Following Orders To The Letter: The Nightmare Cooperative
By Alice O'Connor on July 8th, 2014 at 12:00 pm.
Were I to join a cooperative of dungeon-crawling adventurers, I’d expect a little teamwork, a little coordination to stop monsters murdering us. I would be a bit disappointed if everyone moved in unison, copying each other’s moves in every situation. There’s a time and a place for walking straight into a wall like a tiresome child who giggles “But you said we should all walk forward!” and it’s not when a masked giant armed with a trident is staring you down in an ice cave.
That’s the idea of The Nightmare Cooperative, a dungeon-crawling puzzler where your team acts as one, following the same commands, making it part-block puzzle and part-dungeon adventure. Developers Lucky Frame have announced they’ll release it next Wednesday, July 16, for $9.99.
Finally: Someone Mixed Dota 2 And Mario Kart
By Nathan Grayson on July 8th, 2014 at 10:00 am.
It’s like they say, Internet gonna Internet. Thanks to a new and very good Mario Kart, kart racing is once again all the rage these days, and Dota 2 is more popular than all the cool kids in high school put together. What happens when you combine the two? It’s called Dota Dash, and it looks like it works maybe a little. Apparently, however, there’s still a whoooooole lot of work to be done. Video below.
Flowery: First-Person Drifter Ruah
By Alice O'Connor on July 7th, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
Hey there, gang. Alice O’Connor here, joining you this evening to share a screenshot of a deer near some trees and some rocks and some flowers. Look at that. It’s great, isn’t it? It’s from Ruah, and it’s not even the full picture. You’ll find that over here. Ruah’s a game about drifting around as a wind spirit, gathering deer and bringing spring to a land of low-fi polygons. It sounds a bit like Flower, from my vague second-hand knowledge of thatgamecompany’s PlayStation 3 game.
That’s enough preamble. Come look at another screenshot, okay? The next one has a waterfall.
YES: Ultima Ratio Regum Dev To Build Worlds Full-Time
By Adam Smith on July 7th, 2014 at 6:00 pm.
We’ve written about Ultima Ratio Regum before. It’s an incredibly exciting project that could end up in the same rarefied sphere as Dwarf Fortress – a complex simulation of ASCII worlds that have history, detail and depth. The current release is capable of generating a world and the basic history of the cultures that have evolved upon it, but there isn’t a huge amount to do beyond the procedural riddle puzzles contained in scattered ziggurats. A typical early feature of many games, eh?
As for the rest, it’s all detailed in the development plan and a new announcement suggests it’ll be on the road to completion sooner than expected. Developer Mark Johnson will be working on the game full-time for a year from September. And there isn’t a Kickstarter in sight.
DevLog Watch: Tim Cosmonaut, Path To The Sky, More
By Graham Smith on July 7th, 2014 at 5:00 pm.
Hype gets a bad reputation. If you think of it as nothing more than advertising, then there’s always the chance that these screenshots, trailers, GIFs and promises add up to nothing more than disappointment and an empty wallet. But if you think those same things as a form of entertainment and a source of enjoyment in their own right, then you’ve got nothing to lose. You can board the hype train, look out the window, and take pleasure in whatever you can see. The destination doesn’t matter and there’s always another view around the next bend.
This month: purple explosions in Wings of Saint Nazaire, rope physics in Tim Cosmonaut, roaming hands in Return of the Obra Dinn, and procedural loveliness in Path to the Sky.
World of Speed – New Screenshots Released For Slightly Mad Studios’ Free Racing Game
My.com has released a new set of screenshots for World of Speed, in which players can set up motor clubs where team members are assigned different roles in races. As a club the players can also capture entire cities in Territory Battles. World of Speed is developed by Slightly Mad Studios, will be completely free and will be available in 2014 for PC. Enjoy! Continue reading
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