The Procedural Animation of Gibbon: Beyond the Trees - Wolfire Games

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ABOUT THE VIDEO
In this video, David talks about the prototype procedural animation work he did for Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, by Broken Rules. Gibbon is a new mobile game that launches on IOS today, with plans to launch on Steam and Nintendo Switch soon.
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At Wolfire, we create innovative and experimental games, and share the lessons we learn to help make game development accessible to everyone. We're most known for our games Overgrowth and Receiver, and for our spin-off company Humble Bundle.
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[@CompleteAnimation]

This is the content I miss from David Rosen. Just a deep dive into being an auteur indie game developer. A guy who could literally work as a top-billed staff member at any studio in the world, but instead does what he wants to do, and sometimes makes videos that laymen like me can understand.

[@skribblestyle]

Highly recommend Sebastian Lague's channel if you're not already subscribed. He makes content very much like this that delves in to complex subjects while making it easy to understand, and its extremely well made and entertaining.

[@deadfr0g]

Oh man, hard agree. Listening to him talk design has always been so insightful and interesting and comfy.

[@vextormull]

I love how he breaks down the ideas for the procedural animation. And he could make the idea just works in practice

[@pujp240]

David's back with a procedural animation talk! Your Overgrowth GDC was super inspiring, I never thought we'd see a sequel to it like this. Would love to see more!

[@Marshydarshy]

Procedural animation work is easily one of the most exciting fields in games right now, every genre of game can feel more alive, dynamic and real through these techniques. As a longtime fan of Wolfire (started with Black Shades and the robot shooter prototype for Lugaru that I sadly cannot remember the name of), this is something your guys' work has really pushed over the years and I'm so excited to see what's possible in the 2020s whenever you make a new game.

[@GamerZakh]

When I was a design student over a decade ago I gave procedural animation a shot but when I realised how much work it'd be I gave up. This is pretty much what I had in my head, it's great to see it be a reality.

[@jabberw0k812]

This was really interesting. Takes me back to the old Overgrowth dev videos.

[@alex-qn5xp]

David only ever gives us little drops of his boundless knowledge.

[@En7my]

so this is how it goes huh.. you suddenly find yourself watching a behind the scenes on this game where you control a monkey cruising through on an endless runner, on procedural trees. I'm really losing my fucking mind.

[@thecoolestbro]

I missed your technical narration from so many years ago

[@deadfr0g]

Fun to go back and compare the things he’s doing here to the things the things he was admiring in his Design Tour video of Aquaria a decade ago. Seeing the exponential leap in… uhh, “lifelike-ness” between that game and this one is honestly inspiring.

[@deadfr0g]

Believability? Verisimilitude! Un-uncanniness. HAH! Nailed it.

[@SageBetko]

Man it brings back memories to hear a technical talk from you again. You’re my hero

[@SykoSilver]

I loved this the way I loved the GDC talk about Overgrowth's animation. I still think about that a lot and how I want to do something similar someday.

[@chatomaltes2492]

Your animation works since Lugaru have always been super captivating to see and almost unparalleled in terms of fluidity and feedback, yet you explain it and you make it sound like the most natural simple thing. Gibbon looks super dope!!!! Looking forward to play it ^^

[@keinname1896]

As someone who has no clue about programming: everything that the Wolfireguys do programming wise looks like extremely clever workarounds for problems that plague many bigger games (from these animations to the breaking glass stuff). This is so fascinating to see and practically what I think of when somebody says "indie-games".

[@lforlight]

Watching gibbon videos as part of your job... What a dream.

[@spliter88]

Holy crap Dave's back! Really cool to see more stuff from you, especially about procedural animation!

[@xCoMiXx]

Oh man I love how this looks, great job on it, man!

[@martinmegazor]

I rewatch David's Overgrowth GDC talk every now and then. It shaped my way of thinking about gameplay animation and animation logic early on. Thanks a lot for sharing this new amazing video! You're such an inspiration. :)

[@brentrebrab]

The motion looks clean. Love the attention to detail

[@angryscientist01]

Love this kinda content, far and away my favorite to come out of this channel!

[@NostraDavid2]

I'll be honest: I'll take this over whatever Rockstar produces, because it looks the same, but the reaction time is immediate, unlike GTA where you don't really control your character. You coerce it and hope for the best. Shit, you've been outperforming several major triple A studios with your thoughtful work for YEARS! Keep it up! I love videos like these! :D

[@bazyt1]

Wow, the end result is stunning! Very interesting to see all the techniques used.

[@VNdoug]

This is super interesting. I'm a programmer but in a completely different field, so a couple things went over my head. Still, this looks incredible. I added the game to my wishlist.

[@siliconhawk9293]

its pretty amazing to me how some job/occupation has such a wide variety that even people from the same field don't know what the other is talkin about, i know there are sub divisions but a to a outsider all programmers are the same.

[@robotword]

Wow, you are quite simply a genius. This was amazing to watch. I now have a way more deep appreciation for this beautiful. You definitely hit a nail on the head.

[@tuatec]

David you're a genius when it comes to procedural animations. Please create more videos like that and show us how you work and which techniques you use. 👌

[@Uniqleedesigned]

I just played this game and wow, the art direction, visuals and control scheme was amazing, job well done!

[@SunnyValleyStudio]

This looks awesome! Thanks for sharing the full project 😍

[@manarallego3745]

Wow, that was interesting to listen to! I completely missed this clip - whenever I see a Wolfire clip popping up, I wonder whether it will be David speaking. He has kinda become my spirit animal when it comes to analysing and elegantly solving problems - and the sheer tenacity of doing things right.

[@piterpunx]

outstanding job! I've never had the feeling i had while playing overgrowth, im surely gonna try this one as well, it's marvellous

[@Texshy]

There is a demo available on Steam for Next Fest

[@craigdickson9345]

Great video filled with genius solutions to complex problems

[@yadav-r]

Very detailed explanation, thank you for sharing. All the very best, for your game, wish it all the success.

[@bluelive23]

the 2014 animation talk has been a reference of mine for years and this is a great extension to it :)

[@HiHi-iu8gf]

o shit i came here not realising you were the guy behind overgrowth, i remember watching your gdc talk about the proc gen on that years ago, that's like a core memory for me lol

[@alltidtratt3564]

Wow amazing, great work

[@DannyOnateArt]

awesome content! cheers from Ecuador!

[@danielsegewitz6956]

this is incredible

[@Mojobojo]

Yooo is that Dear ImGui I see? Nice work.

[@Mattismen]

This looks delightful. Definitely keeping an eye on the Switch release.

[@xThuby]

I wonder when this dev series will come back. It was great.

[@ollllj]

wolfire is great at animations

[@6pat]

Super interesting!

[@ruicunha6434]

This is incredible 🤩

[@alphatonic1481]

Cool and wishlisted on steam.

[@darkart4fun]

Awesome!

[@ProjectNullTheGame]

Oh my God, this is game developing!!!

[@error17_]

10 years subscribed

[@illustriouschin]

David Rosen is in the top 3 for smartest game programmers of all time.

[@rmasoni]

This is great. You should make a new game!

[@Jackfromshack]

Holy magic

[@hilmikapukaya2749]

i dunno why but procedural animation makes my brain go : DOPAMİNEEEEEEEE

[@rayyannoor129]

You need request that broken rules makes Gibbon into a vr game

[@TiagoTiagoT]

Might be tricky to get a side-scroller to feel good in VR....

[@rayyannoor129]

@@TiagoTiagoT it’s simple they can just put us in the perspective of a gibbon and add some gorilla tag mechanics, also the game should be free roam

[@TiagoTiagoT]

@@rayyannoor129 That would be pretty much creating a whole new game...

[@rayyannoor129]

@@TiagoTiagoT yes, but with mechanic taht make you feel like a true momke

[@MrSATism]

This is AMAZING, can't wait to play this on switch!

[@illustriouschin]

Switch nice!

[@edrikrivera3890]

When will it be out on PC or switch

[@l.ettuc3451]

please someone what is the game at 0:22 i used to play it on wii i've been searching for ages.

[@WolfireGames]

The game is called "And Yet It Moves" :)

[@Salah_200]

Yellow died quickly

[@danielgravina1573]

Donkey Kong 4? Please?

[@Rkyiel]

:)

[@PatricEstera-jx2pe]

Pls make this in androids

[@sashamakeev7547]

which has the perfect APeI Lol

[@superfunnypranks463]

may you please repost the source code, it might be damaged

[@superfunnypranks463]

Please

[@FryingMike]

??

[@yoda8677]

I mean why not perhaps make it cost money so you won’t have a to pay 5 pounds a month just to play this?

[@user-ku6lb2of8b]

it would be nice to talk to the Russians about what is happening.

[@jhulianvilla7750]

Will u release this on Android?🥲