ANIMAL WELL
@Animal_Well
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I am at my desk ready to click the release button on steam
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I think everyone is buying the steamdeck to play animal well
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If you haven't played yet, this is your time
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A special gift for someone
Explore a surreal labyrinth and unravel its many secrets. Collect items, solve puzzles, and survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see...
Animal Well is getting a premium physical edition from LRG! Pre-orders launch Friday, May 24th for Switch and PS5!
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I wrote a blog post for PlayStation explaining a little of what goes into rendering a frame of Animal Well, and more!
Learn why Animal Well’s solo dev, Billy Basso, calls the game a “next-gen 2D pixel art platformer,” aided by the hardware of PS5:
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A very special gift for someone
Explore the mystery of our Animal Well Collector's Edition! Includes rainbow lithographs, holographic stickers, an acrylic display, a full map of the game, and more. Reserve yours and uncover the secrets inside!
Preview the collection:
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Doing an AMA on /r/NintendoSwitch tomorrow (5/22) at 2pm PT/5pm ET!
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ANIMAL WELL is on sale right now on steam and switch!
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Pre-orders for the Physical Edition are now open!
Hidden secrets fill this dark, dense puzzle of a world. Can you find them all?
Animal Well is open for pre-order NOW! Reserve your copy or Collector's Edition today:
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ANIMAL WELL is on sale as part of
@TinyTeamsFest
! You can also get an additional discount when bundled with INSCRYPTION and DREDGE
@DMullinsGames
@BlackSaltGames
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Pre-orders for this open tomorrow!
Explore the mystery of our Animal Well Collector's Edition! Includes rainbow lithographs, holographic stickers, an acrylic display, a full map of the game, and more. Reserve yours and uncover the secrets inside!
Preview the collection:
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Subtle changes can have a big impact on gameplay. I thought it might be fun to show how I’ve tweaked the opening area of Animal Well over time to teach players what the game is all about. A tutorial without a tutorial if you will (Minor early game spoilers within) [1/15]
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on stream in a few mins!
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what is this weird game they are playing?
Introducing Relay Audio by NZXT!
A high-fidelity hardware ecosystem that provides remarkable sound independently and becomes even more amplified when combined.
🔊 Learn more at
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ANIMAL WELL is coming to PS5 and Steam!
Full official trailer in thread!
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Exciting news imminent! Animal Well is being shown tomorrow during
@dayofthedevs
as part of
@summergamefest
! It starts at 11am PST/1pm EST 🦢
@iam8bit
@DoubleFine
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Did you know? Both the PS5 version AND PC version of Animal Well fully support DualSense vibrations
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Very interesting interview with Dan!
On
#GameMakersNotebook
,
@TrentKusters
chats with indie game business guru,
@Dan_Adelman
about his time at Xbox and Nintendo on digital content marketplaces, working independently with game devs, his perspective on indie game markets over 20 years and more!
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In case you missed it, there was a pretty fun puzzle in the
@dayofthedevs
announcement last month. Tomorrow at 10am PST/1pm EST we're going to publish a post explaining the solution👀
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The ANIMAL WELL Playclub begins this friday! New players join the bigmode discord, play together, and like in M Night Shyamalan's The Village, swear to pretend it's launch day again
As a bonus, we're also doing the deepest steam sale ever
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Thanks to everyone who spent time working on the puzzle(s) today! I emailed all the first people to figure it out. If you didn’t hear from me, I am still trying to respond, and I hope you at least had fun. There will be similar things to come 🍃
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Animal Well will be one of the upcoming games being shown during next week's
@dayofthedevs
showcase! It's part of
@summergamefest
on June 9th, and starts at 11am PT/2pm ET
Be sure to watch! We have something very interesting prepared for this🐇
@iam8bit
@DoubleFine
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Good level design can communicate to players what they need to do and be on the lookout for, but it’s very easy to introduce inadvertent miscommunication. Sometimes you really just need to stand back and watch people play [15/15]
#indiegames
#pixelart
#gamedesign
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@LucasHuman
fall past the ladder, while holding right and you will be able to slip past the bird
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For this, I decided to trap them by making the right bank just a few tiles higher than the left. Now that they were stuck on the left, everyone eventually found the hidden path. The amount of rage-quitting was again significantly reduced! [14/15]
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If you are in San Francisco next Saturday, you can come to
@dayofthedevs
and play Animal Well, along with a ton of other very cool games!
Details here!
@DoubleFine
@iam8bit
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Animal Well is going to be publicly playable for the first time at the Bitsummit PlayStation booth!
BitsummitのPlayStation ブースでは、これらの素晴らしいゲームがプレイ出来ます！
Stray
Rollerdrome
LOST EPIC
Cursed to Golf
RPG Time
Bright Memory: Infinite
Cult of the Lamb
Animal Well
Gigabash
Oni
Never Awake
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Come play the animal game(s) 🍃
A sneak peek at some of the games you can expect at our next on-site MIX event in LA, June 8th! 👀
🔸 LUNARK (
@WayForward
)
🔸 Gori: Cuddly Carnage (
@GoriCarnage
)
🔸 ANIMAL WELL (
@Animal_Well
/
@vgdunkey
)
🔸 Snacko (
@snackodev
)
Get your tickets now!
➡️
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Animal Well is up next!
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I guess there are only so many ways to drawn an 8x8 character : )
Development files for Super Mario World contain graphics for a scrapped, extremely small creature that appears to have been called "One-Character-kun", or "Mr. One Character", referring to it being the size of a single character of text (8x8 pixel tile).
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It is very surreal that Animal Well is at TGS and
@famitsu
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So finally, I decided to add an alternate pathway back to the left so people felt like they were supposed to escape that way. You could "give up" while still feeling like you were making forward progress. When I showed Animal Well at Tokyo Game Show, everyone got this! [8/15]
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@Dan_Adelman
@Billy_Basso
It was so frustrating watching him play and not telling him what to do
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Early on, the player is presented with their first real choice: left or right. Unbeknownst to them, the path to the right requires an item to get through, and the left leads to said item. The position of the ladder and the phone generally encourages them to go right first [2/15]
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Wishlist now on
Steam:
PlayStation Store:
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But this layout introduced a new problem. Many people didn’t notice the hidden pathway on the lower left and just turned back. I found that if people turned back too soon, they tended to get lost and not try again [13/15]
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The player was supposed to turn the crank to raise the platform and get across to get yellow button 1. Then go up the ladder, go left, and emerge at button 2. Finally, they were supposed to find a small path on the lower left which would loop them back around to button 3 [10/15]
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However, when I showed off Animal Well at Gamescom, I was surprised to find that a significant percentage of people still didn't get it. They repeatedly got killed by the ghost, assumed they were just bad at the game, and left. Not the desired effect [7/15]
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@Bibouboul
Thank you! I’m so happy you liked the game and were able to break this very important news!
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Now I should talk about the path to the left. I was hoping to introduce 3 key ideas. (1) Some doors require you to press multiple buttons to open them. (2) There are lots of small hidden pathways spread throughout the world. (3) Firecrackers can destroy the ghost [9/15]
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Getting this area right was important since I noticed that people who completed it were hooked and often stayed on playing until we had to kick them off to give other attendees a chance to play [3/15]
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@DurrellXR
No sorry, a mobile port is extremely unlikely. I don’t think the controls would work : (
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IGN did a great job showing what playing Animal Well is actually like!
We went hands on with Animal Well, a delightfully odd 2D platformer that flips the traditional metroidvania on its head.
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So this is what’s supposed to happen: you go right, encounter this ghost who insta-kills you and is seemingly impossible to get past. Soon after, you would have the good sense to give up and try the other direction [4/15]
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But when I first started working with
@Dan_Adelman
, he just thought it was a challenging obstacle to get past. He noticed that if you wait at a high point and time it correctly, you can just barely sneak past the ghost. This is extremely hard to do, and not intended! [5/15]
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By combining this problem w/ the solution to the ghost problem, I changed the layout of the room to this. If you went to the right at the beginning and followed the path back left, you’d emerge at the top right. If you went left at first you’d just have to go right later [12/15]
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@_leviwest
@BIGMODEgames
Some of the fluid, lighting, and background effects are toned down on switch, but it still runs at 60 fps and looks generally very similar
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Unfortunately, the path left from the top of the ladder led to a difficult platforming challenge where you could die a lot. Many people took from this that Animal Well required lots of precision platforming, which is actually not the case [11/15]
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So I put in a platform that you have to slowly raise with a crank to make it truly impossible, and hopefully help players understand they’d need *something* to get through [6/15]
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@MaxInfernoGames
@dayofthedevs
Thank you! It certainly makes marketing the game a little more fun for me
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