Hey it's me on a rooftop in Amsterdam, but guess what - it took a lot of people behind the scenes to make this image of me on a rooftop in Amsterdam happen.
Hey Patrons,
Just wanted to give you a heads up on some minor re-branding of our Patreon page. When I started Noclip it was very much about ME and what I was doing after leaving GameSpot and so I was advised by the folks at Patreon to brand the page around me. This is why it had my face and the address was Patreon.com/...
2017-11-21 15:32:05 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9EjExsMvI
Hey Patrons!
Happy Monday to you all, and Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the Unites States. We may be settling in to the end of the year but over here at Noclip we're busy working on a bunch of exciting projects.
This video is the first of three docs hitting Noclip before the end of the year - our profile of Bren...
2017-11-20 14:34:04 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9EjExsMvI
Hey Patrons,
I've been a little quiet on here since getting back from Amsterdam but it was for a good reason. We've got THREE big features coming in the next four weeks and I decided to stick my head down this week to try and get one out early for patrons. So I'm delighted to say I...
2017-11-18 15:33:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks,
So I wanted to make a specific post about this so everyone could get the details. We are having a meet-up tonight at 7PM at Marie Heinekenplein in De Pipj. Once we see how many we have we'll make our way to a beer-garden or pub in the area and I will update this post accordingly.
So if you get off work later and can't make it at 7PM, just come back to this post for an update on our position. We won't be ...
2017-11-09 08:33:22 +0000 UTC
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The view from our AirBnB's roof.
That'll sure wake you up after 9 hours on 2 planes.
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Hello Patrons,
I AM IN AMSTERDAM!
We finished 2016 with a look into how id Software pulled off the incredible DOOM, so we figured we should do the same with an equally impressive feat - how Guerrilla Games went from a decade of linear FPS development to create one of the best open world games of recent years; Horizon Zero Dawn.
Our Hor...
2017-11-07 12:10:20 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thrnWr_42Q8
Hey Patrons!
Now that I've got a studio (somewhat) built it's time to start something I've wanted to do since Noclip began; a monthly Patron Update Show!
Instead of just Q&A's every month, all patrons in this tier are going to get access to a monthly update show that will let you know what we're working on, what's coming ...
2017-11-03 15:00:23 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4n_XTHm1LI
Hey folks!
Back at the edit desk this week so this is the first of a number of exclusive videos coming your way this week (along with a big backlog of Noclip videos in November).
I'll have a Q&A in a few days but folks said they wanted to see what the space looked like (even though it's not near finished) so I thought I'd...
2017-10-30 15:21:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey Patrons,
This one has been long overdue, so let's make it a good one. Since the last one we've turned a year old, published a six-part series on The Witcher, and I moved around 3,000 miles so there's a lot to talk about.
Please post your questions below and I'll answer them in a video early next week. I'm doubly excited as it's the first time I'm going to film on my new set (pictured above). I still have to light it and wire it up properly, but it's getting there.
Looking forwa...
2017-10-26 17:34:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks,
So, we got the keys to our new place a week ago, and since then life has been a series of long days involving moving boxes, building furniture and eating dinner on the floor while we wait for chairs to arrive.
I know it's early days, but I couldn't be happier with the move. We absolutely adore it here. Instead of highway traffic 24/7 all we hear outside are birds. The area is full of farms, corn fields, local shops and pleasant people. Our internet is THREE TIMES...
2017-10-23 15:44:52 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDQPScB3bYA
Hey Patrons,
*exhales*
And there we go. The final episode in our series on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt dives into several other areas of game design including music, AI, combat design, cinematics, Gwent and more.
This has been a hard two weeks of final editing while we wait in limbo (in Virginia) to move into our new home ...
2017-10-13 19:16:25 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxg5INjNopo
Hey Patrons,
And so we come to the sleeper-hit of this entire series. I said in a previous post that this was the first video I edited, because it was the one I was most excited about. I've wanted to do a video on localization since we started Noclip because it's an area of design that has rarely been covered in video form. But tha...
2017-10-11 14:22:46 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxg5INjNopo
Hey Patrons,
I've been excited to share this one for weeks!
So, I edit these videos in the order of least resistance. Meaning I start work on the video that I'm either most confident about, or more often, most excited about. This episode on localization and translation was timeline co...
2017-10-10 13:42:45 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gVLzWpw_k
Hey Patrons!
Hope you all had pleasant weekends, I know many of you were using the time to catch up on the there Witcher videos we posted last week. What I love about this series is that there really is no wrong order to watch them in. You can easily skip the first three and watch today's, or wait until the end and binge them all. ...
2017-10-09 15:45:20 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gVLzWpw_k
Hey Patrons,
We start our second week of Witcher early access videos with a lovely little episode about the quests in The Witcher 3. I must warn you (as we do at the start of the video) that you should definitely not watch this video if you don't want start, mid or...
2017-10-09 05:50:30 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSS5T4od-GQ
Hey Patrons,
Today marks the start of our deep-dive into The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. In today's video we take a look at how environmental design, level design & quest design all collaborated to create the world of Wild Hunt.
I've been excited to get this video out for weeks as it contains many of my favorite anecdotes, and ...
2017-10-06 15:30:40 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSS5T4od-GQ
Hey Patrons,
Rounding out our first week is the first of our Witcher 3 videos - and perhaps my favorite of the whole series.
In this episode we talk to people in environmental design, level design and open world design about how they collaborated to make the world of The Witcher 3: Wil...
2017-10-05 15:23:48 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOYKIxIjLs0
Hey Patrons!
I just woke up on the east coast, so I guess this whole "move state" thing was real and not some fever dream. Although last night I did also have a dream that we had somebody helping us buy furniture with the David Bowie voice from Flight of the Conchords, so who knows.
Linked is Video Two in our...
2017-10-04 14:33:16 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOYKIxIjLs0
Hey Patrons!
As this post goes live I will be on a plane with my wife and two cats, flying to our new home in Maryland. Our car is already waiting for us there and are possessions en-route in a truck. But the thing I'm mostly worried about is being on a plane for six house with two screa...
2017-10-03 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZkTk5gLuo
Hey Patrons,
Apologies for the late post on this. This morning we packed up our apartment into a moving fan and my 2-factor authentication wouldn't work on my updated phone to let me log in on my laptop. At least I know it works!
Anyway, I'm delighted to reveal the first in our six-part series on The Witcher....
2017-10-02 21:19:13 +0000 UTC
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[Please do not share until tomorrow]
YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZkTk5gLuo
Hey Patrons!
And so begins two weeks of sweet early-access videos especially uploaded for you folks. Linked above is our first episode in the six-part odyssey that is our series on The Witcher. In it I talk to Marcin Iwiński about growing up in socialist Poland, the founding...
2017-10-01 18:18:18 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDaiox6QqE
Hey folks,
I'm delighted to finally give a final schedule for our six-part series on The Witcher franchise. This trailer is different from most of our other trailers in that it doesn't actually have any voice-over or interview footage in it. The reason for this was to emphasize the larger nature of this project; six videos ru...
2017-09-29 07:15:44 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDaiox6QqE
[TRAILER LIVE TOMORROW - DO NOT SHARE YET PLEASE xxx]
Hey Patrons!
It's a bit nuts here in O'Dwyer Manor as we pack up all our stuff to leave California on Tuesday. In fact the only part of our home still intact is my workstation in the corner of our living room where I'v...
2017-09-29 00:39:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey Patrons!
So, on yesterday's Birthday Stream I announced the news that my wife and I are moving. We're leaving the sunny skies of Oakland, California to go live in a lovely, rural house in Maryland. Our next move has been something we've been trying to figure out for over a year, so I wanted to give you some insight into why we're moving, and what it means for the future of my work.
As you are probably awar...
2017-09-17 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Join us here: https://www.twitch.tv/dannyodwyer
For six hours of director commentary, video games and mooooore.
See you in chat & discord!
Danny
2017-09-16 18:56:18 +0000 UTC
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Hey Patrons!
Just a quick one. My AMA is live on r/Games if you fancy raking a read of it CLICK HERE. I'll be posting a Patron Q&A request for questions after the weekend, but of course if you have any yourself feel free to use the comments below for a direct line!
2017-09-14 22:37:10 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXiJMZGkBs
Hey friends.
We did it. We lasted a year. And what a year it was. Personally this had been the most professionally exciting and creatively challenging year of my life. It's also been a lot of work but I think I've gotten the hang of this "work / life balance" thing you keep telling me about.
The attached video basically...
2017-09-12 14:57:03 +0000 UTC
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(Round of applause for our model Jeremy Jayne!)
EDIT: WHOOPS FORGOT THE STORE LINK: store.noclip.video
Hey folks!
As part of our first birthday celebrations I'm happy to announce we now have a merchandise store selling two different t-shirts! This has been a major request of the community here for a while so I'm deligh...
2017-09-12 14:19:31 +0000 UTC
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Hey Patrons,
Sorry for the brief period of radio silence, I've just come back from a rather crazy two weeks on the road. In some ways, the craziest two weeks of recent memory, but I won't be able to tell you the full extent of it until maybe a week's time. But one thing I can tell you about is all the stuff we filmed at PAX!
As you may have noticed, we had quite the audience come to our Witcher panel at PAX W...
2017-09-11 20:31:01 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFiN2t3jHU
Hey folks,
We had incredible busy PAX West weekend. Our The Witcher Panel was the most attended panel of the entire show, and we even crammed in a new episode of Noclip Profiles with PLAYERUNKNOWN himself.
For now we're back focused on our seven-part series on The Witcher which will be ...
2017-09-05 16:49:39 +0000 UTC
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zssb4SDRnbU
Hey Patrons,
We've been busy putting together this mini-series around The Witcher games for the past few weeks, but we've got something special in mind for those of you attending PAX West this weekend.
At Noon on Sunday in the Main Theater I'm hosting a panel...
2017-08-30 09:24:08 +0000 UTC
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