Indeed the preeminent skeleton swordfighting simulator being Exanima, in which it's possible for a skeleton to get caught between the bars of a fence or your sword between its ribcage, resulting in hilarious physics
At some point you should unironically make a video talking about the insanity of post USSR Russian politics and your own personal journey through various systems. You've touched on it before, but I'd genuinely be interested in hearing more.
Right now you can watch BBC Trauma Zone, it's quite good, but it just facts without experience. You would not believe a half of things happened then, if you didn't see that madhouse. This is why Russians are so messed up today
Knowing Slavic culture, I think it’s just as likely a friend of his heard about the accident and got him the BMW wheelchair as in-joke as him getting it for himself. Either way hilarious!
The creater of Eador, Alexey Bokulev is also heavily influential in the Legend of Grimrock community for creating the absolutely massive and fantastic mods in Forbidden Halls, Lost City, The Guardians, and Final Adventure under the name Adrageron. Each one is better than the last, and they're also all potentially even better than the base Legend of Grimrock games. The guy is an absolute legend.
I like how these stories are similar to ours here in Brazil. Growing up poor, without access to computers, but with an indomitable desire to play games.
I grew up in the States but just wasn't allowed to play video games; I read and made very simple TTRPGs based on my TCG cards and the like. It's so weird how much of this is just indomitable.
I remember someone joking that Brazil is basically Latin American Russia. Huge amount of uninhabited space, lazy and corrupt police and rabid devotion to football.
These history videos always make feel a sense of comfort. It’s always nice to see and hear about the development of games halfway across the world and how cultural exchange impacted it.
Warlockcracy was the biggest of my inspirations to learn Godot and attempt to make a Kenshi-like. So much compelling and fascinating jank to be seen here that I've never heard of before.
The secret to proper Slavjank CRPG is combining fanatical devotion to a classic title or series' conventions with inexplicable desire to implement concepts novel to the genre, in ways where you reject conventional game designer thought while still channeling creativity and logical thinking to make it work.
Yanno what, Serhyi Prokofiev's story warmed my heart. Man developed a passion, made games for fun, got paid for it, and in the end, became a director of a company selling (what I would hope is) high end lab equipment. Honestly, good for him. And Alexey Bokulev! People who just wanted to play games "they" would like and it appealed to people! Because if you were interested, someone else would be too. And in perfect narrative terms, the author stepped away, the big company stepped in, and the next sequels were crap. Because they didn't have the heart. Finally, Sergiy Grygorovich....uh. Would it be an insult to call him "a true capitalist", even from a young age? In all seriousness though, thank you for this video. Seeing people who wanted "more" from a game and decided "I'll just make it myself!" and having others enjoy it too? That's an awesome story. Thank you for sharing.
1:51 Bolek, Lolek and Tola are characters from Polish cartoon series "Bolek i Lolek" Reksio is a name of a dog from another Polish cartoon series - "Reksio" Bonifac is probably based on Bonifacy - a black cat from yet another Polish cartoon titled "Przygody kota Filemona".
If he just said “isekai plot” how would we know he is not talking about the hit russian swords and sorcery fantasy novel “the red sovereign” aka isekai stalin
The Patreon supporter with the name "The Hotep of Spacenoids" is so good. It is most definitely a Gundam reference considering A: Spacenoid is what those living in space colonies are called and B: A good amount of the antagonists (and anti-heroes) across the franchise are literally Space Hoteps
waitwut, who were the hoteps? The only one that kinda fits that I know of off the top of my head is the guy that pretended to be Gato. (Kaito or something?)
A Hotep to me is those history revisionists of a certain ethnicity who want to claim the history of the kingdom of Egypt in it's entirety for themselves. Additionally there's invariably claims of them having had secret super tech thatvwas thousands of years in advance of the rest of the world.
For most North Americans, Slavic video games start at Tetris, then disappear for a while, then next comes the "Russian" S.T.A.L.K.E.R., then Metro. Always wondered what a "Knjaz" is.
Depending on the time period. It can be more of a jarl(earl) position - ruler of the city/province and commander of the warband called "druzhina". "Druzya" means friends btw, I find it cute. Later in history, when the proper state was formed, the title changed its meaning closer to duke or earl.
@kafkaesque6459 I really want Warlockracy to make a video dedicated specifically to "Knyaz"-series (Князь: Легенды Лесной Страны, Князь 2 and Князь 2.5: Продолжение Легенды). There's something unique about that kind of Russian slavjank rpg, it's like they tried to fuse together Diablo / Divinity and Fallout, all with Slavic mythology influence. I just don't know if Warlockracy played these.
as someone who lives on the other side of the planet and only speaks English your vids on non English work are super entertaining and i love discovering the weird stuff your share. thanks
49:00 you just made me remember another person of Ukrainian game development scene - Yury Likhota aka Дядюшка Рисеч. He started off as a pirate localising foreign games like Command & Conquer or Neverhood. In many cases he actually did the "funny translation" similar to Goblin's LotR dub. Some time later he changed the name of his company to Crazy House and made a tank simulator "T-72: Balkans on fire", with the story focusing on russian volunteer tank crew in Serbia or something like that. During 2014 Ukrainian coup he sided with Ukrainian nationalists and is the chairman of Pravy Sector branch in Kharkov
Creating paper versions of games reminds me a lot of what I would get up to during my secondary education - my friends and I all loved the Arena in Oblivion, for some reason, and we worked together on making a tabletop version of that where you travelled around the countryside going to towns and villages to win contests in gladiatorial fights. We had a lot of fun playing very simple games with very simple miniatures. What a wonderful memory.
as a slovak and a cultural anthropologist I can absolutely confirm that turn based fantasy strategies just activate something in our brains and its such a universal phenomenon.
It never ceases to amaze me when Warlockracy so casually drops Ross Scott into one of his videos. The guy must be a serious fan to keep up with Ross as much as the rest of the Accursed Farmers.
@@SergeyKorolkov-i6c What can I say? No matter what happened, no matter of circumstances, in random events I always go with the option "Казнить наместника за то, что он допустил такое!"
Grigorovich is a weird one. I heard a rumor when they were developing Shadow Of Chernobyl he would buy and drink an ungodly amount of Pepsi so he got the nickname "Pepsiman" by some of the devs.
This is why having bilingual people in your Culture is great. You can actually make and publish Art like this and communicate Culture and Attitudes beyond just Surface-Level "Content".
It's good in an artistic sense, but there's also logistical issues. It's easy to be abused if you only speak one of the two national languages. Many cases in Finland where a Finnish speaking person is abused by Swedish speaking areas justice system, and vice versa. Easy examples would be Spanish speaking minorities in USA as well.
@@visual7504 Knowing the basics doesn't really help you in court with all the legalese. All Finns, Finnish or Swedish speaking, are taught the other one for like 5 years in school at least.
Small suggestion. GSC made some really good games like Venom, Firestarter and Hoverace and weren't only Cossacks and Stalker developers. I would also mention American Conquest and Alexander.
"The currency in Kings Bounty is the United States dollar. Makes sense, it might have as well been fictional." Had me fucking rolling. Comedic writing on point once again.
Never heard of Eador but Genesis’ turn based combat screen seemed really familiar. I realized it reminded me of an open source game Battle for Wesnoth. I found a Wesnoth forum post from someone claiming to have worked on Eador saying they have nothing in common but I’m not sure how convinced I am of that. The sprite attack movement and sounds feel identical but it’s been awhile since I played that game.
As a filthy foreigner, I must admit everytime I hear the name Prokofiev my first thought is usually thinking it's Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev. Slavjank should be listed as a steam/gog genre. And I can't stop humming to the warcraft 2 human/orc theme music in the background of this video. Damn that game's soundtrack was good.
First and foremost: I caught that few seconds of Here Is The News in the background at ~15 minutes. Huzzah. Second, it's really nice to hear a game developer being humble and taking criticism and critique on board and working to improve. I wish more folks in the industry would do that. Hell, I wish more people in general would. Third, what do you mean Heroes of Malgrimia wasn't translated into any foreign languages? It's in Russian, that's a foreign language! /american
As an American, I wanna say thank you for sharing so much about a culture I really don't know much about. Really fascinating stuff, I love these videos. And I genuinely hope you're safe wherever you live.
I've played Heroes of Malgrimia 2: Defeat the Dragon, and it's both the most genius and full of potential and most undercooked game I've ever played. Main problem of its gameplay is how long it takes to get troop hiring going - you need to build up a town, then build up a castle and then wait for the town to get more population since troops are using its population, which takes like 3 in-game weeks and all that time you only have a starting army to play with. By the time you will have a decent troop production going your hero will most likely get enough experience to solo most armies. Another big flaw is that random maps are extremely random and often there are no useful buildings near your starting point, or it often places late-game units which you cannot kill near your town which can attack it. Eador: Genesis is my favorite turn-based game, I can't think of any game of this genre which had as much depth in its mechanics. Unfortunately, Snowbirds couldn't cope with its depth and Masters of the Broken World had a disastrous release with game-breaking bugs and yeah. And yeah, visual clarity in battles is one of the main problems, it's really hard to distinguish some terrain.
Y'know, I have been looking for the name of Heroes of Annihilated Empires for almost 20 years after I played it - only remembering the massive amounts of units, how it beat my ass, and the story line campaign with involved a time traveling tank. Thank you for reminding me of it, and putting a name on this fever dream.
What an absolute delight to watch the history of my favorite childhood game and its follow-up series! Loved KB2 as a kid, and as a true slav, I still play HoMM3 to this day, 20+ years later.
I just want to thank you for the service you do to all your viewers, but especially those in the anglophonic world who would not have learned this kind of stuff about Eastern European games and the fascinating characters that make them. You rock dude.
Ah, the old ways of buying pirated CDs from a flee market. My dad used to take me to get games in Bucharest and there was our regular CD "dealer" that used to hide his stash under a church close to the city's central square. One time, there was a police raid and he hid in the church, the priests there covered for him because they were huge enjoyers of Heroes 3.
I find it hilarious that the dev chose "Eador" as a short name that wouldn't be abbreviated... and then one game later and they immediately give it a long subtitle that will inevitably be abbreviated.
damn, my dad worked at robotron back in the days, I really need to ask him whether he was involved in those ibm compatible computers. thanks for the input, loving your videos :)
As a Kabbalah enthusiast, it's weird how often it comes up in videogames. I've come across one book outside literature about it that mentioned any Kabbalistic concept (That being Demian, and there only in passing), yet if including this video I've encountered six games off the top of my head that use some non-trivial symbolism from it. I am not the greatest picture-enjoyer, so it might well be that Kabbalah simply is more visual rather than textual. But as something spawned from texts, it's absence is odd.
This was amazing. I felt moved and then nostalgic and started to remember my own countrys games from the 90's. Then came the part where the man died fighting for his country's freedom and the the reality hit. 15 years ago I did my military service and the only enemy the officers talked about was Russia. But then it was not real. It was just tradition. We were supposed to take the ferry to st Petersburg over the weekend to party. It was that easy back then. Now my life is the same while a European great war is taking place on the other side of the Baltic. We live in different realities but we still share a lot. Thank you for this.
thanks warlocracy, your videos introduced me to the infinity engine games and today, i finished all of them on my mad quest to get *the big metal unit*, screenshot uploaded too steam, i got it legit (if you dont count me putting the difficulty on easy for dragon fights) and got an AC over 20 with this meme magic metal monstrosity. this flex has cost me months, perhaps years of my life. but it was worth it :)
Anyone remember HoMM clone for cell phones called Age of Heroes? There even was an online version that still works and has ~30 players online last time I checked
It was made by Qplaze, another slav dev group as far as I know. Could make for a fine video too, those were great games and moved away from HoMM very fast
Yep, I do, I've spent a fair share of sleepless nights playing this series. My favourite was a 4th installment about undead guys because it was so edgy.
Dang it Warlocky, I just felt asleep watching one of your videos again. This is not because of anything remotely close to being bored, but because your narration is peculiarly soothing. Or maybe I suffer from a bit of early-old age narcolepsy. Regardless I gotta re-watch this with some coffee. Hope you tell at the end how that book you were going to write is turning, sounds super interesting
Brilliant video (as always). I've never heard that Fresh died in Bakhmut... simply tragic. So many talented and brave young men won't come back home because of this fruitless war. RIP
There’s this text adventure game called “The Wizard Sniffing Pig” which I stumbled on last year. The thumbnail reminded me of it. It’s a comedy adventure and worth the five minutes it takes to remember how text adventures work.
You provide many, many fascinating windows into the slavic gaming world that I would otherwise be entirely ignorant of. There is a series of books called "The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers" . Your videos carry that same energy of bringing to light the histories and stories of these games and developers. Thank you so, so much for this channel.
I remember playing Cossacks around the same time I played Corsairs, later on I got into Stalker but I never knew how deep the slavvit hole was until I saw this video. Thanks for teaching me a piece of important history!
It seems like every time I check warlockracy’s channel and think “it’s been a while since the last upload” he uploads within the next week, this is the only TH-camr I look forward to seeing new videos from
Developers, gathering their starting capital by piracy was a common theme in this part of the world. It's worth to mention Marchewka brothers (Techland), who were at the very begining distributing pirated software or Adam Chmielarz (Poeple can Fly) who were distributing cassette tapes of 8-bit games on the flea markets organized in schools or community centers. I'd love to hear the experience from other post-soviet nations.
Every video you publish expands my brain. I feel myself becoming closer to turning slavic each second. This has been a life goal of mine since I was 3 years old
Warlock, I gotta say, as someone who is completely uninterested in crapergs or eastern european culture, this channel has independantly awoken an interest in both topics. This video will make for absolute peak sloshed-drunk viewing
I have such a hard time to place where swedish game development was in this period because we did battlefield but also the first paradox game Svea Rike and that is pure slavjank.
Recreating videogames as tabletop ones is so relatable, used to do that all the time as a kid. Of course, most of them were overcomplicated and barely playable.
Misplaced Skandians like me (+Goidelic +AngloSaksi mutt variety in my case) have need of a WarlockKerensky and/or AlfaBruva for morale support. Chaplain roles I suppose. I also suppose I didn't need to identify with subarctic legacy to appreciate well grounded and well humored performances, naturlig, but it feels at least tangentially relevant for me 🍃🎋
Warlock your channel is a gem. Your storytelling fascinates me and your videos are getting better and better each time. I give this comment as an offering to the algorithm gods, may they have mercy on your soul. Thank you for the entertainement.
![ILLSLICK - THE KING'S LANDING [Freestyle]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/feIJJnNkTfk/mqdefault.jpg)
If during certain bits it sounds like I’m sick it’s because I am… the Anglo-Saksi… infected me with Anglo virus (common cold).
Hope you recover soon
Yay, Warlockracy video!
i got lucky and saw this on my home page as you uploaded it. love the vids bro sorry for the virus
Our slavic bodies must resist!
It’s what perfidious Albion does, my friend
it's inevitable: give a dude access to a computer and he'll try to make it simulate swordfighting skeletons
Slavkejltons
With mind boggling effects
Irresistible male urge to create walking skeletons with bows and swords
Indeed
the preeminent skeleton swordfighting simulator being Exanima, in which it's possible for a skeleton to get caught between the bars of a fence or your sword between its ribcage, resulting in hilarious physics
Slavs make suffering simulators because they want to share their deppression with everyone else
"a physicist by training, a programmer by trade, and a sorcerer by vocation"
this is MF doom
Awesome, invincible, armor-clad villain by night
all caps when you spell the mans name
aaaaah
@@henryphillips6167 all caps when you choke on deez nuts
Looking forward to a clever reference to MC Chris in later chapters
At some point you should unironically make a video talking about the insanity of post USSR Russian politics and your own personal journey through various systems. You've touched on it before, but I'd genuinely be interested in hearing more.
Right now you can watch BBC Trauma Zone, it's quite good, but it just facts without experience. You would not believe a half of things happened then, if you didn't see that madhouse. This is why Russians are so messed up today
The frase "I personally jumped this fence while running away from cops [...] Immersion: shattered" lives rent free in my head
@@andrearossi6564in what vídeo he said this?
@@nostahex the Deus Ex mod (2027? Something like that)
Два слова - Детский аниматор
"Hi sweetie, how was your day?"
"Ah you know, same as usual, the boss freaked out again and speeded around the office with his custom BMW wheelchair"
😂😂😂😂
Knowing Slavic culture, I think it’s just as likely a friend of his heard about the accident and got him the BMW wheelchair as in-joke as him getting it for himself. Either way hilarious!
wait wtf, I thought you were joking before I watched the video
@@softcatsocks9618 Aw come on man, don't read the comments before watching!
The creater of Eador, Alexey Bokulev is also heavily influential in the Legend of Grimrock community for creating the absolutely massive and fantastic mods in Forbidden Halls, Lost City, The Guardians, and Final Adventure under the name Adrageron. Each one is better than the last, and they're also all potentially even better than the base Legend of Grimrock games. The guy is an absolute legend.
Wow, what a connection
I had no idea. I need to play this.
@@Warlockracy I recommend these most emphatically.
Holy shit I need to play those.
now This is Slavlore.Thsnk you.
Legend of Grimrock is a great game.
Really impressed that Prokofiev was both a classical composer in the 1940's and a games designer from the 80's to today.
What an accomplished man.
Warlockracy really liked that little bubble pig clip, eh?
who doesn't?
It's called "jacuzzi pig" and yeah, it's liked a lot.
It's so bubbly!
Because it's fantastic
@@vvawarctrue ❤ 35:00
I like how these stories are similar to ours here in Brazil. Growing up poor, without access to computers, but with an indomitable desire to play games.
A experiência do terceiro mundo é universal
I grew up in the States but just wasn't allowed to play video games; I read and made very simple TTRPGs based on my TCG cards and the like. It's so weird how much of this is just indomitable.
I remember someone joking that Brazil is basically Latin American Russia. Huge amount of uninhabited space, lazy and corrupt police and rabid devotion to football.
@@MrSomebodyStrange I call Russia Cold-Brazil when Im talking about literature, so yeah
@@MrSomebodyStrange Both have trouble with keeping aircraft carriers afloat, too, as another coincidental similarity.
Plugging your games on your lab equipment retail site is the kind of red-blooded entrepreneurship Americans can only dream of.
52 minutes of esoteric slavjank for study, relaxation and cognito hazard.
farewell of slavjanka
These history videos always make feel a sense of comfort. It’s always nice to see and hear about the development of games halfway across the world and how cultural exchange impacted it.
Makes me wonder what kind of terrible miracles of gaming must exist in countries like India and Iran for example.
@@mogyesz9 You don't wanna know.
"Grigorovich employed more people in his two room apartment" my brain: IN BOBRUYSK BELARUS?
Same tbh
I'm a non-Slav on a mission to make a Slavjank CRPG engine. Wish me luck.
Warlockcracy was the biggest of my inspirations to learn Godot and attempt to make a Kenshi-like.
So much compelling and fascinating jank to be seen here that I've never heard of before.
I will be watching your progress with great interest.
You must play HoMM 3 for 500 hours. You will instantly become a Slav with an Adidas tracksuit. The rest will come naturally.
@@analogmoz Well I started modding classic Fallout, I thought that would put me on the fast track. But I will try this too.
The secret to proper Slavjank CRPG is combining fanatical devotion to a classic title or series' conventions with inexplicable desire to implement concepts novel to the genre, in ways where you reject conventional game designer thought while still channeling creativity and logical thinking to make it work.
Yanno what, Serhyi Prokofiev's story warmed my heart. Man developed a passion, made games for fun, got paid for it, and in the end, became a director of a company selling (what I would hope is) high end lab equipment. Honestly, good for him. And Alexey Bokulev! People who just wanted to play games "they" would like and it appealed to people! Because if you were interested, someone else would be too. And in perfect narrative terms, the author stepped away, the big company stepped in, and the next sequels were crap. Because they didn't have the heart. Finally, Sergiy Grygorovich....uh. Would it be an insult to call him "a true capitalist", even from a young age?
In all seriousness though, thank you for this video. Seeing people who wanted "more" from a game and decided "I'll just make it myself!" and having others enjoy it too? That's an awesome story. Thank you for sharing.
jacuzzi pig and "thus the name" are the pillars of this channel and i love it
I love learning about Slav lore
Guided by everyone’s favorite autistic city dweller
1:51 Bolek, Lolek and Tola are characters from Polish cartoon series "Bolek i Lolek"
Reksio is a name of a dog from another Polish cartoon series - "Reksio"
Bonifac is probably based on Bonifacy - a black cat from yet another Polish cartoon titled "Przygody kota Filemona".
nice catch
If i recall, this is a screenshot from the games GOG page.
There's also a soviet cartoon called "Boniface the Lion takes a vacation", based on a Czech tale. I really liked that one when I was a kid
@@JastrzabTrzeciGoG are Polish. Makes sense.
we are everywhere
we are the inevetable
we are the polish people
"A peasant with the attributes of a dragon."
That sounds like a shitty anime isekai plot premise.
The slop
you could have said "like an isekai plot" and avoid redundancy.
If he just said “isekai plot” how would we know he is not talking about the hit russian swords and sorcery fantasy novel “the red sovereign” aka isekai stalin
@@epicfortnitekid8536THE WHAT
That sounds like an awesome isekai plot premise. Make it and I will read it.
Got an out-of-body experience learning that slavjunk was started by a dude from my university. Thank you.
Free Slavjank made the majority of the disk space on the family computer when I was younger
The Patreon supporter with the name "The Hotep of Spacenoids" is so good. It is most definitely a Gundam reference considering A: Spacenoid is what those living in space colonies are called and B: A good amount of the antagonists (and anti-heroes) across the franchise are literally Space Hoteps
waitwut, who were the hoteps? The only one that kinda fits that I know of off the top of my head is the guy that pretended to be Gato. (Kaito or something?)
A Hotep to me is those history revisionists of a certain ethnicity who want to claim the history of the kingdom of Egypt in it's entirety for themselves.
Additionally there's invariably claims of them having had secret super tech thatvwas thousands of years in advance of the rest of the world.
We are not prepared for the autism of a gundam warlockracy video
I'm always a fan of whoever is "A two room apartment in Babruysk, Belarus". it just rolls of the tongue really well in english
also shoutout to "I feed my parrot chicken". it sounds like cannibalism but its not
For most North Americans, Slavic video games start at Tetris, then disappear for a while, then next comes the "Russian" S.T.A.L.K.E.R., then Metro. Always wondered what a "Knjaz" is.
Duke.
Knjaz is a title equal to a Duke
@@Poctykhail to the king, baby
Depending on the time period. It can be more of a jarl(earl) position - ruler of the city/province and commander of the warband called "druzhina". "Druzya" means friends btw, I find it cute. Later in history, when the proper state was formed, the title changed its meaning closer to duke or earl.
@@Poctyk Meaning the game, lmao
@kafkaesque6459 I really want Warlockracy to make a video dedicated specifically to "Knyaz"-series (Князь: Легенды Лесной Страны, Князь 2 and Князь 2.5: Продолжение Легенды). There's something unique about that kind of Russian slavjank rpg, it's like they tried to fuse together Diablo / Divinity and Fallout, all with Slavic mythology influence. I just don't know if Warlockracy played these.
as someone who lives on the other side of the planet and only speaks English your vids on non English work are super entertaining and i love discovering the weird stuff your share. thanks
49:00 you just made me remember another person of Ukrainian game development scene - Yury Likhota aka Дядюшка Рисеч. He started off as a pirate localising foreign games like Command & Conquer or Neverhood. In many cases he actually did the "funny translation" similar to Goblin's LotR dub.
Some time later he changed the name of his company to Crazy House and made a tank simulator "T-72: Balkans on fire", with the story focusing on russian volunteer tank crew in Serbia or something like that.
During 2014 Ukrainian coup he sided with Ukrainian nationalists and is the chairman of Pravy Sector branch in Kharkov
Hmmmmm interesting
This guy sounds like the good version of Goblin
Есть такое
Are you suggesting original one wasn't good enough?
@@Шалунишка-к7бGoblin is a soviet union lover and a commie who supports killing civilians.
@@Шалунишка-к7б good as in opposite of evil
@@Шалунишка-к7бhe's no nostalgia critic
Creating paper versions of games reminds me a lot of what I would get up to during my secondary education - my friends and I all loved the Arena in Oblivion, for some reason, and we worked together on making a tabletop version of that where you travelled around the countryside going to towns and villages to win contests in gladiatorial fights. We had a lot of fun playing very simple games with very simple miniatures. What a wonderful memory.
Always a great day when Warlockracy graces youtube with a history lesson
as a slovak and a cultural anthropologist I can absolutely confirm that turn based fantasy strategies just activate something in our brains and its such a universal phenomenon.
It never ceases to amaze me when Warlockracy so casually drops Ross Scott into one of his videos. The guy must be a serious fan to keep up with Ross as much as the rest of the Accursed Farmers.
o7
I spend hundreds of hours playing Eador as a kid. Even read Bokulev book based on the setting of the game. Still didn't finish campaign.
O God, for years I was convinced that I was misremembering the existence of eador book, but it's real
Try New Horizons mod for a classic version, you'll spend another few hundred hours in game.
Wow, thanks for sharing. I love Eador, this will be amazing to try 😊
@@SergeyKorolkov-i6c What can I say? No matter what happened, no matter of circumstances, in random events I always go with the option "Казнить наместника за то, что он допустил такое!"
@@Adv-vr1uh Ah, i see you're a man of culture as well.
Grigorovich is a weird one. I heard a rumor when they were developing Shadow Of Chernobyl he would buy and drink an ungodly amount of Pepsi so he got the nickname "Pepsiman" by some of the devs.
I'll tell you more, I think there is a video of him actually saying it in an interview after a clip of him rollerscating around the office.
@@nickgotvyak5890 lmao i've seen him in roller skates someone made it a gif on a discord server i was.
10:39 That wizard is literally doing the chad pose.
OMG you're right
The linear structure of time and other rules of our universe dictate that one day Warlockracy will talk about Allods Online. I dread the day.
Adding Stalinist architecture to slav fantasy was a mistake.
First he would need to talk about Allods 1-2, Cursed Lands, and maybe also Demiurgs 1-2
@@CJIEnOuBOBR That wouuld be awesome.
Ah, yes, Allods online. It's art and music still inspires me.
@@r-saint Wasn't the game from the start USSR vs slavic mythology?
This is why having bilingual people in your Culture is great. You can actually make and publish Art like this and communicate Culture and Attitudes beyond just Surface-Level "Content".
It's good in an artistic sense, but there's also logistical issues.
It's easy to be abused if you only speak one of the two national languages. Many cases in Finland where a Finnish speaking person is abused by Swedish speaking areas justice system, and vice versa. Easy examples would be Spanish speaking minorities in USA as well.
@@8xottox8 Case in point: learn at least the basics of all major local languages
@@visual7504 Knowing the basics doesn't really help you in court with all the legalese. All Finns, Finnish or Swedish speaking, are taught the other one for like 5 years in school at least.
I was a mod at GSC Game World in the Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat times. This video brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks, man.
I love Gremlins Inc, I had no idea of the history that led up to it. Thanks Warlock, fantastic video as always!
It's worth every penny for a chance to make Warlockracy laugh at a Patron name.
I used to own Warcraft 2000. And I'm from Latvia.
Blessed by Mandalore and Warlockracy uploads in the same day?
Small suggestion. GSC made some really good games like Venom, Firestarter and Hoverace and weren't only Cossacks and Stalker developers. I would also mention American Conquest and Alexander.
"The currency in Kings Bounty is the United States dollar. Makes sense, it might have as well been fictional."
Had me fucking rolling. Comedic writing on point once again.
"It appears to be this house over here."
*completely censored*
I don't know if that was a post TH-cam edit but that was funny as shit.
Never heard of Eador but Genesis’ turn based combat screen seemed really familiar. I realized it reminded me of an open source game Battle for Wesnoth. I found a Wesnoth forum post from someone claiming to have worked on Eador saying they have nothing in common but I’m not sure how convinced I am of that. The sprite attack movement and sounds feel identical but it’s been awhile since I played that game.
I KNEW I couldn't have been the only one to have seen that connection, real or not. Total Wesnoth vibes.
They probably share an engine.
As a filthy foreigner, I must admit everytime I hear the name Prokofiev my first thought is usually thinking it's Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev.
Slavjank should be listed as a steam/gog genre.
And I can't stop humming to the warcraft 2 human/orc theme music in the background of this video. Damn that game's soundtrack was good.
Fellow filthy foreigner and Classical enthusiast; I also was like "Waiment how did a classical composer develop video games?!"
as a filthy brit as far as i'm aware Sergei is a talking meerkat who helps people with their car insurance
RIP Volodymyr Anatoliyovych Yezhov.
Alternate title - "Videogames: A Machine for Slavs"
A machine for (slavs) minds
Heroes III... in Poland it's one of the Great Three: Gothic I and II, Heroes III and CS 1.6. Wonderful times to be a kiddo.
First and foremost: I caught that few seconds of Here Is The News in the background at ~15 minutes. Huzzah. Second, it's really nice to hear a game developer being humble and taking criticism and critique on board and working to improve. I wish more folks in the industry would do that. Hell, I wish more people in general would.
Third, what do you mean Heroes of Malgrimia wasn't translated into any foreign languages? It's in Russian, that's a foreign language! /american
35:04. Guys... i think Mr Walock is getting freaky...
Grim how the pig seems to have more soul in it's eyes
@@SneedFeedAndSeedmust be the make up
Freaklocracy when?
As an American, I wanna say thank you for sharing so much about a culture I really don't know much about. Really fascinating stuff, I love these videos. And I genuinely hope you're safe wherever you live.
"Извини брат, но ты проиграл" (sorry brother but you've lost) is the KB's quote i've been keeping in my mind for all those years
The ross shout-out was really cool. Thanks for doing your part!
I've played Heroes of Malgrimia 2: Defeat the Dragon, and it's both the most genius and full of potential and most undercooked game I've ever played. Main problem of its gameplay is how long it takes to get troop hiring going - you need to build up a town, then build up a castle and then wait for the town to get more population since troops are using its population, which takes like 3 in-game weeks and all that time you only have a starting army to play with. By the time you will have a decent troop production going your hero will most likely get enough experience to solo most armies. Another big flaw is that random maps are extremely random and often there are no useful buildings near your starting point, or it often places late-game units which you cannot kill near your town which can attack it.
Eador: Genesis is my favorite turn-based game, I can't think of any game of this genre which had as much depth in its mechanics. Unfortunately, Snowbirds couldn't cope with its depth and Masters of the Broken World had a disastrous release with game-breaking bugs and yeah. And yeah, visual clarity in battles is one of the main problems, it's really hard to distinguish some terrain.
7:48 I was bracing myself for a "Hey Hey, people."
A Warlockracy video on the history of Slavjank is truly a training machine for the mind.
i did my senior capstone for my Russian degree on this topic. "why is HOMM so popular in Russia". warlockracy, you pass my peer review.
Peak Warlockracy content. It has both tidbits of old rpg's from history AND tidbits about gaming and computing in the USSR
Hey Warlockracy, i dont know if you already know but a couple weeks ago, Fallout Yesterday got a big update.
heard that you can even finish main questline?
@SpecShadow yeah that's what I saw online as well, it might be interesting.
Y'know, I have been looking for the name of Heroes of Annihilated Empires for almost 20 years after I played it - only remembering the massive amounts of units, how it beat my ass, and the story line campaign with involved a time traveling tank.
Thank you for reminding me of it, and putting a name on this fever dream.
What an absolute delight to watch the history of my favorite childhood game and its follow-up series! Loved KB2 as a kid, and as a true slav, I still play HoMM3 to this day, 20+ years later.
Love the video of the pig making bubbles, and how it’s part of your lore now.
I just want to thank you for the service you do to all your viewers, but especially those in the anglophonic world who would not have learned this kind of stuff about Eastern European games and the fascinating characters that make them. You rock dude.
Ah, the old ways of buying pirated CDs from a flee market. My dad used to take me to get games in Bucharest and there was our regular CD "dealer" that used to hide his stash under a church close to the city's central square. One time, there was a police raid and he hid in the church, the priests there covered for him because they were huge enjoyers of Heroes 3.
I'm sure that was a surprisingly easy sell. "There are wizards and demons; but there's also angels that slay them and bishops that bless them."
I find it hilarious that the dev chose "Eador" as a short name that wouldn't be abbreviated... and then one game later and they immediately give it a long subtitle that will inevitably be abbreviated.
Serhiy Grigorovich even predicted the nuke used by the Horde in World of Warcraft: Mists of pandaria. Impressive
damn, my dad worked at robotron back in the days, I really need to ask him whether he was involved in those ibm compatible computers. thanks for the input, loving your videos :)
As a Kabbalah enthusiast, it's weird how often it comes up in videogames. I've come across one book outside literature about it that mentioned any Kabbalistic concept (That being Demian, and there only in passing), yet if including this video I've encountered six games off the top of my head that use some non-trivial symbolism from it.
I am not the greatest picture-enjoyer, so it might well be that Kabbalah simply is more visual rather than textual. But as something spawned from texts, it's absence is odd.
My first exposure to Kabbalah was in Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption
@@Technobabylon the first exposure you noticed
For me it is Xenogears
This unlocked such a deep memory about Eador. I spend hundreds of hours on it as a kid.
This was amazing. I felt moved and then nostalgic and started to remember my own countrys games from the 90's. Then came the part where the man died fighting for his country's freedom and the the reality hit. 15 years ago I did my military service and the only enemy the officers talked about was Russia. But then it was not real. It was just tradition. We were supposed to take the ferry to st Petersburg over the weekend to party. It was that easy back then.
Now my life is the same while a European great war is taking place on the other side of the Baltic. We live in different realities but we still share a lot. Thank you for this.
Thank you for this video! I am a Jewish RPG fan and have wanted a game that somewhat involved Kabbalah for some time.
May I interest you in a niche franchise called Shin Megami Tensei?
@@owldiamond2108 Kingdom Hearts 2 has screwed us again!
thanks warlocracy, your videos introduced me to the infinity engine games and today, i finished all of them on my mad quest to get *the big metal unit*, screenshot uploaded too steam, i got it legit (if you dont count me putting the difficulty on easy for dragon fights) and got an AC over 20 with this meme magic metal monstrosity. this flex has cost me months, perhaps years of my life. but it was worth it :)
Anyone remember HoMM clone for cell phones called Age of Heroes? There even was an online version that still works and has ~30 players online last time I checked
It was made by Qplaze, another slav dev group as far as I know. Could make for a fine video too, those were great games and moved away from HoMM very fast
Yep, I do, I've spent a fair share of sleepless nights playing this series. My favourite was a 4th installment about undead guys because it was so edgy.
@@marks.7211Good choice, I remember playing 1st and 4th the most and online version too.
It's funny that Warcraft 2000 was about Aliens invading, when later on space Aliens WOULD actually come to Warcraft (in the form of the Draenai)
Orcs and demons are aliens too.
It's always a good day to be reminded of how Slavs LOVE Heroes 3.
Dang it Warlocky, I just felt asleep watching one of your videos again. This is not because of anything remotely close to being bored, but because your narration is peculiarly soothing. Or maybe I suffer from a bit of early-old age narcolepsy. Regardless I gotta re-watch this with some coffee. Hope you tell at the end how that book you were going to write is turning, sounds super interesting
Brilliant video (as always). I've never heard that Fresh died in Bakhmut... simply tragic. So many talented and brave young men won't come back home because of this fruitless war. RIP
There’s this text adventure game called “The Wizard Sniffing Pig” which I stumbled on last year. The thumbnail reminded me of it. It’s a comedy adventure and worth the five minutes it takes to remember how text adventures work.
You provide many, many fascinating windows into the slavic gaming world that I would otherwise be entirely ignorant of. There is a series of books called "The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers" . Your videos carry that same energy of bringing to light the histories and stories of these games and developers. Thank you so, so much for this channel.
Thank you for your hard work Warlockracy!
Slav jank games are some of the absolute best ones I've played!
I remember playing Cossacks around the same time I played Corsairs, later on I got into Stalker but I never knew how deep the slavvit hole was until I saw this video. Thanks for teaching me a piece of important history!
It seems like every time I check warlockracy’s channel and think “it’s been a while since the last upload” he uploads within the next week, this is the only TH-camr I look forward to seeing new videos from
Developers, gathering their starting capital by piracy was a common theme in this part of the world. It's worth to mention Marchewka brothers (Techland), who were at the very begining distributing pirated software or Adam Chmielarz (Poeple can Fly) who were distributing cassette tapes of 8-bit games on the flea markets organized in schools or community centers. I'd love to hear the experience from other post-soviet nations.
Thanks for the videos Walockracy, great reading and funny as jokes. Keep up the good work!
My favorite upcoming authors: Nikolaj Kazimirko-Kirillov and Anastasija Berkovskaya, aka, Warlockracy!
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finally, slavic shin megami tensei
your OST choices always gives me nostalgia overload, 10/10 💯
AH man Heroes series 1,2,3 and 5 Horn of the Abyss
Every video you publish expands my brain. I feel myself becoming closer to turning slavic each second. This has been a life goal of mine since I was 3 years old
I’ve watched your videos so much that I recognized one of your patrons in a different comment section. Keep up the awesome and enlightening work.
Warlock, I gotta say, as someone who is completely uninterested in crapergs or eastern european culture, this channel has independantly awoken an interest in both topics. This video will make for absolute peak sloshed-drunk viewing
I have such a hard time to place where swedish game development was in this period because we did battlefield but also the first paradox game Svea Rike and that is pure slavjank.
Oh, hey, Kharkiv that's my city! ♥️🇺🇦
Харків'яни, збираємось! 🎉
Recreating videogames as tabletop ones is so relatable, used to do that all the time as a kid. Of course, most of them were overcomplicated and barely playable.
"enraged the orc warchief presses the red button" ... immediately interrupted with Kamala Harris political ad ... LMFAO
I am a simpe skandinivan. I see a Warlockracy video i click.
A fellow Anglo-Saksi
Mohhamed Abdul the swedish
Misplaced Skandians like me (+Goidelic +AngloSaksi mutt variety in my case) have need of a WarlockKerensky and/or AlfaBruva for morale support. Chaplain roles I suppose.
I also suppose I didn't need to identify with subarctic legacy to appreciate well grounded and well humored performances, naturlig, but it feels at least tangentially relevant for me 🍃🎋
Warlock your channel is a gem. Your storytelling fascinates me and your videos are getting better and better each time. I give this comment as an offering to the algorithm gods, may they have mercy on your soul. Thank you for the entertainement.
2:28 Mandalore spotted
I like that the music for this one was a playlist of all the classic Warlockracy bangers