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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY-HmdHrUN8 On September 12th /noclip turns 10, and so we asked our Patreon community to tell us why they enjoy our work, their favorite documentaries, and why they support us. Asking the community, the people who make all of this possible, felt like the

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHu709a0sp0 Hey folks, The second of our videos with Raph Koster is now live. This one covers the history and evolution of MMOs, and a bunch more. From MUDs to Azeroth, and as far back as the Bronze Age - Raph Koster explores the history of group play an

UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/-NtGEpfzgzY Hey folks, And here it is. In the finale of our series on Disco Elysium we explore the turbulence of life after launch, how it affected those involved, and the legacy and lessons that Disco Elysium leaves us. Chapters below; 00:00 - Intro 02:10 - B

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrVWe_ZCAko Hey folks, First of all, apologies for this taking a full week longer to get out than originally scheduled. Sadly I had to fly home last minute to be with my family while my dear Aunt and godmother passed away and was laid to rest. And then i

YOUTUBE LINK: youtu.be/60p4GF9UkWc It's finally time to get this series running. Our 5-part series on Disco Elysium has taken us the best part of 18 months to put together. Mostly based on just taking our time with a complex story and demanding edit. The episodes are looking like around 40 minutes e

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/FsxTQvo5QhM Hey Patrons, The third, final, and arguably most substantive documentary from our trip to MachineGames is now available for everyone to watch. In it we dive into the design of the game's three main open levels, how the team mirrored the cinematic language o

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/E189QG28rnE Hey Folks, Our long awaited documentary on the MachineGames' Wolfenstein series is now available to watch on YouTube. There are loads of terrific anecdotes about some of the main moments from each game, along with discussions about tech, world building, cha

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/SAEdFG7_X_w Hey Everyone, Here is the first in our three part series on Machine Games. It's the shortest of the three episodes and focuses on the pre-history of the studio when the founders worked at Starbreeze Studios on games like Enclave, The Darkness and Chronicles

Hey everyone, Thanks for visiting our page here. It's once again time for one of those "our Patrons know this but we've not announced it officially yet" posts. So, next month we'll be releasing a three part series focused around the work at Machine Games that we filmed earlier this year. Thanks to o

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EaMz6WLZN4 Hey folks, The second episode of our series HOW GAMES ARE MADE focuses on the wonderful world of our often leaf-covered friends; trees. In it Zabir and Riley explain how each game has to approach trees differently, the work to model them, cre

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/_kfST9l8nIE Hey folks, A little surprise here for ya. We've barely talked about this one because it's a bit of a side project but a couple of months ago I sat down with David Goldfarb (Battlefield 3 Campaign Lead) to talk about the design of the game's single player be

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/lbOghip5CPI?si=HDZJWKoKr91pJQbq Hey folks! After two years of production we've finally got the first episode of this series ready to roll. This is the first in a series of videos we have filmed that dive deep into specific areas for design. From character design to mak

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5zgBXp4e8A Hey Patrons, It's been a long journey, but it's time to finish our Dwarf Fortress series. In this forth and final episode I travelled back to Kitsap County to interview Tarn, Zach and Annie about the two years since the game came out. A time

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX65XCk2-6U Hey Patrons, In the third episode of our Dwarf Fortress Series we cover the game's Steam launch. All the work that went into making a commercial version of Dwarf Fortress, and how it changed the lives of its creators forever. 00:00 - Intro 00

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiNeDarPzeI&ab_channel=Noclip Hey Patrons, The second episode of our Dwarf Fortress documentary is now live. In it we explore the 16 year period in which DF was a free ASCII game which slowly built a cult following over time. The video also explores the

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/MxV24so-dw8 In the first episode of this four-part series we explore the decisions that led a pair of brothers to embark on the development journey of a lifetime. 0:00 - Intro 2:53 - Mermaid Bones 6:33 - Brothers 11:17 - School & Work 14:44 - Tactical RPGs 18:10 - The

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVAHBtKQo0U Hey folks, I don't often post podcast episodes on the feed here but given our history with this studio I figured some of you might want an extra heads up. To celebrate the release of our Hades blu-ray we got Greg, Amir and Darren in a room (l

Picks yours up here: https://supergiant.games/developinghell Hello free members! Noclip's First Ever physical release, the blu-ray of Hades: Developing Hell, is now available on Fangamer. We're really excited to share it with the world as it's Noclip's first physical edition of one of our documentar

Hey Noclip Community, This will be a familiar topic for those of you who watch the Patron Show, but I want to open the question up to our community before I make any firm decisions on this. So, the games media has suffered an alarming decline in the years since Noclip began. The major websites have

Since its release in October of 2019, our community has consistently asked us to reach out to the developers of Disco Elysium to document its development. Sadly the story of Disco Elysium did not end with its breakthrough critical and commercial acclaim. In the intervening years the creatives behind

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN16KVrEP8Q Hey Patrons, This one is coming in hot as we had some last minute production issues we needed to get resolved. We've spent on-and-off about 6 months collating this one so we wanted to make sure it launched in a manner we were satisfied with.

Hey members! It's Thanksgiving here in America which means I am going to spend the day wiping stuffing crumbs off of my Steam Deck and thinking about how lucky I am to make video game documentaries for a living. As a small business owner I must follow the age-old tradition of passing savings onto my

Hey members, both free and paid! This year for Game of the Year we're adding a bonus episode of the podcast. As is tradition we will be picking our top 10 games of the year and then assigning them custom awards over the course of December. But after that we're going to record a special podcast talki

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7a-ZC0V_o Finally - we get to talk about this! So many of you know we've been working on a Soul Reaver documentary to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the release of the first game. None of you knew that we'd been working on this for months with Cryst

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/FWWhxfGq_yk Hey folks, As you know we are Half-Life sickos around these parts and any excuse to make a documentary within the universe is always a good time. This video though had been on Jeremy's bucket list for almost ten years - way back to before Noclip when he fir

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/yXQipk_mBAo Hey everyone! We're back at it again with the indie games. It's a sickness. We see an interesting new indie game and we immediately want to film a doc about it. Be it Immortality, Pentiment (indie by nature, at least!), The Axis Unseen or Vampire Survivors

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyBXqWHB7jc Hey Patrons, We used to do a better job of promoting our docs ahead of time so I've decided to get back into the swing of creating trailers. Especially as this year we extended patron early access to a full week prior to public launch. So her

YOUTUBE VERSION: https://youtu.be/-nwWpQJFGp8 Hey folks! I always wanted to make a documentary about Wipeout 2097 and while I had trouble nailing down most of the interviews, one person who did manage to find time for me, Tim "CoLD SToRAGE" Wright, provided an absolute killer of an interview. With m

YOUTUBE LINK: youtu.be/z6DbJldbMR0 Hey folks, It's been over a year since we last checked in with Heart Machine and the development of Hyper Light Breaker, but that was with good reason. Not only did the game suffer some delays, but the entire year was shadowed by the ever-present worry that Embrace

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/hRzbtqur8ts Hey folks, This week we reached 100 videos uploaded to our archive channel so it was a good excuse to make an update video for the main channel talking about what we saved, the lessons we learned and what we expect to find in the next 100 tapes. As a remind

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/ffIdgOBYwbc Hey folks, Our documentary on the development of Pentiment is now live after a brief surgery-related delay. In it we talk to about a third of the development team about the process of creating this unique, historical RPG. Awesome work by Jeremy leading the

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdWzlDwxBmQ Hello Patrons! The first documentary of 2024 is a 95 minute nostalgia trip into the history of Monkey Island and a detailed design breakdown of the recent sequel. In it we talk to series founder Ron Gilbert, writer Dave Grossman and a host of

Hi Noclip Community, It's taken me a few months to sort it out but the new Noclip store is finally up and running at https://store.noclip.video/ There's a selection of shirts, hoodies, stickers (finally!), badges, cups, and even insanely cool mouse-pads we've had custom made. One of them is based on

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRFT3iQx1BY SPORTS! Love em or hate em, they make some damn good video games, and this is one of the very best. In our documentary on NHL 94 (the 30th Anniversary no less) we dive into early 90s sports game design that largely dictated the next three dec

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ3HzvFEto Hey Patrons, This is not official "noclip" business but as you know a few months ago we founded our video production company Secret Tape and it's finally time to show you what we've been working on for the past 7 weeks or so. Yes that subject