What are you kicking?

henke on 25/5/2013 at 19:09

On the off chance that any of you haven't already pledged your lifesavings to the Spintires Kickstarter, I made a video of the recently added UAZ! :thumb:

[video=youtube;nCW6Fd3qKh0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCW6Fd3qKh0&feature=youtu.be[/video]

COME ON YOU DONGWADS PLEDGE

Muzman on 25/5/2013 at 22:30

DONGWADS : "What is game?!"

henke: "uh, you drive lumber around Siberia."

DONGWADS: "And?"

henke: "and it's really hard coz it's muddy"

DONGWADS: "Game look like Far Cry 3. What proportion of game like Far Cry 3, expressed as percentage?"

henke: "uh, maybe 15, plus a million percent mud!"

DONGWADS: ¬_¬

Shadowcat on 26/5/2013 at 02:40

Great video, henke; that looks more like fun to me, so I'm definitely tempted. It still seems a bit pricey (even at half the original ask), but I'll at least consider it now!

demagogue on 26/5/2013 at 18:58

The kickstarter project I'm interested is Limit Theory, and Voxel Engine isn't on Kickstarter yet, but it will be eventually... Both of them are procedurally generated open world games (for scifi and fantasy respectively), which is all the rage these days.

Voxel Engine, or the main game that will come out of it, is probably the upcoming game I'm most interested in because it's the ideal blend of Minecraft-like generation & modifiability for a Skyrim-like world. I can already imagine all the building projects -- cities & castles and cathedrals -- & adventure maps people will make on it, and of course a cool multiplayer place to hang out. I mean it could have all the fun & mods & energy that Minecraft is getting that's in a "realistic" fantasy world.

retractingblinds on 28/5/2013 at 05:24

You lot remember The Neverhood? The guys behind it got back together, including the director and the music man and writer. The kickstarter is supposed to go live today. It's called Armikrog. It's gonna be another claymation point & click adventure. (https://www.facebook.com/armikrog) They've got some stuff there about early development and stuff.

EvaUnit02 on 28/5/2013 at 11:42

Quote Posted by retractingblinds

Dethtoll will be pledging $100 minimum, because he's Doug TenNapel's #1 fan.

june gloom on 28/5/2013 at 16:58

Doug Tennapel can go fuck himself with a rake. But don't nobody tell him I said that -- he might mistake it as me coming on to him and that would be (http://www.destructoid.com/earthworm-jim-creator-no-friend-to-gay-people--202271.phtml) gay!

(is that why you posted that, Eva? So I'd kneejerk-react and remind everyone why Doug Tennapel sucks?)

retractingblinds on 29/5/2013 at 11:15

Quote Posted by dethtoll

doesn't stop him from being a great animator and writer.

june gloom on 29/5/2013 at 19:09

Actually I think he's kind of overrated on top of being a big flappy bigot.

Shadowcat on 3/6/2013 at 00:12

I could have sworn this was discussed here already, but I must be thinking of RPS comments.

"Energy Hook" is an indie project based around the web-swinging mechanics of "Spiderman 2" (with the developer being the same guy responsible for them in the older game). I've not played the Spiderman games, but evidentially SM2 was the one where the swinging felt like you were attaching to real things, rather than magical sky hooks.

As the new game is all about the swinging, it seems that you get style points for doing it well:

Quote:

Working on Tony Hawk games gave me an appreciation for games that reward you for style, and something I never really got to do with the mechanics in Spider-Man 2 was explore that. So this is an opportunity for me to do just that, create a swinging game where style is just as important as speed, where mixing up wall-runs and loops and big air with your swings is more important than just getting from point A to point B.

The Kickstarter campaign seems to have been a little controversial, as he made it a $1 target (hence guaranteeing he gets all money pledged), with all the real targets as stretch goals. His explanation is that the basic game will be released regardless of Kickstarter, and so the campaign really is all about the stretch goals -- how much better can the game be made with a cash injection? I concluded that he seemed pretty genuine about it all, so it might be a bit unfortunate that this approach put some people off. I guess it's difficult to judge how these things will play out.

I also had to appreciate that his response to hitting the goal to get Brian Luzietti doing the game audio was "We're a team again! Snoopy dance." :)

Next goals are a first-person mode with Oculus Rift support (first-person VR spiderman does sound kinda awesome :), and at $55K the Spiderman 2 animation director will be hired to work on mid-air animations. They moved the latter down from being the $110K goal (which is now looking very unlikely), because they really want it to happen.

(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/551129138/energy-hook-0)

There's about a week left to go.