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

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  • Опубліковано 28 тра 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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КОМЕНТАРІ • 35

  • @Ajbolt89
    @Ajbolt89 19 днів тому +34

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

  • @GodOfWarConnoisseur
    @GodOfWarConnoisseur 3 дні тому +1

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

  • @unbiasedfanboy5792
    @unbiasedfanboy5792 14 днів тому +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

  • @yutt
    @yutt 13 днів тому +13

    Dude's out here on the most obscure gaming UA-cam channel doing great interviews.

    • @hypocriticgg
      @hypocriticgg  10 днів тому +3

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

    • @lordbobby198
      @lordbobby198 8 днів тому

      Fr. I saw the sub count and expected more

  • @arctic-1878
    @arctic-1878 9 днів тому +3

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

  • @maciejsawtyruk5804
    @maciejsawtyruk5804 Місяць тому +9

    This guy is crazy

  • @thought_soup
    @thought_soup 3 дні тому

    Awesome interview!

  • @AZAMA___
    @AZAMA___ Місяць тому +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 💫

  • @FlatThumb
    @FlatThumb Місяць тому +5

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

  • @Steve-lu1nc
    @Steve-lu1nc Місяць тому +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  Місяць тому +14

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

    • @Terranigma23
      @Terranigma23 Місяць тому +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 16 днів тому +5

      @@Terranigma2334 mb

  • @dschirm
    @dschirm Місяць тому +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!

  • @LateNightGhost
    @LateNightGhost Місяць тому +4

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

  • @RaginMasE
    @RaginMasE 16 днів тому +8

    Extremely clever man.

  • @malditasmarujas6144
    @malditasmarujas6144 17 днів тому +2

    The game is absolutely great

  • @gusskipner9809
    @gusskipner9809 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @YamchaBro
    @YamchaBro Місяць тому +1

    great interview

  • @scubi1589
    @scubi1589 Місяць тому +2

    CANT WAIT❤

  • @NMROSTA
    @NMROSTA 13 днів тому +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 :)

  • @BoyGameboyPH
    @BoyGameboyPH Місяць тому +3

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

  • @SPyKeTheGroundBreaker
    @SPyKeTheGroundBreaker 9 днів тому +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."

  • @oowaz
    @oowaz 13 днів тому

    very cool!

  • @ItsameAlex
    @ItsameAlex 4 дні тому

    cool

  • @JorelHill
    @JorelHill 2 місяці тому +2

    slay

  • @MsHojat
    @MsHojat 13 днів тому

    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.

  • @twohornedpuppet85
    @twohornedpuppet85 15 днів тому

    Hey fellow REAPER user

  • @JamesonHuddle
    @JamesonHuddle 13 днів тому +1

    Is that a halo 5 lanyard? spooky.

    • @hypocriticgg
      @hypocriticgg  10 днів тому

      Every PAX since 2015 😅

    • @JamesonHuddle
      @JamesonHuddle 10 днів тому +5

      @@hypocriticgg it's like halo 2 meets halo 3

    • @hypocriticgg
      @hypocriticgg  9 днів тому +1

      How we missed this absolute lay-up, we'll never know

  • @Hadkek
    @Hadkek 15 днів тому +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