The Rain World Animation Process 

So what is rain w- Oh- thank you! :)

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Americans clap to animation demonstrations

@@1000niggawatt Clapping for someone’s hard work is not a special “American-exclusive” ideal. The hell?

@@AcidArmy_ It''s clearly a joke based on the trope that americans clap when a plane lands, and wasn't meant to be taken literally.

Same. I actually didn't even know that they were able to move their cores until this video... Jesus christ

@@flirpykid which part they talk about it?

@@fridge9734 14:58 onwards

For me it was the opposite. I had no idea that they worked on sound alone or that not all of their tentacles were functional.

@@flirpykid tbh i noticed them kinda flying about before suddenly smacking on the ground sometimes, mostly arena tho.

Or when they just shake their head when they get bored

Some lizards throw a tantrum when they can’t get me

Some lizards suicide trying to get me

​@@HarambaeXelonmuskfansdamn your lizz rizz must be insane

all that time spent on game and nobody is talking about it o.O They could have made a 90's style pixel game and got on CNN.

It's too much of a slow burn for reviewers, since it's so dependent on exploration and player's skill. Karma system sounds scary, so it gets unfairly criticized, even through it's mostly used to hold new players from getting into areas that are too difficult for them. It's really not a problem later on. Most of all, unlike Ori and Hollow Knight, it really needs to be played to understand what's cool about it.

yeah dude the game is amazing... but its unbalanced unfair and unrewarding. but I like it

Nah. It is balanced and extremely rewarding, just not within the existing conventions. If a game wants to be an adventure, it can't be fair, because fair is predictable, and a predictable adventure isn't fun.

I agree almost completely with Lonely Soul. Maybe an adventure can be fair and balanced, but an adventure in a truly simulated and dynamic world cannot. Rain World does that brilliantly and very boldly, since it is apparently very easy to misunderstand what the game is trying to do. It took me a while, at least.

CabinDoor not the method, the results. they totally achieved what they were going for in terms of making things feel alive and Ive never seen any other game come close in that regard.

RainWorld reminds me of old Amiga games like Elf.. :)

I just have to point out how amazingly short-sighted that reply is... It's like saying "putting a paintbrush to a canvas in a certain way raises the bar for art? How?" They made a thing that looks freaking awesome in a way nothing else has ever quite looked. Other people who want to make things that look awesome in that way should learn from this one. That is the definition of raising the bar.

Not often does a game make the world a living and breathing place. Though the ecosystem is a main focus of the game, I can see future games applying the foodchain dynamics as something in the background, that will enrich their world.

3 years later and still nothing compares to it

It's funny you say that, as James said he likes Downpour because it's the first time he's been able to play Rain World blind since the first demos Joar showed him.

“He’s got the spirit but not the soul” Me talking about my green lizard that either tries and fails or just kinda gives up immediately in combat

Torgo and surprisingly its published by Adult Swim

Freshly Memed anyway to get it out there

It’s no hollow knight but it’s good

@@corbinbarron8772 hollow knight is more fun, but rain world is far more unique, impressive and boundary pushing, it's not even comparable

Teratoma 彡 Prod. Ok, well a video game can be different, but that doesn’t make it good. Rain world is writhing with flaws and frustration. Plus, at their core, they’re both about exploring, collecting, and platforming, so I would argue that they are totally comparable.

technically hes grabbing the background, but you're basically right

What about the cyan centipede

​@@tobyk5091 The green ones? They have wings, dude. :D

Background

But you are part of it

Then the yellow guy following you all the time is a cameraman? :0

@@ValeraMoth this is somewhat correct actually

the level editor is also proceedural its pretty neat, all the tiles are basically normal maps and then it does some slime effects and light rendering on it indexing it into a monochrome image which you can pick a palette for. they get a lot of mileage out of reused tiles this way because they can be distorted and have different palettes really solid system i wish they did a video on the level design

benox my dude, Ive been playing this over the weekend and I think it is 3d. See this clip: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b4bzFzD0MOE.html Then again, it may be more trickery from the devs.

​@@dewhi100 Hey man, nice that you played it :o Old comment above, now I checked the game assets and its multiple type of 2D images with some tech maps like normal map for the light to look 3D/Relief on stuff. Im thinking of making a map for it or something because the workflow is so unique and interesting.

@@linelinelinelinep440 ​Yea, once I found out I was amazed by it and did research, I read his wip blog, this game is a 2D technical indie masterpiece. Using simple shapes with settings like material for those shapes, then adding grunge effects to distort the 2D or populating random details + color blending masks. Then like procedurally render a 2D image like a pre-render. Its so unique + usefull for the level art work

@@benox50 late reply but out of curiosity, do you know or remember what WIP blog that was? i couldn't find it as it was either the devlog with broken images or his own blog where i didn't really find any information on how the static graphics were made.

Welp you got your wish kind of.

With how much lore there is, this is one of those games that actually could get a sequel without being redundant. I'd love a game where we play as a slightly different creature, too. Could even be set in the same time if that were the case since a new creature is enough to change the gameplay.

@Cat Poke I think a sequel set in a different zone will be interesting, we know that the iterators nearby are called the local group, suggesting that there could be lots of more iterators out there with their own special regions and zones, though it wouldn't really be a rain world anymore as pebbles wouldn't be there.

@@bananafone1414 That would be awesome!

well i have good news

Sucks the community is so small now, and the creators aren’t really working on the game anymore.

@@Kian00 I'm not sure what you expect them to be working on when it comes to Rain World, it's a single-player open world game with only one way to beat it? It's completely finished. It's not a live service. That being said I totally get the want for more content, I just reckon the official release is fantastic and does everything it needs to. However! If you haven't heard of it, I am extremely excited for the More Slugcats 1.5 release which will add I think 5 distinct campaigns and accompanying regions to fit the unique slugcats' play styles, like one that grows spears out of it's back, one with a frog tongue, one that can Mario stomp on things, one that can create tiny explosions to deflect spears/rocks/bombs and use that to boost around like a Leapzard, it looks wicked. And it adds safari mode which lets you control any creature... No story for that though. The modding community behind this game is insane and if you haven't you should totally take a look at raindb.net for custom regions, slugcats, weapons - you name it. The community is small but it is extremely dedicated and I think they'll find a way to keep it fresh into the future, which is another reason the devs probably aren't doing anything with it atm, they don't have to. :D Which, is kinda cool in my opinion, that they might just trust us to find new ways to enjoy the game.

@@ZedAmadeus don’t forget to mention that they’re also working on another game that will be 3D. We don’t know much about it though, except for the (as of posting this comment) 6 video teasers we’ve gotten for it on the video cult RU-vid channel

@@Kian00 boy i got news for you

@@Kian00 that comment aged terribly, I cannot be more hyped!

you also have to pray to RNGesus that there arent 8305 vultures where youre tryna go

@@the_big_har me when i'm in chimney canopy/sky islands trying to progress through the game but every room has 5 vultures

@@the_big_har Drainage system is worse. You have to pray to RNGesus that the leeches aren't camping the exit you just swam into, because they will make it immediately impossible to surface for air if they are. At least you can dodge the vultures, but those leeches man..

@@catpoke9557 There are consistent ways of avoiding both the vultures and the leeches. Not everything is RNG. As a matter of a fact, i mostly died due to my own mistakes instead of pure bad luck.

@@miguelthekewlkid272 The only method I could have used to avoid leeches that were right at the entrance of an enclosed area with nowhere to surface to, would be to throw snails at them, which would weigh me down as I carried them and stun me when I threw them at the leeches. I don't think you understand just how inescapable some of those leeches were. There would be enough to weigh me down in a hole barely big enough to even fit slugcat, with a roof on top of my head, so I could only escape by slowly scooting through a small pipe at the top of the hole. To get to that pipe, I'd have to not be covered in leeches to begin with. Even the oxygen plant I would usually carry into there would not save me when all the leeches decided to gather right where I pop out. I agree though, not everything is RNG, as I made clear by saying you can dodge vultures. I've even killed king vultures. It was specifically certain leeches in drainage system that forced me to pray to RNGesus

I still dislike 2001 and it's extremely pretentious to me. Yes there are cool shots and a lot of work went into creating these sets, I can respect that, but as a movie that I can sit and watch it doesn't work for me. Like, whatever intellectual crap you can try and throw at me, not in any world it will justify the 20 minutes LSD trip near the end of the movie.

borek921 Interstellar made more sense than 2001 space oddysey

Yeah, in the same way spiderman 3 made more sense than 2001 space oddysey

Corona nate its a very important game even though ive gotten to a point where im kind of stuck. I might have 30 games on steam, this is the only game i go back to inbetween rdr2 or mgsv. Those are AAA games that simulate weight quite well, so what these guys do in their indie game is amazing to me

@@borek92 Different strokes for different folks... Everything you hate about 2001 is what I love about it. I always thought "pretentious" was a weird way to say you found something boring. What is is "pretending" to be? I think some people just can't grasp that different styles exist and some people like certain styles more than others.

+Norb Besides technical achievements, I would say this game is also a narrative achievement. I don't know if it was mentioned in the video, but the story ties in extremely well with the world and its gameplay. I didn't expect to receive such an existential theme in a survival metrovania game.

Along with the lively ecosystem that is effected every cycle you go out to play!

This game is genius underrated and insane

It also has great gameplay

"Narrarive achievement" my ass. To know at least something about the world you need to haul through most of the regions with one of the three inventory slots taken by a useless pearl, then go to LttM and then show it for a teeny-tiny amount of information. That just sucks. Hollow Knight did it much better.

Pety GET IT ITS SO WORTH IT

DasAntiNaziBroetchen eh looking back on it I regret it.

DasAntiNaziBroetchen there, deleted.

@@mattbowlby4144 yo what was it I'm curious

Serponge Geometry Dash It was a link to a free download of the game. I heavily regret it at this point, as I was a lot less wise when I posted the comment. I deleted it out of courtesy to the creators and everyone else.

Sadly Most of the triple A dev's are Lazy and greedy nowadays 😞

@@Indo-Aryan9644 and they are built upon already built systems. Best example is assassin's creed. The 1st game was the actual work done and other games would be somewhat minor-major improvements over time.

agreed, would love to see more games, especially 3D games that use this level of procedural animation

@@UNSCPILOT i'm pretty sure exanima uses procedural animation and is 3D

considering how old this video is, they probably technically didn't lie. granted, i don't know how recent scav personalities are, and they made a biiiig thing about it too

soon! check their twitter it should be out in december 21

@@rayhill1 It never came.

@@hisan5485 I was lying

mods

@@hisan5485 It's coming out for real on the 19th this month. You'll have to share a screen though, like if you were playing together on the same device.

good for you :)

King Me Jumpman it is shit because you didn't like it? what a well thought out review :)

A better critique would probably be it looks beautiful but character controller doesn't feel as fluid as the animations, that let the game down a bit for me, it felt rough and rigid, however I was playing with WASD and then never shines a good light on any game. Would certainly watch someone else play it, just so I can stare at the awesome visuals, although I will probably look away if the critter starts drowning, as the camera shake and glitching made me feel uncomfortable enough to not go for the replay. I think this game may be a bit of marmite, you either love it or hate it, I may give it another shot with a controller as that might improve the experience, although I'm predicting the critter will still feel like a million led balloons. tl;dr doesn't feel as good as it looks. Really hope it grows on me.

Mouldy Soul yeah, I could see that, it requires some getting used to, especially when it comes to swimming. especially before the updates - slugcat would drown very fast. and even now, when it starts to drown it tries to swim up instinctively, wich is kinda realistic but also quite frustrating. however, after you've been through the hardest parts of game, it actually starts to feel fluid and nice. the game has the most rewarding sence of progression that I have ever expirienced.

Ahh ok thanks for clearing that up for me, maybe I dived into the game too early, I literally saw a few adverts and was like "I need this game in my life", really really wanted to like and waste hours on it, as I was intrigued by everything even the ideas about the changing/reactive AI, I'm generally not a game player so I was kinda hoping that the AI could taylor itself to my shoddy skills! I guess it's like most instruments, when you first pick it up you can hardly do anything, then it becomes almost 2nd nature, I just didn't feel like I had enough time with the game to get to that stage, I really will give it another try and maybe the update might help, and seeing others and your review/thoughts really makes me want to see where the game is heading. Cheers for the constructive debate instead of deviations into unjustified hate! :)

You should try out mods then. They add more regions and new slugcats, there a real treat to play!

they just released a signal on twitter!

@@avimoses5956 Ty for the heads up

Good news! a dlc that supposedly has double the content as the first game is coming out

Im from the future and you’re in luck

Yeah, I still stand by what I said mate. I say they're confident.

They are confident enough to get their points across, but not confident in the volume of their voice.

I could see they were nervous. They're probably in front of hundreds of people. But judging by what they've accomplished, the audience (in my opinion) should cheer them on no matter what.

I'm not convinced. They're definitely confident in what they've accomplished, just maybe not when it comes to speaking in front of a huge audience, especially when this is, to my knowledge, the team's first project.

Play stalker, especially mods like anomaly, in the first version of stalker some other guys could win a game for you

ikr

how did it go?

@@Ikarus120 Very hard and brutal but the sceneries, the hidden stories, the active environment are just so good! Its very worth it to play if you don't mind getting stuck on some areas learning how the creatures work and memorizing your surroundings. No regrets buying it.

what is confirmed ?

yes

Exactly!

No, reviewers got their hands on the game and as we all know Hard game equals bad game in their eyes. Some reviewers,polygon, just straight up lied.

They're releasing to switch

carrion

if you get a controller you could do co-op or arena locally!