Hello Neighbor Pre-Alpha: The Beginning of Something [HN RETROSPECTIVE FINALE] 

Finally a RU-vidr who actually does his research

Some fun little info on this build: The house's layout changes each time you progress on the basement door The neighbor's AI changes with each layout change and becomes more dynamic The prototype house can actually be found in the files of the pre alpha This is the only build where the neighbor can actually "hear" items drop or being thrown You can beartrap the neighbor in this build if you place a beartrap down

House variations were goated, the neighbour adapted to your actions in more ways than just adding bear traps and cameras. It was also really unnerving slowly see the house layout get more and more demented the more times you get caught, it was as if the neighbour was getting more and more insane the more you tried to invade his house.

I always wondered why not a singe fangame was able to capture that magic the alpha builds before alpha 2 had.I do not know why, but this is how it is. I am having dreams about a completed alpha 1 & pre-alpha houses being in-game.

I loved the stuff about the pre release content in this series and the entire retrospective itself was really good. Hope more videos similar to this get made.

These videos were a love letter to the 8 of us left.

13:09 Well the game has 3 ambiences 1. Inside: Means you're not inside the house 2. Near: Means you're are inside the house 3. Nearby: Means the neighbor is suspicious and is looking for you

Imagine doing the blacklight puzzle in the act 3 house

great video. wish hello neighbor released as a better game. nostalgia and charm still make me like it

This games atmosphere is scary with cool and interestingly weird things that didn't make it to the final cut like the big neighbor when you sleep a lot of times and the fascinating prototype build with lots of fan games it was a great start to show off the game with one floor and how you lore him away to go in another place and the Spanish TV and remember the video where you first saw him and said what the heck is that mario was that lugi that was lugi. It cool see people reactions to that jumpscare and me getting scared too it being unexpected the times when hello neighbor was scary.

I love the house variations of the pre alpha

the random stacked items are probably his way of trying to block you off

9:44 Its not a "chance", everytime you start the game, the nightmare will happen after 8 respawns total (aka death or sleep). This includes the red basement layout at the beginning.

i enjoy when people talk about how the earlier versions were better because they were, but when this game said it was a “horror” game, the final release didnt really have horror to it anymore, the pre alpha and prototype and the first look had the horror to it, take the pre alpha, its ambient was more frightening and freaky music would start to play as the neighbor is right next to you, and on top of that his ai was much more smarter and got so smart where the game is so hard and unbeatable, the neighbor gave off this, theres no escape, and the “i know your every move” even the atmosphere was scary, it was almost like gta 4 and gta 3, the sun could be shining but it still feels dark and odd, thats exactly how you could describe the pre alpha’s atmosphere, not just that, the art style as well, the art style somehow bumped up the horror in the game which was probably what caused the games sort of downfall but overall the earlier versions are much better

fun fact the announcement trailer house interior blueprints can be found on the internet for a real life house, also ring bing carlos

5:33 People say what is that shadow? Well that is the player. When the player checked the door before throwing a tomato there was a shadow on the door. Its the player's shadow.

hey, ducky can you play hello neighbor alternative reality? and discuss it after you finish?

4:46 Meu comentário apareceu kkkk

Remember when in this build how it would just end abruptly when you entered the basement

Does anyone know how to change the screen resolution in pre-alpha

Hey ducky awesome vid

Think you forgot the teaser trailer from dynamic pixels.

W series

You should do this series but with hn2

“A red neighbor” why? XD

Plz revisit the awful betas!!!

900th like!

6:19 ring bing carlos :D

The house are burnt 🔥🏠

If you paused the video to read the text 👇

My rankings of each Hello Neighbor build: *Prototype - 10/10* *Pre-Alpha - 9/10* *Alpha 1 - 8/10* *Alpha 2 - 10/10* *Alpha 3 - 6/10* *Alpha 4 - 6/10* *Beta 1 - 0/10* *Beta 2 - 0/10* *Beta 3 - 7/10* *Full Game - 9/10*

lol why does the shadow not have a chin

Fun Fact: the Pre-Alpha was made in Unity, not Unreal.

The old kinda realistic art style was way better then newer cartoon one this guy was like actually scary instead of this cartoon villain thats more fun to mess with then anything

fun fact: the prototype house’s roof texture is wooden planks (in the trailer footage specifically)

Great retrospective! I liked how you went in-depth into the game's mechanics, as well as the prerelease content of every alpha.

I just binged all 4 of these lmao

I think the best possible version of Hello Neighbor would be the Alpha 1 neighbor and house (with the pre-alpha exterior) with the pre-alpha's house variations, OST, and secrets

There was also a version in between the 2014 one you talked about and the prototype I call it the pre prototype

Fun fact: alpha 2 was already being made before the pre alpha even released publicly, so the art style was already changed from the start

The house variations are an awesome idea! I wish it was in the full game

5:07 The pre alpha character is the neighbor but with a different head shape so I think that they used that pose just because of that

Annoying fact: in most people's steam copy of the game the in-game cursor was VERY off-setted which made picking up objects a CHORE

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hi i'm here bc my friend maksim told me abt u

Correction: The neighbor throwing items technically did make it into the game

I think you know what to do next Hello neighbor 2😈

Thanks man I loved the older models of this game the announcement trailer being the peak (even if scripted) I wonder if you’ll do anything for all the concept art? If not I still appreciate this mini series of retrospectives.

if only hello neighbor was actually like this instead of the big crock of shit it turned out being

Cup board

what music did you use at the intro?

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that blue thing you saw is a marker

I like it

yo anom, is your discord server still up? when i click on the discord invite it says "Invite Invalid". can you give me a new link please?