The Making of Humanity, 2023's Best Puzzle Game | Video Game Documentary
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Earlier this year, we flew to tha ltd. and Enhance Experience in Tokyo to discuss the making of Humanity - 2023's best puzzle game. This video game documentary speaks to the core creative team, including Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Tetris Effect, Rez) and tha ltd. creative director Yugo Nakamura, about the project's origins, its complications and lengthy development cycle, and how it came to show us the nature of humanity.
While, on its surface, Humanity is a puzzle game about leading groups of people to a goal, as its name implies, its story wrestles with ideas of what it means to be human, the nature of groups, and why we always seem to resort to violence. Humanity's story reflects real-world events, showing us the paths we're currently on.
Directed by Blake Hester and Alex Van Aken
Cinematography by Alex Van Aken
Editing by Alex Van Aken and Blake Hester
Post-interview translation by Alex Highsmith
Produced by Matt Miller
Special thanks to Blackmagic Design, Kyoko Yamashita, Saori Kudo, Shawn Thomas, Suriel Vasquez, Matt Leone, and Jacob Geller.
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After you watch this doc, go watch us climb into a cave with the creator of Spelunky: ua-cam.com/video/2KuWbkIX06w/v-deo.html
This is exactly the kind of thing I want to see from GI! The access and insights from developers are awesome.
Thanks Jacob!!
I second this wholeheartedly
Writing on Games brought me here. Only played a few hours at launch. Looking forward to playing more and I’m 100% going to be watching this.
This is so wellcrafted✨ Amazing job Alex and Blake
Thank you!
thanks!!
I got the platinum trophy for this a couple of days ago. Very inventive puzzler
Congratulations! I plan to earn it too.
Thank you so much for playing!!!
Fantastic video GI crew. Please keep up the incredible work!
Amazing documentary, thank you. Love the production quality on display here. Noclilp needs to step their game WAY up
I hadn't even heard of this game, looking forward to trying it out
I don't often get on all that well with puzzle games, as I can find them too restrictive or offputting when the single solution you need to figure out comes off as very didactive and rigid feeling, without room to manoeuvre mentally speaking. Humanity however is different and a notable exception - such a unique experience, trying to navigate an environment using masses of human bodies in very clean and clearly directed ways but with just an edge of malleability - accentuated by the free-flowing organic nature of the animations - that was very satisfying to noodle out. I'm not sure any of the stages had multiple solutions per se to their design, but figuring out that one perfect path for the humans to follow still felt like an organic process - and that I think is key to a good puzzle game, at least for me; it has to feel like you have the tools and means to solve it in a kind of free-form way, as if you are driving the solution to the problem, when in reality the designer has already anticipated and intended for you to follow that path they've laid out for you; in fact, the designer in this case is kind of like the Shiba Inu of this game, but we still have that illusion of free will. A great puzzle game sells you on that illusion I'd say rather than frustrates you with it, but I admit, it's a difficult nuance to describe clearly!
Ultimately, Humanity is one of those puzzle games that is very simple in design when you get down to it, but has depths in how much lateral thinking you need to employ, as sometimes logical thinking is not quite enough and you need the ability to look at the potential pathways from different angles to find the right one - or so I found at least! It was compelling from beginning to end, and I was surprised with how long it actually was too. Add in all the user-generated stages and there's a lot to dig your teeth into. Great doc too by the way with some fascinating insights into its development.
This video and interview is awesome. I want to try this game out: it looks so cool.
Thank you!
Come on now, you're making the rest of us look bad!
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Awesome interview, amazing content GI!!! Keep it up!
Love Humanity, is a Masterpiece 💙
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for playing!
Great video. Loved Humanity.
Thank you!
Thank you for playing!!
WHAAAA!!! I love this game. So excited to watch this.
Thank you!
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Amazing work, as expected from the GI crew.
Thank you!
I love it! You guys are amazing ❤
Simply perfect.
This is ahhmazing!
Hey this things pretty good!
Hey, thanks!
I love Humanity, its great, one of the best games of the year. But unfortunately it is now the second best puzzle game of the year. The talos principle 2 is to good.
Great video though GI
I'm waiting for Inhumanity
I would say if you want a more gameplay focused experience then Humanity is still the better puzzle game, as some people might not be interested in the narrative elements and large enviroments if TP2.
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スマホで指で撫でて群衆を移動させたいです。
そのアイデアが気に入っています。👍
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Why Lie? The Talos Principle 2 is clearly hands down the best puzzle game of 2023!!! Humanity isn't even close. Good video though :)
I enjoy TP2 a lot but Humanity is more innovative and has the level editor bonus.
Would have been more palatable without the unnecessary "best" statement...
It’s the opinion of the editors who produced the documentary. It’s okay if you disagree.
This reminds me of lemmings
Definitely!
It was an inspiration of theirs
@@duncanself5111 or uh erm a ripoff
@@bloodymeatballz2368 nah, not imo. You can see the base similarities but the end product was quite different. Both games are unique