I Made a Game Inside a Game Inside a Game Inside a Game...

(inside a game)

For some reason I decided to develop a game about recursion. The initial idea was to have the player itself be a smaller copy of the level that can navigate inside itself. So you could do things to the level to give yourself certain abilities or do things to yourself to modify the level. There weren't many amazing directions to take this, so I thought of something else:

What if the "level" contained a smaller copy of itself, and the player character can navigate between the different recursive instances. The idea is cool I guess, but programming it turned out to be quite the challenge - ultimately involving the use of a render texture and quickly swapping out the controlled "player" copy.

The final 2D golf based game is full of some mind-bending mechanics involving scaling the player, changing gravity, and duplicating yourself.

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→ "Crazy" by Antti Luode

[SamHogan]

So be sure to go watch it and subscribe to that guy!

[YouTubeProwler]

It's always the good game devs that just cease to exist

[ssscout]

this definitely will inspire someone out there to go on a life long journey to create the most confusing puzzle game of all time

[AxetomyBoi]

How to make a Recursion.
Step 1: Get 2 mirrors
Step 2: Make Them Face each other
Step 3: Stand in the middle

[Jabrils]

wow man, this is a pretty **INceptional** feature 👏👏👏

[Thaquonium]

FOR THOSE WONDERING, on his Twitter he stated (in 2022) that he won't upload anymore. He is no longer interested in Game Development and therefore, this is his LAST video
EDIT: YEEAY - He said in a comment that he MIGHT RETURN IF HE BECOMES INTERESTED
THOSE WHO ARE EXCITED, REPLY WITH W OR LIKE THIS (not begging)

[carykh]

ooh i love this game concept, it kinda reminds me of Portal, but in a more fractally way!

also I'm convinced that the infinite stacks of your body would stay supported at 6:10 even without the floor, which means it'd still be beatable without it 😲

[tortellini]

“This is wrinkling my brain”
“This is wrinkling my brain”
“THATS WRINKLING MY BRAIN”

[dhoimkf]

“How to understand recursion:
Step 1: understand recursion”
Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes

[AidanDaGreat]

Lord, three years. I remember going nuts that one of my favorite Youtubers uploaded. I never considered he simply didn't enjoy making games anymore. From all of us, Sam, I hope your life is going great. if you ever read this, know that we are here for ya.

[OKayDN]

When a streamer accidentally shows their OBS

[Chadderbox]

Now to do this, but in 3D.

My brain is going to hurt for a while.

[Brainof]

hey sam, i was going through my yt and found your channel, it sucks that you stopped creating but i get it. We all miss you, have a good life, maybe we will see you again in the future

[RatedChess]

“fix bugs”
Sam: “goes to good graphics”
I bet Sam is the best on avoiding game bugs.
Me finding a bug: Oh.

[Tantandev]

*How to avoid recursion:*
Step 1: avoid recursion
Step 2: repeat step 1

[FirstCrimson]

My brain wasn't supposed to turn into goop until Monday, but here we are.

[Hawks-experiments]

Any one else come back to this channel randomly every 9 months or so cause you miss the videos

[cervantes]

Dr Strange: “Are you challenging me?!”

[LucyKosaki]

"I made a game inside a game!"
Minecraft redstone experts: "First time?"

[smolse]

So this is why you disappeared.
Understandable, looks harder than creating a 1000 feet machine.