Animal goodThe complicated 2D exploration game last year by developer Billy Basso was one of our favorite games from 2024. The puzzles within the Lo-Fi Metroidvania-IS-SIDESCROLER ran so deeply and rattled with such a force that we hardly wanted to describe the secret, while we recommend it by whole. But according to a new documentary from the second wind, Animal good Would have been so much more difficult, if not for Dunkey, Youtuber became a video game publishing house, who asked Basso for mercy.
“He is a brilliant type,” says Dunkey in a new interview about Basso. “He's so clever. That was our big contribution too Animal good: Try to stop Billy from making it angry. “It should really be a little less angry.” And finally he said: 'Ok, I'll make it a little less angry.' “
Second wind The production of the animal is good Charts The entire process of bringing the indie game to life, from Basso's days, the mobile games at Netherrealm with the inspiration for its cryptic animal fantasy world to the upward trend for get -Get Animal good Seen and played by millions. Finally Dunkey comes into the picture and brings Animal good Under the banner of his sales company Bigmode, and the rest is history. And then Dunkey discovered that Basso was over.
“I tried to design some puzzles as hard as I could imagine,” says Basso in the document. This stretched beyond the actual game and meant that Basso also caused potential players in metastras, which were struck about the advertising materials and announcements of the game. But as he realizes in the moments when Animal good After all, the internet is to be obsessed with Crack codes in order to leave even the most buried secrets to rest for too long.
“It is impossible to really hide something in a game,” says Basso. “You have this word of mouth with the schoolyard no longer slow information. The discord was crazy to watch. “
Dunkey was particularly shocked at the pace in which people dealt with Animal good.
“The secrets that Billy thought that they would take 10 years, they found out in the first week,” says the publisher with a real shock.
Perhaps Animal good Could be better angry?
Watch the full 40-minute The production of the animal is good above and find more deep dives from the second wind on his YouTube channel.
