People Still Live Here V8.3 (2005 Gameplay)

[@happybluedog]

No map, no waypoints, just an obscure hint, you nailed 90's gaming at it's finest.

[@coltonhammons6798]

To be fair there was a map

[@cliveklg7739]

Yeah but a 90s game you'd die, respawn and have to refind everything you completed all over again.

[@happybluedog]

@ I do not think you'd find your items after that Yeet :)

[@CamoCraft109]

If you look on Kane's channel, this and the video posted yesterday (SAYWELL) have both been added to a new playlist called People Still Live Here. We've got a new Kane Pixel series, everyone, and I'm excited to see where this one goes!

[@Verulyrus]

I was already confused as to how this exactly connected to the rolling giant. I guess it already ended anyways.

[@ErrorEditzIraq]

Kane pixel, into the kane-verse

[@earflapphat]

the theme that plays at 0:20 is also just a sped up version of the audio that plays in the previous video

[@McDucksters415-x4y]

Every franchise crosses over has that one character that is there favorite & for kane it is most definitely the Backrooms

[@Isaacmarbles]

0:53 "the overgrown Man", Rolling Giant Reference?

[@edcola6671]

Kane’s monsters: - A roaring fungal abomination - The seemingly possessed statue of a long-dead French botanist - A fast, zombie-like humanoid creature - A level crossing alarm

[@Mr.ton618-c5j]

the creatures in this video?

[@Ordinal4580]

@@Mr.ton618-c5j The first three are from His other series, The backrooms, and The Oldest View.

[@Mr.ton618-c5j]

@@Ordinal4580 Thanks!

[@SealWithoutHat]

First 3 seem to all come from things which were originally dead, quite poetic?

[@astroboi7908]

A lever crossing alarm who is a ww2 vet* dont ask which side tho, touchy subject for the poor sign

[@itsd0nk]

This really captured the spirit of 90’s games so well. The one thing that sticks out like a sore thumb though is the procedurally generated clouds in the sky. That would have MELTED people’s faces in awe back in the late 90’s. That and the pixel shaders on the swamp water, but there were games that faked that same look pretty well back then. Anyway, amazing job. I felt some major nostalgia for Myst and some other games I sank into circa 1995-1999.

[@minty6623]

the hallway of the lights which are textures to create that illusion and the look of the swap makes the same look ahead of its time for games in the 90s

[@Cinemace81]

Games in 2005 (or early to mid 00s in general) likely did better at clouds. I’m sure a system for moving images of clouds had been implemented by then, since clearly they aren’t 3D.

[@itsd0nk]

@ They’re not moving images. They are materializing and dematerializing. Think of a 2D version of the clouds in Zelda TOTK. It’s just a nerdy inside point I was making. Not a diss.

[@Cinemace81]

@ Ahh. Yeah, respect for the knowledge you got there LOL

[@Vorlos]

Also, the 'interact' prompt not being part of the HUD but an actual object floating above the drawing is a modern Unreal thing.

[@ObiadStudio]

Of all the Kane films, none felt more like a fever dream than this one. Overgrown man, tunels, going through what would seem to be an invisible wall, some guy in the server room spying on people thoughts, the same guy being yoinked by some strange "shepherd". Stellar work as always, Mr. Pixels

[@bewilderbeestie]

Don't forget the map locations being uncomfortably far apart.

[@themetalmario77]

@@bewilderbeestieVeszteseg

[@BiggerBear]

The 480p limit is the cherry on top of this magnificent cake

[@chipperdrewski]

Yeah, I knew we were in for something serious when I couldn’t raise it higher

[@Duterasemis]

The Lord's resolution

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobiiii]

Oh no the stormtroopers are here...

[@Sentry_1278]

I remember living in the middle of nowhere and 480p was the best i could get video-wise

[@catmastertrash369]

Any higher than 144p is bein picky

[@MandyDullos]

Hearing that damn railroad sign thing's chime approaching as the guy was running back to the house was absolutely nerve-wracking. Very fun design, too; without any obvious means of 'attack', the mind is left to wonder what exactly it does to people that had the other character screaming as it took him off...

[@beforesomeduring7330]

I wonder if that creature was what the Server Guy was referring to when he asked “the Shepherd’s not mad, is he?” - although I can’t think of any correlation between a shepherd and a walking railroad sign. Maybe because shepherds guide sheep, and “being railroaded” is a term for kinda the same thing?

[@MandyDullos]

@@beforesomeduring7330 Seems a plausible enough philosophical connection between the two. Shepherds guide their flock from point A to point B, railroad signs direct trains from point A to point B. Might be some deeper connection between the nature of People Used to Live Here being a video game and the lack of agency of digital characters; trains are ever bound to their rails and unable to leave them, only able to go A-to-B, and sheep's movement is wholly determined by their shepherd...

[@charliee9220]

REAL

[@rfirtfan2809]

@@MandyDullos That railroad sign is called a crossbucks. It is used only at rail and road crossings. It does not direct trains at all, it is a warning sign for cars.

[@MandyDullos]

@@rfirtfan2809 Ahh, I see. I didn't know that before now.

[@dunebugs]

Interesting that one of the items to pick up is Native American wampum which are shell beads. The Hockomock swamp means “place where spirits dwell” and was/is sacred to the Wampanoag tribe and they worshiped and feared Hobomock, the chief deity of death and disease. Hobomock, composed of human souls of the dead, was known to congregate in areas like the Hockomock. Hockomock swamp is part of what people refer to as the Bridgewater Triangle. Essentially a place of weird and paranormal events and bigfoot like creatures etc. And a supposed reason for this is that a famous wampum belt was lost in the swamp and so the land was cursed. The image used in the video for wampum does like very much like a belt as well.

[@Jokin_Jake]

Thank you for explaining that because I had no idea what that item was, and I knew that there had to be some significance behind it.

[@dunebugs]

@Jokin_Jake no worries. Wampum were often used as currency as well but I don’t see the importance of the watch and particularly the compressor just yet. Seems an odd group of items.

[@Tukaro]

...so, I've noticed a lot of eerie things that might imply this is regarding (or has connections to) the Holocaust. In WW2, Native Americans that knew Navajo and English were used by the US military as a form of encryption: not only was Navajo relatively unknown outside of the US, these code talkers further spoke in code while speaking Navajo. (Per Wiki, the only spoken military code not broken during the war.) These Native American references feed into the implication further, IMO.

[@dunebugs]

@@Tukarointeresting. From looking into it the Hockomock swamp is part of what people refer to as the Bridgewater Triangle. Essentially a place of weird and paranormal events and bigfoot like creatures etc. And a supposed reason for this is that a famous wampum belt was lost in the swamp and so the land was cursed. The image used in the video for wampum does like very much like a belt as well.

[@lenzi5119]

I looked up Bridgewater Triangle and got hedgehog people/creatures...Just like the toys the creator of the Laffun Head used to make. hmmm...

[@SimeonObeyMe]

Some explanations: So hockomock swamp is a real place and it is located in an area called the bridge water triangle along Massachusetts where people have reported paranormal and UFO sightings. A war broke out among areas including Massachusetts with native Americans against English colonists as an attempt to drive out the English (King Philip’s war) in which a lot of the war took place among the swamp. Some people still claim to see the ghosts of native Americans in the swamp to this day and hearing screams. The native Americans thought of the swamp as sacred before and hockomock means “place where spirits dwell” but to the English they knew it as devils swamp. The wampum belt was also lost during the battles which is why I think it shows up here in the game. This belt is believed to have caused paranormal activity that haunts the swamp. Some can even hear something knocking down trees in the forest (which is maybe why there isn’t many trees here?) I found this info online in an article so lemme know if anyone finds anything else!

[@connormarchand6302]

But what exactly was in that swamp, 🤔 the meadow feels otherworldly in the same way shadow of the colossus was, like you in these zen like place but it’s also eri like your not supposed to be there

[@lakaka10921]

from a little bit of research I saw that Clifton liked to go to to the hockomok swamp and elements of his past life like a certain letter are presents so I think more that this will be a bit like the oldest view where the story is heavily inspired by real life so I don’t think there is a connection to the gost and UFO incidents

[@darkthanoseidthemadgodofth7821]

I may be overreaching or paranoid but the painting at 5:20 on the left look very very similar to the stairs descending from the earth to the mall in the oldest view

[@Cinemace81]

You’re on to something!

[@大番薯]

also 2:10

[@justincruz8050]

Agreed

[@connormarchand6302]

Hmm could be, but I’ll wait for an official answer from Kane good eye my dude👍

[@Straflight]

Kane Pixels fans when they see an underground passageway

[@astrid9920]

Its weird how high tech the tunnel connecting the swamp to the meadow and the office building are, since the game's apparently "a comprehensive reconstruction of the events experienced and documented by Clifton J Saywell between 1934 and 1946." Maybe it's artistic license on the part of the devs, but maybe not. Also, Saywell's obituary in the description says he was in WW2. What part of this did he experience in WW2??? After the war Saywell worked as a "human computer", which was an actual occupation... But the guy trapped in the data center says he doesnt want people thinking hes "spying on their thoughts" which is ominous. Also its incredible how well this captures the surreal vibes of a half remembered nightmare from when you were a kid.

[@Bananappleboy]

Thresholds. Ivan Beck didn't intend this. Somebody USED the Threshold Blueprints and SPIRITED AWAY a WW2 soldier. That's the only theory i have, sorry.

[@Tukaro]

The fact that there's a specific data center makes me think that it, the tunnel, and the modern building are literal (well, relative to the documented experiences.) It could be that the dev misinterpreted what Saywell wrote through the dev's own experiences and knowledge, tho, and none of the "modern" stuff was actually encountered.

[@DNVPIVIN]

the building showed in the video along with the obituary seems to be the waltham American Real Estate Academy. not sure how it correlates to saywell.

[@CamoCraft109]

There is a discrepancy between between the old looking style of the game and multiple different things that feel a lot more modern. For instance, I feel like using the "E" button to interact with things is a relatively newer thing, but then later on in the video you have 2D images serving as NPC characters such as the person who got taken away and the railroad crossing sign that both takes away the original NPC and chases the main character.

[@connormarchand6302]

The modern assets could be the only ones the developer had, unable to accurately depict what happened

[@shockdoggo6889]

I really love how kanes just been investing in his own fun little projects while work is underway on the backrooms movie

[@andymouse]

There's a movie ? is he involved please ?

[@KergusDelaVictoria]

​@@andymouse yeah he is

[@PerMortensen]

@@andymouse Yes, he's working with A24 to make a movie based on his Backrooms series. Kane will be directing it.

[@abelhuvennebedu9026]

⁠@@andymouseyes he is

[@David_Larkin]

@@andymouse Yes, studio A24 is working with Kane who is gonna direct the movie. I'm reading right now that the screenplay is written by Robert Patino who wrote for Sons of Anarchy and the movie Cut Banks.

[@pnwtechtracker]

“It’s important to respecAHHEAAAHHHHAAAHHHHH.” Fence guy - 1934 or something.

[@Zero2HeroX]

I assume it was supposed to be scary but that made me laugh so hard

[@MotorbikesandMemes]

1934, where they had computers with favorite people in them in computer language. Too bad the railroad crossing man got em

[@Bob2300-b5f]

Rip :(

[@dewey70]

I had to watch that about five times.

[@david-miguelcastilloripka4746]

@@Zero2HeroXdude same! 😂

[@bassmit-h1z]

wait a minute. i just noticed that at 00:12 it says 'in memory of clifton J. saywell'. the video posted before this is called saywell too. the title screen also is a sped up and more happy version of the melody played in the saywell video.. coincidence? i think not!

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Interesting.

[@robbertlw9610]

Bro it’s a new Kane Pixels series and this is part 2

[@0-M72-0]

No shit Einstein. It’s called a series. Like literally everything Kane has made so far. Were you seriously expecting last video to be a one off thing?

[@revb14n]

​@0-M72-0Dude chill lol

[@paulchaperon2207]

Nothing goes past you dude

[@luiginumber1549]

This feels so real. I love the detail of him trying to open the box only to see that it's just a decoration.

[@Miata996]

The sound of the bell coming closer and closer during the end was actually terrifying

[@Kazuhiro-i]

I got so anxious xd

[@kaxcommentssomethingREAL]

Kane knows just the thing to make our panic senses go off the charts ☺️

[@mitcheal2]

the link in the desc

[@charliee9220]

FR

[@BenW-p5j]

I know I think I lost a few calories

[@DukeofLeet]

14:26 F in the chat for Server Room guy. Theres a reason you don't spy on peoples thoughts.

[@leandroperonrp]

What does it mean to spy on people’s thoughts?

[@TuriGamer]

@@leandroperonrp quiet down chatgpt

[@jaceg810]

​@@leandroperonrp I assume server room guy is on some level aware he is in a game/simulation/program, he claimed he was looking for someone's location. By that logic, the machines in the server room could be the the location of the actual game/simulation/program, and thus him being there could be considered spying on people's thoughts, if taken literally (or him trying to learn anything else about the world).

[@길천사]

press 'F' to chat

[@wehttam_1]

I know it’s supposed to be scary but I just laughed out loud when he got taken I found it comical more than anything😭

[@AverageMixer]

Even though this has bright colors and looks kind of cheery, it has a weird aspect to it I cant describe. It feels creepy and lonely. Super unique and creative as ever Kane!

[@monkemonkerson5620]

It has that late 90s/early 2000s PC shovelware vibe, i.e. games that are very limited in their graphics and gameplay which makes them feel uncanny and strange.

[@길천사]

저 내용이 무슨뜻이야?

[@overload_grim]

Yeah, it kind of has that same dreamcore feeling as the backrooms

[@BowlingtonDC]

it’s probably because of the odd placement, why would a town with a weird design for houses be in the middle of some grassy hills? and why is there a random hq in the place connected by a futuristic tunnel?.and why is there a railroad sign guy that chases people

[@goldenhorde6944]

Reminds me of Petscop, or NaissanceE

[@mangosnorlax1132]

That moving railroad sign reminds me of a really weird KZbin channel I stumbled upon last year called FumikiriTrain. The whole channel is filled with videos of moving/dancing railroad signs that I think are supposed to be children’s cartoons? All of the videos give me the same uncanny feeling that this video gives me. Trust me, it’s a rabbit hole. And somehow these videos get a ton of views. Anyway, great work as always Kane, I can’t wait to see what you have for us next.

[@petscopfan335]

yeah, it also reminded me of this one channel's videos ("the pentamax") they make with these weird railroad sign men, possibly a inspiration for it, i don't think its related to this though

[@robbiemcneish4459]

totally. was looking for a comment just about this.

[@Adam-zt4cn]

I swear internet never ceases to surprise me. This reads like an anomaly report.

[@Dunnom8_yeahp]

those videos have to be bot views???? one has 9.2m views and its 17 minutes non stop of actual nothing burger, and they have over 3 1/2hr of nonstop scenarios like what the hell who is making that stuff

[@OsQuinneOsGwynneOsRobynne]

What's scary about the railroad crossing is the knowledge that that isn't what it really is. This is a 2005 video recreation of events in the 1930s-40s. Saywell didn't see a railroad crossing sign attack someone. What he saw was so foreign to to him that the closest thing the game director could come up with as an ingame proxy was an extremely fastly-sprinting blaring railroad crossing sign. When you realize that the "monster" here is the closest approximation a 2005 indie-game dev has to approximating what Saywell actually saw, this scene becomes 100x more unnerving. It almost has a Flatwoods monster, or even an eldritch abomination quality to it, that it, whatever it WAS that Saywell saw...it definitely wasn't a railroad sign. Great horror gets scarier to more you think about it.

[@presidentgamingz]

when was it said that it isn't a railroad crossing sign?

[@OsQuinneOsGwynneOsRobynne]

@@presidentgamingz It wasn't said explicitly, but we were given explicit dates for when the game is being made vs when it occurred, which implies that some of the details in the telling and in the story itself aren't 1 to 1. For example, the server room guy isn't wearing clothes archetypical of someone from the 30s. He's just a stock asset available to a 2005 game dev. So that cues us in on that some of the assets the game dev is using to tell this story aren't 100% accurate to the story itself. If we know the image of the guy we're seeing isn't literally what the guy in the story looks like, it stands to reason that the monster is the same, right? I suppose it COULD be a literal moving road sign. In absurdist stories like this that's entirely possible. But I'm reasonably sure that Kane deliberately made it very clear that "The game is in 2005, but the events take place in the 30s," and used aesthetics to match the '05 indie game feel OVER being accurate to the 30s, to tell us that what we are seeing is the game dev approximating Saywell's accounts, with clear creative liberties. And in that case, the monster is the most obvious candidate for the question "what other game assets here might not be 100% accurate." And all of Kane's monsters sort of play along the idea of "Wait...what the fuck am I running from again?" And while "evil sign" is very wtf, I think even more wtf is the idea of "It's not literally a traffic sign, but the guy who saw it can't think of anything more similar."

[@smarmar400]

That countdown tone combined with the crescent moon icon during the journey home was anxiety-inducing. Plus, you know that RR crossing guy is out there somewhere.

[@Eveyevy]

i did not expect kane pixels digital horror but hell yeah

[@blockygamez9389]

I mean pixels is his last name

[@schmee9025]

digital horror analog horror yall just say anything atp

[@tnetennba725_3]

@Eveyevy this is an ARG

[@Eveyevy]

@@schmee9025 Digital horror is the term for horror based in digital media (Computers, 2000's - 2010's websites, ect) And analog horror is horror based in analog media (Cassettes, VHS, ect)

[@Eveyevy]

@@tnetennba725_3 No interactive element yet (Unless you count the link in the description) so its still classified as a webseries

[@JC-tl9yb]

Ah yes, my good friend, the Overgrown Man in the Swamp

[@Ryuchitoran]

I too watched Swamp Thing as a kid. Great show.

[@viewer3361]

I was gonna say Shrek

[@shundread]

Just when I thought Kane had reached his peak in terms of modeling 3D environments and making the viewer get immersed in a world that challenges our perceptions of what is real and what is computer-rendered, this banger of a video gets posted. I was wondering for a while if he just took a camera and just filmed a few locations and just did without any CG this time, but the some pixels in the paper-thin computer in the environment finally gave it away that this was just another masterpiece of computer graphics. Well done.

[@Nick12_45]

uhmmmm

[@Beesbumblebroadcast]

I wonder if this guy has recently become interested in the persistence and simultaneous decay of human memory and history.

[@CallieCacola]

seems unlikely. I think he just loves rooms and locations. next video will be about a Subway store. it'll be called Scary Subway. guy goes in a subway and it's scary.

[@CalebIsSalty]

can't wait for the 4 hour long nexpo video about this

[@gloomygloom666]

2 hours of it is dramatic pausing

[@mrhurtalot]

for real though, Nexpo makes great content and really helps me flesh out things i missed on my own.

[@길천사]

찐이다

[@SomeChristianGuy9]

Just waiting for the Wendigoon Iceberg

[@chrisbaker7583]

@@gloomygloom666I can’t watch Nexpo videos for this reason. Dude puts 5 minute interludes between each sentence.

[@kibble_wibble]

I can’t even lie I expected this to just be a normal gameplay video and was very confused when I saw who uploaded this 😭

[@McDucksters415-x4y]

If it wasn’t kane pixels It probably be some no commentary KZbinrs also I like how he makes it like some really playing the game checking invisible barriers & following NPCs

[@thebackyardsender]

Me too

[@mitcheal2]

@McDucksters415-x4y yea

[@KenLieck]

@McDucksters415-x4y Knowing the player/character had a deadline to beat and not knowing how far away that deadline was also made the stopping and looking around bits very very nerve-wracking!

[@LowRezStudios]

I was clenching so hard in the last few seconds. You're so good at giving viewers an uneasy feeling and a constant sense of dread.

[@Niikuro_shuffles]

One of the unsettling things is how every destination is so far apart from eachother. As if something was supposed to happen between the destinations.

[@themagictoaster2472]

Kane isn’t just creating content for KZbin anymore. He’s making portfolio for his future self. And it’s looking real good.

[@ApexHerbivore]

This looks really bad though. What you talking about?

[@abachniv]

I'm 41 and this dude has superceded my life multiple times at this point.

[@davidfbenko]

Yep. It’s like magic to me.

[@isntmuch]

This is your most realistic looking video to date. Great job! I could hardly tell it was cgi

[@bernardolaudares]

Lmao

[@eatham.]

what

[@KrafT257]

this is not cgi, this is reality. wake up

[@Saul_641]

i was expecting the rolling gyatt but it didnt appear, its scarier like that

[@PaMS1995]

can you believe he is only 13 years old wow

[@andg2984]

Can't believe the scene where Clifton J. Saywell panics when he discovers that Clifton J. Mutebad was behind everything, bravo Kane! 🗣🔥

[@Teahrs]

what

[@unitempt7975]

Breaking bad reference ​@@Teahrs

[@BANCLAMOFFICIAL]

It's nice to see some quality lets play content getting so much attention these days. Such a chill laid back experience. Subscribed

[@sonar_bandit]

Perfectly captures the feelings of dreams I've had. Growing up playing low resolution 90's games and then falling asleep and having these weird versions of them play out in your dream

[@woobiehastelly]

14:24 i HATE when a railway X-ing sign YEETS me mid-convo!

[@thespecialist3608]

I’m not sure if that was supposed to be terrifying or funny but I laughed harder than I should have!

[@SalemArc]

8:19 sounds gave me some Neon Genesis Evangelion trauma

[@gleba2284]

At least it skipped the dialog

[@JJismyusername]

Talk about de-railing the conversation!

[@georgerobinson1252]

@@JJismyusername Guess he wasn't trained very well...

[@CanaldoLucaOF]

11:40 my bro casually walked past the table.

[@Tukaro]

The table was just a suggestion

[@clinttagarel4789]

he didn't walk past it, he walked in it lmao

[@WeaponizedAutism7]

Finally someone shines a light on the unthinkable terror of the windows screensaver

[@cuberfan08]

“Dude, in the *backrooms* of my old house, there’s a huge window that’s been there since the house was built!” “No way! That’s like, *the oldest view* in your home!” “I know right? And the crazy thing is that *people still live here* “

[@killerdoughnut7233]

Together, we are the backrooms

[@littystudios]

It’s fantastic

[@crazybustah]

to escape the backrooms, take the door to your left ermmm. your other left!

[@skylarwattie]

This is Kane’s Petscop, and I’m here for it.

[@wormscarf4085]

thats exactly what i thought of even not having watched it lol

[@cewlkidepic]

btw the petscop guy made a new thing

[@massimovozza1216]

Even the windmill...

[@OxemRPG]

@@massimovozza1216 thats the first thing i thought

[@KaneSoulbreaker]

nooooo don't call it petscop, we'll never get a part two now

[@CrumbMuffins]

Google trends results show a skyrocketing jump in searches for Clifton J. Saywell on the morning January 14th.

[@KarolOfGutovo]

Huh, that's curious. I think we should research the cause for such a phenomenon.

[@tnetennba725_3]

@@CrumbMuffins I can't watch the video rn but is he mentioned in the video? Because in the description there is a link and on the link there's a picture of an article explaining who he was

[@ozjaszhorowitz919]

Yeah but who was this guy? My Google is broken. I don't see any results with that name.

[@The_Natalist]

​@@ozjaszhorowitz919 I don't either. Kane has done it again, another obscure reference to history that he dredged up for us to see

[@bobylob9027]

It also had a massive spike in 2004 weirdly.

[@davedraws76]

I’m almost 50 and click so fast when this dude drops a new video. He reaches all generations, people.

[@stargazerbird]

Move over youngster. I’m 72

[@davedraws76]

​@@stargazerbird lol HELL YEAH!

[@abstractdream001]

If age means something, I want my 59 points in exactly 31 days.

[@SCPx049]

I love how even though there is no words are subtitles, the player's camera movements are like "The fu--" 8:44

[@Tukaro]

12:23 "To see where my favorite people were moved to" >Saywell's experiences between 1934 and 1946 >obit doesn't say Saywell was in WW2, but the specific reference implies some sort of involvement that caused his life to change as a result of the war ending >train signals abduct people and take them away ...I really hope this isn't about the Holocaust. Not that it's a topic this kind of stuff can never touch on, but it's _EXTREMELY_ easy to screw up doing so. Hopefully I'm misinterpreting this. ETA: Our Data room friend has a striped shirt; prisoner uniforms were commonly striped as well (though vertical as opposed to our friend's horizontal stripes.)

[@its0xFUL]

Oh my god you might be into something

[@vbretonneux]

it says Saywell was born in Bridgewater and was a lifelong resident, so we at least know he lived in Massachusetts all his life (and not, i dunno, Poland). doesn't mean it's impossible, but we at least know he wasn't a Holocaust survivor per se. could still have met them and been involved with them like any US soldier though

[@Tukaro]

@vbretonneux You're right, I should have clarified that I think Saywell somehow got directly involved, either having friends/relatives who were victims of it or being somehow there to witness it first-hand. I didn't think he was a victim or perpetrator himself. (The time period for the game also starts many years before the Holocaust did, but just after the Nazi rise to power.)

[@SG_AvgeekRailfanner]

That railway crossing sign is Japanese…. Honestly the Japanese were even more brutal then the N*zi.

[@Devi_irl]

Title reminds me of Alan Resnick’s “This House Has People in It”

[@roecocoa]

Game menu reminds me of the interactive part of Unedited Footage of a Bear

[@TumbleWeed411]

Also Alan's video called "I love you, Gulliver"

[@Nasbeal.]

16:28 i flet like in a dream in wich u cannot run fast enough while beeing chased... my god this gave me chills.. how a railway sign gave me chills ???!!

[@s2ms10ik5]

you would love gmod nextbots

[@justincruz8050]

Idk buddy

[@Nasbeal.]

@ cannot stand those vidéos 🤣

[@OmegaLurker7]

Dude fr, those dreams are scary. The fact that this somewhat captures that feeling is pretty awesome yet terrifying at the same time.

[@badblenderanimations1449]

I love that sometimes Kane uploads some video without apparent meaning and then we get to see what it meant on a following video

[@ClownFromTheYear9998]

I’m not even fucking joking that train stop thing with legs is from these weird obscure kids videos that look like they’re made by Cyriak

[@丫o]

@ClownFromTheYear9998 Cyriak outgoats all other goats as the goatest of goats without question

[@Matrix77776]

I feel like Clifton witnessed a man getting hit by a train at some point

[@creathorie]

Now this truly makes the ‘Pixels’ in ‘Kane Pixels’ ;)

[@RedSwing-ff7cn]

What an incredible concept! The simplistic monster designs just scooping up that poor guy and the use of day night mechanics. You managed to activate all the neurons in my brain from my various Minecraft experiences with that rush at the end!

[@kylepiro8341]

Something about how over sensitive the mouse was in turning directions took me back in just mazing ways with old computer games. Just amazing work.

[@banaann_6157]

I remember my brother and I used to play a game by the name of carnivores HD and the ps1 graphics really bring me back. Thank you for this work of art, Kane.

[@drakath5727]

oh my god that railway sign sound is burned into my mind and you took advantage of that you genius. I'm loving the details we've gotten set up so far with this and the SAYWELL video. I can't wait to see what you've done with the theme you've chosen for this one, it was only a matter of time before someone took inspiration from it and there's very few I'd trust more to handle it with care.

[@adamsworld398]

Maybe It's a metaphor on his life, so the advanced computers and other things are irrelevant.

[@MysteriousJojo]

The scariest part about the sign is how it just very casually moves towards him in the distance. It reminded me of the bit in Get Out where someone runs right at the camera from like a mile away

[@LifesNeverHumDrum]

Thanks for capturing gameplay of this! Not a lot of kids these days have ever heard of it, and not a whole lot of us even played it back in the day.

[@Gest-wg2yb]

Lots of respect Kane, as long as you dont go crazy and do horrible things to people its looking like you have a long creative easel stretched out in front of you and more than enough creativity to lay down a cascade of inspiration for others I dont go to the movies much but whenever your A24 project is complete you best believe ill be in the audience doing my bit to help bolster its success 🎉

[@namehere440]

11:41 casually walks through table

[@roecocoa]

Table had to have collision disabled so the chairs could fit.

[@Morncreek]

Seeing the windmill in an unsettling environment makes me miss Petscop.

[@petscopfan335]

hey

[@LighthouseCape]

Kane Pixels horrors 2023:The rolling giant 2025:Japanese railroads level crossing barrier The rolling giant can't get me, but the level crossing barrier can...

[@GikamesShadow]

Kane, thank you for being a genuine artist when it comes to all these unique ideas. I am so happy to know that you still create considering all the slop that came out since the original Backrooms stuff. Not from you, I mean like on youtube in general. Some of it is good, most of it is just eh. Your stuff however? Peak. Keep it up man. Nothing but love.

[@dinodrip12]

0:20 Its that creepy fucking song from the last vid

[@CanaldoLucaOF]

Yes.

[@tylociraptor8131]

EXCELLENT CATCH!

[@gleba2284]

So that's what it was, i did speed it up but didnt pay too attention to it

[@inzuki620]

it was actually the yodelling of a slavic decoration called a laffun head, which was shown in the saywell video kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYiYnp-urbeGaNk people in r/kanepixelsbackrooms figured that one out and they will most likely theorize about that soon

[@DeltaCain13]

The jingle sounds really familiar to me but for some reason I can't really place where I may have heard it from.

[@CJ-nz4wq]

I was just catching up on the videos I had missed and now there’s a new one to watch 😂

[@StripezTheBeast]

I never thought I would hear a goofy ass scream in a Kane Pixels video, but here we are.

[@georgeofhamilton]

What the heck is an ass scream?

[@KeKe-bv8qv]

So timeline. These events are between 1934 and 1946. WW2 was 1939 to 1945. He was born in 1914. His obituary seems to imply he fought in ww2. This first video seems to begin in 1934, at age 20, 5 years before ww2. The 'you made it' has Time: 851. In case anyone was wondering about the door at 11:43, I did the math, no time is missing. 851 seconds is 14.1833333 or round up to 14.20 minutes. Day 1 starts at 2:36 and the end game card is at 16:55. So it's about 14.19 minutes. That's all I've got so far.

[@Retro-Future-Land]

16:53!! WHOAH wtf? That hunter-robot thing was on his tail! Run Pixels Run! :D

[@The_damgo_mango]

It’s more a traffic light from a railroad then a hunter robot

[@vwbubs1170]

Japanese railroad crossing

[@peachfetti]

I'm already excited for how this mystery is going to unfold and expand - you nailed the aesthetics of this project

[@monsterdonster9981]

it is surprising people still live here if theres a crossing signal running around and taking people away

[@jaceg810]

Maybe only if they broke laws/crossed some line? After all, it crossed the avatars path multiple times before they entered the facility, and was mostly passive, it only took people away who have entered the gated area/server room.

[@monsterdonster9981]

@@jaceg810 interesting to note the door they never entered says "Electrical Switchgear"

[@rowanhowling4868]

This is the most unexpected thing from Kane Pixels but he still nailed it

[@HotNoBeans]

The windmill in the thumbnail instantly reminded me of Petscop.

[@petscopfan335]

hey

[@Kimm00Alfried]

Yay! We got the Gemini Home Entertainment treatment! Man, I really miss GHE so much. Great vid, btw!!!!! 🖤

[@MaureenTheTemp]

Giving me "Myst" vibes. Love it

[@Naturesownbreads]

I feel like Kane every so often decides to snort crack and spits out a masterpiece as a result

[@henrycgs]

"snort crack"

[@Yaco_Taco]

@@henrycgs cnort srack

[@turtlescantread3869]

Why does playing old video games by yourself actually kinda terrifying 😭🙏

[@Mark_nobody3]

it was because old style game, don’t have any tutorials and you have to figure it out on your own even if people have a manual, modern players don’t look at the digital version in the files

[@northamericanvanlines]

your hellworlds never cease to impress

[@Narkann1]

Kane Pixels tapping into Bridgewater Triangle lore is epic

[@ApexHerbivore]

Explain please?

[@Voltagon4500]

It might be a reach, but it looks like the bloody corpse of the server guy is just behind the “You made it!” sign at the very end. You can see what looks like blue and white stripes of his shirt to the left and what could be his legs to the right.

[@sherb118]

Every video you drop I end up glued to from start to finish! well done dude

[@toadscoper4575]

A connection to the railroad crossing: a lot of people are saying the game refers to the Hockomock Swamp/Bridgewater Triangle MA. The MBTA is planning a Commuter Rail expansion called South Coast Rail. Phase 1 of the project is being completed this May, while Phase 2 is to be completed in 2030. The Phase 2 route seeks to extend services through a quicker route via rebuilding an abandoned rail line through… the Hockomock swamp. The delays to Phase 2 are attributed to environmental pushback for the line going through the swamp…

[@AdamWinter1996]

I love how this takes horror/suspense and strips it down to its most basic form without any unnecessary details, and yet it's still just as scary as any fully fleshed-out game or movie. All you need is the most simple elements executed correctly.

[@QuanNguyen-bk4pn]

The guy makes anything and people would call it a terrifying masterpiece.

[@Rul_l]

This has to be based off those railroad crossing sign running animations by Thepentamax on KZbin. Coming up with some sort of story around that sounds fun.

[@Dollmoth9]

Reminds me of a Kitty Horrorshow game. There's no real threat, up until the "shepherd" but atmospherically everything just feels so offputting and wrong like in her game Anatomy. Excellent work.

[@-Tanooki-]

The creepy walking train signal has to be referencing that strange Japanese channel that just posts train signals walking around with unnerving chimes. The channel name is *Thepentamax*

[@TheDarkYoshi64]

This was my first thought when I saw that.

[@JBard1224]

The aesthetic brought back an odd feeling of nostalgia...Great video overall, hope we get to see more from this new series!

[@trotterr]

I like how the characters movement is so slow and you see it as he slowly makes his way from location to location so when the thing starts chasing him at the end and you see how far he’s gotta go it just automatically puts you on edge

[@Native_eagle321]

I just got here after watching the SAYWELL video I cant believe we got a new Kane Pixels video

[@zapmatt7005]

One thing i haven't seen anyone discussing but i think is interesting is the link in the description that leads to a newspaper article about Saywell's death. One interesting detail is how it says that Saywell liked to take walks near a swamp, which could be a reference to the swamp mentioned at 0:38. One speculation i have is that maybe the overgrown man is the wierd robot thing blinking its eyes in the last upload (which i originally thought was the rolling giant lol). Cant wait to see more.

[@SimeonObeyMe]

Yeah and the dude who got kidnapped mentioned something about a shepherd. I’m super excited for the theories to start arising

[@roecocoa]

@@zapmatt7005 I noticed the newspaper clipping could have been cropped to only show Saywell's obit, but the clipping conspicuously includes an ad for a real estate school. The school has a website that gives its current physical address, but the main image on that website shows the building at the address listed in the old advertisement. There's also a real estate listing on another site showing the same building in a state of disrepair. I'm not savvy enough to determine if that's a real ad included for verisimilitude or if the real estate school is part of an ARG.

[@its0xFUL]

@@roecocoaSeems to be a real business that moved at some point. Reviews are recent and they respond to them, so they're probably still operational. Probably just set dressing.

[@jonnyboy8760]

The Newspaper Clipping in the description gives scant info but it tells us some things. For one, the "event experienced" by Saywell happened when he was between 20 and 32. This was also during WWII so he did not take up his interest in mathmatics or position as a computer until after these events. Number two, if this game is a reconstruction of these events, it doesn't make that much sense considering the data room computers are a far cry to what computers looked like back in that time. Number three, the obituary also does not state what he was doing during these years, which I found very odd, considering that there is a whole game made about his experiences at this time. I would also like to note that the places mentioned in the newspaper clipping are real places (For example, the Library on South Street in Bridgewater MA and the Cemetery). Even the Realty School lead back to a building that used to ro be used for realty (now a barber shop). This means that the articles in the paper, other than Saywell's obituary, are likely irrelevant and I have wasted my time. Lastly, there is a place on South Street just down the street from the library called "J's Flying Pizza". This is also completely irrelevant, but it looks like a damn good place to grab a slice and now I'm hungry.

[@Retro-Future-Land]

Autism is a helluva drug bro.

[@matthewgoodman434]

I don't think Clifton directly told his story to the game developers or gave input/feedback on this game since it was developed after he died. The obituary says he had a notebook, so it is possible that he recorded his experience in the book, which eventually made its way into the developer's hands, maybe through his nephew Michael? I believe the content of the game represents not an exact reconstruction of the events, but a recreation of the events described in Clifton's writing, as interpreted by the developers. what Clifton may have described as a "data hall" in the 1950s might have a different interpretation by someone making a game about his writings 50 years later. This may apply to other details as well, but we don't know because we haven't read the original document. I suspect that the rail crossing sign may not have been a literal rail sign, but just a lack of details from Clifton. For Example, he may have written: "There was a creature that made a loud ringing noise running across the plains. It was moving too fast to see clearly, but it looked kind of like a railway warning sign with legs"

[@rudyskrew]

I am in awe right now.. this is so COOL. I will forever love this aesthetic

[@rudyskrew]

The swamps vibes were so good too, I wanna just afk there and take it all in for hours

[@garlicwaffle6146]

I knew it. My theory has been proven beyond a doubt with this video. Kane Pixels is a GAMER

[@kame5220]

Almost pissed my pants because of a train signal thanks kane

[@bunnyhoney9692]

This is giving me petscop vibes and I’m so here for it

[@SaucedUpStinkyGrandpa]

This is amazing! I love the vibes and the dread of it. This is really good. Atmosphere is perfect AND Weird horror creature. Love it man, keep it up!

[@KormVerde]

Eyes: Sees Windmill Brain: Thinks Petscop

[@directorjustin]

Walking out onto those hills is exactly what I wanted to do in the Stone Hill level of Spyro. ☺️

[@knifegame556]

Kane isn't pregnant, yet never fails to deliver...

[@Liffey_Brown]

WE GETTING PEAK TODAY

[@Sout96_]

😮😮❤❤❤

[@LollypopR2]

Believe it or not, but this incredibly realistic found footage was made in a 3d software.

[@VkngVd]

wow

[@JesusBeattie]

I honestly and truly believe dude is the most creative person on the internet. Legitimately incredible work.

[@SlightlyBetterOne]

11:26 Mr. Fujiwara? this morning you gave me a notice of termination, employee of the month award, and a mothers day card, all at the same time.