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  • Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
  • A genre-defining, fun-defying 1-minute-long gamesperience. I actually like indie games. Please don't yell at me. (I didn't know Thurston Waffles was a cat. I just made up a silly name.)
    Some assets from OpenGameArt.org by Kenney.nl, MilkAndBanana, Marcus-Indrek Simmer and other people.

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  • @Tsquare22ESQ
    @Tsquare22ESQ 10 месяцев назад +7761

    Formatting the C: drive was initially a bug ,but beta testers loved it so much that it made it into the final game.

    • @gwventura1
      @gwventura1 10 месяцев назад +34

      HAHAHAHA!

    • @jw25546
      @jw25546 10 месяцев назад +84

      Don't let Denuvo hear this

    • @admiraladama5877
      @admiraladama5877 10 месяцев назад +130

      It really helped me to feel the frustration, then anger, then sadness and finally acceptance that the protagonist experienced. It truly is revolutionary

    • @NextianGeometry
      @NextianGeometry 10 месяцев назад +100

      Roguelike where have to start over ever time? No! You have to reinstall everything every time!

    • @-POISON-
      @-POISON- 10 месяцев назад +8

      That's what makes it the best game I've ever played.

  • @momon969
    @momon969 10 месяцев назад +4644

    Maybe the real trauma was the 90 minute analysis videos we watched along the way.

    • @Sireington
      @Sireington 10 месяцев назад +176

      *2 minute “sitting down with a cup of drink” or 1 minute “no physical avatar” intro plays out.
      Video essayist sighs*
      Hey guys, what’s up? *insert one or two random events in the video essayist life*
      And I’ve also been playing video games as usual and, oh hey look at that game that everyone has been talking about! No, but seriously, this is amazing. I’m now here to just talk about why this game is so awesome *in a smaller, whispered voice* (and it’s pretty cheap) *back to normal* . This is [insert game name] and how it’s *impacted, changed, broken, it could be any of those* me. *and cut to the rest of the video…*

    • @veronicamcghie5238
      @veronicamcghie5238 10 месяцев назад +125

      ​@Sireington But first let me talk about my Patreon and new merch store but in like an ironic disaffected way so you know that l know that capitalism is bad but actually please please I need the money so bad

    • @Sireington
      @Sireington 10 месяцев назад

      @@veronicamcghie5238 but first, let me talk about today’s sponsor! Raid Shadow Legends! Yep! Let me make a joke about how I’m a real RUclipsr now!

    • @ketaminepoptarts
      @ketaminepoptarts 10 месяцев назад +111

      and the title will always be one of these:
      "how X BREAKS you"
      "why X is the BEST Y"
      "X: an underrated masterpiece"

    • @veronicamcghie5238
      @veronicamcghie5238 10 месяцев назад

      @@ketaminepoptarts It's always an underrated masterpiece despite being the only game anyone talks about for months and being on several Best of the Year lists.

  • @superidiocy
    @superidiocy 10 месяцев назад +6021

    Something about the “better look at my hands” bit felt so familiar I think I relived almost every indie game I’ve ever played.

    • @yuichikita6018
      @yuichikita6018 10 месяцев назад +385

      That's more of a every first person game ever.

    • @Reg_The_Galah
      @Reg_The_Galah 10 месяцев назад +68

      Yeah I noticed that, there are far too many indie games that do this

    • @eightcoins4401
      @eightcoins4401 10 месяцев назад +105

      Even Subnautica did that

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 10 месяцев назад +41

      We Happy Few.

    • @arthand7672
      @arthand7672 10 месяцев назад +140

      It feels like a first person staple at this point. I think I've even seen it in cod, battlefield, fry cry and other triple a titles.

  • @Dark_Peace
    @Dark_Peace 10 месяцев назад +5711

    As an indie game dev, I confirm it's not a real indie game if it doesn't have a fishing minigame as a metaphor for depression

    • @dontspikemydrink9382
      @dontspikemydrink9382 10 месяцев назад +22

      does this make game dev not real indie

    • @mattmark94
      @mattmark94 10 месяцев назад +81

      since you are a indie dev, tell everyone to stop make pretentious metaphors, they are not clever and they are not surprising.

    • @legendaccount3247
      @legendaccount3247 10 месяцев назад +18

      I mean literally What Remains of Edith Finch. I mean almost exactly.

    • @Sireington
      @Sireington 10 месяцев назад +145

      @@mattmark94 let people do things. Please.

    • @mattmark94
      @mattmark94 10 месяцев назад +24

      @Sireington No.

  • @chsbllprcslyrwnstndrng
    @chsbllprcslyrwnstndrng 10 месяцев назад +4287

    Calling it, if you anger the narrator enough he'll forcibly close the game. Cue six hundred video essays on why it's a masterpiece.

    • @hazukichanx408
      @hazukichanx408 10 месяцев назад +320

      "It's like, the game... _reminded me_ that it is a game! Fantastic! =D"
      -Critics

    • @gusty7153
      @gusty7153 10 месяцев назад +145

      the entire point of stanley parable is all about going against the narrarator and other self aware parodies

    • @thekiss2083
      @thekiss2083 10 месяцев назад +88

      ​@@gusty7153Stanley Parable's like a decade old at this point

    • @ProcyonNite
      @ProcyonNite 10 месяцев назад +143

      ​@gusty7153 Stanley Parable s the grandfather of these types of games.

    • @gusty7153
      @gusty7153 10 месяцев назад +13

      @@ProcyonNite oh

  • @johncheshirsky8822
    @johncheshirsky8822 10 месяцев назад +1739

    Oh, I love "Every Indie Game", developed by three and a half college students and a calico cat of the small indie game developing company "Sleeping Calico Studios" (parented by "BIG BUCKS HUGE GAME PUBLISHING", subsidiary of "Sinistech Industries", co-owned by "Unethical Oil Drill Inc" and Amazon)
    Did you hear it was nominated for this year's Indie Game of the Year award? I hope it wins!

    • @chillsy_pluto
      @chillsy_pluto 10 месяцев назад +124

      hey now it's got that Indie VideoGame vibe going on so that nomination is perfectly a-okay :)

    • @phlog_dog7336
      @phlog_dog7336 10 месяцев назад +148

      Sometimes I wish I could subscribe to comments

    • @SenorFluffy
      @SenorFluffy 10 месяцев назад +72

      The fact I know exactly which game and which studio this is poking fun of

    • @dowlotistap
      @dowlotistap 10 месяцев назад +12

      which one? sorry am out of the loop @@SenorFluffy

    • @SenorFluffy
      @SenorFluffy 10 месяцев назад +80

      @@dowlotistap Dave the Diver

  • @Jigsawn2
    @Jigsawn2 10 месяцев назад +2633

    Oh my god, the whole game turned out to be an allegory for the main character's depression/grief/loss/schizophrenia! I never saw that coming!

    • @kegluneq6306
      @kegluneq6306 10 месяцев назад +137

      Don't forget dementia!

    • @mattmark94
      @mattmark94 10 месяцев назад +213

      bonus points if one of the plotwists is about a character being.... anything but straight

    • @Christian-rn1ur
      @Christian-rn1ur 10 месяцев назад +63

      Pfft, Silent Hill did that before it was cool, and it wasn't even indie

    • @KneelB4Bacon
      @KneelB4Bacon 10 месяцев назад +76

      I think the best kind of these games is when the author has self-awareness and they're breaking the 4th wall / gently poking fun at the genre.
      The worst kind is when the game is written / produced / directed / scored / programmed by ONE person and it's just all the author's personal problems spilling over into the game, usually in a really obvious, pretentious way. ("nobody understands my painnnnnnnnn!")

    • @Unknown-jt1jo
      @Unknown-jt1jo 10 месяцев назад +42

      I'm old enough to have lived through the era where games were always *GAMES* (e.g., Pac-Man, Frogger, etc.). They had a tight, addictive core gameplay loop, and nothing else.
      Nowadays, many indie games don't care about gameplay. They focus on story. And sometimes there's barely even a story--it's more of a "vibe."

  • @brodok4252
    @brodok4252 10 месяцев назад +299

    Ingenious... a time travel mechanic that transports your C: drive back to a factory fresh condition and forces you to scour your own memories for lost passwords and settings. As you sit there reeling and disoriented, you realize that the main character is actually *you*. This is 4th wall destroying epicness.

  • @sweetsea3607
    @sweetsea3607 10 месяцев назад +115

    Don't forget sometimes they have comments about things like: "This stove I use to cook food." "My girlfriend's favourite mug." "There's nothing interesting about these books." "It's almost 3 o'clock."

    • @MrAuthor3DS
      @MrAuthor3DS 7 месяцев назад +15

      Well, yeah. How would you imprint yourself onto him if he had a deep personality?

  • @ultgamercw6759
    @ultgamercw6759 10 месяцев назад +2275

    You can tell he actually loves these kinds of games because he gets so many of the tropes spot on. The best parody's are always by someone who loves the material they are parodying.

    • @johntabler349
      @johntabler349 10 месяцев назад +43

      Or hates it

    • @legendaccount3247
      @legendaccount3247 10 месяцев назад +358

      @@johntabler349 Not really. If they hate it, it usually just ends up as sad, spiteful, and not entertaining

    • @fireaza
      @fireaza 10 месяцев назад +237

      @@johntabler349 Nah, definitely from a place of love. People who parody something they hate only have a surface-level understanding to draw from. That's how you get stuff like sci-fi parodies that only reference the most well-known bits of Star Wars and Star Trek, and anime parodies that are obviously drawing exclusively from the episodes of Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon they saw bits of on TV before school back when they were kids.

    • @johntabler349
      @johntabler349 10 месяцев назад +16

      @@fireaza definitely agree as far as ABK is concerned only saying that good parody requires passion

    • @sinisternorimaki
      @sinisternorimaki 10 месяцев назад +39

      ​@@fireazaCounterpoint: Harry Potter parodies. Those come from despise, but nobody hates harry Potter like a Harry Potter fan.

  • @LordJazzly
    @LordJazzly 10 месяцев назад +160

    Hang on, I've played this one! The plot twist is that they're all dead already, and his 'girlfriend' is a metaphor for failing a second-year chemistry course at university.

    • @grubbygeorge2117
      @grubbygeorge2117 10 месяцев назад +16

      bro it's not cool to spoil in the comments :/

    • @Unknown-jt1jo
      @Unknown-jt1jo 7 месяцев назад +5

      Indie games are this generation's bad poetry.

  • @jacobwismer1512
    @jacobwismer1512 10 месяцев назад +830

    I can't wait for the Game Theory video about how the ex-girlfriend is secretly Crash Bandicoot

    • @_-Lx-_
      @_-Lx-_ 10 месяцев назад +44

      Or could she be Bowser, from other video game?

    • @thekiss2083
      @thekiss2083 10 месяцев назад +20

      Whoa!

    • @RegularCupOfJoe
      @RegularCupOfJoe 10 месяцев назад +27

      No, it's golden Freddy. Has to be.

    • @bobalinx8762
      @bobalinx8762 10 месяцев назад +10

      @@_-Lx-_Or she could be both Billy and Mandy in one body…

    • @_-Lx-_
      @_-Lx-_ 10 месяцев назад +11

      @@bobalinx8762
      Is Aku Aku actually Plank from Edd Ed N Eddy?

  • @averageeclairenjoyer3010
    @averageeclairenjoyer3010 10 месяцев назад +69

    Every detail is perfect - soulless untextured artstyle, framerate drops, teapot. Mmm, belissimo, chef's kiss.

  • @emmettaj8863
    @emmettaj8863 10 месяцев назад +822

    Hi dev here! Thanks for playing the beta! The full game will be released as soon as everyone who already bought it gives us more money because we accidentally bought BMWs with the kickstarter cash. Happy gaming!

    • @3playerpolitics
      @3playerpolitics 10 месяцев назад +82

      Understandable, have a nice dev

    • @Skullkan6
      @Skullkan6 10 месяцев назад +11

      Tell me you wouldn't

    • @zombieoutbreakprod
      @zombieoutbreakprod 10 месяцев назад +13

      Ant sim be like

    • @MrXabungle
      @MrXabungle 10 месяцев назад +16

      I did not feel one bit misled

    • @dumpsterDeity
      @dumpsterDeity 9 месяцев назад +12

      > accidentally bought BMWs
      as par for the course

  • @mahna_mahna
    @mahna_mahna 10 месяцев назад +314

    I hope you realize this gem will be shared in every indie games company's internal chats.

  • @bajabret60
    @bajabret60 10 месяцев назад +361

    I was struggling with this one. Thanks for the walk-thru ABK!

    • @gwventura1
      @gwventura1 10 месяцев назад +7

      ROFL!

    • @s1nistr433
      @s1nistr433 9 месяцев назад +2

      Title is inaccurate, game is not pixel art

    • @TheGrammarPolice7
      @TheGrammarPolice7 4 месяца назад

      Walkthrough is one word without hyphen. But "ABK" needs a comma before it, otherwise your comment implies the existence of something called a "walkthrough ABK."

    • @bajabret60
      @bajabret60 4 месяца назад

      @@TheGrammarPolice7 I love this!

  • @mgdplayz5727
    @mgdplayz5727 10 месяцев назад +173

    Don't forget the third act of the game where it is revealed that the entire game was a metaphor for depression, anxiety or both!

    • @yeeoof1995
      @yeeoof1995 9 месяцев назад +25

      can't they make metaphors for anything else

    • @АртемМакєєв
      @АртемМакєєв 9 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@yeeoof1995 I mean , yes , but maybe it's a very big/widespread issue among indie game creators, if they use methaphors to these specific problems?

  • @ataready8810
    @ataready8810 10 месяцев назад +117

    ABK absolutely nailed the environment of the game, from the style of the assets, the motion blur, the camera bobbing and font. I swear he uses his skits as an opportunity to learn new mediums and imitate the style of media for fun. And he's doing an excellent job at that!

    • @TheGrammarPolice7
      @TheGrammarPolice7 4 месяца назад

      You can't just say "from the style of the assets, the motion blur, the camera bobbing and font" and never include a "to" anywhere. If you say "from" at the start of your list of things, there needs to be a "to" in it.

  • @FilthyandFree
    @FilthyandFree 10 месяцев назад +95

    The hands bit killed me. A+ stuff.

  • @jessefoutz597
    @jessefoutz597 10 месяцев назад +88

    "I'll take a double triple Earthbound-inspired story on a raft, 4 by depression and violence-bad, pixel art style, extra quirky dialogue with a metroidvania and a squeeze..."

  • @NivMizzet89
    @NivMizzet89 10 месяцев назад +95

    If you get the secret pirate ending you can have a hook instead of one of the hands, visible for all of 5s during the entire game's run.

  • @jeremyusreevu237
    @jeremyusreevu237 10 месяцев назад +1313

    As someone who loves these types of games, this is insanely accurate.

    • @willxcore
      @willxcore 10 месяцев назад +9

      100%

    • @liambishop9888
      @liambishop9888 10 месяцев назад +78

      The indie scene has never recovered from The Stanley Parable, and I hope it never does

    • @newbleppmore7855
      @newbleppmore7855 10 месяцев назад

      Yes games should only be made by billionaires no one else should be let in@@liambishop9888

    • @captaincrash9002
      @captaincrash9002 10 месяцев назад +13

      Holy shit, it's niche internet celebrity and ajr superfan Jeremy.

    • @amytysoe2292
      @amytysoe2292 10 месяцев назад +9

      ​​@@liambishop9888I don't disagree but this feels like Dear Esther (and probably to a lesser extent Gone Home) erasure ;)

  • @kingbeauregard
    @kingbeauregard 10 месяцев назад +234

    True story: I learned how to drive laying "Spy Hunter" in the arcade. Taught me the important lessons of staying in sync with the traffic around me, making smooth and deliberate lane changes, planning well in advance on icy roads, and how to take out helicopters once I'm equipped with rockets.

    • @kapitan517
      @kapitan517 10 месяцев назад +22

      Well done! That last skill is something ordinary driving schools just won't teach you, these days. I usually drive like I'm in a Far Cry game, with predictable results.

    • @chaos.corner
      @chaos.corner 10 месяцев назад +11

      After playing Carmageddon for a while, I started automatically picking out jump points and ramps when I was driving for real.

    • @alecmiddleton1842
      @alecmiddleton1842 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@kapitan517 Ha! The Far Cry 1 jeeps that rattle around on the spot as soon as you get in them. Watch your health and armour deplete, realise your character is under the car, not in it and the jeep is a dangerous psycho and it has you trapped.
      That was Far Cry's revenge for all the Merceneries I tricked into endlessly walking into trees and cliff walls.
      Or maybe the collision detection was a bit shit.
      Great game though.

    • @mmo5366
      @mmo5366 10 месяцев назад +2

      Yes! It was Daytona USA for me, picking a line and power sliding to perfection got that feel for the road deeply embedded. 😊

    • @kingbeauregard
      @kingbeauregard 10 месяцев назад

      @@kapitan517 It's something like driving stick, they assume you'll learn it on your own time if you really want to.

  • @MedlifeCrisis
    @MedlifeCrisis 10 месяцев назад +81

    The amount of work you put into these is outrageous

    • @moonsweater
      @moonsweater 10 месяцев назад +3

      It makes me a little sad that he put so much work into what's effectively an extremely-polished sneer. :(

    • @Unknown-jt1jo
      @Unknown-jt1jo 7 месяцев назад

      @@moonsweaterYou have such wonderfully refined sensibilities.

  • @claytonandres1194
    @claytonandres1194 10 месяцев назад +776

    I don't know, you didn't include heart monitor beeps or an IV drip in the background in order to obviously telegraph that the character has actually been in the hospital or dead the whole time. How am I supposed to be totally unsurprised by the "dark" "twist" at the end?

    • @ABeckettKing
      @ABeckettKing  10 месяцев назад +300

      I did a tick-tock sound effect!

    • @claytonandres1194
      @claytonandres1194 10 месяцев назад +265

      @@ABeckettKing Thank God, I can still make my five-hour "Why 'What Remains of Sandra' is Darker Than You Think' video essay

    • @millenniumhandandshrimp2610
      @millenniumhandandshrimp2610 10 месяцев назад +47

      There was no woman with white skin, long black hair and empty eye sockets crying with her back towards you in various hallways because you killed her in the car accident.
      What gives?
      Also there were no twin lights coming towards you every level transition, symbolising some unknown, mysterious thing (the car accident).
      Also there were no scattered notes with the words "vroom vroom!" written on them, or pictures of cars childishly drawn in red crayon (there was also a child in the car, and a turtle, but nobody cares about him).

    • @diegodunn-humphrey512
      @diegodunn-humphrey512 9 месяцев назад

      ​@claytonandres1194, "but before we begin I would like to thank the sponsor of this video nordvpn"

    • @MightGuy15
      @MightGuy15 4 месяца назад

      ​@@claytonandres1194😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @PatrickWDunne
    @PatrickWDunne 10 месяцев назад +744

    I swear ABK has the most unique skits out of anyone else on RUclips

    • @Steeyuv
      @Steeyuv 10 месяцев назад +57

      Couldn’t agree more, except you can’t qualify the adjective ‘unique’.

    • @ABeckettKing
      @ABeckettKing  10 месяцев назад +269

      A mostly superlative reply.

    • @mcv2178
      @mcv2178 10 месяцев назад +23

      ​@@SteeyuvAh, one of the less-unique opinions I have heard : )

    • @Steeyuv
      @Steeyuv 10 месяцев назад +18

      @@ABeckettKing thank you ABK, see you on 2nd April!

    • @renobutters
      @renobutters 10 месяцев назад +18

      @@ABeckettKing building a game just for a one minute brilliant joke is something nobody else but you could do. When can we expect the release of Break-up Simulator? At least a full demo 😁

  • @armoredchimp
    @armoredchimp 10 месяцев назад +115

    I was laughing within the first 10 seconds because of how stunningly accurate it already was. Why do so many of these games take place in a house where you get a phone call from your girlfriend, and deal with themes of depression

    • @sinisternorimaki
      @sinisternorimaki 10 месяцев назад +45

      Really, what indie games do you guys play? Cause most of what I play is indie and I can't think of a single one like that.

    • @Skullkan6
      @Skullkan6 10 месяцев назад +3

      Ease of making it with low manpower and high cost of resources

    • @lesstalking3007
      @lesstalking3007 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@Skullkan6
      So, lazyness?

    • @HowlUnderTheMoon
      @HowlUnderTheMoon 10 месяцев назад +12

      because indie devs are extremely imaginative and so glad they never took that soul crushing living wage at a AAA studio straight out of uni so they could focus on what matters - the art

    • @derpfluidvariant0916
      @derpfluidvariant0916 10 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@sinisternorimakioff the top of my head, risk of Rain, Terraria, and slay the Princess don't. (Risk of Rain got bought out by gearbox, but both the original and 2 were published just by themselves).

  • @jernaugurgeh451
    @jernaugurgeh451 10 месяцев назад +38

    I can’t wait to pick this up in a $5 charity bundle, along with a clunky point’n’click adventure game about a 13th century monk, a barebones pixel platformer with inverted gravity and terrible non-remapable controls, and a poignant RPGmaker game about grief and regret with lots of poorly animated cats in it.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 10 месяцев назад +8

      Oh wow, you played my RPGmaker game! ;)

    • @jernaugurgeh451
      @jernaugurgeh451 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@kaitlyn__L If for real you have made that game, then I will play it.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@jernaugurgeh451 haha not quite. Helped many girlfriends with various builds along those lines though! (Story, sprites, music, etc.) Don’t know if any actually ended up posted anywhere, even itch!

    • @chungo.
      @chungo. 9 месяцев назад +2

      Hey man VVVVVV is a really cool game :(

    • @plumjet09
      @plumjet09 2 месяца назад

      @@chungo.I agree, it’s the only game I got a blister while playing.

  • @SodiumWage
    @SodiumWage 10 месяцев назад +479

    Ah, the fantasy of video games - where our partners are able to succinctly and effectively communicate their reasons for breaking up with us.

    • @vitoc8454
      @vitoc8454 10 месяцев назад +77

      Also that line seems to be the indie dev trying to cope ("you're too good with computers")

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 10 месяцев назад +48

      @@vitoc8454 No, what's funny about it is no faults are vocalized at all. It's basically like "Well of course our main character is not perfect. For example: his girlfriend."

    • @theycallmetundraboy914
      @theycallmetundraboy914 10 месяцев назад +15

      It's because I'm too amazing, isn't it?!?!

    • @Zwijger
      @Zwijger 10 месяцев назад +7

      @@futurestoryteller you open your sentence with "no,..." even though you aren't disagreeing with the person you're responding to.

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 9 месяцев назад

      @@Zwijger Maybe subtlety is lost on you, and debatably two other people, so far, idk.

  • @GGHF
    @GGHF 10 месяцев назад +138

    Don't forget the cats. It's not an indie game without an unhealthy obsession with cats.

    • @chasethecolors
      @chasethecolors 10 месяцев назад +5

      Even the new Robocop game has cats all over it lol

    • @truthwatcher2096
      @truthwatcher2096 8 месяцев назад +10

      There is no such thing as an unhealthy obsession with cats, you physically can't be too interested in cats. Source: I own 12 million cats

    • @thichinhphan4010
      @thichinhphan4010 5 месяцев назад +4

      The internet is an Indie game all along!!! Holy fudgecream I'm slow!

    • @adenlarios
      @adenlarios 4 месяца назад

      indie games are all made by scene girls and internet geeks anyway ofc they love cats

    • @Jazzjazzjazz6
      @Jazzjazzjazz6 Месяц назад +1

      How about games with cats with unhealthy obsessions?

  • @Yasviele
    @Yasviele 10 месяцев назад +46

    This game really makes you FEEL like you're sad and single - IGN

  • @quietkiwi7572
    @quietkiwi7572 10 месяцев назад +18

    The overuse of motion blur to the point it makes you quesy is a perfect touch. Good job.

  • @vitoc8454
    @vitoc8454 10 месяцев назад +94

    Lore theorists: "So anyway, the house cat that talks to you throughout the game is your dead uncle's soul"
    Speedrunners: "I finished the game in 2 minutes by warping through the painting of my dead wife"

  • @W.2026
    @W.2026 10 месяцев назад +49

    And it has an "overwhelmingly positive" rating on steam and practically everyone in the reviews section just posts random ASCII art instead of writing an actual review on this

  • @catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038
    @catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038 10 месяцев назад +37

    This looks like the best game I'll ever play.
    (I'm going to make 2 hr long video essay on this)

  • @magus.k
    @magus.k 10 месяцев назад +47

    “That’ll be my ex girlfriend, I hope she doesn’t break up with me again”

  • @carterheer8278
    @carterheer8278 10 месяцев назад +87

    "A genre-defining, fun-defying 1-minute-long gamesperience."
    Couldn't have said it better myself.

  • @Cvoxalury
    @Cvoxalury 10 месяцев назад +18

    The accuracy of only having "quit to another menu" in place of simply quitting.

  • @ErasmusMagnusR
    @ErasmusMagnusR 10 месяцев назад +380

    Okay Mr. Utah teapot we get it, you can animate better than any of us ever will in our entire lives

    • @bewilderbeestie
      @bewilderbeestie 10 месяцев назад +30

      I've seen the real one! It's in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. It was almost a religious experience.

    • @Dr.W.Krueger
      @Dr.W.Krueger 10 месяцев назад +1

      That's not a particular high hurdle

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 10 месяцев назад +12

    The amount of game characters who look at their hands like that, I have never looked at my hands as if they're brand new things on my body.

  • @adenlarios
    @adenlarios 10 месяцев назад +120

    "The dev put his heart and soul into this deep philisophical masterpiece of a game!"
    The game:

    • @Kyubeyisbestboy
      @Kyubeyisbestboy 10 месяцев назад

      Ruby is hot

    • @TheGrammarPolice7
      @TheGrammarPolice7 4 месяца назад

      *masterpiece. How many times will people need to hear the rule "i before e" until they finally decide to learn it? This is not rocket sceince.

    • @adenlarios
      @adenlarios 4 месяца назад

      @@TheGrammarPolice7 woah bro do you watch rick and morty bro?

    • @magolormemes7519
      @magolormemes7519 4 месяца назад +3

      @@TheGrammarPolice7 Ceiling, eight, heist, either, beige, weight, weird, seize...

    • @Kyubeyisbestboy
      @Kyubeyisbestboy 4 месяца назад

      ruby is hot

  • @romancorripio5233
    @romancorripio5233 10 месяцев назад +51

    Your animations are incredible! The comedy is good too of course 😉 but it's insane the effort you must put in for these relatively short videos

  • @jaredgaston3305
    @jaredgaston3305 10 месяцев назад +53

    Excellent detail including a tea kettle on the clearly very American protagonist’s table. I can’t wait to see the video essays about how this is secretly all in the British narrator’s imagination.

    • @ABeckettKing
      @ABeckettKing  10 месяцев назад +29

      Sorry to be English, but that's a teapot. And it's actually a famous teapot from Utah.

    • @clanofclams2720
      @clanofclams2720 9 месяцев назад +4

      Americans have tea kettles.

    • @ABeckettKing
      @ABeckettKing  9 месяцев назад +8

      @@clanofclams2720 So do British people, but that's a teapot, not a kettle.

    • @clanofclams2720
      @clanofclams2720 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@ABeckettKing wasn't replying to you

    • @monsieurouxx
      @monsieurouxx 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@clanofclams2720"wasn't replying to you" 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @dlxmarks
    @dlxmarks 10 месяцев назад +80

    There could be a whole segment on the inane endless dialogue in indie games.
    Character 1: "Hey."
    Character 2: "'Wha'sup?"
    1: "Why are you wearing that hat?"
    2: "It looks good on me."
    1: "No it doesn't."
    2: "What do you know about fashion?"
    1: "I know a lot."
    _This goes on for another 20 exchanges that has you mashing the Continue button as fast as possible_

    • @_Ciaran_Maher
      @_Ciaran_Maher 10 месяцев назад +23

      It's not an indie game if it isn't aggressively reminding you how boring real life is.

    • @JoannaFalkowska
      @JoannaFalkowska 9 месяцев назад +1

      aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa holy shit I felt that, those are the bane of my gaming existence

  • @fionnbarrcasey5247
    @fionnbarrcasey5247 10 месяцев назад +5

    funny how the “better look at my hands” bit while accurate here, also just applies to many First Person games in general, AAA or Indie🤣🤣

  • @Umbra_Nocturnus
    @Umbra_Nocturnus 10 месяцев назад +21

    That yellow platform would have been the part where it says "Thanks for playing the demo, support our kickstarter."

  • @generalrubbish9513
    @generalrubbish9513 10 месяцев назад +477

    The most unrealistic part of this video is the game actually having platforming. That, at least, tentatively counts as gameplay. if this was a real indie game, the player would be stuck walking around the pre-made asset house, clicking at things and reading snippets of poorly written text until the game abruptly ends on a "To Be Continued In The Fuil Release That I'm Sure I Will Get Around To Making Eventually" screen.
    (I also like indie games, please don't yell at me either)

    • @amalekedomite
      @amalekedomite 10 месяцев назад +27

      I like good indie games.

    • @windy8544
      @windy8544 10 месяцев назад +27

      @@robertm9631 they have to cut the jumping because it's poorly optimized and formats your c drive

    • @juliamavroidi8601
      @juliamavroidi8601 10 месяцев назад +50

      There are platforming indie games, but they are of the 2D 8-bit "things seem cute, but there is a DARK secret" variety, not of the 3D stock assets "mundane life of a depressed person" variety

    • @amalekedomite
      @amalekedomite 10 месяцев назад +20

      @@juliamavroidi8601 I draw a line between "independantly made video games" and "indie games." "Indie" has become a genre in video games, as with music.
      And, just as with music, it's a genre that is synonymous with crap.

    • @zanite8650
      @zanite8650 10 месяцев назад +7

      @@robertm9631 Got to have the frustratingly hard boss just before the story's finale.

  • @GunnGuardian
    @GunnGuardian 8 месяцев назад +5

    I don't know why but the "Somethings happening better look at my hands!" part really got me!

  • @LukieLuke5
    @LukieLuke5 10 месяцев назад +9

    The nonstop narration is spot on

  • @Whatlander
    @Whatlander 10 месяцев назад +16

    My favorite bit is the twist reveal that the looping corridor is purgatory and the spooky ghost was your dead girlfriendwife being huffy about you murdering her. it gets me every time. I have a very specific phobia.

    • @bebebonb0n
      @bebebonb0n 10 месяцев назад +2

      PT?

    • @TheDuskOfAnEra
      @TheDuskOfAnEra 8 месяцев назад +1

      Huffy? Not even pissed off to the extremes or full on wrathful, just huffy?!?!? 😂

  • @cattysplat
    @cattysplat 10 месяцев назад +19

    Indie company: The more allegories to depression we have in our game, the more game journalists will cover our game with long gushing articles with personal anecdotes!

  • @EdwinJones1234
    @EdwinJones1234 10 месяцев назад +6

    You’ve basically made the firewatch meets superliminal crossover I didn’t realise I needed until today - kudos!

  • @87axal
    @87axal 10 месяцев назад +17

    Quick reminder that not everything Alasdair mocks in his videos has to be inherently bad.
    Except for Gammon Town. That video was made out of pure spite, and I'm all there for it.

  • @lamarepository248
    @lamarepository248 10 месяцев назад +19

    I love it how every indie game is either exactly what’s described, or it’s a single madman’s quest to model every complexity of running an entire civilization that never learned to delegate. There is no in-between.

    • @jessefoutz597
      @jessefoutz597 10 месяцев назад +5

      YOU LEAVE DWARF FORTRESS OUT OF THIS!

  • @Samuel-yf6pl
    @Samuel-yf6pl 10 месяцев назад +8

    The Stupendium has already made a bizarrely good song for it

    • @gaminginthelincolnyears
      @gaminginthelincolnyears 9 месяцев назад +2

      How did they even make an actually decent (at the very least) song about *fucking Poppy Playtime*

  • @zpacula
    @zpacula 10 месяцев назад +8

    On point, although it's missing the part where they game ends with a plot twist you've seen coming since the start of the game, then repets it twice in case you didn't get it and calls it an allegory.

  • @AndrewD8Red
    @AndrewD8Red 10 месяцев назад +22

    Best indie games I've ever played have all been in the GZDoom engine.
    And one about a pirate who saves birds with Dr. Who

    • @EmbiggenedJ
      @EmbiggenedJ 10 месяцев назад +4

      Ah yes, the First Pirate Adventure Game Series Ever Made(TM).

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 10 месяцев назад +3

      Whoa, you got an ABK heart! And he’s someone who doesn’t just heart every comment! You’re awfully good at that.

    • @AndrewD8Red
      @AndrewD8Red 10 месяцев назад

      @@kaitlyn__L
      Well well well, if it isn't Kaitlyn!
      Absolute pleasure seeing you out in the wild.

    • @AndrewD8Red
      @AndrewD8Red 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@kaitlyn__L
      ABK and I go way back. We had a chat about physics where I explained that light is invisible and almost positive he eventually agreed and told me he thought I was really smart.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@AndrewD8Red I laughed at the surface level absurdity.
      Then the physicist in me (and remember I actually specialised in astronomy and optics, unlike some other fields we’ve discussed like fusion) went “well, technically the photons _don’t_ look like anything, I guess? To be visible to us they’d have to have other photons bounce off them and they’re too small for that”.
      And in this case it’s not even like objects light can’t show but an electron microscope can reveal, with surface features of a few atoms… as an electron and a photon are close in “size” (as much as size means anything/nothing at that scale).
      🤔 Maybe you’re smarter than you intended to be! 😉

  • @zipWith
    @zipWith 10 месяцев назад +14

    It’s pretty cool how the first level had really muted tones and almost no music, then the second level (anger) added in a spot of red. Bargaining was a pretty neat level (nice mechanic!) which added green basically by default, before the last real level (Depression) which of course added blue but was really mostly grey and black anyway. I wonder what narrative structure the next indie game will use?

  • @Randall-e2y
    @Randall-e2y 10 месяцев назад +2

    Bone chilling, spine tingling, genre redefining, slow-burn masterpiece. The way the game seamlessly meshes it's rougelike, rpg, and metroidvania elements was immaculate, I will have to create a 2 hour video essay about this.

  • @ANeMzero
    @ANeMzero 10 месяцев назад +17

    The inclusion of the Utah Teapot is of course mandatory in every Indie game.

  • @kaitlyn__L
    @kaitlyn__L 10 месяцев назад +5

    I subscribed because of the impeccable mimickry of cel animation for The Expanse, but this just proves you really can nail absolutely any style you set your mind to. Bravo.
    BTW: I was laughing in the first few seconds because of how accurate the exposition, font, and art style was… but it just kept getting better!

    • @AndrewD8Red
      @AndrewD8Red 10 месяцев назад

      Yeah, he is sickeningly talented.

  • @archiermanilo23
    @archiermanilo23 10 месяцев назад +16

    Can't wait for the 3 hour video essay about how it's a analogy for depression as if it wasn't the most obvious thing in the world.

  • @donovanjoseph737
    @donovanjoseph737 10 месяцев назад +67

    I almost spat out my food in laughter when the framerate dropped on cue. How does ABK nail his game sketches every time

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 10 месяцев назад +1

      "On cue" is a stage term. "Queue" is a completely different word. Just fyi

    • @donovanjoseph737
      @donovanjoseph737 10 месяцев назад

      @@futurestoryteller Goddammit I forgot. I was trying to make sure I used the right one and I messed it up, thanks 👍

  • @vladdracul5072
    @vladdracul5072 10 месяцев назад +10

    "Overwhelmingly Positive".

    • @W.2026
      @W.2026 7 месяцев назад +2

      *insert gigachad ascii art here*

  • @patron8597
    @patron8597 10 месяцев назад +2

    "Interactive Experience"
    Yeah, that seems about right. Even the details on the start screen atr hilarious.

  • @Comic_Crow
    @Comic_Crow 10 месяцев назад +25

    I'm always astonished with how much work goes into ABKs sketches.

  • @bonquaviusdingle5720
    @bonquaviusdingle5720 10 месяцев назад +9

    I was in hospital with cancer and playing this game on Nintendo switch was so emotional it cured me.

  • @robinkesterlives
    @robinkesterlives 10 месяцев назад +14

    This game would be aptly named, "I got so tired and took and nap when I woke up I was a time traveller".

  • @johncake1337
    @johncake1337 9 месяцев назад +4

    Oh my god, this is so realistic, even down to how sarcastic the dialog is

    • @johncake1337
      @johncake1337 8 месяцев назад

      The graphics it’s just so crazy

  • @LedyE
    @LedyE 10 месяцев назад +6

    I thought it gonna be about a cutesy game with dark undertones to it that has a mysterrious mystery character who pulls all the strings behind the scenes

  • @Dzaimon8562
    @Dzaimon8562 9 месяцев назад +3

    Had the pleasure of meeting you in Edinburgh! Loving your book!

    • @ABeckettKing
      @ABeckettKing  9 месяцев назад +3

      Thank you for reading it!

  • @cody1099
    @cody1099 10 месяцев назад +6

    Another masterpiece from a small indie RUclipsr! The hands thing is too true lol

  • @SurrealPartisan
    @SurrealPartisan 10 месяцев назад +4

    I've been trying to get ideas for my next game and this is very inspiring, thank you.

  • @wjzav1971
    @wjzav1971 10 месяцев назад +8

    Words cannot express how 100% accurate this is

  • @-0rbital-
    @-0rbital- 10 месяцев назад +10

    The framerate dropping is actually a feature meant to represent your psyche dealing with the loss of your girlfriend and the subsequent process of.......

  • @40088922
    @40088922 10 месяцев назад +9

    boy, can't wait to get to the last act of the story when the quirky narrator either 180°s his personality or disappears entirely and there's the exploration of theme of taking anti-depressants and suicide. maybe there're even 2 endings, one where we walk outside and one we become a shut-in. it's no wonder it got 50 awards from all those places I only read about in the game's Steam page

  • @Lurdiak
    @Lurdiak 10 месяцев назад +103

    The question is, is it actually formatting the drive or is it a clever breaking of the fourth wall by the devs.

    • @Soumein
      @Soumein 10 месяцев назад +34

      Just wait till it hits 68% to see if a red pixel devil face appears.

    • @justinsemple7454
      @justinsemple7454 10 месяцев назад +4

      Both!

    • @DanielixKlimax
      @DanielixKlimax 10 месяцев назад +1

      Depends if they are of Myth II schoool or not...

    • @TheGrammarPolice7
      @TheGrammarPolice7 4 месяца назад

      You say "the question is," but you never typed a question mark. Grammar is not just a suggestion; you must obey it.

  • @Keznen
    @Keznen 8 месяцев назад +6

    It's always either this or "Generic Pixel Style Game But It's Like Totally Deep We Swear".

  • @mekacrab
    @mekacrab 9 месяцев назад +4

    It was all in le head, such a complex and inspiring experience.

  • @swordofkings128
    @swordofkings128 10 месяцев назад +45

    Fun fact: hand looking was a trope that started in AAA games and was proven so effective at immersing the player into the role of a pair of disembodied arms that indie games adopted it too.

    • @chaos.corner
      @chaos.corner 10 месяцев назад +7

      Now I want a game where I'm playing disembodied arms. If they could operate independently, that could be a good puzzler.

    • @ZC-Infinity
      @ZC-Infinity 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@chaos.corner So "Struggling" then

    • @chaos.corner
      @chaos.corner 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@ZC-InfinityMaybe. Thanks.

    • @redfoxbennaton
      @redfoxbennaton 10 месяцев назад +2

      Indie games becoming 3D was a mistake.

    • @ZC-Infinity
      @ZC-Infinity 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@redfoxbennaton Billie Bust Up would like a word with you.

  • @videonmode8649
    @videonmode8649 10 месяцев назад +13

    You forgot the part where the indie game dev gets caught grooming an underage user in their discord server and posts a wall of text on Twitter.

  • @GhostOfLorelei
    @GhostOfLorelei 10 месяцев назад +7

    The end is the most important part, gotta nail that 5 star review 😂

  • @vitoc8454
    @vitoc8454 10 месяцев назад +10

    "Here come the lore theorists"

  • @puddle-brigade
    @puddle-brigade 5 месяцев назад +5

    RIP Thurston Waffle

  • @DerekGrubb
    @DerekGrubb 10 месяцев назад +36

    ABK - Ideasmonger, writer, actor, accentmaster, illustrator, programmer, and exceptional at all of them! What a bellend! (... in the nicest possible way.)

    • @Wanda711
      @Wanda711 10 месяцев назад +5

      You mean it in the Pickwickian sense, of course.

    • @angeladawn805
      @angeladawn805 10 месяцев назад +3

      You didn't mention his beautiful hair and stylish dress sense

    • @DerekGrubb
      @DerekGrubb 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@angeladawn805 How remiss of me. You shall find me in the nave, giving myself a good seeing-to.

    • @sylph8005
      @sylph8005 10 месяцев назад

      You're making him sound like Garth Marenghi

    • @mftmss7086
      @mftmss7086 10 месяцев назад

      naaaah the diccriding is crazy

  • @m1bl4n
    @m1bl4n 10 месяцев назад +22

    Symbolism, depression, and that one random political jab that nobody needed. Perfect.
    And of course the looking at your hands. Indie games always needs those.

  • @cggoaly
    @cggoaly 10 месяцев назад +27

    Was almost expecting:
    "Introducing an innovative open world survival sandbox soulslike metroivania game with hand drawn 2D pixel art and rogue like elements"

    • @7QWERTY13
      @7QWERTY13 10 месяцев назад +2

      Actually that's just the vibe and expectation it gives off based on everything you've seen of the trailer so far, which has just been intro cutscenes. Cut to gameplay aaaaaand it's a turn-based deckbuilder.

    • @oldcowbb
      @oldcowbb 9 месяцев назад

      hollow knight but the player character is a plague doctor

    • @thejuiceking2219
      @thejuiceking2219 8 месяцев назад

      @@oldcowbb as a hollow knight player who still waiting on silksong, i'll take it

  • @cormorantcolors
    @cormorantcolors 7 месяцев назад +4

    “Something’s happening, gotta look at my hands!” 😭😭

  • @whact
    @whact 9 месяцев назад +5

    should have named the game "COME TO TERMS WITH IT!"

  • @gametips1756
    @gametips1756 10 месяцев назад +6

    Matpat's gonna have a fucking field day

  • @spladam3845
    @spladam3845 10 месяцев назад +2

    Your satire is so sharp, and your content is so polished, impressive and funny sir.

  • @viscountrainbows2857
    @viscountrainbows2857 10 месяцев назад +3

    The Stanley Neighbor: Bennett Squad And Hunger At Freddy's is certainly one of the indie games.

  • @danielstreeter6738
    @danielstreeter6738 9 месяцев назад +2

    I'm absolutely furious about how accurate this is.

  • @themumblingdumpling2838
    @themumblingdumpling2838 9 месяцев назад +4

    Oh my, that's my favourite game! "SuperFireStanleyWatchLiminalParable"!

  • @BadgerOfTheSea
    @BadgerOfTheSea 10 месяцев назад +1

    The faux pencil drawing selection box is a nice touch

  • @AliceInWonder1and_is_a_sub
    @AliceInWonder1and_is_a_sub 10 месяцев назад +5

    The fact that it’s the Garfield house makes it 10000x funnier

    • @Keznen
      @Keznen 8 месяцев назад +1

      Holy shit, it is! rofl

  • @hardwaresecuritymodule
    @hardwaresecuritymodule 10 месяцев назад

    The format had me in absolute stitches - bravo!!!

  • @RJ_Ehlert
    @RJ_Ehlert 10 месяцев назад +4

    Deleting all the data in my computer really immersed me into feeling what Guy Manmann felt.

  • @evilmurlock
    @evilmurlock 10 месяцев назад +1

    0:30 that animation is literaly everywhere, now I cant unsee it!

  • @TheG_Boy
    @TheG_Boy 10 месяцев назад +3

    ''I hope she doesn't break up with me again''
    LMFAO!!!!