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09_12_16
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The teaser trailer for the lunch of the Noclip YouTube channel.
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Noclip Patreon Trailer - Crowdfunded Video Game Documentaries
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Imagine a gaming channel that specialized in high-quality video game docs. Finely crafted features about the biggest upcoming games. Heart-felt interviews with the people behind your .. show full overview
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The Story of Rocket League - Noclip Documentary Trailer
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Noclip's first documentary series focuses on the incredible story of Rocket League. A game that started out as a game mode in Unreal Tournament 2004, and through a decade of refinements, .. show full overview
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Extended Interview: Jeremy Dunham on Marketing Rocket League
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In this extended interview from our Rocket League series, we talk to Jeremy Dunham about that PlayStation Plus deal, launching Rocket League and the changing face of Psyonix.
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Extended Interview: The Music & Sounds of Rocket League with Mike Ault
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We chat to Psyonix sound engineer Mike Ault about building the sonic landscape of Rocket League, how his musical back-catalog of helped define the tone of the game, and how he's used the game to promote other independent EDM artists.
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Extended Interview: Dave Hagewood Explains the History of Rocket League
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In this extended interview taken from our Rocket League series, Psyonix founder Dave Hagewood talks about his early days in programming, working at Epic, how Psyonix came about and their deep love of soccer playing cars.
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DOOM Series - Teaser
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A small taste of our series covering the development of 2016's hit rebirth of the DOOM franchise. Coming December.
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DOOM Resurrected - Noclip Documentary Trailer
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Noclip's second documentary series tells the story of how the critically acclaimed 2016 reboot of DOOM came to be. Featuring interviews from the team at id Software, exclusive insight .. show full overview
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Extended Interview: Hugo Martin on the Creativity Behind DOOM
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In our extended interview with id's Creative Director Hugo Martin, we talk to him about writing DOOM's story, designing the game's intro and how film influences his creative vision.
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Extended Interview: Mick Gordon on Composing DOOM's Soundtrack
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In this extended cut of our interview with DOOM composer Mick Gordon, we talk about the creative process of writing a video game soundtrack, and what it's like playing the finished product.
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Extended Interview: Kevin Cloud on Snapmap & The Art of DOOM
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In this extended cut of our interview with id Software legend Kevin Cloud, we talk about creating SnapMap, and his work as an artist on Wolfenstein, DOOM, Quake and more.
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John Romero's Irish Adventure - Noclip Profiles
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In our first episode of Noclip Profiles we travel to Ireland to talk to John Romero about his incredible career making some of the most influential first person shooters of all time. We .. show full overview
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Noclip Project 4 Teaser
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A multi-game, multi-documentary adventure. Coming Soon.
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Rediscovering Mystery - Noclip Documentary Trailer
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Remember those schoolyard rumors about a secret Mario level? Or that time your cousin told you they knew how to unlock Goro in MK1? Remember what it was like to play a game you didn't .. show full overview
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Unraveling VR's Potential (Theresa Duringer) - Noclip Sessions
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The jury is still out on the long-term success of virtual reality, but we wanted to know what it was like for developers creating games in the fledgling space. We invited indie turned VR .. show full overview
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The Movies & Games That Inspire id Software (Hugo & Marty) - Noclip Sessions
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From Bloodborne to John Wick, Titanfall to Blade Runner - we talk to Marty Stratton and Hugo Martin, the lead designers on DOOM (2016), about the movies and games that inspire their creativity.
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CD Projekt's Past, Present & Future (Marcin Iwiński) - Noclip Sessions
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Poland's CD Projekt are responsible for one of the most lauded games of recent years (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt) and one of the most anticipated games in recent memory (Cyberpunk 2077). .. show full overview
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Designing Thumper - Noclip Sessions
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Brian Gibson & Marc Flury are the team responsible for the hellish act of rhythm violence known as Thumper. In this Noclip Session, we speak to the duo about their time working on Rock .. show full overview
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Celebrate The Witcher with Noclip @ PAX West
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Join Noclip as we host a special panel celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The Witcher game series. With behind the scenes videos, early footage of Noclip's upcoming miniseries and a .. show full overview
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The Witcher 10th Anniversary Panel (PAX West 2017)
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Join Danny O'Dwyer and a host of CD Projekt developers are they celebrate the 10th Anniversary of The Witcher game series. Recorded live at PAX West 2017.
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Noclip: Celebrating Our First Year Creating Video Game Documentaries
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365 days after launch, we take a look back at all the stories we told in our first year; the places we went, the people we spoke to, and the community of video game fans who walked with us every step of the way.
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The Witcher Mini Series - Noclip Documentary Trailer
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Introducing our six-part mini-series on the history and design of The Witcher franchise. Featuring interviews with over a dozen CD Projekt veterans, we explore the creation of the games .. show full overview
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Who is PLAYERUNKNOWN? - Noclip Profiles
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PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has taken the world of online PC shooters by storm in 2017. But who is the man behind the moniker? We sit down with Brendan Greene to talk about his love of .. show full overview
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The Hillbillies of Grand Theft Auto Online - Noclip Trailer
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We travel to Knoxville, Tennessee to talk to a crew of die-hard Grand Theft Auto Online players about the friendships they forged on the mean streets of Los Santos.
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Deus Ex to Dishonored (Harvey Smith) - Noclip Sessions
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We sit down with celebrated immersive sim designer Harvey Smith to talk about game design, maturing as a developer, life abroad and the long shadow of his early work.
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Prey & Immersive Sim Design (Ricardo Bare & Raphael Colantonio) - Noclip Sessions
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Back in March we sat down with Ricardo Bare & Raphael Colantonio (who has since left Arkane) about the difficulty in designing immersive sims, and the long journey both they and the Prey IP took to get to this point.
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Extended Interview: John Gonzalez on Writing Horizon Zero Dawn
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In this extended cut of our interview with Guerrilla Games' Narrative Director John Gonzalez we talk about his work on Fallout: New Vegas, the challenge of creating an empathetic .. show full overview
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The Fight for Accessibility (Ian Hamilton) - Noclip Sessions
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Ian Hamilton is an accessibility specialist who co-directs the Gaming Accessibility Conference and consults with game companies over how to make their games more accessible. We talked to .. show full overview
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Mental Health in Game Design (Samantha Cook) - Noclip Sessions
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We talk to Samantha Cook about designing Anamorphine, an upcoming surrealist adventure that aims to depict depression, trauma and other aspects of mental health.
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Extended Interview: Mathijs De Jonge on Designing Horizon Zero Dawn
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In this extended cut of our interview with Horizon Zero Dawn's Director Mathijs De Jonge, we talk about the long process of crafting the game from initial pitch to boxed release. [WARNING: CONTAINS LIGHT SPOILERS]
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Bug Testing Night in the Woods (Bekah & Adam Saltsman) - Noclip Sessions
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Bekah & Adam Saltsman run collaborative game studio Finji and are responsible for publishing Night in the Woods, as well as designing games like Canabalt & Overland. We talk to them .. show full overview
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The Return of Combat Chess - Noclip Bonus Level
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Welcome to Noclip Bonus Level - the show where we take a break from making documentaries for five minutes, to analyze the world of video games around us. In our first episode, Danny .. show full overview
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Extended Interviews: Warframe's Rebecca Ford on Community Management
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In this extended cut of our interview with Digital Extremes' Rebecca Ford, we talk about Warframe's long journey and the ways the community team collected and implemented player feedback.
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A Brief History of FMV Games (Zoë Quinn) - Noclip Sessions
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In our final Noclip Session (yes it took us a full year to edit all of these!) we talk to Zoë Quinn about growing up playing the 3DO and the effect that FMV games have had on her own creative work.
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Extended Interviews: James Schmalz on the History of Digital Extremes
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In this extended cut of our interview with Digital Extremes founder James Schmalz, we talk to him about his days designing pinball games, his work on the Unreal franchise, the early days of DE and the seemingly unlikely success of Warframe.
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Extended Interviews: Steve Sinclair on Creating Warframe
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In this extended cut of our interview with Digital Extremes' Steve Sinclair we talk to him about his career at Digital Extremes and the neverending struggle to get Warframe made.
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Designing Elder Scrolls' Dark Brotherhood (Oblivion / Skyrim) - Noclip Short
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In this short from our time at Bethesda Game Studios, we talk to Emil Pagliarulo about his experience designing The Dark Brotherhood questlines for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion & The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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The Music & Sound of Bethesda Game Studios (Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout) - Noclip Short
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Mark Lampert details the work that goes into designing the soundscape of a Fallout and Elder Scrolls games and tells us about the work of composers Jeremy Soule & Inon Zur.
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Noclip Production Class #1: What Camera Equipment Do We Use?
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In our first production class Noclip director-of-photography, Jeremy Jayne details the equipment we use to film our documentaries, why we chose it and how we move it from location to location.
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Noclip Production Class #2: Editing Our Fallout 76 Trailer
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In our second production class Noclip editor Danny O'Dwyer details his process for editing trailers by performing a second-by-second breakdown of the one he cut for our Fallout 76 Documentary.
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Noclip Production Class #3: Filming & Lighting Our Docs
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In our latest production class Noclip director-of-photography, Jeremy Jayne details his process for lighting and filming our documentaries.
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Falling in Love with Bloodborne - Noclip Bonus Level
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In our latest Bonus Level, Danny talks about his paternity leave playing Bloodborne, and how its unique gameplay brought him back to his own childhood.
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Geoff Keighley on the Final Hours of Half-Life
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In this clip taken from our Half-Life documentary we talk to journalist and game awards show creator Geoff Keighley about covering the final hours of Half-Life during his college days.
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How Supergiant Secretly Launched Hades - Developing Hell #01
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In the first episode of our series covering the development of Hades, we meet the team at Supergiant Games who are preparing to launch in early access and finish their announcement .. show full overview
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Why Did Geoff Keighley Create The Game Awards?
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Geoff Keighley has been covering the video games industry for over two decades, but these days he spends most of his time organizing The Game Awards. We wanted to know what it was about the show that motivates him year after year.
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Directing God of War with Cory Barlog
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We sit down with Cory Barlog to talk about his experiences directing the critically acclaimed God of War (2018).
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The Chaos of Patching Hades - Developing Hell #02
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We rejoin Supergiant Games as they struggle to deal with updating and patching their latest project; Hades. Filmed over the course of three months, this episode features raw insight into .. show full overview
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Noclip Production Class #4: How to Color Grade
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In our latest production class Noclip director-of-photography, Jeremy Jayne details his process for color grading our documentaries.
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Designing Mortal Kombat Fatalities with Ed Boon
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We sat down with Ed Boon at a preview event for Mortal Kombat 11, to talk about the process the studio uses to conceptualize and design the various fatalities in each Mortal Kombat game.
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The Design Behind the Konstant Reinvention of Mortal Kombat
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We talk to the developers behind Mortal Kombat, about the difficult process of iterating on a twenty-five year old franchise, and the work done to design a fighting game for different types of players.
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Sekiro, Difficulty & the Importance of Perspective - Noclip Bonus Level
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Could Sekiro benefit from an easy mode? Does increased accessibility put the developer's creative vision at risk? Perhaps the truth isn't a matter of fact, but a matter of perspective.
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The Return of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
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We sit down with Brian Mitsoda (Narrative Lead, Hardsuit Labs) and Christian Schlütter (Lead Producer, Paradox Interactive) to talk about the two studios collaborated to bring this 2004 cult classic out of retirement.
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How Culture & History Inspired the Design of Falcon Age
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We talk to development veteran Chandana "Eka" Ekanayake about utilizing underrepresented cultures to create new types of games and then giving the birds in those games fist-bumps and cool hats.
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Supergiant Games Answers Our Patron's Questions
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We're currently running a series on the Early Access development of Supergiant Games' Hades. In this video, we take a break from interviewing and ask the development team the burning questions from our community.
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The Challenge of Designing The Elder Scrolls: Blades
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Now that The Elder Scrolls Blades is available to play we look back at the inception of the game from our interviews in 2018, and the challenges the team at Bethesda Game Studios had in bringing Tamriel to the phone.
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The Design of FTL & Into The Breach
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We sit down with Justin Ma and Matthew Davis of Subset Games to talk about the design of their breakthrough hit FTL: Faster Than Light and their sophomore effort Into The Breach.
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How Supergiant Games Create Music & Art - Developing Hell #03
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We embed with the art and music teams at Supergiant Games to examine what it's like creating the visuals and soundtrack for Hades, while the game is still in early access.
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Shovel Knight Developer Explains the Games & Knights
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David D'Angelo (Yacht Club Games) breaks down each of the Shovel Knight games, their influences and design goals.
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The Hopes & Fears of Bringing Hades to Steam - Developing Hell #04
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Supergiant Games prepares to launch Hades on Steam Early Access after a year of exclusivity on the Epic Games Store. We embed as they tell us about their hopes, their many fears, and the surprising reality of how it all went down.
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We Answer Your Noclip Documentary Requests & Questions
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To celebrate our nearly reaching 500k subs, we answer your questions about our work and gives updates on our most requested documentaries.
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Noclip Update: Arkane, Dishonored, Prey & Creative Assembly
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In our first Noclip Update we let you know what to expect in May and beyond including our documentary on Creative Assembly, and our look at the history of Arkane Studios.
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Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity & Origins | Noclip Interview
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We chat to Bay 12 Games co-founder Tarn Adams about their remarkable ASCII simulation Dwarf Fortress - the game's origins, how it works, and their plans for steam. Thank you to Kruggsmash for allowing us to use his footage.
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Genital Jousting Creators Talk Penis Physics & Narrative Subtext
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Two of the Free Lives team who created Genital Jousting (Richard Pieterse, Evan Greenwood), sit down to talk to us about penis physics, player reactions and the subtext behind their phallic-em-up.
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Double Fine Art Director Details the Work of a Video Game Artist
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We talk to Double Fine's Lisette Titre-Montgomery about her career as an artist, the work of an art team, and creatively collaborating with Tim Schafer.
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500k Subs & Other Game Doc Channels You Might Like
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Suda51 (Killer7 / No More Heroes) Breaks Down His Design Philosophy
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We chat to Goichi Suda (Suda51) about the games he's designed over his distinguished career, and the type of work he tries to inspire at Grasshopper Manufacture.
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The Struggles Behind Bringing Back System Shock
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We talk to Stephen Kick about the odd story behind the return of System Shock, and his struggle to get Night Dive Studios reboot finished.
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Filming our Final Fantasy XIV Documentary in Japan (2017)
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Three years ago we flew to Japan to film our documentary on Final Fantasy XIV. With COVID 19 grounding most international travel we thought it was probably time to share this patron-exclusive feature with our community here on YouTube.
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Edmund McMillen Breaks Down His Game Design History (Meat Boy, Isaac & More)
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Edmund McMillen breaks down his game design history, covering his early Flash games, the breakthrough success of Super Meat Boy, the rise of The Binding of Isaac and loads more.
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Unboxing Our Classic Amiga Game Collection with Danny & Alan O'Dwyer
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Danny and his brother Alan dive through decades-old boxes of classic Amiga games to reminisce about some the best games to ever grace the computer.
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The Final Tour of Oakland's Video Game Museum & How We Can Save It
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With Oakland's video game museum "The MADE" closing for the foreseeable future due to Covid-19, we explore the work the museum does for local kids, and in preserving the medium for gamers worldwide.
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Tim Schafer Breaks Down 20 Years of Double Fine Games
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Tim Schafer explores 20 years of Double Fine Productions by telling us about the design and development of games like Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, Grim Fandango Remastered, Happy Action Theater, Stacking and way more.
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Inside Supergiant Games During the Overwhelming Reaction to Hades 1.0
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In our final episode we cover the 1.0 launch of Hades and everything that happened in the months following the games release.
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Bugsnax Designer Explains How (& Why) Each Bugsnak Was Created
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John Murphy from Young Horses explains the process of coming up with a Bugsnak, and how they were implemented to create engaging, emergent gameplay.
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Noclip is Changing Today
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After 4 and a half years we've had a lot of fun and learned a lot about this work. Time to mix it up.
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Astro's Playroom: From PS5 Tech Demo to PlayStation Nostalgia Trip
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We talk to Team Asobi's Nicolas Doucet about how Astro's Playroom started out as a collection of tech demos for the PlayStation 5's DualSense controller, and evolved into a celebration of PlayStation's history.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon | Noclip Greatest Hits
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In our brand new series Greatest Hits, we celebrate the legacy of RollerCoaster Tycoon by exploring its original design and talking to the people holding the torch today. RCT was chosen .. show full overview
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The Making of Dishonored
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We fly to France and Texas to talk to the developers at Arkane Studios about the design of their most beloved franchise; Dishonored.
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Remaking Demon's Souls - Noclip Teaser
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Featuring developers from BluePoint Games and Japan Studio, we unravel the years of work that went into remaking the now-infamous Demon's Souls for the PlayStation 5.
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Noclip Has Changed
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An update and what's happened, and what should happen next.
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Coming Soon: The Making of Death's Door
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Coming Soon: Chivalry 2
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Grand Theft Origins | DMA Design Documentary Teaser
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Yes we talk about their other games too. Coming December 2021.
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INCOMING TRANSMISSION FROM JOHN ROMERO
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The Making of Black Mesa | Documentary Trailer
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We explore the journey Black Mesa made over two decades of development, and how a team of fans went on to fix Half-Life's unfinished final chapter. The full 2+ hour documentary arrives later this month.
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Noclip - It's Time For a New Adventure
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Announcing Noclip's New Series: Hyper Light Development
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From the team behind "Hades: Developing Hell" comes a new series covering the development of Hyper Light Breaker at LA based Heart Machine. "Hyper Light Development" follows the hybrid .. show full overview
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Unreleased DOOM 4 [cancelled] & DOOM 2016 Development Gameplay
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As part of our game history preservation mission we're excited to release these assets which give a glimpse into the development of DOOM 4 and DOOM 2016.
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Noclip Announcements: Big Studio Docs / New Channel / Hades Blu-ray / New HQ
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30 Years of Crystal Dynamics - Documentary Trailer
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Join us next month for a documentary series about geckos, vampires, superheroes, archeologists & more.
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Unboxing the Custom VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Puppet We Had Made
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Announcement: The DEMO of our Video Game is OUT NOW
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Wishlist / Download Stunt Derby Demo
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We Found & Saved 10 YEARS of Lost Video Game History
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Noclip Update & PAX WEST Panel
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PANEL DETAILS: Sat, Sep 2, 2023 // 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM // Monarch Theatre
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Saving Video Game History - Here's What We Found (The First 100 Videos)
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Let's talk about the first 100 videos on our archive channel.

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