PIT OF BABEL - Brutal Game Where You Grind Cute "Creatures" To Build A Tower To The Heavens
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2020
- PIT OF BABEL is a brutal puzzle game where you build a tower using cute little creatures. Created by the devs of Perfect Vermin / Swallow the Sea & The Third Shift, ItsTheMaceo & Teebowah respectively.
Game Info: itsthemaceo.itch.io/pit-of-babel
"Tetris sure looks different."
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High key this concept is actually existentially horrible.
_"It all returns to nothing. It just keeps tumbling dooown."_
@@Thelothuo “It all returns to nothing, I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me doooown”
@@Thelothuo tumbling down; tumbling down; tumbling down...
@@Thelothuo "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." - "for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
100% agreed. Not only are we killing things to grow but we'll return to dust as well.
The line “WHY IS IT STILL STANDING??? I MADE IT TO STURDY!!” Is like that one video where engineering students played jenga
Link?
Too*
The creatures need to die as an individual to become a part of the tower. In the story, one character chooses to become a part of the collective while the other chooses to stay as an individual. It doesn't seem to say either choice is right or wrong, but depends on what you want to become.
I do love that his 'repairing' the tower is essentially a man beating the frame of a building back into shape with an I-beam lol
Fellow dev of the game, thanks for playing Manly! Nice use of the "slam block against other blocks to tidy them up", a technique I like to use myself ;]
This game is amazing! I really like the gimmicks added to make life harder.
can't wait to see more of your projects, all your games so far has been amazing :)
Hey, since you were one of the devs, you would probably know this. I'm smart enough to realize that there is a lot of symbolism in this game, but too stupid to figure out what it is, so, what is the stuff in this game symbolizing.
awesome game, I was happy to hear that someone from the team was the one who made perfect vermine because I played that game
Why not tell him about the brighter colored ones produce offspring more often than the darker colored ones. Cmon man that was painful to watch
13:21 Bashing a building into shape is the manliest tradition
“Look buddy, I am Engineer”
@@kirillassasin "that means i solve problems"
e n g i n e e r
g a m i n g
@@gsamov aww man
@@justanotherspookyskeleton "not problems like 'what is beauty'"
That tower collapse at the end was pretty damn satisfying.
It was really cinematic as well with how the lights turned off one by one
It was, and yet not nearly as satisfying as it was to watch him shimmey the blocks back into place after the reload.
Damn spoiler lol
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13:14 *smashes a block into the tower* "Push it back in! Yeah! Manly engineering! Firm it up! Firm up that tower!"
I love how this man has figured out how to use a block as a hammer and just is so excited about his discovery!
Mangineer gaming
@@viktingg
Game
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It sounds like a caveman discovering fire or something
@@thatreallycooluser9663 Yes the invention of Mangineering
like a monkey picking up a rock and thats when civilization starts, beautiful
Alright. Imma say it. "Blocks for the Block God."
Stacks for the stack throne
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
FOOD FOR THE RED CREATURES
YES SOMEONE ELSE THOUGHT OF THAT TOO
It’s bad suuucks bad
You might not like it but this is how peak engineering looks like
Literally engineer gaming
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but Hell Tetris wasn't it.
Fyi there is a playable version of hell tetris. Scoring more than a line or two is haaaaaard.
The Tetris Game from Hell - I imagine that it's a similar feeling to never getting first place in Tetris 99 and trying to reach the top
it definitely felt weird but it oddly wasn't creepy to me for some reason.
Just t spin bro
Disappointed that we did not see a divine being crash into the tower.
guess what, the divine being was the same that constructed it back
Welcome to the Sound Foundation Club, how Sound Foundation are ya?
I'm so sound I'm now the foundation of this comment tree.
No me
very
I’m going to inhale my own eyes
Been here since the beginning of the universe, that sound.
Pretty genius take comparing all the tetris blocks, despite their different shapes, creating structure, to different languages building the tower of babel. This game is wacky love it. Although the purring of the creatures when they sleep is too cute... why ;w;
Three more observations about this game
First, how the gibs from the grinder roll into the void. All comes from the void, the eels drawing from it, to the creatures crawling out of it. Only to return to the void as refuse.
Second, using the blocks as a fence to protect your 'farm'. Pretty self explanatory, nothing deep here.
Third, the ruins in the background. It is a strange feeling when that realization hits. This is rubble from all the previous towers. And yours is soon to join them.
@@jimijenkins2548 So one day, the true tower reveals itself.. not as a tower of construction, but a ruin of rubble so great that it pierced the clouds in it's magnitude.
@@krel7160 that happened with the fossil fuels and it turned out real bad for the planet earth.
The art in the game reminds me of another game where you play as a little creature while trying to avoid being eaten in the ocean
At the start I mentioned it's the same dev
I was just about to say that lol
@@ManlyBadassHero can you reply to my comment above ? Thanks
@real. _.smooth yes
Beautiful
Tetris: Evangelion edition.
This was all a cruel Tetromino's thesis from the start
"I don't want to be God. I just want to be a little better than this"
This story sounds like an allegory how people who are desperate to change themselves for the better can end up becoming part of a cult.
What I was thinking too
A friend of mine says stuff like this to justify his cult leader like actions
The only good cult is the Coffee Cult. (I wish that was an actual thing...)
Everybody is invited, even those who drink decaff (...only if it's for health reasons tho)
Tea drinkers are friends, not enemies.
@@raphtheartist9608 Ooh boy you ain't gonna like me
@@LainVics Noooooooo whyyyyy ?!
You don’t like coffee or you drink decaf?
Caffeine is so great, it’s a mood booster, a stimulant and it helps you wake up.
...not even very sweet or weak coffee? ☹️🥺
I don't think I'll ever forget the lore of this. I watched this video months ago and had to find it again because this concept haunts me. Particularly "What now? Even if you walk away you'll still be permanently mixed up. Tormented by memories of lives you've never lived." and "I don't want to be god. I just want to be better than this."
It appears that the story implies that the real reason humanity was dispersed from the Tower of Babel had less to do with the perfect language and instead was about the loss of individuality. This place is a cognito hazard that could have doomed humanity had the angels not been sent
Maybe but the story also blatantly shows one man choosing to remain an individual instead of joining the tower which would indicate at worst some people would do it and some wouldnt
@@montgomeryfortenberryuhhhhh just because a few people have escaped North Korea doesn’t mean it’s not a dictatorship
@@maddieb.4282 yea but the difference is choice
I think it's more that the lore suggests that humanity's _starting point_ was as a gestalt organism, before being split apart, as the True Language originated before the Tower.
I was wondering if we were the one who chose not to join, and we were building up to escape the pit.
Huh - would be a cool hidden lore thing tbh. Should be added.
I think there's some connection between the memories in the notes of losing a child (and feeling shame about it, perhaps implying guilt) and the player sacrificing these small, fleshy, almost fetus-like creatures for their own ambition
"Grub Gott!" is likely meant to be "Grüß Gott!" a common German greeting meaning "Bless god!". "ü" pronounced by making an "ee" sound with o-shaped lips, very close to the sound you get when a "y" is pronounced "ee" like "cynical", "ß" is equivalent to "ss".
I made it sound like "grease god"
@@AngelNG-dw3rt Now give it a hard "r" and you've done it.
I think it was supposed to be a pun, because they are inside a pit.
You know, Grub Gott? Like graben, and Man gräbt Anderen eine Grube.
Well, I learned a new thing. I thought it was "great god". Apparently gruss is more like greet which somehow means the same as bless.
@@DGneoseeker1 "gruss" can be translated as "greetings" or to "greet" someone. "Great" would "gross". That's what I know of my limited German knowledge. Most of it based on my own language wich is dutch and thus shares a few similiraties with german. Except we don't confuse traveling by boat and driving a car like germans do. XD
UA-cam:recommend this video
Manly:cute "creatures"
Me:SoS
*G r i n d*
red alert!
You cannibalize the rotters to build the tower. That's the symbolism. Between that and the narration, my interpretation is that It's all about sacrificing your humanity in pursuit of something that's supposedly greater but ultimately isn't worth the sacrifice, or indeed worth much of anything. The rotters are people, they're the human race being sacrificed in pursuit of a false promise of godhood.
Somehow I got a feeling there's more to the doulas.
Having played it due to this video, I can say if you're not prepared for the final phase then you may have to cannibalize your own tower to reach the final node. Nerve-wracking and symbolic.
This also explains why the grinder is destroyed in the end. Its you taking a stand against it, refusing to join. Without you, the production is halted, making the people continue their effort in desperation.
Perhaps if this is the case, maybe this is what the Doulas stand for. Doubt. Protest. or Individuality.
And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had little creatures for brick, and yellow orbs for bitumen.
While the fact that the tower held initially is very impressive, the reason for the slow collapse was rotational inertia and the fact that gravity pulls only downwards rather than sideways, not structural integrity.
A very tall structure will always take a long time to fall to the side.
Jesus, what an extraordinary plotline. I was enticed through the whole thing.
At one point, I couldn't give two shits about how the tower was being made, I just wanted to hear the next dialogue!
I thought the title was "Pit of Bagel"
then it would be a donut!
Ah, yes, finally a game about my innards.
Bagels are da best
A bagel? Two bagel!
And then komaeda appeared I am the master now hope shall prevail so please become it's stepping stones
Third Impact meets Tetris, nice.
Lol so true
Getting memories of Berserk with the building mountains of bodies to climb up... This is a really fascinating story, though.
"Muh dreams"
-Griffith
Even a few minutes in this game highly reminds me of a concept I read in a game design book at some point. It was something arguing that the content of a game's story and narrative is important to consider, because Tetris would be far different if instead of stacking blocks, that if you were throwing people into a pit and stacking them only to have their bodies disappear when a full line was made. It was probably an old book since that seems like an obvious thing even without that metaphor, but it's a weird imagery that's stuck with me and I'm curious if the game makers have read that same thing or if this is just a weird coincidence.
Body stacking Tetris? There was one in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail game.
I think this allegory is addressed in "i am the man who arranges the block", gotta keep it mind tetris is after all a product from the Times of the soviets
there was an NSFW people-stacking tetris back in the 90s
ManlyBadassHero: *reads an interesting an well-written bit of lore that describes the mental state of a distraught mother*
Also ManlyBadassHero not two seconds later: "So what happened to that block I had?"
Gotta love Manly slow descent into madness as he tries to make a perfect tower. Stating that the cute meat bugs are just meat and that all their useful for is to get more blocks for his tower. (Around after 27:00 is when I thought of this.)
I mean was he wrong lol
You mean “they’re”.
Never have I ever related so much to "Manly Engineering"
Text (of the story of the game):
1- 4:00
2- 10:00
3- 15:12
4- 21:44
5- 29:31
6- 33:06
Just using the blocks to bang the pieces back in the funniest thing since I'm using this as background noise and every so often I hear nothing but "BANG CLANG CLANG BANG" and I look back and a precariously made tower it's honestly great
Oh the weather outside is... interesting.... and the creatures are interesting.
so the snakes produce "deceit" with which the small ones are being fed until they can in turn be sacrificed to the machine to produce bricks that are irrelevant to them in the first place. i like it, nice artsy form of commentary
Some are content, some want something more. I wonder, when he becomes "a little better than this," is he content? Is it enough to become one with a sea of voices, memories, thoughts and ideas? After working in an office, being a lawyer, whatever he did before... Was it really that soulless? I suppose a man in a business suit is likely the most desperate for a change. For something better. I hope he's happy in that sea of sand. The ever crumbling tower.
_It parallels the Bible story well_
Man aspires and builds to become "one" and greater until MBH concludes the effort and demolishes the Tower. :D
Most interesting line was where the one man didn't want to be God, just a better man.
Cool game and very cool that each player to become part of the Tower's legacy.
“Tis there was a man Named ManlyBadassHero...he would demolish any scary game that stood in his glory path...everybody knew of him and thus dubbed him a LEGEND...”
I love how to describe everything on screen. I’m legally blind and it’s awesome to not have to squint at the screen.
Alternate Sub-Title: Manly Becomes an Architect in the Abyss (aka Manly's Soul)
I like how he managed to make those blocks straight despite placing an extra unnecessary block on the bottom-right area.
ok but not being quirky or anything but this game IS highkey relaxing- like the noises and the rain and just building like.. ignoring the morbid killing of the nasty red things it's kinda meditative.
Agreed, and tbh besides the lil red guys getting murdered the whole thing is pretty chill to me
I don't know anything about the Bible, but this game was pretty soothing. Reminds me of the philosophical concept of holons, where things are self-contained "wholes" and yet are also parts to other things (cells to an organ, organs to a body, bodies to a community, etc.). They are all distinct entities, but they exist in a wider context, struggling between individual and collective interests. Standing out vs. fitting in, both of which have their own pros and cons. The cells of the body are distinct in shape and function, but must work together to maintain an organism so that the organism can in turn feed and protect them (like people in a society). I don't really understand what God means to Christians, so the existential dread in pursuing divine meaning flies over my head, but as a lover of biology, it feels nice. Being both individual and together is built into the fabric of life. So while this game has a sorta bleak atmosphere, it gives me a sense of hope. Cuz the universe allowed humanity to evolve and live and experience so many things, both within, between, and beyond ourselves. Even if we're constantly struggling with those desires, our existence, in whatever form it may take, is undeniable.
"Even if we're constantly struggling with those desires, our existence, in whatever form it may take, is undeniable." i actually love this line, its weirdly comforting after all the existential dread c:
What Id like to know is how much did Manly actually played this!!
The cuts are highly appreciated, but I fear for him.
The game takes a little over an hour.
@@ManlyBadassHero did some Google search. The average time to beat classic Tetris is about 4-5 hours. All considered, an hour isn't that terrible then.
@@ElroidTetris isn’t really something you beat lol
So a hardcore jenga?
Christian HARDCORE Jenga.
Noice
Biopunk Tetris with a side of chronic guilt and the perpetual staining of your subconscious.
Take my money!
Now I imagine Lovecraft or Geiger jamming out to the Tetris Theme song
As a Christian, yes this is EXACTLY what happened
Huh.
Can confirm I was there. Yes it did indeed happen.
Can you tell me more about it?
damn. I always thought my grandma was exaggerating
as another Christian this is now cannon.
The story portions are very interesting. It's the whole individual (lesser, organism) vs. collective (greater, cellular), and I'm not sure what I'd personally choose. If I had to choose I'd rather be a piece in a puzzle rather than water spread throughout a lake, although maybe that's kind of defeating the point of a collective and is more like a fusion from Steven Universe xD
You might have a point here,collectivism isn't bad humans achieve great things when working as a group,u think this is just taking it to the extreme
@@user-jj6yq4mo8r I guess for me it's scary to consider the loss of "self", it's basically death but it'd mean "giving birth" to a being that's more than myself. I guess I'm just kind of selfish and just want to experience it as "myself" and perhaps slowly dissolve in to the collective... or something... It's kind of hard to think about really xD
@@Pheonix1328 I can imagine it's best to accept the best of the two,as for the game well it's best to walk away rather than be like what the man in the suit did
@@user-jj6yq4mo8r I think it's only a matter of time before the MC joins them all. His mind is already a jumble and his body is pretty much the only thing giving him a semblance of "self".
Late to the party but they both have their advantages. Most Americans with average education know at least the founding fathers' names, but the individual soldiers that were on the ground and doing a lot of the fighting are largely unnamed. Yet without them there would be no revolution in the Americas. Everyone wants to be George Washington but nobody wants to end up nameless like a rebel soldier.
Weird game. I'm not sure if I've "enjoyed" the vid - the game made me so incredibly unconfortable. Both the killing of the cute critters and the story told made me shudder.
But in a sense, I guess the game managed to make it's point, then?
I feel so weird...
Seems like an actual art experience! I completely see where you are coming from
disturbed the comforted, and comforted the disturbed, for context. it does make me feel a bit better, maybe even inspired, if not a bit lonely. This might be my favorite short story game of all time.
Based on this story, humans were a true hive mind originally.
Then god decided to make us individuals.
It wasnt to spite us or prevent us from reaching heaven or god.
Tge tower of Bable showed god the efficiency and power of a hive mind.
But also the lack of individuality in a hive mind.
Which is an important part of free will. The important stepping stone that he wanted to give humans.
So he broke our hive mind into individual pieces.
Literaly.
I love how he reads out game text, it’s relaxing but also creepy! :)
if the analogy is that we're the cells of god, then isn't pov character cancer as he chooses to reject the organism he is part of, tho a little better than cancer as he doesn't try to become god (own organism), he just wants to be
it is possible, considering the fact that the previous game of this creator was Perfect Vermin, a story about cancer...
About this language, that's actually kind of a thing, so it would seem.
Studies have found that, even with no way to physically signal to each other, the vast majority of animals are always capable of signalling something to one another from incredible distances. They're really efficient about it, too. Nobody really pays attention to that since it isn't important, but I'm pretty sure they just know how to think to each other, which is pretty cool.
Can you name some examples of those creatures? That's insanely intriguing
@@nautilume7114
It's literally with pretty much anything. From city animals like cats, dogs, squirrels, birds, racoons and such to more exotic creatures like bears and even insects. Not as scientific, but I've met people who can, too. They generally say the exact same thing about the situation, which is what got me curious.
@@gamerdomain6618 That's because 90% of all communication is non-verbal. You can get across a whole lot just through body launguage. Posture, and the like. Add in scents that animals use, and you've discovered the secret.
@@MrNickPresley
No visual opportunity either. They literally think to each other.
@@gamerdomain6618 that literally has no scientific basis whatsoever
You always find the most fascinating games, and your voice in these kinds of games is incredibly relaxing despite the content of the games themselves Xp
37:23 this is what my my brain sounds like when i try and do basic math
Wait, I just thought about it...Shouldn’t it be ‘Badass, Manly Hero’? Oh man I’ve reached my mental peak...
@Commodore X
Hell yea. Knew someone would figure it out for me. You the man, man.
@Commodore X ??????????
@@alastor8091 alastor descend the pit and it shall be clear
The games you play are painful to hear but at the same time it quite lovely to listen to a soothing voice.
These creatures aren’t cute but... their petrified shrieks when they get grinded... I love them
The storyline has some real Water Womb World feel to it. But I guess some sort of deep biological meaning behind something Biblical tends to run that route.
It's really kinda neat imo, even if it's existentially awful. We're all but individual cells that have lost the ability to come together. And what exactly were we when we were together? Was that organism what was made in God's image? What 'language' did we all speak together before it was separated from us?
The little creatures are all really cute tho, even the little piggish one that ate the rotters...
Maybe god is dead because we split apart and became individuals.
@@shinigamiyuu
That's The Plot Of Evangelion, Is It Not?
@@AssistantCoreAQI Yeeanoo? kinda?
Two things from my experience in the game.
I somehow got the secret rotter, or so I think. He was white on top and his lower section was green, almost like he was literally rotting. He could breed infinitely, but I accidently Threw him in the tar pit moments after getting him...
Also, I made it to the top but my final block didn't count, because my whole tower came tumbling down at the worst moment. The whole time my tower was a ticking time bomb, because there was a split in the middle that kept expanding.
I didn't watch the whole video but I can tell that your channel is worth a sub, I really like your style.
Glad I read the description first. I was gonna say the art style reminded me of Swallow the Sea. Very captivating and disgusting in a prefect balance.
The red kirby looking creatures you sacrifice are almost adorable in their own weird way
I like the story a lot. It made me think how I'd react if I forgot everything. Or in a scenario like the people where in. It always made me think that it would be a terrible fate to become one. Indavuiality is very import in creating new things and think of new things.
This definitely looks like a game by the swallow the sea dev, that style can be seen from a mile away.
Edit: what did I just watch.
Evening Manly. Schools out and sephiroth just dropped. Hope you're enjoying the winter season
well help poor sephiroth up,
@@Fethos Aw man, caught me slacking.
*WAKE UP*
*EAT*
I love it every time, LOL
27:56 your laugh is really nice. It sounds like a supervillain laugh.
This reminds me of a game called Babel Tower where you build a tower by starting from mining to carving bricks and then cutting trees and carving them to planks to build the tower
This remind me of Evangelion were everyone chose collectivism so they wouldn't be lonely and misunderstood instead of individualism
_"Tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling dooown."_
I think the merging of all human consciousness is a bit more... radical, than collectivism.
Reducing human instrumentality and The End of Evangelion to simple "collectivism vs individualism" is such a gross and basic interpretation of it
@@krlosz1996 Thank you for saying what I had trouble articulating.
@@krlosz1996 what is it then?
I would definitely read a book about the pit of Babel. It seems like such an interesting world
Quick Analysis:
The tetris blocks represent the efforts of different people to create or rebuild something they believe will reach heaven or achieve longstanding glory like the different languages and cultures that arose after the fall of the Tower of Babel.
The blocks come from the petty sacrifices of innocent creatures that come from the abyss and they all return to the abyss, “dust to dust”. So the player creates a tower symbolic of hubris and the idea that they are doing something worthy of those sacrifices when the tower itself will fall regardless.
37:12 FINALLY, SOME CATHARSIS
So, the artstyle really reminds me of those shorts in Perfect Vermin.
Really, the shading and linework
Glad you can spot my style :)
@@TaliabobMair :3
So basically. The tower of babal is a representation of language as a whole. It comes from Genesis so its in a ton of religious text.
God saw the builders of the tower and decided they were trying to flee a second flood, so he cursed the world with multiple languages so no one man could understand the next. So each builder couldn’t agree on what to do, so the tower fell. The tower falling basically means that languages spread around the world.
The rotters are like the builders, they make noise and thats it. The other things that scream are other languages. And the worms are a game mechanic.
Inb4 some christian or jehovah witness person (jehovahs witness believes in the tower being real) corrects me on the story.
Instantly recognized the art style of Swallow the Sea! Love that game, so I have high hopes for this one
I really love the writing in the game. It reminds me of so many different authors, and all of them good. Lovecraft, Bunyan, Dante, Goethe, and others I can't remember right now
You can tell good you tubers from bad ones with videos like this. A good video game channel can convince viewers to watch videos like this, where you have convinced the audience to watch you play horror Tetris for 40 minutes. Good job.
Oi, Manly!
These edibles ain't shi-
*gets grinded up into blocks*
I liked how you referred to the little snake food guys as spotted eels (the ocean variety)!
Tetris but it's actually forgiving
Caught a manly video in the first minute of upload? Very anime
How to ram up a tower? A stick! POINTY STICK DOMINANCE, but without the point! What a ManlyBadassCivilEngineer.
I really expected the three environmental tetrominoes at the bottom to disappear to trigger the collapse. Maybe they were supposed to?
As an engineer myself, I'm very proud to see your use of percussive maintenance!
The little red squeaky things are weirdly adorable. I'd keep one as a pet.
What a fascinating concept
"Some of you may die, but that the sacrifice I'm willing to make."
nice, I love a game base on a myth. also Build A Tower To The "Heavens" cause up there is space
Cute? Things??! Oh this is going to be good. Also, early gang wassup!
yo
greetings
Hello!
Homie Animefan 2854 thought you typed early gang gossip... sleep time upload tingz ✨
bruh, so this is what Griffith from Berserk had in his mind... that's horrifying
Didn't think i'd watch this but both the game and your voice made me keep watching
27:56 he's slowly descending into madness
I like to call it “meat Tetris”
(One of the developers also made Swallow the Sea, don’t remember which though)
‘Twas I
a brutal game of tetris with way more lore and an actual objective
Saw thumbnail, thought "it looks to be from the same devs who made "Swallow the Sea".
Clicked, saw the description - bingo!
13:20 “firm up that tower”