2:31 the metal pipe sound...

@xxfalconarasxx5659

Ай бұрын

I mean the sound originated from Battlefield, so...

@nicoschroeder5379

Ай бұрын

yeah, thats exactly how metal pipes sounds you internet goofies.

@lolabirb

Ай бұрын

@@nicoschroeder5379it‘s the sound itsself which is being used in so many memes… you internet goofy

@yvesfromloona_real

Ай бұрын

oh no! the metal pipe.. its broken

@Nsodnoajdjksl

Ай бұрын

​@@lolabirbone thing you didn't know: This sound was used in movies and TV shows BEFORE it became a meme.

I wonder if all the protagonist can smell is just gallons and gallons of chlorine from all the pools. No wonder they are tripping out. Lack of oxygen.

@z-beeblebrox

2 ай бұрын

I wonder what scale of chlorinated pool you need before the air reaches war crime level

@BlitzMachina

2 ай бұрын

yeah, i was about to say... i can smell this video

@toahero5925

2 ай бұрын

​@z-beeblebrox On its own, chlorinated water is oderless. That smell's the byproduct from it reacting to contaminants. The pool's empty, so it might not smell that much.

@R.J.MacReady1982

2 ай бұрын

Turns out we were just the chlorine we met along the way.

@dvyd98

2 ай бұрын

salt can also be used instead in pools

I genuinely can't get enough of poolroom exploration games. The way people manage to create such a rich and vibrant atmosphere using nothing but bathroom tiles and water is astounding. No cheap scares, no "scary horror mascot", just you exploring what appears to be an infinite labyrinth. I love this so much.

@lazylaserwhittling

Ай бұрын

on the flip side, its also uncannily mentally unnerving to the point of stress triggering after several hours of watching with no conclusive escape to something conclusive

@peep9872

Ай бұрын

I love you too

@dive2drive314

Ай бұрын

You don't always need horror or monsters to chase you for a game to be creepy or scary. Just being alone in this never ending labyrinth with that atmosphere is enough..

@plateshutoverlock

Ай бұрын

This also proves that a movie or game does not need a Jason Voorhees to send someone into a state of sheer terror. =-|

@lazylaserwhittling

Ай бұрын

@@peep9872 what sucks is I have infrequent night terrors very much like this…

There are a few Poolrooms/Dream Pools inspired games now, but for me this one is easily in the top three (with DREAMCORE and Anemoiapolis). I really love the level design and it's packed full of interesting sights so it never feels repetitive. Stage three is particularly impressive, it's got some weird stuff going on! This video features four of the six planned stages for the full release (I'll cover the final two when the game releases). There are no big scares or monster chases, but there are a few uncanny occourances to creep you out.

@saschaberger3212

2 ай бұрын

The text answered all my questions. Bless you

@Dreigonix

2 ай бұрын

*Tammy is here*

@CUBETechie

2 ай бұрын

Years ago i had a special dream I was going home and in this place I go a different Route it was different and was Dark Red tiles/ bordeaux I can't describe it properly 😢 but it had water to it

WC Escher is an extremely funny pun and i don't think youre going to get enough credit for it lmao

@AlphaBetaGamer

2 ай бұрын

Haha, thanks! I didn't think anyone would notice it!

@ry4nmaster

2 ай бұрын

What's the pun

@im-here

2 ай бұрын

@@ry4nmasteri assume its because MC Escher is a well known 20th century artist, and WC means water closet, which is a small room in a bathroom that contains a toilet

@loganjelinek2226

2 ай бұрын

​@@AlphaBetaGamer I just wanna say I literally opened the comments JUST to say the same thing! I laughed out loud too. Thank you for the content!

@ry4nmaster

Ай бұрын

@@im-here makes sense

I love indie video games. I can look at an artist's weird liminal pool art and think "I want to go there," and there's a non-zero chance *someone* has made that possible.

I think the real horror would be being employed as a janitor in this place

@officecallscartoons

3 күн бұрын

It would be awful unless you're paid by the hour. 🤑

Just want to say THANK YOU for actually crediting Jared Pike’s Dream Pools. Too many people have just taken his videos and renamed them ‘poolrooms’ without crediting him. So thank you for actually mentioning him.

@_Iscream

Ай бұрын

@@SushieeSlushy Obviously, you cared enough to comment. So you’re contradicting yourself.

@velsni

Ай бұрын

Jared Pike himself was inspired by two real life private pools, one in south France and one in Italy (look for Roccolo pool)

@_Iscream

Ай бұрын

@@velsni will have to look it up, that sounds amazing

@jin_cotl

Ай бұрын

For reall

Developers talk about how important sound is and the visuel aspects. I would love for us to hear water drip and see the floor get wet, when you we have been in the pool and start walking around. It's small things like that that increases immersion. Not to mention being able to see your own legs at least.

@tensori-ltd

Ай бұрын

On it!

@tensori-ltd

Ай бұрын

To clarify legs will be done later on, won't be done on release. it's on my notes, but it's a bit difficult to do / time consuming. Flat ground is easy but ladders and stairs are challenging. The water sounds and wet floor on the other hand we are doing at the moment. these will be in the release

@UnofficialAstronaut-ul7zh

29 күн бұрын

⁠@@tensori-ltdI’m late for the train but, whatever, just wanted to share some perspective if you don’t mind. While it is true that things like floor getting wet might increase immersion, for me personally, I’d loose some of the “liminal space” vibe from that. As the place feels untouched and unbothered by the human presence, and the fact that we can not affect it as it lives by its own rules kind of creeps me out. Anyway, wish you good luck, the game is great.

@tensori-ltd

29 күн бұрын

​@@UnofficialAstronaut-ul7zh thanks for your perspective! In our opinion liminal spaces can be touched. I think this is quite common perception as in many Backrooms videos / games there are notes on the walls, blood etc. We don't have those things - very limited symbols on the walls - but still in our perspective liminal spaces is more about the weird architecture / how I got here? type of thing - and actually physically being there. Player can move water, etc. I think it comes down if you think about backrooms/liminal spaces as "noclipped out of reality" vs "dream". We think more in terms of actually being there

@Pelladhros

28 күн бұрын

I think being barefoot would've sounded a lot better and more immersive, and player shivering/dripping when they first get out of water

I could seriously play a ton of these games in a row and still find them interesting. I love simply roaming inside a liminal space. The game just has to look good and sound good. Love the atmosphere so much. Somewhat unnerving, but mostly just relaxing to me.

The rubber ducks mouth been open inspires inexplicable dread in me. Would be a perfectly cute design if its mouth was closed. So Kudos to the developers.

With the haziness and how reflective the walls are in the first few rooms, I feel like the humidity is crazy high, like in a sauna, it actually made me feel kind of stuffy and uncomfortable. Impressive atmosphere/realism.

Finally a game where you can ride the slides. Take notes devs.

i love the little nod to Funny Games, where you jumped and the game was like "nope, you're not allowed to do that, try again"

what poolishness is this

@realMrVent

25 күн бұрын

Outrageous tompoolery

Even if the sounds of the player walking in shallow water are like he’s goosestepping, there’s a real weight to the movement and sounds when you’re wading and swimming. It’s eerily dreamlike.

30:38 just, you know, casually ignoring all laws of physics and start walking on a wall. My god this is incredible!

@AlphaBetaGamer

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I love that area! The dev says there's going to be more of that stuff in the final game. :)

@Buzzkilljoy1248

Ай бұрын

Forget that, did you see that straight up safety violation at 19:05!? I mean, there's a nice laundry list of them littered throughout the facility, but this one...? Just ouch...

I love the pool rooms. Beautiful and creepy af. Being concerned about something attacking me is scary but it's far less fun for me when it's a real encounter. I have ptsd and it's no longer fun at that point. This kind of game is cathartic in a way where I get to feel creeped out but stay in control. It's beautifully designed and keeps me curious. Thank you for playing this for us! I don't have any way to play games but I get to have an experience of them.

@AiwaLover

Ай бұрын

Ptsd?

@FaiaHalo

20 күн бұрын

​@@AiwaLover post-traumatic stress disorder

@FaiaHalo

20 күн бұрын

I feel the same way!! So I'm so happy you managed to described it so well!

Wow... that's a lot of ceramic tiles!

@IslamcomesfromHell

Ай бұрын

Bathroom tiles

2:31 Why tf did I laughed so hard at that... I need to get myself checked soon

@arielaspera9588

Ай бұрын

Bling bong JAJAJA

The sound of the footsteps is bugging me. It should be like "splish splash splosh" because of the water in their shoes. And it doesn't sound like they're barefoot either. I can't stop thinking about that. Cool game tho.

@tensori-ltd

Ай бұрын

Great idea. wet shoes, that's it!

@SteamWolf320

Ай бұрын

That’s EXACTLY what the game needs! I actually commented about how it sounds like you’re wearing dry shoes just a second ago. It’s should’ve held my tongue lol.

@tensori-ltd

Ай бұрын

@@SteamWolf320 no worries, it's cool, the more people comment about certain things the more we know it's important. 😃 Indeed, I'm currently adding wet shoe sounds after water. In addition, water dripping sounds from clothes and small puddles will be left on the ground after exiting a pool. BR. Antti

@FuelAirSparkTime

Ай бұрын

The goddamn mouth breathing noises were almost as bad

32:05 Go ahead, take a spooky dookie.

2:31 GOD DAMMIT LMAO

the attention to detail in this game is unreal, i've watched pretty much every dreampools-esque game out there (because i find the setting intensely soothing and satisfying in a very specific way) and this is one of my favorites simply due to the amount of possible object interactions (being able to sit in the chairs, the camera lens dripping in the sauna, the slides!!!) -- there's so many little details that make this game incredible!!!

Very pretty. If I had to make one suggestion it's on the footsteps. Since there is a clear heel and toe sound , with the echo you get four noises per footstep. I think it would be better if there were some variation in how it sounds when a foot strikes the ground, otherwise it can distract a bit from the immersion.

@tensori-ltd

Ай бұрын

Thanks, I agree. this is a bit difficult to fix but it's bothering me too, we'll try to fix it before release

24:12 imagine taking a dump in that, your stuff just floats back out and will probably accompany you til you get out of the pool. The game is like Portal, you're all alone in a gigantic structure.

@DGneoseeker1

13 күн бұрын

I see this toilet as a means of plausible deniability for that asshole who wants to shit in the pool.

I like how the Pool rooms/Dream pools has become it's own side thing alongside the the main backgrounds stuff. It's one of the very few outside of level 0 that has a cult following thanks to Jared Pike. Would love to see someone focus on Level 94 or any other weirdcore level because those make me feel especially unnerved.

@binsoku6

Ай бұрын

Agreed! We need to try to get vintage malls as the next stand-alone

@StyleshStorm

Ай бұрын

@@binsoku6 that's another one too! Especially those with arcades built in.

18:50 Bobbert's ooooweeeee! moment, so happy at the end lol

I am continuously impressed with how much realism video game graphics have become indistinguishable from real life.

@andresmorera6426

2 ай бұрын

It's just missing the light reflecting off the water onto the walls. I wonder if it is a technical, engine, or hardware limitation. Other than that, this is insanely realistic.

@KimStennabbCaesar

2 ай бұрын

@@andresmorera6426 Caustics is one of the heaviest things to simulate, for obvious reasons.

@andresmorera6426

2 ай бұрын

@@KimStennabbCaesar not obvious to me, at least. I have no idea how much work and hardware capacity different potential solutions to this would take (let alone what those solutions might be and their pros/cons). I am curious about this.

@morkgin2459

2 ай бұрын

​@@andresmorera6426Still 75℅ realistic

@BumboLooks

Ай бұрын

It's perfectly distinguishable from real life though lol. Unless you're partially blind or something. Seriously, what a silly thing to say.

I love it I had dreams of being lost in a recreational facility (with pools) for years minor suggestion: when you get out of deeper water there should be dripping noises - to add immersion

@tensori-ltd

2 ай бұрын

thanks for the suggestion. it's great idea, we will do it.

Does anyone else get very weird nostalgic feelings from watching this playthough? It's like it makes me vaugely remember what its like to go to an indoor pool/bathhouse/waterpark when i were 4-5 years old. Tiling everywhere, one large liminal space. You rely entirely on your guardian while youre there visiting, and when you're that age places like it feel absolutely enormous as maze like. It's the age when gerting lost in a bathhouse and not seeing another person at the end of the corridor is enough to make you feel scared and unsure about where you are.

Can anyone else relate to the smell of fresh frenchfries at indoor swimming pools?

@broavonyl5997

2 ай бұрын

Not the smell specifically, but just the whole fries at an indoor swimming pool experience. When you've exhausted a lot of energy by swimming and screwing around in the water. And while you're still having fun, you notice your energy levels are beginning to drop. And then the thought of food enters your mind. And then you remember the french fries. You gotta gettem. Still partially wet, a little bit cold with a towel draped over your back and shoulders. Eating those delicious warm fries amidst the deafening sound rushing water and echoing voices. Good stuff👌

@grimgrahamch.4157

2 ай бұрын

Nope. Just chlorine.

@jen-lnicole2043

2 ай бұрын

Nope. Not all all.. wtf?

@RIPToNateDoggIHadToRegulate

Ай бұрын

No just you

These kind of games always gives a feel: This place seems like build by humans, BUT NOT FOR HUMANS! Or vice versa.

This is creepy and beautiful at the same time. And graphics are amazing. The water effects are incredible.

I couldn't relax for a second of the rest of the video after the scene with the giant rubber ducky and the hands on the ladder

@user-lx3th5on8l

Ай бұрын

I think Ernie's rubber ducky is stalking him

Funny that this popped upright when I was looking for more poolrooms content lol Can't wait to see the full release! I like that this one dips a little into weirdcore

this entire game looks like a hyper realistic tech demo for realtime light reflect and refreaction, in combination with water physics - the fact this game was aalready use to fake "lost places" is basically jsut calrifying how good it looks ...... and the uncannyness of very unrealistic things happening in a seemingly realsiticly physics bound space - is very very unsettleing - and i jsut watched the experience being played

Thank you for playing 🙏

@grimgrahamch.4157

2 ай бұрын

Was that metal pipe sound chosen for the memes?

@AlphaBetaGamer

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Love the game. You've done a fantastic job creating interesting environments to explore. The Escher style gravity bending stuff in the third stage was especially cool! :)

@tensori-ltd

2 ай бұрын

​@@AlphaBetaGamer thank you, means a lot to us. We plan to add more of that in later chapters! I watched the whole 45min gameplay yesterday and was very pleased to see that you noticed a lot of the details and seemed to appreciate them. I also appreciate how you cut the scene transitions, showing chapters like this shows our intention of one ending where the next one begins perfectly. We could further improve this by making the transitions more seamless, for example chapter 3 could begin mid-slide. Another thing we can definitely improve on is to add more feeling of exploration / meaningful choices. Now when I watched the game it does indeed feel kind of linear. Anyway, I'll continue to work. Thanks again for playing !

@tensori-ltd

Ай бұрын

@@grimgrahamch.4157 spicy memes

@ray12a

Ай бұрын

@@tensori-ltdmy brother, there isn’t anything linear about the environment or progression. your set design is so masterful and suggestive that the user is naturally guided through all the chambers. i think alpha had to rewind three to five times, which is a nice touch, but also encourages one to take the darker path with more bravery. i enjoyed watching this while eating dinner.

This is heaven for me. I’d love to be able to explore endless rooms like this.

Take away otherworldly horrors and I'd loooove to chill in a surreal pool like that with all those comfy spots.

The poolrooms have never looked so good. This is fantastic! 👍🏻

This was very interesting. Refreshing to see devs think outside the box. Thanks for sharing.

Never thought that something like this is a shared experience. I'm glad I found out and the game really gets it pretty well. Amazing

Simply love the out the layouts of the rooms. Especially liked the lighting at 34:30 and all the dark areas following on after.

I watch this before I go to sleep and I have amazing dreams.

This is what happens when Ikea designs a spa.

The pain is sliding through the pipes...without water in them.

Nope-nope-nope-nope-nope... "...with usable water slides !" *Damn, I'm SO IN !!! Let's break some necks, woo-hoo !!!*

I can never get enough of poolrooms liminal space games

Damn I wasn't worried about running this game at 4K but it brought my 3080 to it's knees.. had to bring lighting down to medium. At 2:30, when i played, the ladder got pulled up into the hole before i could get to it...

Thank you for playing ❤

Respect to whoever did the tiling for this place.

There are 4 playable stages now? Damn I need to catch up. Only played the first one. This game's visuals and audio completely blew me away! So close to realism! Love it 🙏🏻

Very cool, but hopefully the final version uses a different sound for the footsteps - sounds like I'm walking around in dress shoes. Something more like bare feet on wet tile might be a little more evocative

Finally, a game that has somewhat realistic water motion when the player character is walking through it. It's not perfect, but I really liked the effect of looking behind you and seeing your wake or getting up close to the duck and your ripples making it move. Awesome details throughout, too.

Ok finished watching this. The creator of this not only captured the eerie calm nostalgia of the original but also took it a step further by adding a presence of something is actually there near the end but nothing actually moves with the Giant unknown humanoid statues. It's almost as if this version of the Dreampools is... Alive.

I love the color of water, that extremely dark green/blue. It reminds me when I was a very small child and my Mom would take me to the big swimming pool at the YMCA; one day I guess they were cleaning the pool because it was mostly drained except for a pool of dark green water far down at the bottom of the deep end.

We need more games like this. ❤ looks amazing

23:11 Damn there's even a sauna?! Up to this point with all the dipping in and out of pools I was thinking the player character must be freezing at this point, but nah it's fine just hike to the sauna zone

Great looking graphics infinate rooms love the different rooms layouts

This game puts me the sleep the way those asmr videos do Oh to be dreaming in the pools forever

I absolutely adore poolrooms games

I shrieked and gurgled like an idiot seeing this is finally out and you played it just as quick

@Azuria969

Ай бұрын

please stay silent

@ChuckNorrizHIM

Ай бұрын

@@Azuria969 Hell is the choir. Heaven is the audience

This is terrifying to me.

This is amazing. The atmosphere is incredible, and I really appreciate the effort that’s gone into the sound.

@FuelAirSparkTime

Ай бұрын

You mean that godawful clomping in the floor or the constant mouth breathing noises

This is just as good as Into The Hyperverse liminal videos!

14:12 like this huge hall and the Sound of blowing Wind ( but where can it come from?

18:48 19:06 what a satisfying moment this is, I felt the sheer excitement you felt when going down the slide with that cute dancing you did😂🤗 awesome work bro keep it up🙏💯

BATHROOM TILE SIMULATOR

Some really haunting imagery. What Indie game-making is all about: going down your own rabbit hole, and letting others come with you.

Cool another great recommendation, gonna check out the demo.

This is very spooky!

This is One of first Best non-Backrooms games I ever Saw. Usually Backrooms poolrooms are Just noob style Infinite Map sitting in the heavenly Void-Out of Bounds and it Looks extremely simplistic just like other maps in The Virtual Realm and interior and outdoor structure of the maps makes no sense. non-Backrooms poolrooms are much more natural paradise Dreamworld nostalgia looking and the underground structure makes some sense.😊

best ASMR of water and steps ❤

This makes me so anxious

Played this today and I loved it. Very strange experience

Fun fact... its not chlorine you smell in the pool.. its Chloramines, When chorine mixes with tears sweat and urine it produces that iconic chlorine smell. (Also its what makes your eyes burn) So the more potent the smell doesn't mean more chlorine., just meant that someone or lots of someones just decided to pee in the pool. So in this case in this liminal space if few people have been in these pools the place would be quite devoid of chlorine odor.

Stop going down slides that lead into walls! 32:02 And tell that guy up there to quit staring at the guy on the toilet! It looks like he's already got enough on his mind without some peeper watching him on the commode!

I live in a small apartment, my bathtub is 4 1/2 feet long and I'm 6'2". The sheer luxury of just laying down in a single hallway full of warm water, all stretched out, free from other adults, or even worse, KIDS.... It's just too relaxing. It might be worth getting killed by demons for just a few hours in that. I'd happily haunt that place FOREVER! They'd need the Ghostbusters to get me out!

The falling metal pipe sound effect 😌👌🏻

30:21 Look at the water at a different gravity (like going through another dimension). Parts like this are what make the backrooms interesting.

That 100% left/right/left/right channel footsteps sounds are hard to ignore

the panning on the footsteps has me feeling the immersion of the mc's wiiiiiiide feet

This is amazing! Also pretty scary, reminds me of nightmares. When you came to that big, black hole with the diving board, I felt really uncomfortable just looking at it. And when you jumped in, I sat back in my sofa, freaking out, lol. 😅 Those noises are really creepy, reminds me a bit of Titanic, when she sinks. The water didn't help matters, though they are pools. Those areas where you were swimming in the dark corridors, made me think "this is something I would never dare to do". I'm terrified of the dark, and dark water, and dark, big holes where you can't see what's in the darkness. The thought alone is terrifying in my opinion. And that giant rubber duck that suddenly showed up around the corner, oh, my gosh! I felt silly afterwards, gasping in horror for a rubber duck, though it was abnormally large, and that sound that came with it was horrifying. 😅 These developers has pressed all of my terror buttons, kudos to them for that! 🤩👍 I love it when gameplays are scary enough to actually scare me. Thank you for uploading your gameplay, Alpha! You are tough to play this scary horror game. I'm not sure it's a game I could play, but I love to watch your gameplay. 🙂

My anxiety is on overload. Something about a infinite amount of pools and murky water is super unsettling but I’ll still watch 😅

I would love a full back rooms game like this where it randomly generates more rooms to explore and has different stages ones you find certain main doors like pool rooms and parking lot play rooms hotel hall ways and arcade rooms with neon lights and machines and zoo/aquariums with different jump scars and puzzles to unlock some door ways you could toggle off monsters at the title so if you just want to explore but add a survival mode where you get a weapon and can find food and almond water for health and flash light batteries to scare off some creatures but the bigger ones you can find bat or hammers ect.

The swimming sfx are great but could really use some dripping for a few seconds after player exits water Also the footsteps alternating stereo channels is weird. The 3d environmental sound spacialization processing seems good though. Very cool.

2:31 Loud metal pipe sfx

I like the fact u can slide down and i was ready for a jump scare 😂

I want to experience this in VR. Please make a Quest 3 version.

Heh... "WC Escher", I get it.

32:03 This is me in the morning having diarrhea

As someone who used to swim competitively ive been to a lot of pools and this is oddly nostalgic yet horrifying. It reminds me of when Id visit a new pool so I didn't know the layout of the building and it would feel erie being the last person to leave.

This looks SO DARN COOL!! Especially the 30:00 mark onwards! I want to play this immediately.

THE HANDS IN THE LADDER OMGG

Kind of gave me water temple vibes (from Zelda Ocarina of Time).

I LOVE THIS GAME

I hope there are moments when you have to escape from the place because water levels begin to increase, to have that kind of tension that the first Sonic games had.

Damn I need more liminal games in my life.

2:31 I cannot take that sound seriously any longer