Designing For | Night In The Woods' Demontower -- Designing For Existentialism @DesigningFor | Uploaded November 2017 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Designing For is a series which looks at a level in gaming, and analyzes a theme central to that level's design. In this episode, we take a look at Demontower, a mini-game in Night in the Woods, which tells us a lot about life -- by telling us nothing at all.
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Writing/Image Editing/Video Editing/Game Footage: Zack Frisbee/Goombachi
Voiceover/Audio Editing/Script Editing: Tommy Eyler/Pyrrhickong/The Dryest Bones
(youtube.com/user/pyrrhickong)
Intro Graphic and Watermark By: youtube.com/channel/UCFlA
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Also take a look at our episode on Crash Team Racing, which gets the player into a sense of flow through its great use of turns and racing game conventions: youtube.com/watch?v=TLJLYA5LMlM
Or our episode on Ghosts N' Goblins, which also stands in the face of traditionally good design, this time to make a challenge seem insurmountable to a forgotten audience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyICG...
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Night in the Woods, Longest Night, and Lost Constellation are © Infinite Fall and Finji.
Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind is © Accolade and Retroism.
Banjo-Kazooie is © Rare and Microsoft Corporation.
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is © Krome Studios and EA Games.
Fallout Shelter is © Bethesda Game Studios and Behavior Interactive.
Dragon Crystal is © SEGA Games Co., Ltd.
Interactive Buddy is © Shock Value.
Diner Dash is © Gamelab and PlayFirst.
Quest 64 is © Imagineer and THQ.
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Nintendo 64, Golden Sun, The Legend of Zelda, and Super Paper Mario are © Nintendo. Golden Sun by Camelot, Super Paper Mario by Intelligent Systems.
Mountain Bike is © Miniclip.com.
The Lego video game series is © Traveller's Tales, The Lego Group, LucasArts, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and Disney Interactive Entertainment.
The Call of Duty series is © Activision, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer Games.
OFF is © Mortis Ghost.
Rogue is © A.I. Design and Epyx, Inc.
Ittle Dew is © Ludosity and Nicalis, Inc.
The Binding of Isaac is © Edmund McMillan and Florian Himsl.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is © Young Horses.
Calvin & Hobbes is © Bill Watterson, Universal Press Syndicate, and Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Futurama is © The Curiosity Company, 20th Century Fox Television, and Rough Draft Studios.
Designing For is a series which looks at a level in gaming, and analyzes a theme central to that level's design. In this episode, we take a look at Demontower, a mini-game in Night in the Woods, which tells us a lot about life -- by telling us nothing at all.
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Writing/Image Editing/Video Editing/Game Footage: Zack Frisbee/Goombachi
Voiceover/Audio Editing/Script Editing: Tommy Eyler/Pyrrhickong/The Dryest Bones
(youtube.com/user/pyrrhickong)
Intro Graphic and Watermark By: youtube.com/channel/UCFlA
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Also take a look at our episode on Crash Team Racing, which gets the player into a sense of flow through its great use of turns and racing game conventions: youtube.com/watch?v=TLJLYA5LMlM
Or our episode on Ghosts N' Goblins, which also stands in the face of traditionally good design, this time to make a challenge seem insurmountable to a forgotten audience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyICG...
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Night in the Woods, Longest Night, and Lost Constellation are © Infinite Fall and Finji.
Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind is © Accolade and Retroism.
Banjo-Kazooie is © Rare and Microsoft Corporation.
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is © Krome Studios and EA Games.
Fallout Shelter is © Bethesda Game Studios and Behavior Interactive.
Dragon Crystal is © SEGA Games Co., Ltd.
Interactive Buddy is © Shock Value.
Diner Dash is © Gamelab and PlayFirst.
Quest 64 is © Imagineer and THQ.
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Nintendo 64, Golden Sun, The Legend of Zelda, and Super Paper Mario are © Nintendo. Golden Sun by Camelot, Super Paper Mario by Intelligent Systems.
Mountain Bike is © Miniclip.com.
The Lego video game series is © Traveller's Tales, The Lego Group, LucasArts, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and Disney Interactive Entertainment.
The Call of Duty series is © Activision, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer Games.
OFF is © Mortis Ghost.
Rogue is © A.I. Design and Epyx, Inc.
Ittle Dew is © Ludosity and Nicalis, Inc.
The Binding of Isaac is © Edmund McMillan and Florian Himsl.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is © Young Horses.
Calvin & Hobbes is © Bill Watterson, Universal Press Syndicate, and Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Futurama is © The Curiosity Company, 20th Century Fox Television, and Rough Draft Studios.
