[EARLY ACCESS] The Design of DREDGE
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Hello Early Access Patrons!
Our continued mission to cover the hell out of the most interesting contemporary indies continues with a 45 minutes, super-dense documentary about the design of Dredge.
Putting this together was a lot of fun - not just because I got to dress up as a jolly fisherman - but because the team at Black Salt Games provided us with a bounty of development footage which made explaining the development of this game a lot easier.

This is a 99% complete cut which also includes some of the most interesting stand-up filming we've done in a while so I'd love to hear what you think.
Enjoy the doc!
Danny
Comments
Connor 'Dirtbag Chimichonga' McDonald
This one's reelly good. Made me smash that like boatton. Hopefully it'll reach the mastes. Honestly took my breath aweigh.
Eoghan Brady
Ah! Cool haha.
Noclip
Thanks for the added details. Yea that’s fair, perhaps we should have a light spoiler warning. I hope/assume most people will assume it has some. I think there’s so much story and puzzle stuff we intentionally didn’t show any of that it’s not AS spoilery as it might seem
Noclip
You are 10000% correct and I cut that line out of the final version 😂
Eoghan Brady
Am I imagining it or was there a mention of NZ government funding at the start that never got expanded upon? I may have just missed it but thought I'd mention in case it was a mistake!
Mark Larssen
That’s fair , and you’d know more as to if it’s a spoiler more than me as it’s on my backlog and I’ve not played it yet. I guess the locations , the big creatures and some of the assessment of dangers about those locations and dangers - kind of spoilers/best left found by the player. I consider this quite a recent game and I imagine there may be a few folks waiting for the time to play this. I will still play this , and in no way has it been ruined for me apart from knowing about some big ol fish around certain areas.
Noclip
We avoid so much of the game's actual mission and story spoilers that I feel like this one needs one less than most. Out of interest what was the stuff you thought was spoilery?
Mark Larssen
Sounds daft, but is there a spoiler warning needed? Dredge is a game that for my sins I’ve not played and i now know a bit of mechanics and location things that might’ve been cool to discover in my own time. I did also click the video so the fault is on me - I just know for other docs there normally a spoiler warning. This doc rattles along (good thing), it’s a good’un for sure
Noclip
thanks for the heads up!
Jon Power
Absolutely love it. Danny, those fucking standup’s man… lol. Those eyebrows will haunt my dreams. BTW, screen goes completely black for about 2 seconds at the 29:48 mark. Probably just a quick fix in the edit. You guys crushed this one!
wisepotato
I'll take 5 hours of Danny in a fishing outfit, tyvm
Riccardo Margiotta
That was great, very cool to see all the prototype footage.
Coshy90
Awesome theatrical performance 😂❤️
spucktier
damn, those bushy, wiggly eyebrows 😂 an A+ for the grizzled fisherman danny alone!
Mark Larssen
Holy sherbet. I’m excited to watch this later!