Animal Well dev on building the game's engine!

Billy Basso not only made Animal Well, he made the engine it runs on - hear some of his thoughts on game engine development in this short!

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[ThenewTchannel]

Billy Basso built his own software engine in a cave! With a box of scraps!

[diosrightcalfmuscle]

I fucking KNEW it was a custom engine. The whole time I was playing I kept thinking "there is no way Unity or even Godot can look this good, have these kinds of mechanics and be the fastest running game I've ever played and still SOMEHOW be 33mb". This game is a technical fucking marvel, I would do a black sacrement to have access to the engine code.

[Abby-ugxc]

Would love to hear more about his process creating the puzzles & keeping it interconnected

[EscapeCondition]

He's a legend for what he's reminding the industry about focus on a core vision. Great game.

[mik-de]

this video convinced me to buy the game

[perplexedon]

I love how well the game runs at a minute file size. Shows how much bloat the major game engines include in every release program. When i saw 35MB I actually thought the steam download had gone wrong, or that it was installing a launcher or something!

[ttaylor]

As a programmer I really identify with this mentality, solving technical issues is a joy compared to creating artwork😅

[dedmin]

Optimized so well it'll fit on a thumb drive

[paijwa]

Look up to this guy a lot. Huge inspiration

[joshuamwamlima]

Beautifully said. True independence as a game developer 🔥

[nameforcomments]

And the game is 34MB and goes from your first click to open it, to you actually playing in about 3 seconds. The speedrun categories as of right now I believe all use only intended and known game elements, no game-breaking glitches. And people are still uncovering secrets and layers.

[slackstarfish]

It would be impressive if the game just looked decent. But the fact that one guy made a game that has one of the coolest art styles and atmospheres I’ve ever experienced in a videogame is another level.

[Ninthalias]

Pointcrow is so right, I also want to watch my favorite streamers as we discover Silksong's secrets, but I want to get lost in it myself.

[stefankupych]

Billy is an inspiration. I've been planning out a game and was going to try to build it in Godot or some such thing, but building a custom engine sounds so gratifying

[iammichaeldavis]

Making a video game is the greatest video game there is

[Fishyu]

It's unbelievable that only 33MB(⊙o⊙)

[PanSangex]

im trying to convince myself im not biased because I liked his game a lot, but, he seems to have a very sharp sense of quality idk what I mean but I bet he will make some another great game sometime im cthulhu so fhtagn my dudes

[paulrose]

he looks so much like joe dempsie (gendry from GoT)

[AlwaysRetr]

He looks a bit like Dunkey with glasses and no beard. Are we sure it's not Dunkey in disguise making his own game

[Gazto]

a hardcore low level programmer right there