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Get a look at 'A Very Unprofessional' Developer Overview Video for Baby Steps, a comedic adventure walking simulator developed by Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, and Bennett Foddy. Players can get an extensive look at the gameplay loop of Baby Steps straight from the developers with some sort of professionalism as they embark into the open world.
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00:00Okay, recording, uh, recording video, uh, I'm gonna stamp my left foot now.
00:16Pop, pop, pop.
00:21Um.
00:26Okay, then.
00:30Hi, I'm Gabe Kozillo, I'm one of the developers of Baby Steps, and I'm gonna tell you some facts.
00:36Uh, the first fact.
00:39All the dialogue in this game has been improvised by me and my collaborators.
00:46Uh, much like these facts.
00:49Fact two.
00:51Uh, there's a secret first-person hat.
00:54I'm not supposed to tell you about that, but I happen to have it here.
00:58Uh, I'm sorry.
01:00For the spoilers.
01:01Third fact.
01:02You shouldn't know very much about this game when you play it, because it's full of surprises, and they're fun.
01:07But I somehow have to tell you a few of the surprises, enough to make you want to play it, but not so many that playing it isn't fun anymore.
01:16Um, the first-person hat is just a tiny taste.
01:19The tip of a delicious glacier.
01:20Uh, more facts.
01:23Ready?
01:24Here's a fact.
01:25It's a very good climbing game.
01:27Um, I've spent way too much of my life trying to get this guy to climb good.
01:32He's got feet.
01:33You control the feet.
01:35You control them really precisely.
01:37You can play a shmup with this foot.
01:39It's crazy.
01:40You got one-to-one control.
01:41You lift the foot.
01:42You move the stick around.
01:44The foot moves just like your stick in real life.
01:47Uh, you can climb.
01:50Stuff.
01:51You can slip on stuff.
01:53It's all good.
01:55It's all well done.
01:57You know, there's a lot of nuance to it, and there's no, like, kind of design-y, spreadsheet-y, hard barriers.
02:04It's all organic.
02:06It's all-we just put some colliders on the stuff, and then we hope that the level design works.
02:12So, you can kind of climb anything you want in the world.
02:16Like, this is a nice pile of rocks I made for you to climb.
02:19But if you don't like my nice pile of rocks, you can climb any-anything.
02:25You can climb these rocks.
02:26You can climb this rock over here.
02:28But there's more to climb, not just rocks.
02:30There's a whole giant fucking open world.
02:33It's-it's vast.
02:36Big and vast.
02:38There's a lot of stuff in it.
02:39We've been putting little stupid jokes in this thing for years and years and years.
02:43You wouldn't believe how much stupid shit is in this giant world.
02:47You can go wherever you want as you climb the mountain.
02:51And find little things here and find little things there.
02:55You're gonna have a blast.
02:58What more do you want?
02:59I need the-it's supposed to be a list of facts.
03:01I'm gonna do one more fact.
03:03This next fact, the music in this game, it's all made from ambient stuff in the world.
03:11It's kind of coming together into making songs in a way that's kind of subtle and cool and interesting.
03:16Unlike anything you've ever played.
03:18Are you interested in novelty?
03:20Are you a novelty-seeking person?
03:22I don't know.
03:23You just want to play the same thing over and over again, maybe.
03:26Maybe you like League of Legends.
03:27That's fine.
03:28You're probably not gonna buy this game.
03:29Look at this creepy doll.
03:32You didn't know that was there.
03:33That's crazy.
03:36Alright.
03:37I hope you buy it.
03:39Goodbye.
03:44Showed it too much.
03:45You should have shown the dick down a well.
03:48Oh, that's good.
03:49But I liked it when you were doing furniture salesmen.
03:53I liked it when you became impressive.
04:00Um...
04:00Okay.
04:03Uh-oh.
04:05Okay.
04:10Well...
04:10Oh, no!
04:11Should I send them that, then?
04:16Or do you want another take?
04:17Just another take.
04:22Okay.
04:23Give it one eighth of, uh...
04:24Valium.
04:26And, uh...
04:27All right.
04:29Take two.
04:31And...
04:32I'm gonna...
04:33And I'm gonna...
04:33A bit less to spoil.
04:34No, I...
04:35They want me to spoil stuff.
04:36Yeah, no.
04:37You spoil a little bit of stuff.
04:38I didn't spoil that much.
04:40The whole fucking map, you know?
04:41I didn't really show...
04:42I mean, I showed just the demo area.
04:44Yeah.
04:45That's a shit.
04:46I didn't even show enough of the map.
04:49Really.
04:52Uh...
04:52Okay.
04:57Um...
04:58Ready?
04:59I'm gonna stamp my left foot.
05:01You also can make cuts, and you can, like...
05:03Yeah, I know, I know.
05:04But I'm not gonna do the edit.
05:06I'm gonna let them do the edit.
05:07Okay.
05:08And I'm gonna put my left foot down now.
05:11Hello!
05:12I'm Gabe Cazillo.
05:13I'm one of the developers of Baby Steps.
05:15That's this game.
05:17And I'm here to tell you facts about it.
05:19A number of facts.
05:21Uh...
05:21The first fact...
05:23Is that all the dialogue in this game...
05:24Improvised.
05:25By me and my collaborators, Bennett and Maxie.
05:29Uh...
05:29It's like...
05:30Kind of a joke about AAA games.
05:32There's, like, uh...
05:33Over a future film's worth of stupid cutscenes in it.
05:36With us doing acting.
05:38Uh...
05:39Now I'm gonna improvise some more facts.
05:42To show you how good it is I am.
05:45Fact number two.
05:47This one isn't as good.
05:49Already.
05:49I don't like this take.
05:50I need...
05:51I need something better.
05:51I actually feel like starting with the first person hat was kind of good.
05:56Even though it was a terrible spoiler.
06:03But it kind of gave it a little life.
06:04You know what I mean?
06:05Yeah.
06:05I know what you mean.
06:06What if we just used that first take.
06:09It had a certain energy to it.
06:12You don't want to use it?
06:14I can do one more take.
06:15Yeah, there will be one more.
06:16Okay.
06:17I need to have at least...
06:18I need to have more than one fact queued up.
06:21Um...
06:22What if you just had like three facts in mind so you were not stumped?
06:29Right.
06:29Okay.
06:30Well, climbing.
06:30The controls is a fact.
06:32The music is a fact.
06:33Improvisation is a good fact to start.
06:34I like that you said this is also improvised.
06:37Okay.
06:38I'll do that again.
06:39But it's not really improvised anymore.
06:42Can admit to that if you want.
06:43Okay.
06:44Hi.
06:45I'm Gabe Cozillo.
06:46I'm one of the developers.
06:49I'm going to start over.
06:50Hi.
06:51I'm Gabe Cozillo.
06:51I'm one of the developers of Baby Steps.
06:53That's this game.
06:55We've been working on it for close to six years now.
06:58It's a game about hiking up a mountain.
07:01Here are some facts.
07:02Fact number one.
07:03All the cutscenes are improvised by us.
07:06Much like these facts.
07:08Fact number two.
07:09It's a climbing game that has a complicated system for walking around.
07:15You lift your foot with a trigger and then you move the stick to move the foot around.
07:20Move the stick forward.
07:21Foot move forward.
07:22It's all one-to-one.
07:23It feels really tight.
07:24It's all good.
07:25It was really, really hard to make.
07:26Oh my god.
07:27And then also, there's a big old world to walk on.
07:32Look at that.
07:34Oh, this weather doesn't look the best.
07:35Let's pick a nicer looking weather.
07:37Look, you can change the weather.
07:38You can't.
07:39I can.
07:40I'm using cheats.
07:41But look.
07:43Look at all the delicious weathers you might experience in the game.
07:47Then there's stuff to climb on, like these rocks.
07:49I thoughtfully placed these rocks in an interesting way so that they would be fun and frustrating
07:55and delightful to climb.
07:58There are little ideas in the level design.
08:01Little ideas that are humble sometimes, like this one.
08:04Like, ooh, there's a little crack.
08:05What are you going to do about that?
08:06Oh no, you might fall.
08:08But ooh, but maybe you can rescue it.
08:10And then ideas that are maybe a little bit more interesting.
08:13Like this next one up here where you don't, you can't make this little step.
08:17Uh-oh, your knee hits the thing.
08:19And then you're like, oh wait, maybe I can put my foot here.
08:21And then that's like a beautiful little epiphany you've had.
08:25Isn't that sound fun?
08:26But then also you can fall off it and feel the despair and frustration.
08:30And maybe that will lead you to have some kind of revelation about yourself
08:35and how you react to the trials and tribulations that life throws at you.
08:41Um, next fact.
08:42Your onesie actually can get dirty.
08:44So here, I'm going to fly over to some mud.
08:47Look, there's mud over here.
08:49Look at it.
08:50Oh no, I'm going to slip on it.
08:54Now, he's muddy on the front.
08:57Look at that.
08:58That's, that's, that's AAA right there.
09:01That's, that's good stuff.
09:03All right, next fact.
09:05There's, it's a big open world game.
09:08That's something that you don't expect.
09:11Full of things like Pyramid of Cans.
09:14Can you knock over these cans?
09:15I bet not.
09:17Uh, why is it a big open world game?
09:20Why is that interesting?
09:21I'll tell you.
09:22You can explore.
09:23Most of these games, maybe you've played them like Only Up.
09:26Or, I don't know, Jump King.
09:29That sort of thing.
09:30They're just linear.
09:31You got one jump, you got to do it.
09:32But this one, you've got a whole big world.
09:34And you're kind of deciding what you're doing.
09:36And you're having your own experience.
09:37And we have a loose grip on what the experience is.
09:39It's your own.
09:40And we don't have any invisible walls or any kind of bullshit spreadsheet designy stuff.
09:45Everything is just mesh colliders.
09:48And you can just use them.
09:49You can climb on anything.
09:50These little cracks in the rock, this isn't bullshit.
09:53You can actually put your feet on those guys.
09:55And it works.
09:56Nothing is sacred.
09:58Everything can be touched.
10:00Everything can be rubbed with those delicious feet.
10:04All right.
10:04Another fact.
10:05We got this beautiful music system where the music emerges from the ambient sounds of the world.
10:12They've all been sequenced into magical sounds unlike any music you've ever heard before.
10:17If you're a novelty-seeking person, you must play this game.
10:21It's unlike anything else.
10:23But also, it's a little bit familiar.
10:25Because it's kind of a parody of a AAA game, in a sense.
10:29Because it's got cut scenes.
10:30And it's got an open world.
10:32And it's got towers that you climb that reveal things.
10:34But everything is done in a much more thoughtful way.
10:36Because it's made by very few people who are thoughtful and interesting.
10:40Perhaps you will enjoy it.
10:41And it comes out on September 23rd.
10:44Goodbye.
10:46Bye.
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