Good Game Design - Baba Is You 

HE is HU AD RT

i played this game on my Switch in a 12-hr flight and by the time I got off the flight, my brain had melted and my spoken word abilities were reduced to "Plane IS Landed", "Airport IS Visible", "Weather IS Cloudy AND Raining", my family thought I had gone insane.

Level too Hard Baba is Done Better look Out Baba has *Gun*

you had the opportunity to do "baba is good game design" but didn't and now i'm sad

"Psh, I know enough about Baba is you, I don't need no stinkin' spoiler warning" ... "Yo, **WHAT?**"

The crazy part about BIY is that it is turing complete. In other words: IT'S A FLIPPING COMPUTER!

You should advertise games. Wow, I want this game so bad! XD

Rose is red Violet is blue Flag is win And Baba is you

Dear god, I heard many great things about this game, but I never knew so much logic puzzles can meld your mind so much

Bra is O in w why do I have 1.5k likes

All is Do Ne Player: Mr baba I don't feel so good.

0:48 in that level I actually made lava is you... pretty overkill, but it was something amazing to control lava that used half of the level

oh my lord Baba is Ewe almost blew my mind as much as this game does every time I play it... This is easily the most mindbendingly brilliant game I ever played! I never thought a game with a simple chalkboard art style would be one of the most intricate games ever made.

I hope the game gets a level editor of some sort

I just want you to know that I stopped at the spoiler warning and immediately bought this game on my Switch. You only needed 1:55 to convince me. Thanks!

This has gotta be the fifth or sixth "please get this game" video I've seen on Baba. You do such a goddamn amazing job on your videos that I think this one is gonna make me buy it

Good news guys, well posibly, Theres a level editor in the game files and the game might soon have steam workshop functionality, so soon we will have infinite levels!

Turns out the real baba was the friends we made along the way

watching your channel but having no money to buy games is so torturing because every single time you make a Good Game Design video it just makes me want to play these so much

COM is not ORIG MENT INAL Edit: Today, I beated BIY (true ending)!

At 0:45 I did "Lava is melt" and all the lava disappeared. It's pretty cool to see how some levels don't just have one solution

Listening to some of the shit that happens later in the game scares me, seeing as how I'm stumped on world 3.

So this game plays on the mechanic that... Everything is Arbabatrary?

Baba - you Flag - win Hotel - trivago

The map screen thing is also done, in a way, in steven sausage roll.

That "baa baa is ewe" pun flew right over my head omg

Holy sh** how deep does this thing go? I mean, it's impossible to have LITERALLY infinite content in this one game, right? ...right?

When I first saw this game I thought nothing of it but now I my get it

GA is HOT ME BR is ME AIN LT

For people who are still a bit unsure whatever to get the game or not: You can find a free Game Jam version of the game from itchio by searching "Baba Is You (Jam Build)" on Google. It's a bit different from the final product but it can give you a good idea what the game is like to play and whatever the final product is worth your time and money. EDIT: The creator of the game on the difference between versions (found in the itchio comment section): Q: "question, I have the new retail release. I have yet to try this but are the levels different? Is the game different? Thanks in advance for all your hard work!" A: "Most of the levels in the jam version are in the final game; some of the rule logic is different and/or more buggy in the jam version. Thank you!"

Baba Is You is an ultra-hidden gem that should not be hidden. It is beyond good.

This game blew my mind on so many levels, it just never stops getting smarter and smarter. The Meta World is absolutely fantastic.

before playing the game Me: This game looks good! after playing the game Me: ME IS HELP BRAIN IS MELT

Whenever I bring my switch to a friend's house they ask "what is 'Baba is you'?"... Uh oh...

0:17 Ironically, people say “simplistic” when they could just say “simple”. “Simple” is also the more traditionally correct word in this context.

I might be late but I just gotta say that your good game design and you need to play videos are great. The amount of games you've introduced to me is amazing.

Sno IS Sno man dad I wanted to finish the video but I didn't want spoilers so I just tried not to pay attention to the end... Still an amazing video that I will have to come back and finish

I literally turned it off after your spoiler warning, but I just wanted to let you know that you are a huge inspiration for my channel. I think your taste in game design is supreme, and you have one of the best gaming channels out there. Will finish the video once I give Baba a playthrough! Let's talk about it!!!!

When my brother first started playing this game, I'd been a month or two into UE4 and its block-and-thread-based visual scripting. On levels he got stuck, he'd call me over to look at it. Sometimes it took a minute, but I'd help him figure it out. Seeing every single thing on the screen as an actor you could possess really helped.

THIS is WELL GAME MADE

Okay, I wasn't sure about getting it but wow. This game goes the extra mile and then two more.

By 0:16 I paused the video and bought the game.

Yet another amazing video from Snoman Gaming!

I'm super glad you did this episode.

The "flowers" are internally called "blossoms" by the way.

Just like Fez, it gets deeper than I could ever discover on my own.

There you are, playing baba is you when all of a sudden you is rock, you diddnt ask to be rock, you diddnt want to be rock but there you are, you is rock.

Baba is game, Game is design, Design is good!

Never did I thought that this game would charm and make me smile in the ways that it did. No doubt this game will stick with me for a very long time.

Hey, looks like I found someone who loves this game just as much as I do. I was really excited to play it as soon as I saw the trailer, but the game really exceeded my expectations several times over.

Baba has knife and is pissed

This video made me have an existential crisis

Now I am so interested in this game. Btw how do you make that mic sound so good? Good video as always

5:40 that was the solution?!!? I set it up so it forms Keke Is you using the flag is you is, and so Keke was pushed on the flag to allow him to win on the one turn I was in control... The 5:40 solution seems to be more intuitive

you've literally given me answers to levels i haven't beaten yet with background gameplay

I discovered the Level Is Baba thing with the key too! It blew my mind so much when I accessed the secret world

I love this game but I feel a little ashamed I had to look for some puzzle answers on RU-vid. My head hurts playing this without break.

It's weird hearing baabaa when I got used to hearing bahbah

What if, when you beat the worldscreens, you get to the *next level of worldscreens* where you can pick between more worldscreens

I discovered this game through your video, and it's become my favourite puzzle game of all time. I stopped at the spoiler warning, and discovering everything on my own has been an amazing experience. Finally came back to watch the rest of this video after clearing all the levels.

Stopped at 1:58, you got me interested about the game lmao

Ok, stopped watching at 2:00. Thanks for convincing me to get this game :D

this video is high quality good job snowboi

Thank you. I totally overlooked this game.

Stephen's Sausage Roll when ?

Baba is you is Good Game Design

I plaid the gameJam version of baba is you some times ago, and now, I just learned that it turned into a full game ! I'm so glad because it was already so good as an "alpha". It is definitely going into my xmas wishlist !

"Lava is hot and melt" hmm yes that condition makes perfect sense.

Fun game although it gets really tough really quick. I'm a programmer and usually good at puzzle games but I still have to spend quite some time to figure out the solutions. And then there are levels like that one extra level that is locked when you start the game that I solved almost immediately and I didn't even use most of the words available. I completely ignored the area that has skull is defeat and belt is shift as well as the word end and phrase rock is weak at the bottom part of the stage. Here's what my solution looked like: i.ibb.co/DDrWcZ4/20190505-093311.jpg I stopped after the first three areas or so because the game requires so much from you. (Stopped at the second warning, don't want to spoil the solutions.) It's the ever changing ruleset that melts your brain. You have to constantly remind yourself what each object's properties are. My brain is tired after 8 hours of work and it's usually still processing the programming task I was working on in the background so Baba is You is not that fun to play afterwards. I'll come back to it at some point but right now, I'm fine with playing the latest BoxBoy. Really loved the first three games on 3DS and while I had some worries when it came to changes they made to the latest game (scoring and having to unlock hook move), they weren't that big of a deal in the end. The new box jump move made my eyes go wide. I like how they just keep adding new abilities in each game without taking any away. Makes me feel overpowered.

Have you played Gris? I think it might make an interesting video.

Yess, I love this game! So subtle but it's shockingly fun. Hope they'll gain some more attention.

Just so you know, the huge amount of secret end-game content isn’t new for the creator, Hempuli. The ‘new game +’ of his previous metroidvania game, Environmental Station Alpha, gets crazy with the kind of puzzles and secrets it hides in the game. It’s worth a look if you want a pure metroidvania that turns into the witness with platforming after the final boss!

2:54 RO IS RED SE VIO IS BL LET UE FL IS WIN AG BA IS YOU BA

SO IS EM UL PTY

I was playing this today and my mom thought of that "Baba is Ewe" joke. What hilariously perfect comedic timing!

when i first saw the snobaby announcement i commented as a joke that since the music is from baba is you, there’ll be a baba is you good game design. WELL IT HAPPENED. good job

You pronounce Baba weird. Isn't it "Ba-ba" like "mama" with B's? :-P But yeah, it is one of my favorite puzzle games in a long time. Some other ones I'd recommend are Recursed, Fidel Dungeon Rescue, Desktop Dungeons, Return of the Obra Dinn, The Talos Principle, The Swapper, Linelight, Braid, and Vessel. They are all pretty different in their own way, but still great puzzle games with some interesting things going on.

Baba Is Not Ewe. There's a drawing of it in game. It is 100% a bunny or at least bunnyesque.

Cool, I just started to play this game and you make a video about it.

That went deep pretty quick...

I watched Northernlion play this. at first i thought the game was super adorable and awesome, but then i just got mad at his play by the end of his series on it. game is great is game

Baba is done and has knife

5:35 - This is amazing, I spent like 1 hour trying to figure this puzzle out, and came out with a completely different solution that the one shown here. I solved it by creating the sentence "Keke is win" , and completely ignoring the flag. This made me think of a weird manouver with the babas to turn the vertical "keke is you" to an horizontal one, which believe me, is waaaaay harder than it sounds, but possible. I didn't even consider the posibility of the solution being the one shown here, that's why I was so f***ing amazed when I just saw it. Best-Game-Ever.

IS THIS VIDEO REEEALL?! Thanks for making this -baba and puzzle fan

You have convinced me to buy this game. Is this game on Nintendo Switch?

Zelda 2 is you.

YAY A VIDEO ABOUT BABA IS YOU

I got this game because of this video. You said it was hard, and i thought, yeah, well im no stranger to puzzle games. bring it on! Holy shit was i wrong. This is hard.

Sick game, but I would hate it. Not even ashamed to admit it. I just don't have the time/patience to play these kinds of games. I'm glad developers are pushing the boundaries of what to do for games though!

What about Human Resource Machine by Tomorrow Corporation? It has the same mechanics of programming and an underlying measage of automation being the death of human labor

THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME BUY AND PLAY THIS GAME AND HAVE THE MOST FUN IVE HAD IN A GAME I BEAT IT IN A WEEK

It's a great game. The only complain I have about it: Being confronted with a puzzle that needs you to discover a new mechanism almost every time is a little but frustrating. You beat a level, think "Oh, I got that! Now give me a slightly harder variation of this!" and nope, you must discover a new mechanism first. Give the player a rest!

So nobody gonna talk about the way they wrote “grass”?

Also "Baba" means father in turkish.

Thanos: Hahahaha Also Thanos: Half is End

I think the only part I didn't like about this game is that some mechanics weren't demonstrated as clearly as they maybe could have been. With some words I never quite understood what they did exactly and thus had a hard time solving some puzzles, since I didn't even know a word could be used in a certain way. Otherwise I really enjoyed the game tho.

i have not played the game, so my thoughts on this video were... W a T H

I don't know. I usually follow your thoughts as they are similar to mine, but I'm an hour in and hate this game. Edit: I have now played 2 hours and it makes me incredibly frustrated

Very well done bro.

You got me intrigued...I'm gonna stop at 1:56 and will come back later