How Among Us Was Made and Why The Developers Wanted to Quit 

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The story of how Among Us managed to reach tons of fame despite being released 2 years ago with barely anyone knowing about the game is unironically beautiful and motivating honestly

Amazing video, 20 minutes felt more like 5, you did a great job!

Such a well made video, this game as such an interesting history.

A lot of people forget the reason why Among Us became popular with non-gamers is the pandemic. This was a game that became popular at the peak of the lockdown, allowing friends to play and have fun or just hang out socially. I have fond memories of playing it every night and it brought us together even though everyone else was stuck in their homes.

From being an unnoticed game to winning three awards for the game in December 2020 it taught us to never give up and learning from failures .

"We're not gonna add any more things to Among Us" *Proceeds to add a huge airship from a different game entirely*

summary: The developers quit because nobody liked the game, Then everyone had seen some streamers playing it and hopped on the trend too, now its alive.

Nice to know that Brazilians helped with the development by stimulating the team to create new content

“Permanently $2 and then, it went down to free.” Yes, that is permanently.

"Going to consoles is difficult" not even a month later: among us switch edition! (i rly enjoyed the vid btw) :)

marcus and amy just said: *"how about we make a game with beans killing beans?"*

The sad thing is... There might be A LOT MORE underrated games like this Edit: For all the people who says "This is not underrated", I know. I meant that games that are AMAZING, but are UNDERRATED (i.e. Among Us, was a great game BUT was underrated and made only 35$ in 2018) Edit 2: Feel free to comment any games that you think is underrated :)

I'm glad Kaif and the SR group is getting recognition for their contribution of a new wave of players to Among us. Thank youuu :3

All entrepreneurs have thought of quitting before. The remaining ones simply persevered.

Innersloth : "We will no longer be adding updates to among us" Kaif : "Put those words right back into your mouth sir"

You should REALLY make a “How Henry stickmin was made and almost Burned out the creator.”

It’s funny I’m coming across this, me and my friends have been playing Among Us on and off since 2018, and only now seeing it get so popular and all of my favorite streamers playing it is pretty cool.

To Ineersloth: " Hire more people. Don't let your success become reason for your failure "

Fun fact: There’s a comment on the official beta trailer for Among Us that says “Nobody’s going to play your stupid game.” Needless to say, they may have been a tiny bit wrong.

Animal Crossing and Among Us’ blow up this year really reflects on what people miss the most, social life and interaction.

Innersloth: we wont add any more maps only some bug fixes.' 2020 december: lemme make a new henry stickmin map.

Fun fact: one of the devs Marcus or puffballsunited was already popular way before among us when he made henry stickmin

Finally i see someone who gives kaif recognition for attracting new players when this game wasn't popular and was at it lowest, this video was very well researched, congrats you sir

I am Brazilian and the fact that a Brazilian youtuber and our community is an important part of the growth of the game, warms my heart of happiness. I love it when indie games take over from big companies.

Very interesting and well structured as many have already said. Great job!

I remember searching "Mafia games" in Play Store because of theses memes ads. And then i saw space mafia. I just looked at the title weirdly and then scrolled down.

Among us becoming popular twice after Innersloth wanted to stop working on it: ᕙ[･۝･]ᕗ

And then everyone gave up on this game because the developers where taking their time making the game perfect

Me from the future: It's on the switch now!

And now there making a new map and won "Best Multiplayer Game".

Here's a suggestion: Superliminal

Absolutely solid video. Well put together and we’ll sourced. Good job!

I never expected a game I played back in school would surge in popularity, but I am proud to have played on the beta before it blew up! Keep making these videos, Glen! We're here to patiently wait.

Dang my boy Henry ain’t gonna get any recognition.

Your videos always put a smile on my face, also thank you for having cc!

Wow, seeing all the RU-vid flooded with Among Us videos it's hard to believe practically nobody knew about it for years!

Commenting for the algorithm, this video is so well made!

Man, I remember me and my classmates play among us by mobile hotspot way back in 2018.. We never expected that it will become popular af..

bruh I started playing in February (2020) when randoms were actually fun and people weren't idiots.

You did it! Very informative and straight to the point. Great video, as always! I really hope this gets a lot of traction & views.

i remember playing this game back in 2019. me and my cousins would play this until 2am, ah, good times

I remember playing this game like 1 year ago with my friend. There were like hardly any lobbies available. Although I would be telling a big lie if I said I preferred 2020 among us compared to 2019 among us. 2019 among us was a lot more fun since most of the players then actually were smart and not just a bunch of 2 year old kids.

To be honest i now understand more that lack of updates lately.

The thing that ruined the game for me and why I don’t play it any more is because of the messaging system I find it difficult to get working and having a good conversation

Your videos are always such a treat! clean, clear, and too the point! Amazing editing and images. You deserve so many more subscribers!

Super Meat Boy or the Binding of Issac are games I would like to see. I feel like these 2 weird games might potentially have a crazy story behind them.

0:23 there was a gray among us colour back then?

This is such a feel-good story, and shows that AAA is a concept that is unaffordable in the long run.

As someone who has a side business with a friend, I can attest to the pains of being a cofounder of any company, especially a tech startup. It's a shit ton of work! And when you don't have a lot of experience already, the grand majority of the time, you will spend learning and failing. You will have to stay hours upon hours staring into a computer screen without seeing you friends for weeks until you can make a living out of what you are doing. Development will be slow because everyone in your team has other jobs, other goals, and other shit going on in their life and you can't depend on any one person. It will also be slow because you could run into a myriad of issues if you don't know what you are doing or are frustrated or depressed for whatever reason. For example, today i lost a small portion of a project I was doing because I was trying to split the GitHub repository of another project i am working on. You will also not have the budget to offer an amazing experience to the client which as the video states, is the reason innersloth had shitty servers. The reason why i made this comment, is because every company starts off not making any money for at least the first year. Innersloth is no exception. I guess their biggest mistake is not taking into account the scalibility of Among Us.

The quality of these videos is amazing. Keep it up!

its amazing how a little compnay turned in to a world wide rage!

Guys, we NEED a round of applause for these devs, they've been working so hard and they really made things better for everyone

_The devs should recruit 1 or 2 extra coders so that all the pressure isn't held by one guy_ Change my mind

Your videos just keep on getting better man keep up the good work!

I can't wait for the "How Hollow Knight Silksong was made and why it took SO DARN LONG to come out"

"If in doubt, vote stan out"

And then they take away normal chat, which restricts communication, a key mechanic in making the game work nicely. Now that it’s so much harder to communicate, the game feels dull.

So basically, if that one guy hadn't seen Among Us in the app store randomly, Among Us would never have been profitable. That's life as an indie dev.

Perfect timing. Just finished my 6 hour long class and needed something to relax! I really like your videos btw :D

Love that this game is finally been getting the recognition it deserves, Ive been playing with some friends on and off since august 2018

Very interesting and clean video! I am very happy that you covered the game's history so thoroughly. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you!

Funny how actual among us video has more normal comment section than videos that aren't about among us.

it shatters me to imagine the many, many alternate timelines where things went way different.

Well good thing they didn’t, i wouldn’t be able to be thrown out every round for faking med scan, i swear they’ll learn that it fun

I had JUST watched your Stanley Parable video and was hoping you'd make one on Among Us! So excited to watch!!

I really love the character designs, as so simple but cute, and interesting the way the hands disappear and re appear. I feel so much suspense too when playing, and trying to plead my case no matter which side Im on. It would be cool to have a voice chat option for just random groups.

Wow, the Deity game actually sounds like a really good concept, it would be cool if they came back to it eventually, or make something like it

Nice video and great job on the editing and I hope among us rise again :]

Your "how was made" videos are the best! Surprised why you haven't got mil subs already

Loving this series so far, and it's nice to learn how to do things for game development. I think it would be cool to see either ultrakill, return of the obra dinn or disco elysium!

Finally there's a video that actually recognizes how the game actually had a first spike in popularity in 2019 in Brazil. Most people (sometimes even Brazilian youtubers) act like the game was unknown until this year.

Hearing that the servers burned down every time that there was a new wave makes the fact that Mira and Polus servers are absolutely destroyed currently make a lot more sense

Woah I didn’t know Among Us had such a interesting history. Great vid u had good facts and explained everything very well.

americans: this new game is so good! me, a brazillian, who knows the game since 2018: yeah, what a cool "new game" apparently americans get hurt when someone includes them in a joke, so just for clarification: this is a joke

Cheese 4 : the attack of the impasta

I was actually playing end of 2018 I was one of those guys saying it needed new maps lol im glad they took it so far honestly a great game

Ok, no more updates. Adds airship map and 2 crypto currencies

Innersloth: *quits developing Among Us* Also Innersloth: aight bois, time for a new map.

Here to juice that algorithm

Honestly I am surprised Teo wasn’t recognized for it

ThatGuyGlen: a friend system Me as a therapist:thank you that all i need to hear

A team of three. I can't imagine how much stress they must endure. Congrats 👏👏

The underwater map is now released, as 5up made a mod

I can say for sure that Kaif is why I started playing Among Us.

Played in 2018 and I'm so proud of where it's at 😢

It's still a success!

No way you are this underrated your videos are so high quality

i played the game often back in 2018-2019. there was a community yet it was large enough that it was rare to meet people from different matches you met earlier. the maps also costed money on mobile including ads. another thing was that more colors were added a few weeks to a few months after i started playing, then came free hats, i miss the game being small and probably would've kept playing if the outburst of new players didnt happen or wasnt as big

Well it was released on the Nintendo switch yesterday. Perfect.

I like how some RU-vidr actually said Mafia copied Among us.

As a Banquet beer bottle cap once told me, "Be proud of doing it your own way."

From start to finish, this was an exceptionally made video. The running background, rolling text next to the speaker's picture, and the overall timeline were so well put together. The accompanying music was perfect in that I never really noticed it, but I was definitely more interested in the video because of it

Let me sum this up: Man 1: "I only knew how to draw" Man 2: "I only knew how to code" Couple years later: *Sussus amogus was born*

I honestly don't like the game, but I gotta appreciate the work the devs had to go through and how the community managed to grow to unrealistic proportions, nobody expected a simple game with simple graphics to become so popular, but here we are

AMONG US IS ON SWITCH GUYS ITS ONLY $5 DOLLARS

Inersloth:we quit Random youtuber: among us is a good game

I came across Among Us in 2018 or so cuz I am really obsessed with murder mystery Mafia like games especially where you can chat/multiplayer. I was desperately searching google play until I found Among Us, I fell in love with the game and only played every week or so due to studies. I was so happy when this game got the popularity it deserved.

i think also a big part of its revival is the henry stickman collection since that game was so hyped and did so well and also there were among us easter eggs so it brought publicity to the game

The team needs to advertise and get the information out to more people that their game exists