tomchick
2910
They claim they won’t go 1.0 for another six months to a year (i.e. a year), but it reads to me like the sort of thing that’s nearly done:
That’s going to take a year? Or are they just soft-pedaling what’s yet to be done?
-Tom
Depending on the size of the team–and it wouldn’t have to be a tiny team–that stuff could easily take a year to get release-ready.
From what I get of the EA blurb, it is that the game is fully implemented, mechanics wise: nothing will probably change, but that they will be adding story and events blurbs — and those are the real meat of the game. In other words, wait for release, Mr. Chick!
To put things in perspective: they want to implement six campaign storylines, and it seems only two are playable right now.
This was released yesterday and it’s great. I suppose if you were lacking imagination you might call it a “walking simulator with animals” but it’s really all about the joy of racing through wide meadows as a wolf setting off clouds of puffballs. It looks like a fairy tale, the music is great, and there’s plenty of hidden stuff to discover if you want to slow things down a bit. But really, it’s all about the sheer joy of running, scurry, flying or swimming. Also features easily the cutest wombats.
kerzain
2915
In 2028, they surfaced. They claimed to be the ancient alien progenitors of the human race. They rode in on a Trojan Horse of advanced knowledge and a peaceful World Government. They were, to all who believed, the Saviors of the Earth and all mankind. The truth was that these tentacled abominations came from the bottomless depths of The Sea, chained up for thousands of years, and unshackled in these final days.
They promised a new age of enlightenment and directed evolution, if only one accepted their authority and took their Mark.
Ah man, spooky Mark of the Beast stuff.
It’s fantastic, I streamed it today.
Bobtree
2917
Xenoform has a demo (with a short timer, maybe 5m per run, buy your upgrades before takeoff), and is currently cheaper bundled with Crash Dive than standalone.
@Jason_McMaster why don’t you stream awesome games like Widget Satchel?
Hmm, interesting. Let’s see, what kind of bullet points are they listing…
Ugh, it’s a port of a mobile game. :(
-Tom
It’s also very much arcadey, even on higher difficulty levels, and more of a high score chasing game than anything else, although it brings some of that nice submarine tension to the tablet.
At least it’s not a major failure, although one could argue they didn’t set a remotely ambitious goal to their game.
I saw a video of this from Splattercat and thought it looked pretty interesting.
It’s a Dungeon Keeper type game. Pixel art with nice effects:
It’s not out yet but they have a “prologue” version that is free to play (I assume this is more or less a demo):
There is a prologue version that’s $5 which is how you can support the devs:
Aaaaaand here’s Splattercat’s video if you want to see it in action:
Nesrie
2922
This is cheap again and my group turned me down, hard. They can’t even stand the look of it. It just looks neat to me, and I am also in the will avoid weird art stuff camp although some games have cracked that barrier as of late.
I’ve played We Need to go Deeper a few times via co-op and it’s a blast.
Bobtree
2925
AstronTycoon is pretty much what it sounds like. I found it tedious, which I suppose is realistic.
But the release of this sequel baffled me, until I remembered what Stonehenge was for.
@Nightgaunt re: A Short Hike: I’m glad you gave it another go!
Bobtree
2927
A mobile-port homage to Uncharted Waters.
Uncharted Waters was one of my favorite games ever so I’ll definitely be checking this out. Mobile port makes me suspicious though, I must admit.
Nesrie
2929
It’s like you read my mind. I spent so much time on SNES playing Uncharted 1&2, but the visual pacing and the mobile port is a huge turn off.
