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What do you want from Noclip in Year SEVEN?

Hello you wonderful Patrons,On September 12th we'll celebrate our sixth birthday, something that I am incredibly thankful for and proud of - especially given how tough the past few years have been on our ability to produce compelling documentaries.In our sixth year we produced projects on Prey, Death's Door, Deathloop, Chivalry 2, DMA Design (GTA & Lemmings), The Forgotten City, Hotline Miami, Black Mesa, Among Us, Bloodborne PSX and Rogue Legacy 2 (coming next week). We launched a new s...

Like a Dragon (Yakuza) Movie Review - Noclip Podcast #85

Hello Patrons!On the latest patron-only pod we take a stroll around the crime ridden streets of Kamurocho as we watch the 2007 action-thriller LIKE A DRAGON.What lengths will Kiryu go to to save the day? Will the sub plot with the band robbers go anywhere? Will Majima ever stop chewing the scenery.This was a blast to record, we hope you enjoy it too.Danny

[EARLY ACCESS] The Making of Rogue Legacy 2

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3aFy8F0aRwHey Patrons,The quiet summer is over, and we are into the documentary rish fall. The team has been working on a bunch of long and short docs, the first of which comes to you in early access form today!In this doc we talk to the team at Cellar Door about the original Rogue Legacy, the failing of their second game, and the difficult early days of early access on RL2. We also talk about classes, biomes, traits, skill-crits, music and...

Developer Breakdown: Weird West

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwJL96ErplQHey Patrons!We don't always post links to Noclip Crew videos but I know a lot of you are fans of Weird West and asked for this documentary so I thought it best to give you a heads up. In it I talk to Raphaël Colantonio about the design of Weird West, the challenge of creating immersive sims, the reception to the game and how they've patched it post-launch.Jesse did an awesome job on the edit here, especially given some technical i...

Weird West Interview - Developer Breakdown Uncut

UNLISTED LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HelvDHFibcHey Patrons,Here is the uncut version of the episode of Developer Breakdown that is going live today. In it I talk to Raphaël Colantonio about the design of Weird West, the challenge of creating immersive sims, the reception to the game and how they've patched it post-launch.We've got more episodes of Developer Breakdown planned for the coming months but as ever please let us know what you'd like to see next on the show. It c...

Welcome to Novato - Let's Build a New Studio!

Hello Patrons,This one is coming hot out of the oven as I wanted to quickly catch up on all the craziness going on over here. In this video I talk about our plans for a new studio, a return to big studio docs, growing Noclip Crew, the busy summer that was, and much more.I also wanted to take this moment to touch base with with you all on how we've been doing this past year. As we move back into a proper filming space and plan the next six months of docs I wanted to get a read on what you thi...

Hyper Light Development LAUNCHES!

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiK6w1pC8h4Hello Patrons,Our new series is finally here.Take your first steps with us as we cover the development of Hyper Light Breaker at Heart Machine in Los Angeles. In this episode we introduce you to the studio, their history, the people working there and how remote work has changed games development forever.Let us know what you think!Danny

[EARLY ACCESS] Hyper Light Development - Episode 01

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiK6w1pC8h4Hey Early Access Patrons,Our brand new series covering the development of Hyper Light Breaker starts this coming week and the first episode is ready for your early access viewing.This episode introduces a handful of the characters of this series, the studio itself, their history, games, past struggles and hopes for the future. Just like our series on Hades we look forward to covering this story for a number of years but we want to...

Bloodborne PSX: Recreating Bloodborne for the Original PlayStation

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZBNbU1TedIHey Patrons,If Black Mesa taught us anything it's that if a studio doesn't want to talk then cover the coolest fan project associated with the game. And honestly, they don't come much cooler than this.Bloodborne PSX is a project most of the team has been following on twitter for a while now. Lilith Walther has been tweeting updates on the project for most of its development which not only meant that it had grown a large fan-bas...

Silent Hill (The Movie) Review - Noclip Podcast #80

Hello Patrons!With all this chat around Silent Hill recentl we thought it a good time to revisit the 2006 film starring Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell & Laurie Holden.Will the movie have poor draw distance? Will a spooky siren go off? Are there pyramid heads? All these questions and more are answered in this patron exclusive podcast.Also sorry to our Sheffield listeners - I said Sean Bean was from Newcastle, ugh.Danny

Noclip Stunt Game Playtest (Friday) - GET YOUR ALHPA KEY NOW

Hello Production Team Patrons (and up),We are just about ready to give you access to an early build of our Game Project. The idea of these playtests is to give us some initial feedback on the game and to try and get some ideas brewing around game modes, map styles and probably the title of the game too.Alex has spent a few months working on it and this playtest is gonna give us some initial ideas of what we do next. The idea is to use this game as a platform to make different types of videos and...

[EARLY ACCESS] Bloodborne PSX

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZBNbU1TedIHey Early Access Patrons!Here is a great little documentary we filmed during our road trip to LA to visit Heart Machine. It dives into the design of Bloodborne and explores the complex web of work that is required to (de)make a game to make it look like it came from a bygone era. This is truly a unique story for us and the team worked tirelessly on it. Jeremy edited this one with Frank capturing an insane amount of gameplay of bot...

Project Updates & We're Making a Game? - July 2022 Patron Show

UNLISTED YOUTUBE : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T9quEY0l0MHey Patrons,A fun one this month with a bunch of sneak peeks. On this Patron Update we show off some of our series on Hyper Light Breaker, give updates on new and existing episodes of Greatest Hits, the Crystal Dynamics projects, Bloodborne PSX, and run down all the docs and shows in production (like Weird West & Rogue Legacy 2).0:00 - Intro 3:43 - Hyper Light Development Clip 6:38 - Hyper Light Development 8:00 - Various Project Upda...

[LIVE TODAY] July 2022 Production Meeting

WHEN: Today (July 11th)WHAT TIME: Noon Pacific / 8PM BSTWHERE: https://youtu.be/IgJRNsJvHTc (link changed 11:47am)Hey Patrons,This month's Production Meeting will help us pick the game for episode five of Greatest Hits based on today's voting tally. We're also going to talking about a bunch of other projects we're working on and brainstorming for Developer Breakdown too.If you can make it we'd love to have you there, but you can also leave suggestions / ideas in the comments ...

Unreleased DOOM 4 [cancelled] & DOOM 2016 Development Gameplay

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvb04gU_UmUHey Patrons,I'm just back from my first proper (non-Ireland) vacation since the kid was born, so first of all thank you so much for allowing me the time and wages to do that. We had terrific family time and I drank a lot of rum from coconuts. We'll have a patron show up this week detailing what's going on but for now we're hard at work on docs for Rogue Legacy 2, Bloodborne PSX (demake), our Hyper Light Breaker series and m...

Greatest Hits - Episode #05 Poll

Hello Patrons,It's time to vote for our fifth episode of Greatest Hits.Based on your nominations this weekend I've compiled the following set of nominations. These are all terrific games worth of an episode so thank you all for submitting them. From these we will select the top three for a production meeting on Monday where we will make the final call together.Remember: You only have one vote but it can be changed right up until the end of voting. So as the saying goes; vote early and vo...

Greatest Hits Episode #05 - Suggestions Now Open!

Hello Greatest Hits Patrons!It's time for a new vote, and a new format for picking our next episode.By now you should probably know that the winner of episode four's vote, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, has been amalgamated into a larger Crystal Dynamics documentary series which we have already shot some 11 interviews for. Expect those in the coming months.Sorry it took so long to confirm and get episode 5 rolling - we didn't want to create a situation where our already stretched team ...

Carrie Patel on Writing Characters at Obsidian

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7-M7EnVUIHey Patrons,Our third extended interview of the month is a little shorter at 25 mins, but no less deep than the others. Here we talk to Carrie Patel about how she broke into Obsidian from a career outside of games, and the process of writing many of the characters in The Outer Worlds.We hope you enjoy it!Danny

Unpacking Developer Breakdown is Live!

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zaVo2KdMIkHey Patrons!The latest episode of our series Developer Breakdown has us talking to Wren and Tim from Witch Beam Games about all the magic going on under the hood of Unpacking. Early Access + Bonus Video Patrons should also have access to the hour long version of our interview but it doesn't have all the snazzy editing so maybe watch this one first.Massive thanks to Jesse for taking the lead on this edit. It turned out super well and ho...

Unpacking Interview - Developer Breakdown Uncut

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jlQY-lBX8Hey Patrons,Today we post our second episode of Developer Breakdown to Noclip Crew, which means that you all get access to the uncut version of the interview!In this chat with Wren and Tim we play around with the systems a lot and cover a few pieces of the game's design that didn't make it into the edited episode. They're a great duo and this was a lot of fun to record.We hope you enjoy it!Danny

Announcing Our New Series: Hyper Light Development

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVTtTKzZ6wkHey Patrons,After months of planning, secret studio visits and remote conversations we can finally reveal the trailer for our follow up to Hades: Developing Hell, Hyper Light Development.For the next few years we're going to cover the development of Hyper Light Breaker pre-Early Access and beyond as the team adapts to hybrid work in the vibrant Los Angeles development scene. This series is going to show the new reality of games develop...

Keigh3 Debrief - Noclip Podcast #75

Hello Patrons!Four separate production misfires mean that our Street Fighter review has been lost to time, so we recorded an emergency make-good podcast that dives into everything we saw and played over the course of not-E3 2022.Honestly it's probably a good thing the other one didn't make it out of the oven because we talked about a lot of exciting stuff we'd have forgotten about otherwise.Enjoy the show!Danny

Darren Korb on the Music & Audio of Bastion, Transistor & Pyre

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ckoxeaf6goHey Patrons,As requested by a handful of you, our next extended interview for June 2022 is a fantastic chat with Audio Director for Supergiant Games and one of the many stars of our series Hades: Developing Hell, mister Darren Korb.In this interview Darren talks about his work creating the soundtracks for Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and a little bit of Hades. He also talks about the work that goes into voice recording, his personal...

Tunic Interview - Developer Breakdown Uncut

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fMsGsYhbPYHello Patrons!Welcome to a new bonus for all of you in the Early Access & Bonus Video tier - the uncut interviews from our new series Developer Breakdown over on Noclip Crew.Developer Breakdown is a 15 minute show which is highly edited and produced but we didn't want the longer versions of these interviews to go unwatched for those of you who prefer to sit back and enjoy these types of conversations. So going forward each tim...

(OUR NEW SHOW!) Tunic Developer Breakdown

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5A7uoJAOvYHey Patrons,Finally we're launching our brand new show for Noclip Crew "Developer Breakdown". Think all the information of a Noclip Documentary, compressed into a 15 minute video with bunches of motion graphics and behind the scenes assets. Basically it's a way for us to cover more games than ever before and explore the design specifics of games without having to produce an entire documentary.This is the first of three epis...

Tim Cain & Leonard Boyarsky: From Fallout to The Outer Worlds

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaG5CvsWw98Hey Patrons,The first of three extended interviews this month involves the men behind Fallout talking about their history of collaboration. From the early days at Interplay, to the development work at Troika, and of course the design of The Outer Worlds.Thanks so much for your support, we hope you enjoy this exclusive extended interview!Danny

Announcing Our New Series & Six New Documentaries - June 2022 Patron Show

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Vg16VYbzYHello Patrons,I'm going to keep this brief as the title explains it. After two years of trying our best to thread water it feels like a bunch of exciting projects are coming down the pipeline. In this month's patron show we announce our brand new embedded series, six documentary projects in production, and all the goodies coming to Crew this month and next.A lot of this is for your eyes only so please don't start spamm...

Noclip Mid Month Update - May 2022

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuUIeEgT22MHey Patrons,I thought it could be interesting to do a text update mid way through the month to let you know what's being worked on and remind you of any stuff you may have missed.First up the first episode of my new show Counterpoint has just gone live on our sister channel Noclip Crew. It's all about the iconic Unreal Tournament map Facing Worlds.Supporters should also have access to this month's patron-exclusive podcast on th...

DOOM (2005) Movie Review - Noclip Podcast #70

Hello Patrons!In this our first patron-exclusive podcast of the new podcast era, the crew sits down to discuss the Hollywood epic "DOOM" starring The Rock, Judge Dredd and Gone Girl.Enjoy the show!Danny

Jen Zee on the art of Bastion, Transistor & Pyre

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFxHkkqKUAYHey Patrons!Our latest extended interview featured Jen Zee who you likely remember from our series on Hades and our documentaries on Bastion, Transistor and Pyre. This interview was conducted in late 2019 as part of the production of those three retrospective documentaries.In it Zen talks about her early career, her artistic influences and the challenges presented by each project. Jen is one of our favorite interviewees from over ...