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[EARLY ACCESS] The Remarkable Legacy of DMA Design (Patreon)

Published:
2021-12-24 14:01:02
Edited:
2021-12-28 22:45:39
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2026-06
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UNLISTED YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz0znfP6New 

Wowwwww. This was a lot of work. Hah!

Greatest Hits is fast becoming my favorite thing to do at Noclip and despite the amount of blood, sweat and tears required this one was a lot of fun to put together. This doc is around 70 minutes long and covers about 15 years of development at DMA Design. We talk about the early days, the rise of Lemmings, the back and forth over Body Harvest, the creation of Grand Theft Auto, the design of Grand Theft Auto 2, the many cancelled games and oddities that made it out - and we maybe even got some chat about Grand Theft Auto III in there. It's a beast, and while this is a 99% cut - it's coming in hot.

I've had a stressful few weeks with some real life stuff I've had to take time to manage so I'm putting this up for early access to get a temperature read from you folks before I take a final look myself. It could well be fine, but I suspect I may re-do some VO if I think it's need it after a little break. So please enjoy the (practically) finished doc and let me know all the feedback you have. I want to make sure this is as entertaining and accurate as possible.

I'll have a big address ready for all on Patrons on Christmas Day so keep an eye out for that too.

Danny

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[EARLY ACCESS] The Remarkable Legacy of DMA Design | Noclip Greatest Hits

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Comments

Mark Craven

Wrapping Christmas gifts has become even more challenging. Merry Christmas.

Alxa

Wow that was long, but so good. I played Lemmings back in the 90s. Remember seeing GTA at college and getting a laugh about it but I thought the game was stupid. Clearly plenty of other folks loved it. Still a fascinating story of how they got from lemmings to GTA.

Rob Brammeld

Great Christmas present from you guys. Sure beats the crap on terrestrial telly this afternoon in the UK.

David Kidger

Great to get this as a pre-Christmas treat. Have a well earned rest and all the best for the festive period for you and the team Danny - stay safe and well 🎅🎉

Stuart Turpie

Thanks so much for dropping this on Christmas Eve. Hope you and the family have a great Christmas Danny, and same to the rest of the team.

Benjamin Broughton

This will really top off my Christmas Day! Thanks Danny & Co. I've had the GTA2 theme stuck in my head since the trailer dropped.

George Tzircotis

Really enjoyed this, loved the insight into DMA! I visited Dundee a few times for work a long time ago, and only found out the DMA story much later… Maybe I’ll make it back again some time. One small typo in the credits in case you haven’t picked it up: “Editied”. Thanks for another great year of Noclip - Merry Christmas and look forward to 2022!

/noclip

Thanks for the heads up!

Riccardo Margiotta

Hope I'm not too late here, a bit of a weird colour transition at 1:02:18?

Riccardo Margiotta

Damn, that wound up being more epic than expected, it's fantastic that Greatest Hits can take these interesting turns. Loved the wee anecdote about why the police cars were so aggressive, that came right back to me as soon as I saw it.

Björn Blankenheim

Once again a really great documentary with an interesting and inspiring ending. I remember reading about the first game development degree at the university of dundee and wanting to be there. Only then, other universities in europe followed up. Amazing! Thank you very much for the opportunity to give some feedback! Here are some notes... I'm not so sure about your intro-gag: "it's the only reason any of you watch this show anyway". First: it's not true; and second: these inside jokes tend to not age well. (reminds me of the double-"starting to feel sorry for rollercoaster-tycoon-fans"-line in the rct doc.) It may work better with a simple cut after "roll the intro" ... even without your voice going down. Some people seem to find the animated backgrounds irritating; it may be helpful to slow them down, instead of making them darker. I really love the Moneyball-"it's a process"-inspired music in the early gta-1-part; Megan Carnes again? Right now, it is unclear who's to credit for what piece of music; maybe a info top right for an in-game-music-track would be helpful; the rest in the end credits. I hope we'll get a noclip Greatest Hits Soundtrack one day. I really love the fact that GTA III came out of the Space Station Silicon Valley team; it doesn't get more british than this. The Transition to the Obbe Vermeij interview is very entertaining, but obviously the cluttered screen isn't what you're going for, right? And finally... my name is missing in the credits. So I guess it's the wrong list of patrons without the production team tier. Merry Christmas!

/noclip

Appreciate the feedback and thanks I’ll replace the credits!!

Björn Vahle

"The intro is the only reason any of you watch this show anyway." 😆😆😆 You couldn't be more wrong AND right at the same time.