Level Design Workshop: Designing Celeste 

The game literally took over the speed running genre. Even though it has a smaller player base, it’s speed running community rivals that of Mario games.

@@JM-us3fr speedrunning isn't a genre, is a play style, and speed runner love Celeste because of how rewarding it is for the players who mastered the mechanics and how easy is to fail a level and just accept that it was fault of the player and not of the level and just keep trying more and more without frustration.

@@juanrodriguez9971 nice pic :D thought I commented this without watching video.

@@mevlanaayas7308 For a moment I thought RU-vid was bugging again XD nice pic

well cause celeste wasnt released then? it was in the first 30 seconds lmaoo

"How do you code like you're writing out of time?!"

I got that reference, I like you

Hamilton!

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@ LONELY GIRL PFP

MAGIC BLOCK IS COMING.

Womboshiro

Now is just a marshmallow with a tiny body.

btw Celeste is one of my favorite game ever

Adzetko Hohengarten I feel you my guy. I feel you.

that's vlc for you

That made my day

Took me a second to remember that you were behind that wind waker unplugged video from years back. My teacher showed it to us in class!

He already know cuz if u did that u will get a golden strawberry

it wasn't possible until kevin suggested that they made some adjustments to make it possible so that there would be 200 berries instead of 199

@@RichConnerGMN yeah and then they added farewell which sorta put that in the trash with 2 more berries

Ingredients: 20% ignorance, 50% weed, 30% arrogance.

​@@Mushboom37 202 is still a nice number. Obviously it doesn't feel as final as an even 200, but it's still sort of pleasing, and the "extra" feeling that it gives off serves as one more kind of badge of accomplishment for the players who truly master Farewell, which is an absolutely monumental feat.

And how much it improved from 2018 is amazing

I think it would always have been a long shot for an indie platformer like Celeste to win Game of the Year no matter its release year, but I also think that Celeste will have a more enduring and influential place in culture than any of its contemporaries. Not just video game culture, either--it's already become a quintessential piece of trans media.

I also noticed that! It felt so great to be able to flow immediately into the level after dying instead of having to wait for some timing thing to happen. Even where there was timing involved it was all synced so well that if you were fast enough you never had to wait for anything.

Yeah, I noticed in chapter 3 I could just gun it the moment I died and I would find a timing window without having to wait. (a few times I had to wait like half a second but never too long)

The gameplay and story are married in this game I think almost better than any other.

CyrusShadowBlade well it's standing on the shoulders of giants. Developers like Matt Thorson are able to build on the collective experience of game developers making platformers for years and years. There are plenty of great platformers, but I'd probably agree with you that Celeste is certainly a masterpiece. Even better is that with Celeste added to the collective canon of platformers, other developers will be able to learn from the lessons learnt by Matt and co (if they do their research) and possibly go on to build even better experiences.

It's definitely the best of the 'indie' era I've played. I'm not sure what my ultimate favorite is, but I would definitely put Celeste up in the rarified air with Nintendo's 2D platforming masterpieces.

chaosmos24 It's on all systems, not only Nintendo lol. But sure I guess.

I think he was just commenting on Nintendo games in general, not implying that Celeste was only on there.

As another poster helpfully pointed out, I wasn't trying to imply that Celeste was only on the Switch. I was just comparing it to Nintendo's best platformers, which I personally consider to be the pinnacle of the genre.

the game was designed around speedrunning too, goes back to what he said about rewarding players who spent time and effort getting better at the game

Yeah they did a great job with building up the tension and ramp up the emotion in the game

You are right about SMB but I think SMB comes as a predecessor to Celeste. If it wasn't for it we wouldn't have great games like Celeste or Hollow Knight.

Matt actually made a game called Jumper that was pretty similar to super meat boy but it came out before. I believe the main character (ogmo) is an unlockable character in SMB

yeah i stayed up until midnight trying to beat 8B and when i did i was just so happy, not out of relief, but instead a feeling of accompishment

when you feel you've achieved something, just remember that there's a tgh who's better than you.

to avoid spoiling the game, I guess

That's gaming WIP for you.

? What? When does it show it?

I'm sure he was also referring to the clip from the trailer.

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GOTGDY does have a ring to it

Well yeah. They expanded upon their level design in the final bonus chapter to make an ultimate final area. The point is that this mechanic isn’t something taught to you by this point during your first playthrough, and so it doesn’t break the original story.

@Life Master Not really i mean most games dont even come close to this level of design. They try but mostly fail. But hopefully the fact Celeste did so well, will inspire more devs to follow this route in future games. So thats very positive for future indie gaming and platformers in general. Its not easy to innovate in an oversaturated genre cause most people will always compare you to the best stuff from the genre. Its easy to fall short. But glad Celeste didn't. :)

Remains to this day my favorite game of all time. (Tied with the game whose protagonist I borrowed for my avatar.)

When I was a kid I used to follow his games on the GameMaker forums, but when I heard about Celeste I mostly remembered he was the guy who made Jumper - I can't believe I forgot he made An Untitled Story!! That was my favourite game for years after I first played it!

A reply on a duplicate question led me to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VM7jCOeVte8.html (or maybe one of his other talks). Still it was a weird first question, esp. how the asker followed up on it

When you buy the game, a lot of the scrapped ideas seemed to have made it the b side levels (he calls it hard mode).

cool.

zachary, I think at the time of this talk there weren't any b-sides in the first place and it was going to just be hardmode at first, the idea for b-sides was later if im correct

The B-Sides are Hard Mode, renamed and unlocked through a special style of timing puzzle. The B-Sides (and later challenges too...) were probably based on those discarded ideas, only refined to be more challenging. No DLC required!

Andrew Turner and then c-side as well, which is even harder if im not mistaken. Im so glad i bought this game, i had a free $10 ps card so i only had to put $10 towards it, so worth it!

galaktikpotato aka scrub man *Farewell*

These tricks are basically mandatory in the dlc

Beta Oshiro is kind of weird.

For real

Nice

Christian Lavados the B sides are literally the levels that got thrown away. Hence their name.

It's still surprising how many different ways I could beat a B-Side level, choosing where to cling and where to jump off quickly, choosing to catch a wall or fall straight, dash straight or upward and fall back. Even though the freedom is more restricted in B-Sides, it's still consciously included.

Go watch a speedrun of the B-Sides and see if they "solved" them the same way you did

Yeah I get what you are saying but by the nature of being harder there has to be less ways to solve it. Also the multiple ways won't be as straight forward as the A sides. But there definitely is multiple ways especially if you pick up some speed running tech, while the inputs may be harder they make many sections much easier to do. Wave dash is your best friend. For those that don't know wave dash is jumping into the air, downward dashing into the ground and pressing jump when you hit the ground. It gives you massive speed and distance as well as allowing you to retain your dash mid air. It can be further controlled height wise by the few frame window in which you jump. Early will be longer and less high, later will be shorted with more height. whether or not you hold jump also effects this move so in one advanced move you get three different outcomes. This doesnt even include the dash cancel jump or the reverse hyper dash. The hyper dash is basically interchangeable with the wave dash but you need space for the hyper dash where you can perform the wave dash on a single block if you are precise enough. And everything i mentioned doesn't even cover all the advanced movement tech you can do to find new ways to finish levels

This is internal tool that was never planned to be published. You can get custom map-making (and modding) tools on Celeste Discord server: discord.gg/u9ST3yw

Looooooong before. :P That was probably one of the last things he added in the entire game.

Whats the reward?

@@TheGauges420 a winged golden strawberry. It's very difficult to get, but go ahead and try

Propably

Could very well be ldtk

@@soysorray Well seems celeste realeased much earlier than this. But still an awesome tool, thanks!

you can acess by typing "e" console which you can open by hitting "`" key on pc, iirc

some level editor that they made specifically for the game iirc