this video is so strange to watch, I always associated rain world with feeling like i'm peering through a window into an entire, living world, watching and participating in the incredibly intricate and well thought out ecosystem that inhabited it, so to see that all stripped away, to peek behind the curtains and see the raw, barebones _processes_ that make it all tick, it almost feels... illegal, in a way. Like I'm seeing something I'm not supposed to see. Even something as simple as the file names is enough to make it just feel _wrong._ Like, my first few encounters with the lizards made them really feel like a tangible threat to me. They felt like something I needed to truly be afraid of, which makes it feel so much more bizarre to see something I had so closely associated with danger being reduced to just "lizards.​zip"

I think it's really incredible how quickly they got the art style down. Like the second or third prototype already looks like the finished game, visually

The way alpha8 used the rain is fucking terrifying, its build up is way more drawn out and the way everything fades out before crushing you with the rain just feels creepy

Seeing the “bear” use its legs at 1:04 while climbing the pole just felt so wrong

so uncanny to see older versions of rooms/regions i recognize but theyre just different enough to feel strange

Seeing the slugcats not blinking or looking around or breathing is so weird

12:30 banished for doing a backflip

looking at the old rooms is like looking at an painting with the wrong paint, most liminal space feeling i have ever felt. it feels as if i put too much pressure on any given surface it will fall apart like cardboard

Rainworld since the beginning seems to have like and had this idea of a very 3D feel in a 2D game that has cool views and auras of the environment/background also at 17:59 is Probably the most epic looking clip of a lizard getting their back broke, plus the way the Slugcat looks trying to scurry away is also funny.

8:35 the rain there was actually terrifying with the screen just turning into scrambled pixels

I like how "More cursed rain world" implies the regular game is already cursed

22:17 fun fact: vultures can actually go through pipes in the full release too! its just that... they don't do it very often, for obvious reasons (it's really hard for them to fit in)

1:04 omg that pole climbing with hind legs wrapped around it looks kinda uncanny, i'm glad the final version is just with front paws hdhfg but it's so cool to see how the game originated and what was kept in, and what was left out, especially recognizing some of the rooms and things like lizards' behavior upon hearing the slugcat. i find it cute nice that the slugcats have always looked basically the same

19:20 That structure hanging from the ceiling looks like a massive dropwig

Everybody talks about nightcat or the 3rd sibling in the intro but forget about the alpha brown scug, real og...

THANK YOU FOR THIS!! I've been obsessed of the alpha versions of the game since i first heard of their existence and it was kinda sad no one on youtube made any videos of them (not counting the beta videos on videocult's or joar's channel). I always loved the alpha versions just because the style of them make me nostalgic for an era of rain world i never experienced. its just its whole simplicity and roughness around the edges make it have this old charm i adore in media. again, thank you for this video

Thats extremely interesting. I wonder if someone recreates the "wave" game mode at some point.

the rooms in older versions feel more empty compared to the ones in the full game i don't know if is the fewer or lack of props and vegetation, i like how some rooms stayed almost the same but changed in some way, cool to see how far the game has advanced since the first versions

I didn't realize how much I underestimated the last alpha build until the vulture went to the other end of the pipe instead of going into it in order to catch you when you came out the other side.

One thing I wish they'd kept from the old days was the death screen. That red dead slugcat was so much more to the style than the purple X_X slugcat they changed it to.

bro, that vulture really went into the pipe lol

Heavy industrial and Suburban my beloveds

i think this is the first game ive seen that has an alpha not for the players but for the enemies to play 😂

Naww imagine if they kept the feature of vultures doing that... 💀💀💀

its interesting to see the karma symbols present in the early prototypes already, i thought they were invented much later in the development

1:08 I love the way they look when they climb the pole! I wish it stayed like that

i wished that they kept the old climbing animation, don’t know why but i like it more

i really like these types of videos so i'm very glad you make a video like this

whenever i opened the sfx menu to check for sounds i always wondered what grabBeam was and now i know it is the sfx used in alpha8 when slugcat grabs a pole . thank u

I really like the 8 bit vibe this game had, also that early music is a bop!

the ran was so much more terrifying daym

rooftops is basically the theme song for the alpha builds to me. it reminds me of old flash games so much

where can you download these? alpha8 seems interesting and i have a love for old game versions

Hi there! I run a tumblr blog about rainworld, is there any way for me to get access of a playable version of each of these alphas to make posts about them?

Man its scary how little the scug design has changed

This is cool, thanks for showing lol

The last version gives me a similar feeling to the first time I ever played Rain World and how everything was unfamiliar. I recognized rooms and immediately thought of where they'd go now that I know but then they'd lead somewhere entirely different and it just reminded me of the feeling of exploring the something entirely new for the first time :]

I’ll say it now this channel will blow up eventually

Fun Fact: The early alphas of Rain World ran on Adobe Shockwave which is basically very similar to Adobe Flash, this basically means that Rain World originated as a web game technically and also a flash game if you want to call it that

Why does that spear strike sound so *HĖĄVY*

Imagine a version of rainworld thats just watching the slugcat survive in a little box. Just spectating

why is the alpha music such a bop

Somebody needs to add the brown slugcat to the wiki under cut content. He could be nicknamed slugbear.

RW_alpha8 feels like one of those strange beta copy creepypastas. Recognizable, but unpolished and... off-putting. Like something is wrong. Especially that part where you got to the shelter, everything around you goes black, the ui at the top gets garbled, and then the rain appears and the slugcat dissappears instantly. Then it crashes with a mirrored version of the menu on the screen. Eerie...

Vultures can't go through pipes? I remember when I was in Chimney Canopy I was heading back to the den because I was grinding up my Karma, and out of fucking nowhere, while I was inside, a King Vulture shot at me from its perch on the ceiling. Scared the hell out of me.

Hey, i was wondering if you could post the files somewhere, because i havent been able to find any functioning downloas links for any of the prototype builds or alphas

alpha8 feels like some digital horror shit i cant explain it

shitcat from runnmaze2 needs to return imo

Now I'm imagining a mod that allows Vultures to go through short cuts in the current game, they would be much more menacing.

any chance you could possibly share those builds or are those exclusive to the kickstarter?

why is the lizard strike sound so violent

Weird still feels. Like rain world The first one seems like... well. Am i really too shy on such a simple topic? Well you get it. I hope you do. Then it becomes normal immediatly aftwr

Wow

i tried downloading this but i cant seem to figure out how to play it, since the html becomes firefox html document

Hunter nooooo 2:27

Where did you find these? I don't see any downloads on tcrf, and the dropbox links in the devlogs just lead to a 404, is there a mirror??

I wish they just rolled back to Alpha_8's graphics as opposed to removing the game from Steam entirely, let's hope they are at least working on non-Unity shaders for re-release...

these old maps weirdly feel so lifeless and empty?? prob the lack of detail the game normally has but still

:o the alpha?

Are any of these playable today?

hi none! play arena warehouse (high wildlife)

hi none

to be honest, i prefer these alpha versions of the game over downpour and 1.5 and 1.1, it really developes the feel that your not the main character. (something that dowpour struggles with)

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Pretty sure the dead scugs in the lizards zip are survivor and monk parents

How to download Prototypes of this game?