"Game Dev Docs" is a YouTube documentary series detailing the development of indie video games in a stylized way. It elaborates on the technical, creative, financial and organisational challenges game devs face when building and selling their game.
Game Dev Docs
45 videos
37M views
How RimWorld Was Made and Why it’s Not a Video Game
The 6 Years of Engineering Behind The Nintendo Switch 2
The Video Game Made By People Too Afraid to Play it
How Slay The Spire Was Made and Why its Release Was a Failure
How Balatro Was Made and Why The Creator Expected to Sell Only 6 Copies
How Sacrificing a Trilogy of Other Games Led to Inscryption
The Secret Behind Designing Wonder and Mystery in Video Games
How Death Stranding Was Made and Why Hideo Kojima’s Team Disliked it
How Doki Doki Literature Club! Was Made and Why it Will Never be Adapted
How A Deadly Disease Served as The Spark for Creating Hyper Light Drifter
How LIMBO Was Made and Why The Team Went Their Separate Ways
From Browser Games to Facing Bankruptcy: How Cult of The Lamb Was Made
How Two Students Created Risk of Rain and Why They Sold the IP Rights
How The First Zelda Was Made and Featured a First-Person Perspective Initially
How One Programmer Created Gaming's Most Complex Ecosystem
How Two People Created Gaming’s Most Complex Simulation System
How The Forest Was Made and Why The Indie Game Looks AAA
How OMORI Was Made and Why People Thought it Was a Scam
How Stray Was Made and Inspired by an Overpopulated City
How Enter The Gungeon Was Made by Waiting in a Parking Lot For 6 Hours
How a Free Browser Game Turned Into Dead Cells
How Elden Ring Was Made and Why The Director Feels Apologetic
How Disco Elysium Was Made | Documentary
How Cuphead Was Made and Struggled Finding The Right Protagonist
How Pokémon Red & Blue Were Made
How Don’t Starve Was Made and Why The Devs Had Many Heated Discussion
How Hades Was Made and Why its Early Concept Didn’t Work
How Amnesia: The Dark Descent Was Made and Saved The Developer
How One Person Changed Indie Games Forever
How The Binding of Isaac Was Made and Designed to Fail
How Terraria Was Made and Why Development Suddenly Stopped
How Shovel Knight Was Made and Started as a Joke
How Papers, Please Was Made and The History of The Developer
How Among Us Was Made and Why The Developers Wanted to Quit
How The Stanley Parable Was Made and Broke Up The Dev Team
How Celeste Was Made and Inspired by Real-Life Rock Climbing
How Undertale Was Made and Why its Success Scared The Creator
How Hollow Knight Was Made and First Appeared on Newgrounds
How Super Mario 64 Was Made
How Stardew Valley Was Made by Only One Person
How Darkest Dungeon Was Made and Caused an Outrage
How Journey Was Made and Why The Developer Went Bankrupt
How Subnautica Was Made and Saved by its Community
How Untitled Goose Game Was Made and Inspired by Hitman
