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A bunch of the devs: "I wanted to add some elements that would increase cohesion, really tie the whole experience together, and of course polish the elements that the other devs had already made..." The second guy: "So I wanted a dancing penguin..."

Props for the second dev for doing the most random thing possible which kickstarted the entire idea for the game

This is by far the best one yet. I couldn't believe how well the second dev's "eccentricity" by adding the penguin minigame paid off bigtime through the work of the following devs. Extraordinarily impressive.

I love how each of the developers thinks in this video. It's never, "ugh, I don't like this let's change it." It's always, "hmm, this doesn't really fit the design. How do I make it fit?" So cool to see this play out.

I thought the second dev would cause a mess but then it spiraled into the most creative randomly put together stuff I have ever seen

Everyone seemed super careful around the work other devs had done. That was sweet.

The walrus monstrosity boss developing into just a spaceship was a travesty

One thing that really stood out to me about this is how many devs kept feeling the game was "too easy" and ramping up difficulty, just for other devs to not be able to make it to the end. As someone who gets frustrated at games that don't consider/adjust for people's differing skill levels, it's like... I got to see exactly how that kind of thing happens.

looking forward to 100 devs make a game without comunicating

“Is that the final boss and why is it not a centipede?” they need to just make a centipede game at this point😂

“I’m gonna slow the charge time so that you have to save your mini game for an important time” the next dev: “so I made it automatically activate”

I honestly like the 8th devs boss compared to the ai generated one

This game is literally something you would dream of in a fervor dream where nothing makes sense but is entertaining af

By far the coolest game that came from this series! All the people that participated in this one are beyond talented

god this is fantastic. the only thing i didnt love was the ai generated boss sprite - the first one was crazy, and another dev could’ve done some really creative stuff with it, but replacing it with a random ship sprite just took the spirit out of it. idk ik im biased but i wouldve loved to see what that funny boss character could have become!! anyway amazing work to everyone!! ❤

The auto "noot?" bar use was what seemed to kill it for me. The lack of the "panic burst option" and the bar opening at the end of a wave, where there are no enemies, despite murdering enemies neutralizes its power.

This one was fantastic! having one of the deves actually be a whole studio was interesting. I love how that turned out. I wonder if a pass the game challenge with all studios would be as entertaining to watch

Maybe I shouldn't have spent 4 of my 6 hours on some dude talking to Pingu

Really not a fan of the AI boss (it doesnt fit the game aesthetics at all) and taking the noot from reddit (although I can see why it happened) but the rest of the ideas were so cool and unhinged. This is like a weird mix of old school browser games with an actual bullet hell which is so quirky, amazing series.

The quality of the final game is absolutely bonkers! Really cool to see what an entire studio can crank out in 6 hours too!

At first i was like "wtf is the second def doing" but this idea pusht the game in a really nice direction :D i like the end result

It was a blast to be a part of this game jam! Thanks for the awesome opportunity 😁

This was super cool. I really loved the direction it went and am glad it still kept the “warrior-ware” aspect. My favourite parts were DialWielded’s addition with the cutscene, and Indie Accord tying the minigames to the main game through the weapon rewards

I just wish the walrus art had been retained but improved, xD. Would've tied everything together indeed. In fact, the whack a moles could've been mini walruses too, like how the actual one pops out in Pingu's dream.

Really sad the last dev changed the boss art to an AI generated sprite that is much more generic design-wise and doesn't even fit the pixel measures or style of the other sprites... Sure the previous boss was a little off in style as well, but at least it was original

I really don't like the final boss, the walrus was a cool reference, but the final version was literally ai generated!

Shoutout to the polishers! I appreciate the polishers so much. bug-fixing, improving UI/art/etc, other tweaks, all SO important to making a good game. not everything done can (or should) be a New Innovative Big Addition & taking the time to improve what other people made is crucial!

Man it really sucked seeing the 9th dev make the boss AI generated, I was excited for some creativity. But overall this game was so cool and I was so excited to see what the next dev would add

This is so epic. You should get more studios to participate like flow studio!

Can we just acknowledge how the third dev saved this game HARD

A lot of people already said it but yeah, Flow studio made a huuge job and having 4/5 indie studios could be a very very fun video.

the last dev could honestly just be replaced by a robot at this point

I think this is one of the best ones, as they just kept on building in a way that made the game maybe a little chaotic, but it flows together very well. Also getting a group of people together for one phase is cool, maybe we could have a video where it is all teams instead of just 1 person

I liked how that one dude got his whole team on it, I feel myself feeling like the games are incomplete sometimes and that’s the whole point ik but I like seeing more finished projects and his team really advanced the game

I think it would be absolutely CRAZY to see you guys do a Pass the Game challenge, but with a studio to polish it fully at the end. Everyone gets six hours like normal, and the studio gets all the time they need. No creating or destroying, just there to make everything consistent.

This one amazes me. The boss should've been a centipede however.

This was sooo much fun to work on!! Thank you for having me :) I'm so glad they kept the penguin idea throughout the development, that noot noot is legendary!!! Good job to all the devs you guys rock! (and also damn the whack a mole mini game, I had it almost 20 times before I finally got to play the dancing penguin after playing for 1 hour XD)

So thankful for dev 4 who did insane work to just completely polish the game make it 10x better

I honestly find it a bit irritating that the fourth dev took a whole UI element from Rival Megagun and, let alone actually credit it somewhere, does not even give the proper recognition by naming the game since it was just an "amazing gif online"

Dualwielded final addition was perfect to tie the mini games with the main game thad added more sense to the entire game. Great job dude

This was epic, flow studio brought a lot to the table

Definitely could've done without the AI "art" at the end, completely ruined the boss and went against the game's art style entirely.

Really shows how the second dev worked on Disco Elysium, seemingly adding something random is exactly what gets the ball rolling on some cool experimental stuff

the first minigame was such a weird choice but the dev right after made it work so well

I think that The indie accord kind of messed with the game's feel in a negative way. The point of the super ability would be to clear large portions of the screen when overwhelmed, it's a rare resource you build up and save until you need it. By forcing it to go off automatically it recontextualizes everything. If you'd normally use it when you're being overwhelmed, the associated minigame would be played under much higher stress, as there's an intensity knowing that how well you do here immediately impacts your ability to continue. Now that it just goes off whenever it fills up means that same level of pressure isn't present. Rather than being an intentional choice and an intense moment of focus, it becomes a random thing that occurs without you wanting it (it might even go off when there's little to no enemies on the screen, rendering it far less useful) and takes you out of the flow of the primary game. I feel that one decision removed much of the core design behind the game's various systems at that point. In fact it resulted in other devs thinking the minigames had little to no purpose and adding in the different weapons bound to each minigame. And while that is a neat idea, the fact the devs thought the minigames were more or less pointless after the change shows how much that difference in execution made. Without communication it's to be expected that the intents and reasons behind why things were done a certain way can get lost, so I don't blame the dev at all for their choices, but I do feel that the product would have been better without this choice. This is one thing about game design, changing something in a simple and seemingly innocent way can completely alter the feel and flow of the game. Also DualWielded's final addition, many are praising it for adding cohesiveness, and it works quite well, but I wish simply to offer a different perspective. The minigames (at least the first few) were designed where the positioning of the elements in the minigame were based on the actual position of the enemies in the game, from this it's heavily implied that what was happening is that the camera zooms into the player and their perspective changes, to a different representation of the same arena. Having the minigame contextualized as being on a console now creates a separation between the minigame and the core game, where before they were meant to represent the same thing, just differently. It wasn't a "The better you do at the minigame the more enemies you defeat" It was a "the enemies in the minigame ARE the enemies in the core game and defeating one in the minigame means you also defeated that enemy in the core game.

You ai generated the boss? damn, thats not a "labor" of "love" thats a "lack of effort" of "meh"

“Our little problem with him is what? Over.”

I like how even the devs are wondering where the centipede boss is

I was sold at the second dev, but the third honestly made me actively want to play this.

Well done guys. Loved the minigame idea and the intro. Wanted to see more minigames. Last guy was quite rude and clearly didnt appreciate the previous devs idea.

Loved this except for the guy at the end who was clearly trying to promote his own AI

This is the best game ever to come from this series. Period.

Amazing episode of the series as per usual! This game is the less polished thanks to being the biggest in scope (not just because of the amount of developers but also the amount of mechanics) but that's just a reminder of the importance of communication in a team. Of course that if this game ended up working is thanks to the experience and abilities that everyone brought to the table. I'm excited to see the next episode!!

i love that literally none of the devs decided to check and see if the options button actually did anything xD

I’m sad they got rid of the boss idea , made me laugh so hard bro . But enough being upset about that, THIS IS IMPRESSIVE AF?

This is cool but it breaks every rule i just imagined existed lmao, using other art, AI generated art, using a whole studio for one dev

Corrected title: 8 devs make a game without communicating along with another 8 devs who did communicate and work together.

the only unfortunate thing about the game is that the minigame bar charges waaay too quickly and doesnt scale with how much damage you deal, so that at a certain point you're only playing forced minigames since they automatically play once the bar is filled up

Cool game minus the fact that the last dev added light flashes and camera shakes under the idea that sensory overload is an important part of game enjoyability. Lacking toggles for those is really inaccessible and also a dealbreaker in my opinion for an otherwise really creative game. Like I don't have photosensitivity issues nor do I know if this would be substantially an issue for photosensitive players? But I can tell you that I definitely wouldn't be able to play it just because it would hurt my eyes too much to enjoy the game. Unfortunate imo. I won't complain about the ai generated boss or the fact that it wasn't as interesting of a design because a lot of other people in the comments have brought that up. but yeah

Is no one gonna talk about 6:40? Where they litterally just, Steal assets? Like I feel like I'm missing something here.

I wanna see multiple game studios make a game with no communication

I totally wanna play this now! And I love that everyone stuck to the improv rule (never say “no” to another’s idea, only “yes and”)

I decided to play the game cause it sounded fun. The biggest problem is a combination of 2 things A. you don't choose when you use the noot noot minigame thing, meaning that if the last enemy you killed filled it up, you still had to do it. (most of the time it isn't a problem, because most aren't on a timer, except whack a mole, but it still takes you out of the game) B. It fills up way way way way way too quickly, by the time you reach 15k points, your in the minigames more often then not This causes you to be in the minigame part way too much and sometimes it doesn't even help you Another problem is that the random gun selection ruins every strategy you can go with except a ton of firespeed and shield so there aren't any real choices. edit: I died because the minigame bar filled up too quickly causing the minigames to play simultaneously and ending the invulnerability your supposed to have when playing the minigame

Get your "giant worm final boss" comments in now, folks

DUALWIELDED! Glad to see you in one of these man, as always your editing was beautiful 😁 11:58 idk if it's something you were going for, but that slow mo effect gave me sandevistan vibes from cyberpunk edgerunners

The AI art definitely ruined the final boss but the rest of the game is a masterpiece

Really loved this! Seeing how everyone tied together the different ideas to make such an original concept was really cool! That did make it extra disappointing to see the use of AI-generated assets in the very last stage though.

Hey @Blackthornprod ! Related idea : sort of a game jam, but it's basically this series. When you enter, you have X hours to work on a game. If there are games no one is working on right now, you are put to work on one of them at random. If every game is locked by someone, you create a new one. So on and so forth until the end of the jam (or X developers worked on this game)

This game is so impressive, what! Amazing job by every dev. Love the personality put into this one

This is really so cool. I just wish the final boss design was better, it doesn't really feel like a final boss. Also points taken away for it being AI-generated it so different from the rest of the artstyle, color palette, pixel density... Could have been much better really.

The AI and tracing was disappointing,,, but everything else was fantastic!!! Best one yet BY far! Such a unique game!

Thankfully, a new video of this series. As a toddler in game dev, this is always helpful! Thank you guys!

I'd argue this is the best game yet, video was very enjoyable to watch. So many different ideas but the consistent polish kept it together

The guys from Flow Studio were incredibly wholesome and talented. Need more studios!!

This game is really cool and honestly looks fun. It just really sucks that the last dev used AI to make the final boss sprite. It just looks really uninspired and doesn't fit with the rest of the enemies at all. Other devs did great work though.

This was by far the best video in this series! I really loved how the developers were careful of each others' work, it made the project come together much more cleanly (and prevented me from screaming at my computer lol)

I think it would be a really cool series for the devs to take turns as the "hotseat", a dev who both starts AND finishes the project. This could be really cool for them to have to adjust to how the project pivoted/changed throughout the process and have a cool moment where they get to be the ones to finish what they started.

Man that Dualwielded guy is really funny, his videos had me binging the whole night

That was awesome! The only thing I didn't like is how the last dev just replaced the boss instead of trying to improve it.

Was fun making music on this! Great work to every developer! 🎉🎉🎉

Dual Wielded. Finally. Yes. The hero. The legend. The savior. Talent. God bless him.

16:25 I legitimately screamed "YESS!!" upon seeing the cursed Walrus from Pingu as the final boss 😅

the last dev really killed the vibe with the AI stuff and jarring flashes, great job by everyone else though

What went wrong was that none of them added the ability to do a barrel roll

Hands down the best one so far. It’s separated from the rest by the fact no one took things away from the game and only added to create a genuinely good. Fun. And polished game. Amazing video. Thank you. I love your content

Honestly this series makes game dev seem so much more accessible while also making it fun, I love these videos!!!

I think it's the best video from that series at this point. The third dev came up with a great idea with these mini-games so that they used the ideas of the first and second devs at the same time

This seems like an parody game that would be in the background of a Wham City Adult Swim show, that also had a hidden 400 part dev log series and webpage that didnt load when you tried to play the game.

"is it the final boss, and why is it not a centipede" haha

I really wasn’t expecting all the devs to be so respectful with each other’s work. They are amazing aswell! Not sure this can be topped… This is a game i would genuinely buy on steam if it was like $5

This was a ton of fun, and it's always exciting to see who the other devs were. Thanks so much for having me!

wow this was amazing, I love the way they respected changes that dev's made but also weren't afraid to make some changes and overall just improved upon the first persons idea

This turned out awesome! The concept was super unique, it’s cool how so much of it just came from someone wanting to add a dancing penguin haha

The Guitar Hero segment with the frogs is straight up ACE. Like the fact that upgrades are tied to universe-breaking minigames is just such a genius idea.

Love how it took just one of the devs to do something silly with the game and then it turns into a really funny, yet creative and fun idea. The game looks sick

This series really improves each time :) I love that there was more "keeping the ideas, but expanding and polishing" than at other times

Omg the whole concept and the amount of effort is truly amazing! You rock guys!

dude i love dualwielded addition, keeps it fresh with the new dialogue

best one yet, the guy deciding to let his team help was an awesome idea