How Baba Is You Makes Brain Busting Puzzles

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Every year, I celebrate one game that went above and beyond in terms of innovation, invention, and imagination. From Her Story to Snake Pass to Return of the Obra Dinn, these games have stunned us with their unique ideas and excellent execution. This year, the award goes to...
=== Sources and Resources ===
Making Baba Is You, what is this? by Arvi Teikari Hempul | Gamelab Conference
• #GAMELAB19: Making Bab...
=== Games Shown ===
Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope, 2018)
Snake Pass (Sumo Digital, 2017)
Her Story (Sam Barlow, 2015)
Event[0] (Ocelot Society, 2016)
Disco Elysium (ZA/UM, 2019)
Untitled Goose Game (House House, 2019)
Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital, 2019)
Heaven’s Vault (Inkle, 2019)
Baba is You (Hempuli, 2019)
Snakebird (Noumenon Games, 2015)
Stephen's Sausage Roll (increpare games, 2016)
Scribblenauts (5th Cell, 2009)
Braid (Number None, 2008)
Ending (st33d, 2013)
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build (Draknek, 2015)
Pipe Push Paradise (Corey Martin, 2018)
Starseed Pilgrim (Droqen, 2013)
Minit (JW, Kitty, Jukio, and Dom, 2018)
The Witness (Thekla, Inc, 2016)
=== Credits ===
Music used in this episode
Return of the Obra Dinn soundtrack - Lucas Pope
Outer Wilds soundtrack - Andrew Prahlow ( / outer-wilds-original-s... )
Baba Is You soundtrack - Arvi Teikari (hempuli.itch.io/baba-is-you-s...)
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This Puzzle Game is Amazing!!! - BaBa Is You Let's Play Part 1 | Yukon
• This Puzzle Game is Am...
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@Hempulix 4 года назад

Thank you so much for picking Baba Is You for this year's final video! It was extremely heartwarming to hear such positive words about the game; I'm really glad that it left such an impression on you. Have a good rest of the year & onwards!

@puzzlebox6689 4 года назад

I've been playing puzzle/logic games my whole life, and this is hands down my favorite game of all time. Took me 80 hours to complete 100% and loved every second of it. You sir are a genius. Baba is best :)

@sailsci 4 года назад

how about that level editor? although, I've been having fun with the custom levels from the community.

@user-dg4fb9tq2m 4 года назад

Praise the genius.

@DrGandW 4 года назад

Will M. Haha it’s coming I can’t wait either bro

@DavidTriphon 4 года назад

Keep making games! We'll love to see what you come up with next. :)

@KevinCow 4 года назад

"We need to be open, but we also don't want to disappear when we use ourselves." Man, that's pretty deep.

@Dogman_35 4 года назад

And just like real life, the solution is cloning yourself and killing off the original. That worked out really well in Living with Yourself.

@jeromealday614 4 года назад

Hmm... We should be open-minded but we should never lose who we are.

@Leekodot15 4 года назад

Just make yourself have yourself.

@tech6hutch 4 года назад

Reminds me of "I want you to expect the unexpected, and prepare for what is not there."

@sgtmajorkiwi 4 года назад

Bruh, does the use bit remind anyone else of hdoom, or am I just a dirty minded individual?

@hoodiesticks 4 года назад

I got stuck on a level in Baba, put the game down, and then went on with my day. Next morning I woke up with the solution fully formed in my head. I've never had a puzzle game do that to me.

@MachStarry 4 года назад

Thats like me quitting a game then picking it up again and getting better than before like being in the zone

@BrownOpsLeak 4 года назад

Sad

@SolantisA 4 года назад

To me it happens all the time. Sometimes I forget about a game and a few days/weeks or even months later it just randomly pops into my mind with the solution :D I gave up on it, but my subconscious figured it out in the back of my mind.

@wigglebot765 4 года назад

Same thing happened to me during one of the final puzzles during the witness

@5T4N1 4 года назад

Fits the programming theme then. This constantly happens to me when im stuck with something while coding. I often walk into the office in the morning with a fix for some bug in my head that i came up with while i was sleeping.

@283leis 4 года назад

I love that you called Goose Game a "Honk-em-up"

@Jayfive276 4 года назад

I love he didn't make it the subject of the video given it's ridiculously over-rated and only as big as it is because a legion of morons keep shouting memes at each other about it.

@julianemery718 4 года назад

I've heard that the developers have done some terrible things, but you should do your own research into that.

@huhwerami4417 4 года назад

@@Jayfive276 Peace was never an option

@ellingeng 4 года назад

Really? What? I’ve spent about 20 minutes Googling and have come up with bupkiss

@zatherz2498 4 года назад

@@julianemery718 They thought that having made a mediocre meme game meant that they were now the authority on political issues and could tell people how to vote using official media. Not the first time mediocre indie devs have shown that they have a superiority complex. Context: i.redd.it/oercqiamgu241.png

@RhyHello 4 года назад

Hearing the background music gives me ptsd from hours spent not getting the damn solution to prison break

@Jackspiring 4 года назад

You played prison break? What was it like

@teobaldominattoscussel7865 4 года назад

i still dont get the solution to prison break. Damn that level

@ShaunDreclin 4 года назад

Ugh that level sucks. I eventually gave up and looked up the answer, and instead of an "Oh, I get it!" Moment I had an "OH COME ON!" one.

@android19willpwn 4 года назад

That's one that makes you feel incomprehensibly stupid once you figure it out. Because there's so little there that the solution *should* be obvious. There just aren't enough other things you could possibly do. But it still takes you ages and when you finally get it you think "this is something I should have figured out two hours ago"

@someguy_namingly 4 года назад

Haha, it took me ages to figure that one out, coming back to it again and again! In the end I was like, "Hmm, I wonder if *this* will work"... and luckily it did, and I learned a new thing I could do. :) I can't bear to look any of them up, because that means I'll never get to actually solve them.

@LashknifeTalon 4 года назад

My absolute favorite sentence forming moment I've ever had in Baba is You was definitely the moment when I made "Empty is you". I literally just spent several minutes just moving things around laughing my head off as I tried to grasp what the heck I'd just done.

@Stratelier 4 года назад

Yep ... that level is named "Horror Story" for a REASON (and don't forget its remix, "Existential Crisis").

@gustavowadaslopes2479 3 года назад

ME doing LEVEL IS SHIFT: Oh! Presses Space and Z a few times: OH!

@thatoneguy9582 3 года назад

Level Is Fall is also just really funny

@personperson3804 3 года назад

Space is my favorite, I beat that level you mentioned just yesterday

@hdckighfkvhvgmk 3 года назад

EMPTY is one of the best mechanics in the game. When i played the first few levels featuring EMPTY i said to myself "this is probably the point in baba where solutions take a while to figure out for me..."

@Pellbort 4 года назад

GMTK: "If you haven't played Baba Is You yet, it's time to pause the video, go to Steam or the Nintendo E-Shop and get the game." Me: "This seems like something I should do. Right now." Me: *does exactly those things* Months later the RU-vid algo serves this video up again. Me: *notices the video wasn't finished, can't remember why* Start video GMTK: "When you're done, come back and we'll chat more about how the game builds its brain-busting puzzles." This experience made me question exactly how much of my life is under my own control.

@davidtitanium22 3 года назад

You is not you

@jeremyquentin42 3 года назад

I'm the man with the controller and I confirm.

@irok1 3 года назад

ALGORITHM KNOWS

@justjoking5252 3 года назад

👤is🆗

@Vainameinen 3 года назад

It's evolving... I've paused the video to get the game on Steam just exactly _before_ this line.

@MrepicHushpuppy 4 года назад

That reverse engineering strategy is very similar to a strategy called “backwards by design” in reformed education. Instead of blindly designing lessons to reach an end goal (of students learning something, i.e the purpose of mitosis), you use the desired end goal to inform and structure the previous lessons. The overlap between good game design and good education makes sense, but its something I didnt expect.

@matthewr6148 4 года назад

"Makes sense, but its something I didn't expect." ~Baba Is You in a nutshell

@kirtil5177 4 года назад

or basically "how do you find X?" if X=Z+Y^2, what is Z, Y, and ^ ? if Y^2=Y*Y, what is * ? and so on until you get the very basics of maths that you cant simplify further like that, you can also find the basics of the game which you need to teach the player

@johannesbragelmann6629 4 года назад

For this very reason my Bachelor thesis was about the use of Game mechanics for educational purposes XD

@jadejaguar69 4 года назад

That's so interesting! Thank you for sharing!

@andrewp6738 3 года назад

I'm taking a class on video game education in the fall, thanks for this tidbit!

@citricdolphin336 3 года назад

This is legitimately one of the most difficult games I've ever played. It starts out all simple, but by the time I reached world four it started taking me about one hour to complete each individual level. The solutions are that brain bending.

@goldenirie 3 года назад

And then weeks to beat a level lol

@hdckighfkvhvgmk 3 года назад

I reached that level at about area 5 or 6, conveniently when some of my least favorite mechanics in the game were introduced (FALL and SWAP), though there were others i found pretty difficult in earlier areas as well. Beating areas 7, 9, and 10 took me WEEKS on end and even longer for some of the secret stuff.

@fisheatsyourhead 2 года назад

one hour? lol I once tele was introduced I could do about a level every few days, never going to finish at this rate

@whatkidsandbabieslike7884 Год назад

Would you rather need to turn levels into stuff?

@Nuisance_Bear Год назад

I'm already at this stage in world two, It's SO hard omfg. not the good kind of hard either, the kind of hard that makes you feel like a dumbass when you figure it out finally. :/

@CorvusnTel 4 года назад

My favourite part of this game is when you can make "Baba is Level", leave the level, and walk around on the map into the goddamn negative zone.

@enderallygolem 4 года назад

Have you "beaten" the map?

@sirprintalot 4 года назад

That's a thing? Oh noooooooooooo. My brain is melting just reading that.

@Nuclearburrit0 4 года назад

@@sirprintalot You haven't seen shit

@Navarchil 4 года назад

Yeah, that literally blew my mind

@CDCHexaku 4 года назад

hey you might want to be more careful with spoiler next time

@weesalikesmilktea4829 4 года назад

"And he's more interested in surprises and silliness than rock-hard challenge, making for a game that will make you laugh more than it will make you frustrated." Ah, I see. I guess I'm just really stupid then.

@nextProgram 3 года назад

Lol I thought the exact same

@darshkhunt2386 8 месяцев назад

I read this comment at the exact moment he said that 😂

@brennanruiz1803 4 года назад

“They’re never red herrings” The KeKe text in “Return of the Scenic Pond” would like to have a word with you.

@MattEngarding 4 года назад

There are actually two different solutions to that level. One uses an actual Keke and one doesn't.

@Rikri 4 года назад

@@MattEngarding honestly I like the one utilizing Keke a lot more

@brennanruiz1803 4 года назад

Regardless, it’s still the hardest level. I watched someone spend half of their four-hour stream stuck on that level.

@thatoneguy9582 4 года назад

@@brennanruiz1803 Aliensrock?

@brennanruiz1803 4 года назад

That One Guy Yep. He was so dead inside by the end of it that he wasn’t even happy to finish the level.

@GMTK 4 года назад

Thanks very much for watching GMTK this year! Time for a much-needed break and then I’ll be back in the new year. Just a note that the title and thumbnail for this video will be changed in a couple days for consistency with the others in this annual series - just wanted to keep the surprise for the video’s launch!

@mixandjam 4 года назад

✨ Fantastic video Mark!

@FrotteeVDH 4 года назад

Great choice, would've been my selection for 2019 as well. I have to admit I didn't make it all the way through "META" though - and I used hints a few times. A must play for everyone who loves thinking outside of the box.

@Panthis 4 года назад

Cheers Mark. Have a nice Holiday. You deserved it!

@tecnicofwars 4 года назад

What? No list of the best games of the decade? :(

@milddiffuse 4 года назад

How about a Bosskey on Environmental Station Alpha next? The Game's great, didn't expect less from Arvi Teikari after having played Baba first.

@DrRadula 4 года назад

What impressed me most about Baba is You was that even though there's over 200 levels, and even though I had to look up some of them online cause I was stumped for a couple days, there was only a single level where the solution felt like unfair bs. And that was a hidden level in a secret area inside a secret area in another secret area.

@sailsci 4 года назад

the text squish solution is used nowhere else. I feel you. Also, the community designed level packs use that technique all the time. gg.

@iantaakalla8180 3 года назад

Wait, Return of Scenic Pond?

@hdckighfkvhvgmk 3 года назад

I thought it was gonna be PARADE but im only slightly surprisec as while text stacking is a requirement in some other levels, it is always a nightmare to figure out.

@whatkidsandbabieslike7884 Год назад

@@iantaakalla8180 the level "tiny pond" where you got to do flag is key then key is you and open an then open the right water to mak key is you and win to win

@TimmacTR 4 года назад

I JUST REALIZED YOU COMPLETED THE FIRST LEVELS USING A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT METHOD I'VE NEVER SEEN.

@shadowyxpgames5506 4 года назад

I had a friend play some of the earlier levels of baba, and that's something I noticed a lot. The game's levels can lead to some strong freedom of solution sometimes, but not always.

@Stratelier 4 года назад

Many of the early levels have a wide array of _possible_ solutions, yes. Partly because the player needs to not only _learn_ the basics (creating/breaking rules, etc.) but have room to _experiment with_ them so that they can learn more. One of my favorite levels is the one on that tiny island on the lower-right of the map (I think its level name was literally "?"). You can literally just walk over to the Flag to win the level, but if that is all you do then go back and play it again because you forgot something. Another favorite is "Broken Expectations", where you will immediately notice a rule stating "TEXT IS NOT PUSH" yet somehow you are still able to move the text around...? Before you can solve the level you have to reason out just what's going on here.

@hdckighfkvhvgmk 3 года назад

@@Stratelier the reason you can move text around in that level is because there is a rule stating "BABA is SHIFT".

@whatkidsandbabieslike7884 Год назад

*Me chilling in the corner just stacking 4 pieces of text in chasm level broken* : tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

@hardbargains 4 года назад

when baba forms "is is is" i feel that

@placeholder1308 4 года назад

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@ECL28E 3 года назад

Baba is isis?

@_smugmaster_4553 3 года назад

Isisisisisisisisisisisisisisisisisis

@monnamonsta 2 года назад

@@ECL28E *oh no*

@waffles4670 2 года назад

to be honest, if that actually worked, i feel like that would be a programming nightmare. it would set all of the is in that sentence to other is which then change themsevles into themselves, which, in my experience, probably wouldnt go well

@BatIgor 4 года назад

After completing 120 levels, my progress has basically slowed down to 1 solved level every few days. Baba is make me feel slow.

@sailsci 4 года назад

the reward for continuing is worth it. shoot for 225 levels!

@thonk7611 3 года назад

baba make me not move

@hazer3248 3 года назад

yeah too hard for my liking after a while it just gets too ridiculous

@gustavowadaslopes2479 3 года назад

I was stuck for a few months, but decided to take another jab. Finally started figured a few solutions per day, and them BOOM, more and more levels and solving more per day than ever.

@personperson3804 3 года назад

How many are in the game? I've done 49

@cerisskies 4 года назад

This video included the solution to a puzzle I was stuck on. I promised myself I'd not look up solutions, so this worked as a nice loophole

@gustavowadaslopes2479 3 года назад

If you are interested in looking for solutions while not doing so, there's a site with a guide called BABA is Hint. It's great to put things in perspective, and it always gives multiple levels of hints so you can attempt it with as little help as possible.

@personperson3804 3 года назад

@@gustavowadaslopes2479 That site is awesome I never want the answer, but sometimes I need a little push

@gustavowadaslopes2479 3 года назад

@@personperson3804 Yeah, the concept sounds weird, but it's pefect for puzzle games.

@Miju001 3 года назад

@@gustavowadaslopes2479 Woa thank you so much for that!!

@Keithustus Год назад

Finding a loophole to solve a Baba Is You puzzle = on brand.

@T1J 2 года назад

i got stuck on tiny pond for like an hour bc I didn't realize that the flag would permanently become the key even after you broke the rule

@frocco7125 2 года назад

Ayy its you

@carrott36 2 года назад

you never turn the key back to the flag

@Rodrigo-jd2wg 2 года назад

same, I ended up looking for the solution in youtube because I knew I was missing something, and now im stuck in tiny island

@leow.2162 2 года назад

Yeah, that is really unintuitive. Object is object is permanent, object is attribute has to remain intact.

@TemporalZack Год назад

@@leow.2162 I think it makes perfect sense. If you turn Baba into Flag with ''Baba is Flag'', there's no Baba anymore, only flags. Since the sentence was originally supposed to be a statement that affects all the Babas, and now there are no Babas, so of course breaking the sentence doesn't do anything. Meanwhile the ''Object is property'' sentences need to be in tact to function, because the object itself was not changed, so breaking the sentence still affects that particular object's property. (Also it makes for really cool solutions like ''Baba is Keke is Baba'' so I'm definitely not comlaining.)

@40ounces 3 года назад

funny you say that you didn’t like the level “prison” (the one where you trap keke under words to push them apart) because that’s actually one of my favorites! I think the solution is really clever and it teaches players how objects become part of the background when they aren’t assigned any properties. to each their own though haha

@gustavowadaslopes2479 3 года назад

There are a ton of concepts in Baba which are insane. Getting stuff under text or other objects feels so wacky and mind bending.

@louiswouters71 Год назад

I got through a lot of the rest of the game before finally solving 'prison'. It literally took me weeks if not months. It looked impossible to me to beat it with the words given that I was convinced there was some secret shenanigans going on. I really thought: "maybe there's a KEKE so far off screen that I have to hold left for 10 seconds". And once you start thinking like that, you'll never find the solution LOL

@Mennenth Год назад

Prison was fine, if a bit unintuitive at first. Its extra stage "dungeon" I also solved, but I still have no idea why the solution there worked. It makes no sense why text can be pushed onto the object that is you if the object that is you cant move. Normally when something is push but cant be pushed any further in a direction, it acts like stop in that direction. The only way I can think is maybe when the game is processing the chain of moves in that situation it tries to move things in stages such that somehow the text moves and then the object that is you would move but then the game realizes it cant so it doesnt but by that time the text has already moved hence being able to overlap... But that feels more like a glitch than a mechanic imo. Anyway, Prison and Dungeon were really the only two puzzles in the game I felt required concepts that hadnt been introduced prior, which felt odd since they were late puzzles in that area.

@louiswouters71 Год назад

@@Mennenth i don't see a problem there. If an object is push, it can be pushed, it does not say it pushes other objects. In your example, if baba is not push and not stop, that means that you are basically part of the background for objects moving onto your space. Its the same as you overlapping objects that are not push and not stop

@WhitePaintbrush Год назад

@@Mennenth objects are solid only when PUSH or STOP is applied to them (the exception being TEXT which is always PUSH). Even if BABA IS YOU, that does not make Baba solid, so other objects including text can be pushed on top of Baba. You’ve probably pushed text over background objects plenty of times without even giving it a second thought. It’s unintuitive at first but makes sense once you mull it over a bit. Brilliant, imo.

@odinsplaygrounds 4 года назад

Never heard about this game, but seeing the inventive concept put a smile on my face. That's so neat / interesting. Gonna get it for sure.

@jimmyjohnjoejr.9020 4 года назад

Me hate this game because me dumb. But for real though it's a great game. Just not for me. I'm way too stupid to beat any of the later levels.

@charlioanimations234 4 года назад

@@jimmyjohnjoejr.9020 I can relate

@Table53 4 года назад

No point even making this when the obvious answer is FIFA 20, what an absolute breath of fresh air, never played anything like it. Joking. Just in case.

@Table53 4 года назад

@@WithScienceAsMySheperd Dammit, this is a much better joke

@bongobliss5795 4 года назад

I disagree, FIFA 20 was too generic and not at all creative. FIFA 19 however, *is* the real game changer especially with the all new default controls.

@herbs4135 4 года назад

BEN GRAND lmao my dude

@YEs69th420 4 года назад

wdym, Fifa 20 innovated how scummy a company could possibly be, with the Switch version.

@OlafLesniak 4 года назад

@@bongobliss5795 I agree. The narrative driven single player mode of Adventures of Alex Hunter had me shook. That ending made me fall from my seat.

@arielleyva7571 4 года назад

9:40 Diving into some deep philosophical territory right there mark

@KNJfan 4 года назад

"whe you are done come back and watch the rest of the video" The year is 40532 and am on the verge of finishing the game my great great great... just 1 extra secret level and... 10 more appeared D:

@cambac-pro 4 года назад

oh wait! is that... A LEVEL INSIDE A LEVEL INSIDE A LEVEL INSIDE A LEVEL INSIDE A LEVEL??

@HuffyT266 4 года назад

I was so afraid when I quickly looked at the thumbnail, and Baba Is You was nowhere to be found! Now I realize it's made of previous year's winners. I'm so happy that this game is getting the recognition that it deserves. Absolutely mind blowing game mechanics and a flawless execution. I haven't had so many "ahá!" moments since Portal 2!

@sockatume 4 года назад

“We need to be open, but we don’t want to disappear when we use ourselves” - I think I read that in a self help book once.

@noatrope 3 месяца назад

One of the best things about the game is that it makes you think sentences like this. "I have to have Keke stop before Keke has stop" "I can't move and be hot at the same time" "I can't figure out how to tell Me what to do because Me is not you, but I can push Me in the right direction"

@EricBenjamin518 4 года назад

I've never been disappointed by these picks. I pause the video and buy the game the moment he announces it. I have gotten my money's worth every single time and always have a lot to say about the game to my friends too.

@snowfloofcathug 4 года назад

Benjamin Uytiepo Enjoy the game! And remember to do all the levels

@kuzidas4213 4 года назад

I wish you the best of luck! This game is actually mind-breakingly difficult 😅

@EricBenjamin518 4 года назад

@@kuzidas4213 I've definitely run into a few roadblocks in the couple hours I've played. However, the premise makes it easy to say "I am missing something" where other games leave you feeling "I'm being cheated."

@sirprintalot 4 года назад

All the games listed before are worth it too. I'd have picked Outer Wilds as my innovative game of the year, but hey ho.

@mikaxms 4 года назад

@@EricBenjamin518 Oh, the game will definitely make you say "How was I supposed to know that?" for 50% of the solutions.

@ItsZender 4 года назад

Never has anything in my life made me feel as dumb as I do while playing this game... every time I beat a level I think ‘hey, I’m getting the hang of this now!’ only to be proven wrong as soon as I start the next one. I love it.

@Blackthornprod 4 года назад

A wonderful final video, and conclusion to this superb 2019 for GMTK! Have a great holiday Mark!

@smolse6854 3 года назад

Yeah, the game is very creative and impressive

@williamliu299 3 года назад

cringe

@Chadderbox 4 года назад

Very happy to see Baba here, it is hands down one of my favourite games this year.

@vizthex 2 года назад

I love how all the rules of a level are visible - sometimes being "out of bounds" so you can't change them. It helps reinforce the game's central idea, and lets you literally check the rules if you're stuck.

@SeppelSquirrel 4 года назад

BABA IS LOVE! Absolutely one of my favorite games ever. I love the way you can just mess with all the rules to see what you can get. This does, however, have a drawback once you get to more difficult levels. The first being Prison, where you have to realize that TEXT IS PUSH BUT ONLY OVER OTHER TEXT. And other crazy rules that you never get to know. I still haven't finished Meta-15. Maybe someday.

@Clavus 4 года назад

Meta-15 is kind of a gimmick. The level is called "The box". The hint is a common saying related to that...

@Rikri 4 года назад

That's not the gimmick in Prison - it's that objects that an object that is you can be made to overlap with a pushable object given an object that's stop and a second "you" object.

@DrGandW 4 года назад

What? That’s not how prison works at all? The gimmick is to realize that both You and Text are not Stop and You isn’t inherently Push, so you can push text on top of another instance of yourself to break sentences.

@SeppelSquirrel 4 года назад

@@DrGandW You have to inherently understand that TEXT is always PUSH, even when you're on top of text. Later on you have to learn even more quirks about TEXT that the game doesn't spell out for you. I get that putting the meta rules such as TEXT IS PUSH FOR TEXT, etc. on every level would be ridiculous, but for ones that it's necessary to understand to come to the solution, it would feel a LOT more fair to spell out the meta rules.

@kirbwarriork3371 2 года назад

Meta-15 is my absolute favorite puzzle in the game. It took the meta of the game to the absolute limit.

@farristhewheel 4 года назад

I wish I was smart enough for puzzle games. Everything other than Tetris-style games make me feel so stupid.

@franciscofarias6385 4 года назад

It's not about being good, it's about liking to solve problems. You get good over time as you play them.

@marius5588 4 года назад

What part of the puzzle games makes it difficult for you?

@PatDaBaker851 4 года назад

I'm pretty dumb at the game myself but with some bullshitting around, some patience, a fist through the wall, and frequent breaks, I end up solving levels that I thought I'd never solve so soon. But I can understand if that's not anyone's taste. Especially if you want a relaxing game session. Your brain may melt from overuse. Lol.

@parkerargyle4112 4 года назад

Yeah, its definitely not for everyone, and I have to be in the mood (and have the time) to sit down for an hour or two and think.

@Darches 4 года назад

I played a shitload of puzzle games to improve my INT stat and uh... you basically need to A) understand the mechanics (like REALLY understand them) and B) build the solution backwards from the end via logic within the context of the game. You get good at it eventually. Example: I see a door in Portal and I'm like what the... That door is too high! And even if those platforms could go up that high they wouldn't reach far enough horizontally; I can't jump that far... The ONLY solution must be to portal the wall with a hardlight bridge AFTER being on top of the platform. But that's impossible unless... The ONLY solution is to get myself on the platform while already having the first portal set............ And this process continues until you have the whole solution. Example puzzle was this: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=68461270

@TheGamingAddict531 4 года назад

I expected it to be Hypnospace Outlaw, as you were listing off previous innovative games, but I think this fits the bill as well. Baba is You is one of my top games of the year, and my #2, if not #1 puzzle game of all time

@likesflower 4 года назад

Is your #1 puzzle game Portal?

@jonny__b 4 года назад

@@likesflower My guess is The Witness! Let's see...

@Fitzis 4 года назад

Now I'm curious for your #1. Commenting now to get the notification when you tell us

@TheGamingAddict531 4 года назад

@@Fitzis That would be The Witness. I loved the environment and style of it, and the simplistic look, but engross nature, of the puzzles really pulled it all together for me. I know peopled dislike it, but its my personal favorite

@jonny__b 4 года назад

@@TheGamingAddict531 Hey I guessed right! You owe me a coke ;)

@ec1ipze918 2 года назад

I love how in some levels, you can softlock by doing "Baba Is Rock" or something like that

@recognition304 2 года назад

is that consciousness uhhh

@gameworldjt 2 года назад

You can do that in almost every level by breaking the "(object) is you" sentence, that's why you can undo and reset levels

@MrHappy4311 4 года назад

I'm glad you brought up "tiny pond", because I spent probably 2 hours on that puzzle. It was the first level where I was just completely lost, but when I beat it, i felt like such an idiot because the solution was so simple. The funny part to me is that my solution was more complicated than the one you showed, but was mind blowingly "simple" once I beat it. Seeing you do it now just further made me feel like an idiot though lol

@pocketglove 4 года назад

I wanted to study, but now I have watch this.

@Thirteen13551355 4 года назад

Same :(

@omegazx7236 4 года назад

Same

@chuksk8592 4 года назад

Same

@bongobliss5795 4 года назад

Same

@Kolinnor 4 года назад

JUST DO ITTTTTTT YOUR DREAMS CAN COME TRUE IF YOU STOOOOP RU-vid

@cybershockgames1434 4 года назад

I never THOUGHT of using a Jet-pac in Scribblenauts. I solved every problem with a Pterodactyl, Pterosaur, or Archeopteryx

@ExeloMinish 4 года назад

Same thing, really. The problem is that in a game like Scribblenauts, possibilities are endless but practicality beats it all. Too many stages can be beaten by using rope, glue, something that lets you fly, and other similar "boring" items over using the millions of wacky solutions at your disposal. Probably the main reason why later games moved away from environmental problem-solving and towards helping characters that need something.

@PrimitiveOs 4 года назад

Love how these indie games are the ones that bring innovation to the table, thanks for giving exposure to these kind of games Mark!

@Mwrp86 4 года назад

You know game has to be freaking innovative when it beat Disco elysium

@franciscofarias6385 4 года назад

Yep! Although I don't think Disco Elysium's as much innovative as it is well executed.

@yashkaushik6116 4 года назад

What about Noita and Slay the Spire?????

@dmitriid 4 года назад

@@yashkaushik6116 Noita has only one trick: destructible environments (even though it's executed EXTREMELY well). It doesn't really build on that trick beyond some very simple interactions (oil and wood catch fire, water douses fire). Slay the Spire is a deck building game... And... that's about it. Baba is you is innovative in how it continuously and nearly infinitely builds upon it's own rules creating newer and better challenges as the game progresses.

@fungalcactus8286 4 года назад

@@yashkaushik6116 Funnily enough, Arvi Teikari is a developer on Noita.

@jonweisensale227 4 года назад

Yash Kaushik those are both great games. Not very innovative. Slay the Spire is probably my indie game of the year.

@jay-tbl 4 года назад

Reminds me of a flash game called changetype by nitrome? Basically in that game you have a gun that switches the function of two blocks. Like you have spikes that kill you if you touch them and bricks that you can walk on, but if you shoot both of them with the gun, suddenly bricks kill you and you can walk on spikes. Or if you shoot a coin and a wall, suddenly you can walk on coins and collect walls.

@Renteks- 4 года назад

Actually, prison was a hella easy level for me, as i found it's gimmick by accident while stuffing around in earlier levels. When i saw the level, it instantly clicked and it was one of the easiest but coolest levels for me. Guess everyone else was smart enough to not be stuffing around on the earlier levels.

@gustavowadaslopes2479 3 года назад

There's all kinda fun stories to be had when you take a long or a little while figuring a level; See the level in 14:09 I didn't figured making KEKE IS SKULL IS KEKE. I spent hours on it not figuring that. After turning the BUG into SKULL I figured How to use that to shift the BELTs position and create a clear passage.

@hdckighfkvhvgmk 3 года назад

@@gustavowadaslopes2479 yeah that level is my least favorite in the game, made me wonder how it got into the final game when i figured it out.

@ntdosplat3130 3 года назад

Absolutely adored the game's simplistic art direction. Even when I was away from the pc or the handheld, I would find myself jotting the puzzles onto paper and attempting to solve from there.

@blenky5516 4 года назад

Baba is you gave me bloody goose bumbs, what an amazing concept wow! How have I never heard of this game before???

@Table53 4 года назад

No advertising budget means no initial hype, which means no interest from the big games media who need the hype to get enough clicks to justify taking the time to write a review

@ShaunDreclin 4 года назад

Yeah it had a pretty quiet launch. I never would have discovered it if I hadn't been watching a twitch stream that changed games in the middle of it. I kinda like that though, it feels like I have this precious gem of an awesome game that I get to share with people who never heard of it before

@elecboy5126 4 года назад

glad I made a “spoilers” playlist. I’ll be back after I play this game!

@Jackspiring 4 года назад

Great idea im going to do the same!

@Atypical-Abbie 4 года назад

Having not played much, he doesn't really spoil much, maybe one thing about an unexpected level idea later on. Considering how complex the game is, I doubt I will remember the solution when I play it.

@nickfelten5068 4 года назад

@Zaziuma he spoils a major twist actually (map screen)

@Atypical-Abbie 4 года назад

@@nickfelten5068 And so did you now, so good job

@spanospy 4 года назад

@@Atypical-Abbie He also showed a level I don't remember seeing, and I'm at the stage after the map screen twist.

@videoket 3 года назад

At 13:10 ish, I literally said "Ohhhhh" out loud when I learned that you can use NOT as a prefix. (I.e. "NOT Baba IS you" as opposed to "Baba IS NOT you.") Mind blown. Gotta love this game.

@danielleanderson6371 4 года назад

This is the first one of these I've previously played. I can absolutely 100% say that it is an incredible puzzle game, well worth your time.

@smactork 4 года назад

I am SO glad you picked this game. The most clever game I've ever played

@Gilboron 4 года назад

9:40 "We need to be open, but we also don't want to disappear when we use ourselves" That's actually kinda deep, man

@K31R616 4 года назад

It's beautiful. Parallels life and the experiential process of learning in many ways. What an absolute gem of a game.

@shizotypical 4 года назад

The best part about Baba is you is explaining/discussing the rules and solutions. My brother and I would often startle our parents by shouting something like "you can't be Baba because key is you! Make door float and sink! No, Keke is push so we get key is death! And we're dead again! Argh!!"

@ejnoro8371 4 года назад

Your videos are such high quality. From the 60fps to the amazing audio. I love it. Great work!!

@safe-keeper1042 3 года назад

"But when you're done..." I'm on 109 levels in and I'm starting to think you're putting way too much faith in me.

@ankorstudio28 4 года назад

Hey, Any chance on making a video about keeping your scope small for your first couple games ? I know it's somewhat different from what we see in your channel, but I think it's still a relevant theme.

@left_eyebr0w 4 года назад

I support this idea

@Lexyvil 4 года назад

Glad you address this game. This is one of the games that wowed me this year, and still play on occasion to finish the levels I've yet solved.

@candyman851 4 года назад

This is the first game picked for "most innovative game" that I played beforehand, and it certainly deserves every bit of praise it has gotten. This is the only puzzle game I've ever played where I can sit for hours staring at the screen for one puzzle and not feel annoyed. That's because the "eureka" moments in Baba are unprecedented. The way it builds your knowledge base up and expects you to keep using it in unique ways makes it feel approachable despite the difficulty; you never feel like a level is completely impossible. It's a lot like learning a new language. Amazing game, please do yourself a favor and play it without spoilers if you have not.

@chase_h.01 2 года назад

This game is one of the hardest I've ever played while simultaneously making me talk like a baby.

@Linkzcap 4 года назад

Can't wait for the level editor to come out

@theawesomepanda1lance241 3 года назад

I have good news! (To be specific, the planned release time is early January, but it’s still very soon)

@castform57 9 месяцев назад

My absolute favorite level in the game, poem: Rose is red Violet is blue Flag is win Baba is you

@grahamwalker2168 4 года назад

Gosh I remember last year's video like it was yesterday. This year has flown by. Thanks for all the amazing content. This channel has potench

@nemui_3680 3 года назад

When your teacher said that knowing "English" is more efficient than making a game. Arvi Teikeri: Haha, Me is win and You is shut :)

@waffles4670 2 года назад

knowing how the game works, that means he'd have to walk into himself to win and she can be opened with a "key"

@pikchassis 2 года назад

Me is open

@HolyDeviant1 4 года назад

Was low-key hoping for that emotional moment from Peach Saliva's stream where they get into, like, a five minute argument over how the game works

@JakeN482 4 года назад

"Baba doesn't matter! You matter! Baba only matters because Baba is you!" That stream was great for high quality quotes. It's inspiring to watch someone with legit brain damage fight against the absolute bullshit premise this game is built on. Amazin'.

@safe-keeper1042 4 года назад

Thanks for letting me know of this game, I went and got it and I love every second. Such a great idea AND wonderfully creative and diverse level design. Had I known about this earlier it would've been a Christmas present for probably several of my friends for sure.

@samuelsiesjo 4 года назад

YES. Baba needs more love! Amazing concept, and fun puzzles. Had a blast with this one.

@rarm5899 4 года назад

As much as I agree with the game pic...I suck at it lol. It’s an amazing game but it’s really hard for me.

@Zekana0 4 года назад

Ya. Games like this look so good but I always end up brute forcing midway thru and I'm never happy about that

@ShehabEllithy 4 года назад

I dont think anyone is good at Baba is you

@cloudy772 4 года назад

Nicktendo 1 Yeah same. I just couldn’t get past the space level

@apullcan 4 года назад

I've always sucked at puzzle games like this. I can tell that this game is objectively brilliant, but trying to keep up in this video made my brain hurt.

@crysanthiumvega 4 года назад

I beat the game in ONE second

@armknock 4 года назад

From the video title I knew it was Baba is You. Not dissapointed. My game of the year.

@yashkaushik6116 4 года назад

What about Noita and Slay the Spire?????

@lynameep223 2 года назад

My favorite stage was where you're introduced to the really clever concept of stacking more than one rule on the same tile allowing for multiple objects to be given the same exact rules.

@noatrope 3 месяца назад

I love and hate that level because it felt like such an epiphany to realise that was probably the solution, but it takes so long to figure out if it can be done because it has so many steps and at each one you need to make sure you're not accidentally setting yourself up to permanently delete an element you're going to need fifty steps later to actually solve the level

@lynameep223 3 месяца назад

@@noatrope I always felt like that level was a inverted gaming skill check because the more you thought you knew the harder the level generally was as one of my friends who wasn't very familiar with games figured the stage out much faster than me...

@noatrope 3 месяца назад

@@lynameep223 Maybe? Difficulty is subjective to begin with and my experience has been there's no way to tell how easy or difficult a level will be based on the one that unlocked it, sometimes there's only one key realisation and sometimes there are like seven, but maybe someone else would point out five more realisations that I thought were obvious

@smokeyeo 4 года назад

Really glad to see baba is you get some love, nobodys really talked about it since it launched and its still one of my favorite games of the year

@unreformable07 3 года назад

The Return of the Obra Dinn soundtrack hits me so hard every time

@blitheringape5321 4 года назад

I wish Snake Pass had stunned people instead all these idiots are like "hurr the controls are hard" that game deserves to be popular

@BFlorry 4 года назад

To me, the game is way too slow. I love it to death and have played it in bits, but it's pacing just makes me so exhausted in just a short while. Same kind of effect happens with Human Fall Flat for me.

@CaptainCuttlefish74 4 года назад

@@BFlorry the environments also aren't varied enough for my tastes.

@WeatherguyPlays 6 месяцев назад

Someone recommended me this video as a Baba is You enjoyer. I really love this! All about these game-essay type videos, thanks for creating this!

@zephangreer7487 2 месяца назад

that starting sound gave me flash backs to that game. The Return of The Obra Dinn.

@scarletsakuya7137 4 года назад

This game taught me one thing. I COULD BE ANYTHING

@gustavowadaslopes2479 3 года назад

ALL IS NOT YOU

@Kirbita22 4 года назад

"one of my favorite levels, tiny pond" do you love suffering

@bhuvaneshrooney4044 4 года назад

There is an extra level for tiny pond with a minor variation that's even more frustrating

@gustavowadaslopes2479 3 года назад

@@bhuvaneshrooney4044 After playing even more BABA: You call that frustrating? Wait until you get to Level is Push.

@hdckighfkvhvgmk 3 года назад

@@gustavowadaslopes2479 wait till you get to parade.

@brianlimmy 3 года назад

The moment you started pushing the rule blocks around I knew where this game was going and I was instantly sold, going to get it right now!

@daftmi9hty327 2 года назад

I've always wanted to see this game picked apart and see the inner workings great video as always and surprised I didn't see this come out last year

@Sergey-wg7ne 4 года назад

It's no secret that occasional puzzles in AAA games are usually uninspired and generally meh, whereas indie is the bottomless font of creativity. I wonder if indie puzzle designers ever guest star in AAA games, and if not, why not? Seems such a win-win.

@tailez606 2 года назад

Indie puzzle games are usually based on some weird abstract mechanics that have the entire game designed around them, whereas AAA games have tight margins and don't usually have time to develop more interesting puzzles. Secondly, Indie games tend to be built "backwards" relative to AAA games. AAA games have an end result in mind and build towards it, meanwhile indie games start with a loose set of whatever mechanics or ideas, then slap them around until something clicks and only then a whole game is built around those mechanics. Lastly, AAA games tend to try to have mass-appeal and weird esoteric puzzles just would not gel well with that goal in mind. All those reasons combined mean that it's likely that AAA game puzzles are going to remain uninspired and boring for the foreseeable future. Off the top of my head I can only come up with Portal 2, but that feels like it's treated by everyone more like an Indie game with a AAA budget, so not exactly a AAA game with great puzzles.

@Sergey-wg7ne 2 года назад

@@tailez606 Can't argue with any of this, but I'm sure there is a way to build a creative puzzle into an AAA game by making it something non-integral. Plus I'm sure that talented indie puzzle makers can think of something that would fit the overall AAA game without shaking it up too much if need be.

@wobwobidou 4 года назад

I'm really glad you went with Baba is you! I've been blown since I discovered it! Another game I would have accepted is Streets of Rogue. It feels a lot less innovative compared to Baba is you, but it still manages to give the player an incredible amount of liberty (the most I've played, to be honest). It's like a rogue-lite GTA in which you have to do missions in any way you want. For example, you have to steal from a chest in a bank. You can kill everyone and get the key, put some chemicals in the ventilation system to poison the building, you can befriend the clerk and ask for the key, pay a goon to kill everyone, cut a window and use a lockpick to open the chest and many, many more. Well, I've wrote a lot more than I thought, but, to be quick, just go check Streets of Rogue, it will be worth your time

@portwain 4 года назад

The stage on 13:58 is my favorite. It is much better than “set something to move and find a spot to go”. From this level, you understand that this game has sooo much to explore.

@ArvensisAndromeda 4 года назад

I love that you always have a game to show me that i've never heard of and they're always awesome. Thanks

@digitalunity 4 года назад

I am constantly amazed by how simple the level solutions i can't figure out are.

@Stratelier 4 года назад

Same. That's part of what makes it amazing -- level solutions are generally actually quite simple in concept, but challenging to actually figure out. An example of one that had me stumped for weeks: if two SHIFT objects overlap, they will shift each other at the same time, essentially functioning like a MOVE object.

@cintron3d 4 года назад

A "no brainer" for this year's pick. - Nice.

@dmvolpezin 2 года назад

man i know it's been a while but thank you so much for this, I recently picked up this title and I'M LOVING EVERY SECOND OF IT

@postlex 2 года назад

Awesome video, paying respects to an exceptional game; lovely!

@felipimacedo 4 года назад

One thing I really wanted to know is how this game is made - technically wise. I can't imagine how he programmed such an open ended, emergent system that works so well as a 2d game.

@r033cx 4 года назад

That's actually very easy to program - it's just hard to come up with as a game concept You just need to read player input and when arrows or space key is pressed call update function on text tiles. They read surrounding tiles and execute expression. That's about it

@felipimacedo 4 года назад

@@r033cx this was a very basic explanation, of course you have to read the player input and of course you have to dispatch events and execute something when the state changes, that's the bread and butter of anything in game development. The "execute expression" you cited is what is the mystery for me - what are the data structures that define the entities? Does each object possess every possible property and behaviour and just turns them on/off, or does the system inject and remove these behaviours when needed? How does the system evaluate the expression and dispatch the changes, or does it at all? Maybe each entity is responsible to watch the environment and decide for itself its own rules? What may be the semantics to resolve priorities and collapses in the rules? I don't think the system is actually that much complicated, but I don't think it is very simple too. When I was making the powers and passives in the game my team released last year, I started thinking it would be very easy, but them it turned out to be way more complex than what I expected, but very open ended and customizable at the same time. Of course I don't expect the developer to just give all of us the Baba source code, but I want to see him giving some talk about the technical aspects of the game (the talk I watched on youtube was very centered on design). Usually these kind of talks leave us with some great insights.

@felipimacedo 4 года назад

@@r033cx and sorry, I kinda sounded like I was arguing on my reply, but not really. I'm just mind blown by this game.

@tetraedri_1834 4 года назад

@@felipimacedo I'd guess there is a hash-table with verbs as keys and objects having those properties (with possible duplocates and not-modifiers) as elements. When player gives an input, game goes through all the verbs in predetermined order and executes their action for the objects having these properties. Whenever a sentence is broken or created, the hash-table is updated immediatly I'm guessing this based on some interactions, for example how "X is defeat" has effect only if the rule exists after all the movements are done, whereas "X is tele" has effect only if the rule exists before the movement. Hence, it seems like tele is executed before move, and move is executed before defeat. Also, having "X is move" twice makes X move two blocks at once, hence the list of objects having the verb seems to contain duplicates. Interactions between verbs/actions (for example hot and melt, "X is Y" and "X is not Y", death of X and "X has Y) are part of the behavior of said verb/action, and these can be checked using the hash-table. Of course, there are also own data structures for "X has Y" and "object1 is object2" type of sentences, but they should work similarly.

@felipimacedo 4 года назад

I just noticed that all the game's Lua scripts are actually readable on the game folder...

@wisecrack3461 4 года назад

I've talked to Hempuli on the Goonstation discord, he's a great guy and I'm glad he's managed to reach such critical acclaim!

@LunamrathP 4 года назад

I've never talked to him personally but I got that impression when I was doing the post game content for ESA and looking up things I couldn't figure out myself on the Steam community. The way he interacted with the community was cool. I'm glad he's getting this attention too.

@ryuail 4 года назад

I am so happy you choose to look at BaBa is You! This game has been with me all year long, and I'm still working on some of the levels.

@rathors7184 4 года назад

I'm so happy that Baba is You is getting the attention it deserves because it has been my favorite puzzle game that I've played ever since I picked it up this year.

@averageasian5462 4 года назад

This literally blew my mind ! It's in several pieces now, I am slowly losing consciousness as of writing this comment.

@guyknaan1674 4 года назад

GAME IS HOT BRAIN IS MELT

@runefaustblack 2 года назад

*pushes all the flags into your brain* FLAG IS BRAIN There, fixed.

@nirast2561 4 года назад

OH, COME ON! This is the second year in a row where I can't watch your video because I haven't played the game yet! *sigh *See you in the future, Mark!

@WaterDroplet02 3 года назад

have you done it yet

@chronicallycal 4 года назад

your videos always leave me even more amazed by game design and innovation, and this one was no different 💛

@TripleT219 4 года назад

Ready for 2020! Have a fantastic holiday. Thank you for the great content, Mark

@CaptainJeoy 4 года назад

@ 1:02 I knew you weren't gonna say Death Stranding but I thought you were gonna say it at the same time, it was really stressful!

@jeromealday614 4 года назад

It wasn't a game for me. It's an experience

@CaptainJeoy 4 года назад

@@jeromealday614 Definitely, bro!

@606hunter1 4 года назад

I saw screenshots of this game but hearing how it plays makes me curious to try it. Too bad my backlog is huge or else I think I'd try it out right away

@ShaunDreclin 4 года назад

Play it! It's the kind of game you pick up and put down a lot, taking a break when you get stuck on a puzzle tends to be really helpful

@RMJ1984 4 года назад

As genius as the gameplay is in of itself, for me it would never have worked without the asthetics, the way the pixel art movies, gives it a lot of personality, but more important the music, it's so simple, yet so soothing and it just never gets old to listen to.