Animal Well: One Year Later! | Interview | PAX East 2024
36Time to revisit one of our favorite games of last year's PAX!
Animal Well is a Metroidvania-like game that has you guiding an amorphous blob through a beautiful, expansive, and secret-filled labyrinth. In this wide-ranging and in-depth interview, we catch up with the game's sole developer, Billy Basso, to discuss the last year of development, the appeal of building your own game engine, and more!
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - One year later...
01:21 - Wrapping up development
02:13 - Feedback from conventions
03:43 - Why build your own game engine?
07:03 - The challenges of engine development
09:31 - Left brain / right brain
11:58 - Release date and platforms