It’s endearing how the more terrified Layna gets, the more pronounced her Kiwi accent becomes. Normally it’s barely-if at all-noticeable, but this game really helped bringing out the “Oh naur!”
@@NSFWTHICC idk entirely how long she'll be there, but she's said that she's ran into only a handful of Americans in years, so I think it's safe to say the accent has rubbed off on her -even if she denies it- and I think she said she has or had a partner who is kiwi? That part I may be misremembering. But there's plenty of ways for her to adopt the accent lol
I was feeling only a tiny bit tense for the first 40ish minutes of the video, then when she arrived at the shopping mall…dear god Rolling Giant has forever made empty shopping malls wholly terrifying for me.
I love good horror walking sims because we get to see just how many ways Layna will scare the shit out of herself in anticipation of actually getting scared.
games that don't have actual jumpscares are the shit, the entire playthrough you're just scaring yourself cause you *do* expect something but nothing actually happens
omg I just got into Layna's videos recently (besides seeing her in other vtuber collabs) and she's been super awesome! also whoever she has edit her videos is super under appreciated the edits on this video a one or two others I saw is incredible, I really enjoy this!
Well, this is an interesting walking sim. If this place had maps, signs, power outlets, and less random nocliping. I would genuinely like to explore this place, maybe even live in it.
Yoo this genuinely looks amazing! Those standing up animations alone excited me more than full AAA games from the last few years. EDIT : I looked up a the dev and apparently it's a 17yo solo dev.. My mind is blown.
The backrooms started by a 4chan post back in 2019 by an anonymous poster, kane pixels just gave everyone a better visualization what the backrooms could look like
Gotta love people trying to diminish the aesthetic accomplishment of a game because it's tech that already exists. Like duh man, it's still incredible. And this is still the first indie game I've seen to really hammer in on it this effectively. Has a more put together look and feel than most while being nothing but empty rooms, other backrooms games don't achieve this at all.
What kind of zoomer ass comment is this? Doing the IRL head tilt isn't an age thing, it's an invested thing. If people are into what they're playing they mimic the actions they're doing in game. Tilt a controller when flying or driving in games, tip your head when trying to peek around a corner, tense your shoulders when your making a tough shot? All the same thing. Just being invested.
Pretty sure the graphics are comparatively simple... just PBR materials applied to relatively basic geometry - like... most is just various cuboids. The rest is mainly the lighting (or rather, the lack thereof) as well as the visual effects. The deliberately fuzzy, lo-fi look just hides a lot of the stuff that would otherwise make your brain tag it as fake-looking, while also make it imagine detail where there technically is none (our brains are so hyper-specialized into finding patterns that we see patterns in actual complete randomness... example: (o. o )... you are probably interpreting a face into that string of symbols...) It doesn't completely fool the brain, of course (you can still see some telltale signs, mainly in the movement) but it does a lot of the heavy lifting. ...for anyone not knowing that: PBR stands for "Physically Based Rendering"... which, oversimplified, means that any material will generally have a number of parameters, often driven by textures (which, for the most part, are interpreted by the program as a matrix of vectors, in case you want to know) which correspond to mathematical expressions of real world physics of how light interacts with a material. Different shaders offer different specific parameters or might name things slightly differently, and there is still an art to creating a good looking material, but they are all based around real-world data, so, if you use correct values, and enough variation, it is actually surprisingly easy to make photorealistic surfaces... you basically just tell the computer what a thing is made out of, and the computer more or less does the rest for you. PBR used to be sole domain of non-realtime CG because it used to be way too expensive regarding calculation time but... well, that also used to be true for even the most basic ray-tracing not too long ago. ...as for Kane Pixels's Backrooms: that is almost certainly how that was made, as Blender literally defaults to that workflow - the basic Principled BSDF (aka. the default shader any new material is loaded with) is set up for that... Also, possibly with just an old VCR for aftereffects? Or maybe just some video-editing filters, as they have gotten quite good. The impressive thing really is less the graphics, and more just the sheer amount of work, especially in regards to animation. Animation is pain. Just in general.b That being said: don't get me wrong, not trying to downtalk what Kane did... impressive damn work, especially from a, at the time, 16 year old teen.
idk, all the "games" I've seen made with UE5 are all just like, "here's some footage of super realistic graphics but through a grainy camcorder or go pro". Having grown up with VHS tapes, I'm not impressed. Also, did the editor take out all the actual scares and left in all the times she scared herself or got spooked by her pet?
@Ghostifur That's actually kind of funny. Based on how she kept screaming out of nowhere and seemed so on edge, I thought you were gaslighting us as a bit.
It’s endearing how the more terrified Layna gets, the more pronounced her Kiwi accent becomes.
Normally it’s barely-if at all-noticeable, but this game really helped bringing out the “Oh naur!”
She is originally from Texas in the United States, you may already know this if so I apologise.
@@iainmacaulay8081 I actually didn’t, so thanks for edumacating me!
As a New Zealander this is news to me! I assume she's just staying here in NZ then? If so I hope she's enjoying herself!
@@NSFWTHICC idk entirely how long she'll be there, but she's said that she's ran into only a handful of Americans in years, so I think it's safe to say the accent has rubbed off on her -even if she denies it-
and I think she said she has or had a partner who is kiwi? That part I may be misremembering. But there's plenty of ways for her to adopt the accent lol
@@drakevoidwalker Live long enough in any place and you'll eventually develop the local accent.
I was feeling only a tiny bit tense for the first 40ish minutes of the video, then when she arrived at the shopping mall…dear god Rolling Giant has forever made empty shopping malls wholly terrifying for me.
28:45 A game like this in VR would be dangerous. Your body can only shit itself so hard before organs start getting damaged.
If your game can trick itself into believing this is real to that point, you really need to go to therapy or get on meds.
I love good horror walking sims because we get to see just how many ways Layna will scare the shit out of herself in anticipation of actually getting scared.
games that don't have actual jumpscares are the shit, the entire playthrough you're just scaring yourself cause you *do* expect something but nothing actually happens
Sorry miss, only employees are allowed back here
😊😊
1:01 Really does look like a found footage pov. Props to the developer.
Im watching at night with lights out and my roommate just suddenly snorred so loudly i almost pissed myself
omg I just got into Layna's videos recently (besides seeing her in other vtuber collabs) and she's been super awesome! also whoever she has edit her videos is super under appreciated the edits on this video a one or two others I saw is incredible, I really enjoy this!
Well, this is an interesting walking sim.
If this place had maps, signs, power outlets, and less random nocliping. I would genuinely like to explore this place, maybe even live in it.
Yoo this genuinely looks amazing!
Those standing up animations alone excited me more than full AAA games from the last few years.
EDIT : I looked up a the dev and apparently it's a 17yo solo dev.. My mind is blown.
23:23 if you listen closely, you can hear Filian charging up a "deez nuts" joke as Layna tries not to say "balls"
Dear god the Signalis bit made my heart sink for a sec... That game, man...
ACHTUNG
It gave me the same feeling that you get when you hear your alarm clock during the day
3:50 caught me way off guard
An ad freaking jump scared me when I was watching 💀
this game is so wild how they got this "real" look
30:22 Scrungle is way better
8:06 wierd i have the exact same chair
So you are the same Layna Lazar I used to watch some years ago!!
Hi 😊
The backrooms started by a 4chan post back in 2019 by an anonymous poster, kane pixels just gave everyone a better visualization what the backrooms could look like
She's the ideal haunted house partner
I love how amazed Layna is at the graphics, it's just software ray tracing, but she is so amazed.
Gotta love people trying to diminish the aesthetic accomplishment of a game because it's tech that already exists. Like duh man, it's still incredible. And this is still the first indie game I've seen to really hammer in on it this effectively. Has a more put together look and feel than most while being nothing but empty rooms, other backrooms games don't achieve this at all.
@@JimJamTalksalmost a year later and this game still looks better than 50000 other ones that have came out
I played this on VR and now u played it 😮
I was fucking scared too
This was awsome lets gooooooooooo
SIGNALIS MENTIONED RAHHHHHHHH
When Markiplier came to the water level he went through a long, long half-submerged tunnel. I hated it. Claustrophobia's a bitch.
Hai Layna 🖤🖤🖤
You act n sound prefect, how have you not been wifed up?!?! 💕❤💞
Il like how she try to peak her head around corners irl but she play a video game.... you can feel her age XD
What kind of zoomer ass comment is this? Doing the IRL head tilt isn't an age thing, it's an invested thing. If people are into what they're playing they mimic the actions they're doing in game. Tilt a controller when flying or driving in games, tip your head when trying to peek around a corner, tense your shoulders when your making a tough shot? All the same thing. Just being invested.
I'm only 20 and I do that lol when I get invested enough at least
What that tall thing following her?
Wife you now? I mean I wouldn't mind. the song fine by me from Andy Grammer is perfect for the situation. E
What’s good layna have you still found my Pokémon cards by now 😐
Also this game was made by 1 single person. Isar Leo
Interesting game but the people sould like they are covering there mouths when they talk.
Pretty sure the graphics are comparatively simple... just PBR materials applied to relatively basic geometry - like... most is just various cuboids. The rest is mainly the lighting (or rather, the lack thereof) as well as the visual effects. The deliberately fuzzy, lo-fi look just hides a lot of the stuff that would otherwise make your brain tag it as fake-looking, while also make it imagine detail where there technically is none (our brains are so hyper-specialized into finding patterns that we see patterns in actual complete randomness... example: (o. o )... you are probably interpreting a face into that string of symbols...)
It doesn't completely fool the brain, of course (you can still see some telltale signs, mainly in the movement) but it does a lot of the heavy lifting.
...for anyone not knowing that: PBR stands for "Physically Based Rendering"... which, oversimplified, means that any material will generally have a number of parameters, often driven by textures (which, for the most part, are interpreted by the program as a matrix of vectors, in case you want to know) which correspond to mathematical expressions of real world physics of how light interacts with a material.
Different shaders offer different specific parameters or might name things slightly differently, and there is still an art to creating a good looking material, but they are all based around real-world data, so, if you use correct values, and enough variation, it is actually surprisingly easy to make photorealistic surfaces... you basically just tell the computer what a thing is made out of, and the computer more or less does the rest for you.
PBR used to be sole domain of non-realtime CG because it used to be way too expensive regarding calculation time but... well, that also used to be true for even the most basic ray-tracing not too long ago.
...as for Kane Pixels's Backrooms: that is almost certainly how that was made, as Blender literally defaults to that workflow - the basic Principled BSDF (aka. the default shader any new material is loaded with) is set up for that... Also, possibly with just an old VCR for aftereffects? Or maybe just some video-editing filters, as they have gotten quite good. The impressive thing really is less the graphics, and more just the sheer amount of work, especially in regards to animation. Animation is pain. Just in general.b
That being said: don't get me wrong, not trying to downtalk what Kane did... impressive damn work, especially from a, at the time, 16 year old teen.
Great stream.....on twitch.....clip it pls
Wow, that new house design you got is pretty nice. I would like a map though so i can find the bathroom. 🤪
idk, all the "games" I've seen made with UE5 are all just like, "here's some footage of super realistic graphics but through a grainy camcorder or go pro". Having grown up with VHS tapes, I'm not impressed. Also, did the editor take out all the actual scares and left in all the times she scared herself or got spooked by her pet?
No, genuinely I added as much as I could to make it seem spooky. The only spooks were with the tall man
@Ghostifur That's actually kind of funny. Based on how she kept screaming out of nowhere and seemed so on edge, I thought you were gaslighting us as a bit.
"YaBoiDingus" i dont need more to say
ngl, me as a northern swedish person would wife u up one hundred percent, buuut... im kindof a mess in my head so i rather be alone :3
Also i'm the one watching you in the dark corners :D