Noclip - Video Game Documentaries | The Making of Spelunky - Documentary @NoclipDocs | Uploaded April 2017 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
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For almost a decade players have gleefully explored Spelunky's refined brand of player discovery and emergent gameplay. In this documentary, we talk to the game's creators about building the rules of its procedurally generated worlds.

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Produced by Danny O'Dwyer & Jeremy Jayne
@dannyodwyer / @adackmusic

Music by Paul van der Walt (@paulvdwalt)

Additional music supplied by Audio Network
Neural Net: us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/neural-net_25288
Reverie: us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/reverie_55958
Neon Dreams: us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/neon-dreams_57934
Analogue Man: us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/analogue-man_63968
Light Flows: us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/light-flows_96443

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00:00 - Intro
01:20 - Origin Story
08:50 - Leaving Gaming
10:50 - Jack Thompson: Indie Darling
13:50 - Aquaria
17:10 - Commercial Burnout
18:24 - Ideas Colliding
20:17 - Closed Beta to Console
27:53 - The Little Pieces
30:54 - Life & Death
33:33 - Weapons
36:32 - Bombs
38:20 - Damsels
42:28 - Enemies
45:03 - Areas
48:37 - Destructibility
50:36 - Music
52:16 - Meaning
55:58 - Outro
56:27 - Credits