PAX East 2012: The Man Behind Dust: An Elysian Tail

This seems cool.

Better late than never!

Dust to dust

This game looks great and all but that furry-fairy creeps me out.

This was an awesome interview. Why did it go up so late?

Tanned Brad needs moar tan

Awesome- can't wait to actually play it!

This dude seems awesome. It looks very controller driver which is a bit of a shame, would have loved to give him some money for a PC version or something.

16 hours a day. There's some self discipline if I've ever heard it.

The game looks great.

I can't say I have any interest in the game, but props to Dean Dodrill for being able to pull this off all by himself. Always fascinating to see 'one-man bands'.

Also, Jazz Jackrabbit :D

Dude seems just like an average guy who wanted to learn.

Dat scruff.

As someone who knows just enough about programming to know how hard it is, that guy is completely out of his mind doing all of that by himself. The fact that it looks as good as it does it kind of mind blowing. To me at least.

Inspiring.

Haha man, you guys finally got around to posting this?

I've been sitting on my MS points just for this game...

Can't wait.

@emergency said:

This dude seems awesome. It looks very controller driver which is a bit of a shame, would have loved to give him some money for a PC version or something.

That's hardly an issue these days, what with the ease of plugging in a wired xbox 360 controller.

This game reminds me a little bit of Odin Sphere, if anyone here has played that.

I've recently been looking into tools to try and mess around with making a game (just out of curiosity to see what it's like), and even visually driven programs like Stencyl make game development seem impossible (after 2 tutorials I've kinda been scared off). It's incredible he was able to make something so competent (and good) looking with no experience.

...I feel like I just slipped into a time portal. I had already forgotten that PAX East existed. :)

it looks cool. i hope his 4 years of work pay off or at least let him break even.

btw, nice skyward zoom action to finish the vid

So effin excited about this, a little late posting this but still, can't wait

@Twinsun said:

@emergency said:

This dude seems awesome. It looks very controller driver which is a bit of a shame, would have loved to give him some money for a PC version or something.

That's hardly an issue these days, what with the ease of plugging in a wired xbox 360 controller.

This game reminds me a little bit of Odin Sphere, if anyone here has played that.

True, just hope that it comes out for pc.

@Twinsun: Yeah I've got Odin Sphere ... really wanted to love that game, and it had a lot going for it, but I couldn't stick with it for that long.

This drew immediate comparisons to that in my mind though, yeah. Looking forward to it.

it's amazing what you can learn.

No, it's amazing what that guy can learn, he's a pretty humble guy.

What an awesome guy. He gives off good vibes.

God bless this man for having number pop up and cash fly out when u bash enemies. He know EXACTLY what I want out of beat-em-up games. <3

When was PAX again?

Couldn't be a more nice and humble dude. That's awesome. Been following this game since it was first shown. Hopefully a PC version gets released.

:)

@emergency said:

This dude seems awesome. It looks very controller driver which is a bit of a shame, would have loved to give him some money for a PC version or something.

A 2D melee brawler looks very controller driven? You don't say. It's style of game intrinsically suited to being controlled with gamepads. Calling it a "shame" is kind of silly. It's like saying it's a shame that a flight sim is suited to being controlled with a flight stick.

You can always pick up a 360 pad for your PC, like every other PC gamer I know has done.

The game looks great, both in terms of gameplay and art style, everything except the player character that is, it looks kind of out of place compared to everything else on screen.

Man, I bet that guy hasn't done anything besides make that game for the last 4 years. Not eat, not drink, not nothin. Amazing, but jeeze, 4 years of your life!

Ohhh! It's *tail* not tale.

Because you're an awesome dude, I.AM.GOING.TO.SUPPORT.YOU.

Wow, nicely done Dean. Looks amazing.

Really amazing how good it looks just from a few glances considering it's literally just this one guy. Also apart from the difficulty of doing all the work yourself I can imagine how extremely satisfying it must be to work on something and have 100% creative control over every decision.

Dat animation...

Whoa that's impressive :O!

Nothing but respect for this game and for Dean.

Hate the character design though. I'm finding really hard like those kinds of furry-fodder characters.

Just can't get around the DeviantArt-ness of this.

What he did is very impressive though.

Brad's enthusiasm for game development, makes me wonder why he hasn't made the jump to the development side yet (something, many other game journalists have done).

I was on board until I saw the furries.

High five Dean, high five

cant wait, I'm also sitting on my ms points for this game.

Eagerly anticipating this game! :D

Looks unreal. Not sure about the character designs, but the game looks good enough for me to over look that.

Mad respect for Dean, and his game actually looks really good too!

YEARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAN. good job man.

follow him at @NoogyTweet

Oh Jazz Jack Rabbit

How do you make a game by yourself? Smarts, talent and ambition, that's all.