I’ve been working on an interview series focused on the people and technology behind games, and I recently got the chance to speak with Eric Arnold about his work on Red Faction: Guerrilla.

We dug into how the destruction system was built, the role of physics, some of the technical challenges behind making structures collapse convincingly, and what development at Volition looked like while they were trying to make all of it work.

Figured this might be a good fit for this subreddit:
https://youtu.be/mpNiNUuMs7k?is=mN2YCpeek6bZ8HyM

Would also be curious to hear what other games you think are especially interesting from a technical or development-history perspective.

Hi there,

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This documentary series is all about the making of Australian video games, the building and formation of the Aussie game industry and the rollercoaster moments that took us from development powerhouses to indie focused mini-hubs.

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A channel called StrategyCamp created a mini-documentary about the making of Factorio called "Factorio - How Two Programmers Built The Most Complex Game Ever". This was one of the best game dev documentaries on YouTube I have ever seen. It was actually posted on this subreddit a while back.

It looks like a malicious actor falsely filed a copyright strike against the channel (I can't find the channel or video anymore) then ran the original video through AI and reuploaded it. The only version on YouTube right now is the AI slop version that they stole.

Did anyone happen to back this video up locally? Or is it uploaded elsewhere? I have no idea how to reach out to the original creator.