The Strangest Developer You've Never Heard Of | The ARKHOUSE Tour 

dangerous levels of baseity

Perfectly understandable.

Fine

i can respect that, but I'd watch it nonetheless

Not sure if you're an archivist or hipster, but fine.

And considering he doesnt have any of that and his stuff is this decent, id give him a couple more years before he really shakes the industry.

Brother that's the problem with game development. A few visionaries surrounded by fickle people who boast about talent and dedication, but without MONEY, you quickly find out they really don't care. Without money poured down their throats, most would simply refuse to breathe, and leave this world in search of another.

@@FiggsNeughton nah man,i shouldve been more clear. he needs to be surrounded by fellow creators, who are just as passionate and stubborn about the creative vision as he is. take arcane kids for example. eventually they all left to do their own things (like neon white if you can beleive it), but during the time they were active they created all kinds of elaborate, uncompromising creative endeavors. surrounding yourself with people who share your passions is the best way to improve, in my opinion

@@nobodyfornow One hundred percent agree, I just thinking finding people like that is impossible. I'll look into those names you mentioned though. Sorry I'm just blackpilled to hell brother.

@@FiggsNeughton sall good, hard not to be nowadays

They're so good

it's actually pretty similar to channels like AccursedFarms. Highly recommended.

It's how I found Dosh. His video on Marrow ended up in my recommended videos, and while that video was playing, I noticed his Factorio video where he took on the Rampant Death World (with Armored Biters) challenge.

@@Forakus L take

Actually your wrong for this

it's the reverse indie game dev: the gameplay is from the unity workshop, but the (assets) art isn't

the gameplay uses simple basis to actually work, but what it does with it is really really creative, it uses simple jumps and atacks to communicate various feelings and different challenges and often get *very* hard, dark dreams rhn for example(a free arkhouse game), is one of the most cruelly difficult games I've ever played, and it actually uses this for thematic and narrative reasons. Basicaly pushing the really simple mechanics to their limit in what they can do. It's also fascinating to just see what they throw at you, so progressing is *always* rewarding. It's extremely artsy view of games, and they are really appreciable

It's like how the Touhou franchise started as an outlet for one guy's musical talent and now there's enough homages to his songs that it constitutes a whole subgenre

Proves games are Art

@@bloodmachine6049 The problem is that the basic jumping and attacking mechanics always feel kinda bad.

so he has no sanity?

The calm before the storm

As a wise man once said, “Ritalin really helps”.

The worst thing is his sanity number is in binary

@@chunkypuff7581 well you see it goes down into the negatives in factorio

Judging from all the gravestones on it I’d say you’re correct

Nobody knows /definitively/ what it means, but theres a lot of very valid and complete explanations. one: its missing punctuation, Get a silk bag from the graveyard. Duck to live longer. two: graveyard guy is named duck three: duck in various forms in japanese is slang for things notably recluse. four: the villagers tend to flat out lie.

@@rjwaters3 isnt the first one imposible since the original japanese word was specifically about the bird? if what preza said is true

@@sidfan42 if what he said /is/ true, that it absolutely only refers to the bird and noone would ever use it in a different way, yes, it would be impossible, but were talking regional slang here, those things are incredibly difficult to pin down, and if multiple forms of duck are used in one way, someone could use a method not normally linked to that usage to make it less obvious whats going to happen prior to reaching that point. on the regional slang side of things, "ratchet" is a synonym for "wretched" here among children and teens too stupid to self reflect on their language choices.

@@rjwaters3 I'm not fluent in Japanese, and I haven't played Castlevania so I had to look up the original screen in Japanese. While there is some creative license in how it was translated, the actual sentence in Japanese just tells you to go get a silk bag from a duck at the graveyard, after which you'll live a long life. I don't know whether アヒル can be something else in some obscure slang, but it most definitely won't be that option 1 without some extreme editing by the translator. Googling the Japanese statement just leads to Reddit discussion of this same issue.

Would probably be a great artist to have on a project, though I may prefer someone else be in charge of game design. _(Though there were still some interesting ideas there on display here, too.)_ May be an interesting writer, but get a cowriter, just in case

I agree, I’m an environment designer but I wonder who they hired for mirage of dragon. The art direction is strong & looks like Amano fused with Giger

Reminds me of the art style of Fear and Hunger. Realistic visuals mixed with slightly weird movement and game mechanics, combining to make a very uncanny experience.

Agreed, this guy needs to be hired as art director for something. Really inspired stuff

It remembers me about darkwood a little bit

glavriba??

@@graygravity3856 Yep. Glav is short for main, and Ryba means fish, so GlavRyba is "Fish-Main". as if FishCorp or FishDept

I was looking for this comment ❤

What I mean by grotesque and breathtaking at the same time: Imagine if H.R. Giger decided to design the Eifel Tower. It's like that, it's an alien design at an impressive scale compared to the diminutive nature of humanity. It's grotesque, massive, but breathtaking and awe inspiring at the same time.

I generally accepted that in Castlevania games, despite the European aesthetic, you're working under Japanese media rules, in which "Death" is not archetypal death, but just one of many shinigami. You defeat him, he goes off to lick his wounds and sulk, and then he becomes the next Belmont's problem. Pretty cool about the show making the grim reaper specifically a parasitic entity, though!

@@QuantumWaltz yes and no as it's stated death doesn't reap dracula thus why he can ressurect so easily

@@marley7868 From what I remember, it's less that Death doesn't reap Dracula but rather can't and was mentioned that Dracula has beaten death and thus commands him. It's why by the time of the Sorrow games that neither he or Dracula are technically 'dead'/gone.

@@kaitoshigure9085 I know the reason death comes back is just doesn't reap himself but yeah his relationship with drac is complicated

It was super strange, like, why?

Fun fact, HAL had a counterpart on earth called SAL.

I am going to rip apart their art style just to improve my own art Its so good!

The animation is pretty basic

Simplicity can be used to great effect.

There was a bullet hell game where bullet colors alternate between black and white, your ship is immune if getting hit by the same color, and also the game recognizes if you beat the game without firing a single shot

@@meyers0781 ikaruga! It's great, but really hard!

Look up the Ys games, at least 1 and 2 are like that

​@@juegojrYeah, but YS isn't a bullet hell and it sucked when it became that in that one boss.

it's certainly... different.

He’s already insane.

@@DTinkerer Perhaps it's at a point he's so insane that it's gone full circle at this point.

Good god

Choose a section of youtube and stick to it >:(

I find it annoying how terms like "insane" are just thrown around, really trivializes mental health

asthetically the graphics are beautiful. Functionality wise, I can see why they could potentially be seen as not functional enough, specially in the clarity department. So to summarize, they are A+ grade graphics beauty wise. But C or F (in some cases) Functionality wise.

​@@DominikaHareThe major problem these games have is the color palette being too muted in everything including the PC, so it makes it very hard to see what's going. If the dev made the PC have more vivid colors or just hardlined it more, it wouldn't be such a problem, tho it would clash with the artstyle a bit. It's a hard problem to solve with the artstyle most of these games have, probably why he switched to pure pixel art, makes it easier to separate the PC with the rest of the enviroment

I remember D1896 also being covered by ABG. Just as nonsensical as I remember it.

"Dedicated to the old Konami" goes unreasonably hard.

wait, you guys dont watch 2 hour long videos on a regular basis?

I've been eagerly saving it up for a sick day, which has finally struck.

There was actually another paragraph I wrote for that section in the original script that I scrapped because it sounded way too sappy and felt out of place, but here it is if you like that sort of thing. "To close this discussion, with our modern lives becoming increasingly isolated - especially considering the size of the demographic that would get this far into a video about some dude discussing incredibly niche video games - it's easy to feel occluded from society as a whole. You may feel distant, detached, an observer of things rather than a participant. Though you know that rationally it cannot be true, you may feel that you're the only real human, standing amongst a field of human flowers; each unique in its own right, but evidently lacking the cerebral complexity you possess. And sometimes, rare as it may seem, you may sense something else in that field that doesn't quite seem to fit, something as strange as it is familiar. And as your solipsistic shell is shattered, you look up and think, "Ah... There's another human here." That's how I feel about these heterodox developers. But of course, sharing your heartfelt thoughts and feelings is cringe. I'm sorry. It won't happen again."

@@DoshDoshington I appreciate the reply. Cheers!

@@DoshDoshington As someone with schizophrenia, I definitely feel that part about nobody around me having the same cerebral complexity. But, the bad kind of complexity, rather than "nobody is on my level", just that I experience a lot of things that may as well be incommunicable.

@@Coreagrus And I appreciate you, random viewer

@@DoshDoshington Personally I'd cut everything after 'hereodox developers'. It's a good paragraph, and to be beholden by what other people call 'cringe' is a good way to start boxing away thoughts and feelings that are perfectly legitimate and should be expressed.

What this developer really needs, is a Catholic nun with a wooden ruler. Whenever he plays a new game and is suddenly inspired to implement a completely new gameplay style into his current game, the nun smacks his hand with the ruler and tells him to go refine the core gameplay loop. She also needs to be able to fully understand and explain the complex and conflicting theological lore of the Bible. So whenever she playtests the game and can't understand what's going on, that means it's definitely too indecipherable.

​@@CheshireCadlol what

@@CheshireCad "She also needs to be able to fully understand and explain the complex and conflicting theological lore of the Bible." Asking the seemingly impossible here....has ANYONE pulled that off?

​@@Bloodlyshiva I don't think so

@@Bloodlyshivathe bible is a collection of books that were written across many many years, and even then there are the apocrypha. I really dont think its possible to fully understand the bible at all

top 10 character motivations

I'm flattered. A lot of people say there's something oddly compelling about the way I explain things, and it's not like it's something I'm doing intentionally so I suppose I should just thank whatever deity is watching over me

Wow, you're right. I've rewatched the Marrow, TowerClimb and the La Mulana video several times. And now this one. I almost never do this to any video or even any sort of media except music (of course). Dosh does something unique but can't put my finger on it.

how much progress so far?

@@ultratheman well i've watched it about 4 times

@@mooj269 only 699,996 more times

Oh god, Black Souls. I'd need to work pretty hard to keep Daddy RU-vid happy if I wanted to talk about that one

@@DoshDoshington There is a vanilla version (no S E X) on both games, I think.

@@DoshDoshington I don't think people are ready to experience the schizophrenic roller coaster that is the Black Souls series, along with it's prequel, Red Riding Woods. I honestly recommend against making a review on this, not only because of the abundance of """cute and funny""" content in those game that I could see people giving you a lot of shit for, but also because I think that Black Souls is best experienced first-hand, rather than through the lens of another's perspective. This is the kind of game that one either discovers while browsing mongolian basketweaving forums late at night, or through word of mouth. The best kind of review for the black souls series would be a simple statement which goes "It's good shit, go play it if you enjoy schizophrenic plots mixed with Lovecraftian horror themes". Oh, before I go- The next series spin-off "RED DEAD HOOD" is currently in development.

@@ethangnasher3848 Sure 9/10 scenes are some mild personality quirks at best, but there's tidbits of lore hidden in them. Of course, those can be fairly trivial in the big picture. However you miss out on 90% of the ending of Black Souls 1 and all of the lorebombs it drops. Similar to Fear & Hunger 1, you miss out on the slight horror and unnervingness that sexual content can bring. I can scarcely recall a game that has fearboners that are more fear than boner.

@@TheAppleloaf As much as I agree with you, this is RU-vid we're talking about, dude can't risk getting dropped onto the shadow realm by the higher ups.

the dead-insideness catched me

@@hingewichsterfick fr

Next month

@@DoshDoshington More beans please

As someone who's wasted far too much of their life on PZ to the point of making a god-awful video essay, I get this completely. I do have to throw in a however, which is that the controls seem to be more intentionally stiff and punishing then what you might expect for a hard-core game in its genre. I think this complements it however, bad choices lead to bad positioning, which creates bad results. That's my two cents at least. Sorry if this is poorly written and what not, I'm writing this on my phone at six in the morning.