The Design of Dredge - Noclip Documentary

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/yXQipk_mBAo

Hey everyone!

We're back at it again with the indie games. It's a sickness. We see an interesting new indie game and we immediately want to film a doc about it. Be it Immortality, Pentiment (indie by nature, at least!), The Axis Unseen or Vampire Survivors - we've spent a lot of the past 12 months jumping into the design of some of the most interesting games from smaller teams.

We continue this work with our deep dive (it's impossible not to do aquatic puns, believe me) into DREDGE - the cosmic horror fishing game released last year. We were originally set to interview the devs at GDC but as my surgery cut much of that week's activities short, we decided to do these interviews remotely. Thankfully the team at Black Salt Games bought brand new webcams and mics for the project, and even gave us access to years worth of development footage. We coupled all of this with some filming gout on the Pacific Coast to make a densely packed video which breaks down the development of the game from several angles.

Massive thanks to Jeremy for taking the lead on the edit before passing it off to me. He also did a great job on our filming (we should have some outtakes from that for Patrons soon). Frank did a great job on the gameplay as ever and Jesse even jumped in last minute to give us some neat motion graphics for an early segment. A real team effort this one. All made possible by our incredible patrons. So thank you for supporting our work.

We're hard at work on a bunch of other docs - but keep yours eyes open for the Patron show where we'll be showing off some early clips. I recorded it while at QuakeCon this past weekend - so you'll also get to hear what myself and Frank were up to then.

In the meantime, enjoy the doc and let us know what you think!

Danny