not get enough recognition. It's difficult enough to create a compelling game soundtrack, but to make a soundtrack that needs to be not only compelling, but also sound INDISTINGUISHABLE from John Williams' iconic soundtrack is truly amazing. I genuinely can't tell the difference between the movie soundtrack and the game. Mind blowing.
The amount of detail in this is actually insane, half of this stuff I've never even thought about. That book freaking out when on fire is amazing 🤣🔥 Huge shoutout to Lee and everyone else on the team, you guys are legends 🙌🏾❤
You can definitely feel the people who made this castle had a real love for the source material as you walk through it. Infact after my play through i actually spent many hours going through all the castle and designed my own marauders map based on this layout as the most definitive version of the castle ever. Actually surprised me despite how much is in the castle ingame, there's still so much unused space i filled up with just about every room ever referenced in the books. With news of a possible hogwarts legeacy 2 in the future, i do wonder how much more they might add i'll have to fit into my map =P
Plus really interesting to hear there was like 3 or 4 more areas on the overworld map, first i've heard of that. Would be really cool to see concept art or something of the full map, and what was originally planned and what was cut
The one good thing about the next game is that the hard work is already done in terms of hogwarts and the grounds from the last game hopefully the story will be even better
@13:22 - I’m happy you included this anecdote. I’m currently working in the industry as a concept artist and experiencing a similar situation. This helps me to remember to remain persistent (but not obnoxious) even when a good idea is waved aside for one reason or another. Happens a lot in design, as is normal, but every once in a while a supervisor needs some external motivation to nudge them in the right direction. Those puzzle doors, especially once the solving key was learned, were a welcome addition to castle exploration.
One of my favorite things about the development process is the way that you really, truly bring the spaces to life! Your exquisite and meticulous attention to detail enables us to suspend our disbelief while we play, and make us feel like we're sincerely in your world! To "lift the veil" with these videos gives us, the players, incredible insight into that incredible process! Thank you for making this video, I'm excited to see more!
This is wonderful, MOAR!!
🎉☺️🍻
Since you asked nicely we'll do some in the new year for you
@@dan-gamedev HAHHAHA, thanks for the response! Honestly, I felt such a strong connection with this game. I work in special effects for film and museum exhibit design, and it is always a joy listening to someone talk shop and their creative process, I just never thought I would hear from a game dev like this. It really is special. I'll tune in to every one you make:)
Cool!!! I hope this will continue into the next game and/or DLC. Amazing!
Wow thanks a lot for this Interview. It is wonderful to hear that the designers have as great of a love for this world as the gamers.
@@HeraldWitte thank you that's exactly what I was hoping to do with this series, more coming soon
The final question/advice was too good
Thank you for this amazing tour of the castle, and for the insightful interview!
My daughter bought me the game for xmas. 10 hours in, and im having a blast. Excellent video btw.
Great video! Would love to see more like this!
dude this is awesome, id watch one of these for all my favorite games
@@actmovies1680 well keep an eye out because more are on the way
Amazing 👏 loved hearing about the paintings and how they were made! Keep these coming!
I’m in love with the art noveau architecture mixture with the old gothic style of the castle. One underrated room is in the north hall - the centaur paintings, and the greenhouses and the DADA tower. Just wish there weren’t 95 bloody merlin trials and perhaps just 20, same with treasure vaults.😅
Awesome video guys, very insightful!
Glad to be your 600th sub! :)
@@Reveal_City thank you!
Completely randomly fell into this thanks to The Algorithm. Really cool to have the guy who built my favorite digital castle working on my favorite digital spaceships!
This was really cool to listen too dude! gg!
I am truely in love with this game
amazing insight into the game. grest work to you both!
Starting the arithmomancy doors from 0 not 1 reserves you a special place in hell.
I still feel the unicorn and a couple of the others made it pretty quick to figure out, I’m just annoyed that puzzle is never different. The first one was interesting to figure out, then it just became a chore.
If you know anything about math that’s how it has to be done. If you have 1-10 you can’t combine the numbers to represent 20/30/40 etc and gets even more difficult when trying to represent 100/1000. That is why Roman numerals are so confusing.
0-9 you can do every number very easily.
amaaaazzinnng thnak you
I recently replayed this game. First time was a revelation! On the last replay, I started noticing things that I would trade for more Hogwarts specific contents. Like all the meaningless caves and all the merlin trials, I would trade all of them for more mysteries and quests in Hogwarts Castle and in the Forbidden Forest. Anyway, it is obvious that this game is a product of love from the devs. I really hope this isn't the end of this franchise. This game made enough money for the next one to happen.
@@deanbanyour in luck! they recently announced they will be making a sequel
@@dan-gamedev I was watching your vidoe ,and notice your friend , said they left half way though, do they mean that they "leave" half way though production of the game and if so why?
A true masterpiece
Best developer team ever ❤️❤️❤️
I want more, this is so good, and if you haven't tried the game Outward, it was made by a small team but it's absolutely amazing, and if possibly I would love to hear their thought process.
Loving this
bloody love videos like this
@@handlehaggler got more planned so keep an eye out! :)
i think this could have been uncut. just to walk with you trogh the castle with the developer was amaizing
@@zuldero true but lee saying, left, right, left, left,left and me going the completely wrong way multiple times would probably be a bit less entertaining haha, the next dev tour will be much longer
@dan-gamedev maybe fastforward that bit. But you know the source material better than me xD
I hope they make Hogwarts bigger in the next game, and more reasons to spend time there. 40% smaller open world, 40% more more depth in Hogwarts with classes and activities.
the arithmancy doors were one of my favorite parts of the game crazy to think they almost didn't make it in the final cut.
A great example of the teams passion shining through in the final product
@@dan-gamedev I have a question: Why isn't wizard's chess in Hogwarts Legacy not included as a mini game? You should have asked your friend about that. As in Harry Potter and The Order Of The phonix Game you can play wizard's chess.
I’m playing through again as a different character and house. It’s such a fun game!
I am more of a game design/level design major but after hearing this, it makes me wants to focus on art as well.
Both are amazing options I think lees closing remarks do a great job of showing the opportunities you can have as a game designer
Can you ask him about the big cuts? Like the "night gameplay" in the castle, restricted movement at night was cut by the looks of it? Thanks so much for this vid it's so interesting as a level designer myself!
@@EJHRB as a level designer yourself I hope you understand Lee wouldn't be allowed to go into alot of stuff like that so out of respect I avoided those type of questions unless he brought it up himself
the talent is definitely there with this game. i wonder how this game did on ign rating. i saw it on steam
Wish they would fix the damn butterfly glitch that keeps us from getting to 100% in some players' games. There is no way to get rid of it. I am missing a Niffler statue though everything is 100% except for that one thing. The map says I collected everything, and I checked guides taking me to every that type of collectable chest and the other ones, too, including triple checking all the ones in the room of requirement pet worlds.
So cool to see the passion behind the scenes and it’s the corporate overlords that harmed the game. I think this could have been one of the best games developed in the last few years if they had another year to work on it.
Hopefully the next game will be an improvement and not just them phoning it in because Harry Potter sells.
Dammm, I want more
Stay tuned!
I randomly clicked on this video and the last thing I expected to hear was anything related to CIG lol
@@Broccoli_32 it's a small industry!
Yo Mr. Dev bro, you did an outstandingly phenomenal job with the castle but wtf can’t I fly in Hogsmeade?
@@flooid5506 I don't know myself, but I suspect the level of detail and amount of people walking around would cause issues with performance if you were moving fast through the streets on a broom, when youre far away from things the detail level drops so that's why you can fly near it but not wizzing around the city centre
awesome
The only thing I can think of in the castle that doesn't feel right to me is the moving stairs. The "movement" is just appearing and disappearing so they never lead to different places and it doesn't look great.
The fact that the stairs are the only thing I didn't like in the massive castle is a testament to the absolutely fantastic design of the castle.
Really valid point, it was something I asked about but it was cut out of the video, there is alot of contributing factors to why they aren't like the movie stairs, a key one was they wanted to have large cylindrical towers but to do the movie style stairs the rooms would need to become more square and loose a bit of what makes them feel special in the process
@@dan-gamedev Interesting, thank you for that information! They are hard to do. I don't think they are all that great in the movies either. I love the round tower and understand the choices.. if I did it I would have tried to make them spawn in a few different ways - perhaps steeper at times so they bypassed a floor - but it's still just a minor niggle and I'm guessing they tried a lot of things before settling for the way it is.
Non-gamer: “Why, what, where is Hogwarts Legacy?”
Honest fan: Better question; “How is Hogwarts Legacy?”
In my second playthrough, I just treat the game like a LEGO game when characters are talking-- DESTROY EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE DESTROYED WITH CONFRINGO, especially in the Undercroft
I feel i rushed this game to much. i might play it again and stop in some places and just look arround. There is so much happening.
@@siepiedepiepie1 I feel the same way
W algorithm
Uh oh he joined star citizen, he'll be 90 by the time they finish it, I feel sorry for him.
The demi moons or whatever are way too spread out for the lock picking spells. Felt worse than a cheesy quest
Yeah that was genuinely bad with zero benefit.
The chalkboard "knows where it is.." at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't by subtracting where it is from where it isn't.
sorry not sorry 🤣
We cant know exactly how it works without lee revealing tech secrets, but I suspect there is some kind of mark-up on different room volumes and it uses that, however I prefer your idea
@@dan-gamedev I was just reciting the copypasta 😅😂😂😂 Please dont tell me you never saw it lol ua-cam.com/video/bZe5J8SVCYQ/v-deo.html
@@dan-gamedev Dont tell me you dont know the copypasta... 😅😂😂😂😂
@@amaimonakihiko I dont, and i dont wanna know now haha
Wasted potential working on star citizen, sad
damn "we didn't have enough budget to make this very cool thing for the castle" really seems to be a theme here.... I wonder why you guys spend ALL that money on an emty map that you proudly state"you need 30 min on broom to travel through". incredibly stupid design choices where made here ❤
Every game ever made has had to have scope changed, whether it be something tiny or something massive. Gamers just don't really hear about it, it's a shame because developers care just as much, if not more about their games than the players do, there was a period where Lee talks about him and his team working extra hours to get something into the game. Unfortunately there isn't infinite time and resources, so very intelligent decisions need to be made to prioritise what's most important to the game. Keep in mind a lot of teams are involved in AAA projects so it may be that one team has bandwidth to do it but the others might not so priorities need to be considered together.
I hope this helps you understand why decisions in games get made, but I can say with certainty that there is usually more to things than you realise.
Harsher than I would have worded it but I agree with the sentiment. If I want boring open worlds I'll play assassin's creed, horizon, etc. What's never been done before is an open world BUILDING and I really wanted more of that.
@@dan-gamedev while I have a lot of feelings for how the game turned out, i enjoyed this little window into the making of the game a lot. it was fun to listen to, even if i wanted something different from it. the guy sounds like a passionate dude and i greatly respect his craft. i just didn't care much for how the game turned. it looked good, but the narative and characters... man they even managed to make incredibly likeable characters for the professors and then we go to their classes like once. they treat you and everyone around like a first year too. the damn writing makes no sense at all and i could list a lot of those things.
i really hope they listen to the critique people have, should they try on another on. also i don't think avalanche never made a game like this before and for that alone they wanted a bit too much. it was a great feat none the less and i will keep an eye on future developments.
@@angelcrush3320 fair enough, I'm glad you liked the video. I'm excited to see what they do with the sequel
compared the one in the movies, this hogwarts is absolutely trash, graphics are muddy like its a 2011 game, npcs are soulles, optimisation does not exist. they made a hogwarts game without quidditch :D you failed as developers, but the title was so big that it became the best seller