The Design Evolution of Tunic | Developer Breakdown 

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One of the best games I've ever played. It is WAY deeper than it appears on the surface.

Love this - short and sweet, to the point. It's extremely cool that you're playing the game live in the interview because it can lead to some organic moments of talking about certain design choices, too. I'm here for this new series.

I am thoroughly impressed by this game. On the surface, Tunic is a Bloodborne-esque Zelda-like game. But, at its core is a meta homage to 90s gaming culture. Thank you for this video.

Andrew is the most chill sounding game developer in existence, he really needs to get his ASMR channel up and running.

This guy's a fantastic storyteller. It was also great to see his enthusiasm when he got to pull out the (kind of) physical version of the instruction manual.

I feel like this guy has a side hustle doing voice-over work for meditation apps.

I think the thing I like the most about Dicey is he is a man who keeps things simple, but does them right, even down to his interview equipment. Good camera, decent lighting in an organized yet natural room, and a studio quality microphone with the gain adjusted so we can hear him even when he's soft-spoken. This man is something special, and the game he made is going down as one of the greats in history.

The devs voice is so amazing omg

We need a physical copy of the manual !!! It will be awesome!!!

This guy is a genius. Looking forward to his following games

The change from isometric camera to perspective was such a trip after putting many hours into this game and only seeing it as the former. Every other part in here was interesting and entertaining as well. What a way to kick off this series!

That opening graphic is amazing btw

Seriously Andrew might be one of the most brilliant and creative indie devs that's out there right now. I really can't wait to see what he works on next.

Just finished Tunic recently and it blew me away in terms of secrets and design. This is fascinating, thanks!

You can tell by the way Andrew talks that he’s very focused on making a game that’s simply fun. He’s a guy that’s probably played and analyzed games his whole life and knows all the different aspects that make a game fun and addicting to play. Tunic is the proof of that, phenomenal game! It’s up there for me with Hyper Light Drifter, Fez, and Hollow Knight as some of the best indie games I’ve ever played

This is exactly the type of video I wanted NoClip to do on top of the documentaries. Big fan of this! Keep at it!

When I was young, before I learned English, before the Wii/Xbox 360/PS3 generation and especially until 2000, games weren't available in French in Quebec (or almost never). I remember reading PS1 or GameCube game manuals and trying to scour them for any info I could find about the game world. It was a way for me to build up the anticipation. I still have memos in my Crash Bandicoot manual. It was an uncomparable experience that this game finally allowed me to experience anew.

I was just looking for a more design focus on Tunic after playing it a bunch recently! By just looking I mean searching for this last night. Can’t wait to watch!

Fantastic game! I would love to buy a printed version of the manual.

Tunic is the most rewarding game I’ve ever played. A way more complicated ruse the “The Witness”. The revelations were so diverse and meta and organic and fun all at the same time.

Awesome, love this new series so much. This is incredible. And Congrats on the success of Tunic!

Developers ,Artist, Play testers, creators, stunt team, HR, snack guy. Tunic is the best game I have played since Final Fantasy 7 in the PS1. amazing work

This game brought my love back for gaming. Please in the near future, Twonic.

I love this Danny! Excited to watch the extended one.

This was fantastic! Great work as always Danny!

Such a tightly edited, condensed video. Nice work!

I would be interested to see something from level designers of racing games (Trackmania), or tactics games (X-Com, Shadow Tactics).

Just got a physical copy last week. I love it.

This is great! But I mostly ABSOLUTELY adore the graphics and the style of this video! Well. Done.

Loved Tunic, and loved the interview! Can't wait to see what's more to come from Andrew Shouldice!

Awesome video. Can’t wait for more episodes! Also, great graphics and animations.

Loved the game, and loved this interview! Thank you for your hard work Noclip!

LOVE THIS FORMAT of content. Bravo! Great pic for kickoff.

I love this game. Easily my pick for Game of the Year so far, and I think it'll be hard to beat. Great interview. Looking forward to more Developer Breakdowns!

I love this, having a semi-window into a devs mind and thought process is fascinating. I'll admit I bounced off tunic, but it still massively intrigued me, and this video reminded me I could install it on PC as well as xbox thanks to gamepass and give it another shot!

I think this deserves to be in the main channel

Oh, man... This is pure gold! Thank you!

I’m playing the game right now, and loving it! I think it’s hilarious that the dungeon at 8:00 was to teach us how to use the shield, because I didn’t have it yet, I must have overlooked it.

This was great! Love the format & graphics & music, feels very polished. Now I gotta finish Tunic!

I continue to love what you guys do with Noclip, the podcast, and now The Crew. I loved this one and have yet to play Tunic but I'm excited for Weird West. Unpacking isn't for me I don't think but I love to find out more about games and the developers.

Starting with a bang! This was excellent!

GOD I forgot how fucking GOOOOOOD the music is in this game. The composer on this game - Lifeformed - had gone kinda quiet after their legendary Dustforce ost and I was worried we'd never get anything else from them. Everyone should SERIOUSLY check out the Dustforce ost too, it's amazing work music.

A dope interview for a dope dev and game! 🔥🔥

One of the games of the year for sure, great interview

Subscribing on patron just for this extended cut! Thank you!

Such an awesome little game with so many layers and a haunting atmosphere, love it to bits! Low poly it might be but boy does it create an atmosphere for each area. Also the music is godly, many great melodies that keep playing in my head after I put it down -went and bought the soundtrack too!

Such a fantastic game. Huge congratulations to the development team for how it all came together!

Tunic is one of the best games of the year in 2022. The last puzzle with the door and manual is a masterpiece and very well done. This is remembered for a lifetime!

Andrew and the Tunic team gave me a one of a kind experience with this game. I love it so much!

love the prototype manual shown at 14:22

Great explanation

The camera reminds me of Landstalker on Genesis back in the 90s. Loved that game :)

14:18 oh! this place is just like the devworld you can access with the golden path save :O

Tunic is one of my fav games of all time. Thank you to the devs who made it!!

I have been waiting for this

Just finished the game and really loved the game. Really cool how a single discovery can change how I viewed an interacted with the world around me. The only secrets that I found to not be well laid out were the ones in the cathedral (you know the ones I'm talking about). I never found a hint that such an interaction was possible. Really curious is a sequel would be possible?

This was a great watch. I’m looking forward to watching more!

I love these documentaries

Yet another brilliant series begun. Noclip continues to win RU-vid

Tunic is a weird masterpiece and it's a superb piece of art. The soothing music, superb art direction and the aura of mystery that permeates throughout make for a very compelling playthrough. This one will age very well, like fine wine. It's timeless. Bought it on day one. Glad I did. I'm replaying it right now. It's just wonderful.

Very insightful and interesting. Also this guy has best ASMR voice ever!

Andrew has a very soothing voice. Can he read me a bedtime story?

If Bob Ross was a game developer. Seriously, awesome interview and definitely will get to Tunic eventually.

Love this, and what a game to start with.

@14:00 Body Harvest manual!

Fantastic! Loved hearing about the decisions and strategies.

easily my game of the year even if I hven't finished it yet, thanks for making this video without spoilers

This game looks amazing!

This is the most amazingly informative ASMR video I've ever watched! Excellent work as always Danny

I don't plan to play this game, but this is incredible what he and the team has created! Thank you Noclip Crew for interviewing this amazing game designer!

I loved when he talked about "cheesing" is a game feature. totally cheesed bosses with that ability card that turns your potions into magic ones and using the gun ;)

I love this game! I really love it. And what Andrew says about "Everything is already there" is so true Ironically I didn't knew how to sprint even though I had played it for 13hours. (My brother bought the came too and I saw him sprinting and wondered "Oh is this part of the game? xD )

"I didn't understand what morphball meant"... He just unlocked a deep memory from my past XD

This intro is phenomenal

this is the best shit ive seen in a loong while. Amazing care to detail in this game.

I heard about TUNIC at its release and I was like “ah, looks like a cute old school Zelda game… but as a Zelda fan, I rather play the real games” My best friend, last week, told me to not underestimate this game, he says that it has really good puzzles and that I should play it without looking at anything on the internet, cause it could ruin everything. So I started by cracking the game to test it, after 1 hour I liked it, so I bought it on steam. I’ve played 35 hours and finished the game at 100% all by myself (few hours has been spent outside of the game to understand some puzzles) And what can I say, it was one of the best journey I’ve ever had in a video game, this game is on my list of games that I’d really like to erase from my memory to be able to fully rediscovering them… I said I’ve liked the game after 1 hour But I totally loved TUNIC after 35 ❤

That's amazing cause as someone who took years and years to learn English. I'm fre'ch by the way. I though like anybody would understand what morphball is. Especially is English if your mothertongue. But no. And that's crazy but even though I've grew up with French language I keep learning some new words and I don't feel like it's not normal. They're is so many words that you will hear a few times in your life. And even though I can write all of this, doesn't mean thzt I can understand every words or know what they mean in English. Also yeah, the manual made me think too about when you play a hale in Japanese that you imported from there before internet existed

I really want to watch this, but I need to play and finish Tunic first 😅

Great Interview. Just finished 100% of the game, and although It has some bad issues with combat, repetitiveness and lack of puzzle communication, It was a good experience overall. Good work.

This man is a freaking genius.

Would love to play it. Such a nice look and sound interesting. And the developer need to have a radio station with that voice hahahaha

I LOVE THIS. That is all. :)

This was sooooo well done and I love hearing about the design breakdown of Tunic. Such a beautiful and well rounded game!

Damn, i really wanna know how he did the isometric perspective work, i'm working on a third person mixed with isometric view game.

Tunic dev's voice is smooth as butter

Ok you may have just got a new Pateron supporter, what level do I need to get the full hour interview??

This game is brillant !

Great new series, looking forward to more. Vampire Survivors might be an interesting one to hear about!

I love this game

That "cheating hitboxes" thing was also something that Kirby and the Forgotten Land utilized.

Nice

このゲームめっちゃ好き

Completed this game recently, was a lovely experience 🙂 Also, the soundtrack is 🔥

Quiero ver la entrevista completa :(

Would love to see some sort of doc on Terraria! game is amazing

today i learn that those ingame manual was a real printed manual not just graphical tricks

Developer breakdown? that's what I do every Thursday at around2PM

So it started low poly with some very simple solid color matrials, but what did it evovle too, it look texutered?

You don't need upper body strength for (beginner) rock climbing! They say if you can walk up and down the stairs - you can rock climb! Go try it, it's amazingly fun! Actually beginners with weaker hands tend to progress faster than the stronger ones, because they use their feet more - and that's the proper technique to learn. Upper body strength comes along at much higher skill levels.