Gunpoint Creator Making Procedural Space Stealth Game
By Graham Smith on February 3rd, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
Tom “Who Made Gunpoint” Francis is making a new game! In fact, Tom “who I worked with for eight years” Francis is making two new games simultaneously and making videos about both as development progresses. One of those games is about a grappling hook and that’s all we know. The other, called Heat Signature, is a space game about sneaking up on spaceships and that’s all we knew.
Knew, because Tom “I still do a podcast with him every week and we’re good friends” Francis just released a video in which he reveals ship-boarding and explains the objective of the game more fully.
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Me, Myself And UI: Limit Theory
By Adam Smith on February 3rd, 2014 at 7:00 pm.
I love it when developers talk about their user interfaces. Not their personal buttons, which I’d rather not push, but the systems that they build as a means of communication between players and games. A good UI, like strong visual design, creates a sort of language all of its own, and Limit Theory’s node-based interface has an elegant grammar. In the latest dev diary, Josh Parnell covers the spiffy customisable HUD and the most attractive scanner since Michael Ironside.
Fight Over The Monochrome Wrongscape Of Hunting Anubis
By Graham Smith on February 3rd, 2014 at 5:00 pm.
Hunting Anubis is something special, though I can’t work out how special because I’m bad at it and it quickly begins to feel a little too Hunting A-noob-ish. It’s a combat flight sim about dogfighting multiplayer and bot opponents above an artfully glitchy monochrome wrongscape, in which shimmering oceans bleed into polygonal mountain ranges.
It’s beautiful, there’s a trailer below, and there’s a free beta build you can play right now.
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Hyper Light Drifter Gets New Release Date, Is Not Hyper
By Graham Smith on February 3rd, 2014 at 4:00 pm.
Old facts: Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D action RPG with i) beautifully drawn and animated pixel art ii) a Kickstarter campaign that asked for $27,000 and received $645,158 iii) the best videogame name around. New facts: i) Hyper Light Drifter won’t come out in June as originally planned ii) a closed beta will arrive near June instead iii) the development team are targeting an end-of-year date for the release of the final game.
Hows, whys and new images below.
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Space Party: StarCrawlers Swaps Dungeons For Derelicts
By Graham Smith on February 3rd, 2014 at 3:00 pm.
Here’s one of the many routes to becoming a game journalist: 1) Follow a bunch of game developers on Twitter, Tumblr, or anywhere else you find developers in the wild. 2) When they release a game or announce a game, tell people. Here’s apparently the only route left to being a game developer: 1) Make a procedurally-generated game set in space.
Thankfully there’s lots of different kinds of space games. StarCrawlers is “an endless first-person RPG adventure with procedurally generated levels, enemies, events, and loot.” StarCrawlers has “deep character customization and a tactical time-unit based combat system to create an endless dungeon crawling experience.” StarCrawlers “looks a bit Legend of Grimrock but set inside derelict spaceships instead of underground dungeons.”
That last quote was from me. Trailer below.
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