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Creator of Worms back at Team17
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I did, but when I searched, I couldn't for the life of me find the new Worms game thread. And with this title, how could I not bump it?
edit: what happened to the thread anyway? I just searched for Worms Revolution and came up empty handed, yet I was reading that thread on my phone this weekend..?
Search is buggered at the moment, with posts and threads taking several days before they show up among results.
Here's the thread, by the way.
Thanks! I couldn't even find it in DECK'ARD's post history haha. I'm cautiously hyped. Haven't liked the art style revealed so far, but to be fair we've seen next to nothing.
Ah, small wonder Deckard was so supportive of the new Worms in the other thread.
We'll see what he has in store for us.
Hip Hip! Looking forward to whatever he has in for us
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
It would be nice if he's the one making the F2P Worms.
Unfortunately for me (because I don't like it), I think a Nickel-and-dime Worms game could be a huge hit.
I'd missed my baby, and after going back last week to see Revolution (and spend a good time catching up and talking about things in the pub!) it finally felt the right thing to do.
The environment at Team17 now is much closer to how I personally felt games should be made, and being self-published also means there is more freedom to be creative and take risks. Which is all I've ever wanted to do really. I feel the industry at the moment needs independent studios to be strong, and to foster as much creativity as possible.
Revolution is also very refreshing when you see it as well, the series needed a bit of life injected to it after all this time and I will help with that as much as I can.
I'm very conscious of keeping the feel and balance of the game correct, and this is the focus of the team over the coming months which I will also be helping with. One of the first things I did on getting back to Bournemouth was dig out an old document I wrote commonly referred to as the Bible Of Worms
It's good to be back!
Would certainly work on Facebook.
I don't know. I've been sick of Worms since the second one. It's time to move on.
Well one of the other reasons for returning is the game that's been in my head for the past 14 years, and been evolved and refined over that time.
Worms was meant to be a trilogy, with Armageddon called that because it was the last one. I didn't get to finish it back then, which is why I felt I had to walk away, but I'd also had the idea for a completely new game. It's born from the same philosophy as Worms, but very different and the mechanics I find fascinating.
I'm looking forward to getting a prototype of that up and running at some point. There's an awful lot in my head that needs to get out! Name, gameplay, character design, it's all there.
When the time comes for it to be revealed, I promised GAF I would post the teaser image here first, and I will stick to that
One of the first things I did on getting back to Bournemouth was dig out an old document I wrote commonly referred to as the Bible Of Worms
That sounds interesting. Is that anything you'd be able to put online for us all to read or is it too... sensitive?
Loved Worms. Used to go to my home with a few friends during the high school lunch break and we'd play Worms 2 against eachother hot seat. Probably my favourite game for local multiplayer ever that one. Only played Armageddon since, which was pretty good, but didn't feel like a sufficiently substantial improvement over Worms 2.
Definitely interested in hearing about this. My favourite games are often ones where a developer just gives the player tools to work with and lets them make their own fun.
Well one of the other reasons for returning is the game that's been in my head for the past 14 years, and been evolved and refined over that time.
Worms was meant to be a trilogy, with Armageddon called that because it was the last one. I didn't get to finish it back then, which is why I felt I had to walk away, but I'd also had the idea for a completely new game. It's born from the same philosophy as Worms, but very different and the mechanics I find fascinating.
I'm looking forward to getting a prototype of that up and running at some point. There's an awful lot in my head that needs to get out! Name, gameplay, character design, it's all there.
When the time comes for it to be revealed, I promised GAF I would post the teaser image here first, and I will stick to that
Definitely interested in hearing about this. My favourite games are often ones where a developer just gives the player tools to work with and lets them make their own fun.
Santerestil
Banned
Unfortunately for everyone, other unoriginal nickel-and-dime Worms games are a given, unless Deck'ard put out something revolutionary.
Glad you liked it!
And actually I started writing the game just for me and my mates at school to avoid doing work really. I took over a corner of the art room and got them to put Amigas in it so I could do 'computer graphics'
People ended up skipping lessons to play it, my form tutor banned it, and that's when I thought I'm onto something here and my dream was always to get a game published so I thought let's go for it. Could go to Uni at any time, but there was no point for what I wanted to do. Overall it took about 4 years from the beginning before I took it up to a computer trade show and that's where I showed it to Team17.My philosophy with games is to try and create something which works on lots and lots of levels simultaneously. Worms was a battle with myself to make the game as deep as possible but I also thought of it as a digital playground. Girders for instance I knew would have their uses, but they were actually put in to let people build houses and construct grenade funnels to just mess around with. The high-bounce option on grenades was also for that reason, if you're having fun it doesn't matter whether you are playing the game as intended or not.
For me, games are to have fun with and I love social multiplayer games the most. Get people to take the piss out of each other, to never end, to customise things, to make their personal imprint on the game. The strategy can be there but should never get in the way of the fun, let people discover their own way of playing it in whichever way they want.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Huh, I have a friend who lives there. Ossett. Small world.
BibiMaghoo
Member
I have a worms poster signed by this dude somewhere, done at an Amiga world show back in the day. I'll have to find it.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I'm going to imagine that Andy will just walk around drop kicking people until they get the rope physics right.
Shadow Hog
Member
I must admit, I spent a lot of weeknights playing Worms 2. Granted, it was almost always against myself, with one of the teams being TEAM17MicroProse (which I always used "Smooth Operator" voice on for one reason or another - kind of a shame that one's not in the more recent releases...) so I could dick around with the rarer weapons instead of playing the game properly, but hell, I had a damn lot of fun with it. I especially loved how you could ramp up pretty much every variable the game used for no reason whatsoever, so you could have miniguns with ludicrous spread, where each "puff" of a bullet hitting a wall or opponent was about as big as a dynamite explosion, tearing the map (and most of your own team) to shreds in one shot. Strategy be damned, this is where I found my fun.
Didn't really play any other games until the XBLA ones hit. Felt a little gypped when I bought the Steam one, only to find out it was the same as the second XBLA one (with new hat!), but I got some fun online play out of it. I believe I bought the Saturn port of the first game somewhere in here (because the copy of Worms United I got in the threepack my copy of Worms 2 came in - Worms Pinball being the third, if you cared - never seemed to run); not sure why, but the port was handled well enough.
Didn't really get to play much of Armageddon, sadly. A roommate lent me a copy to install, but since it was his disc and not mine, and since I've changed computers since then, I no longer have access to that...
Didn't really play any other games until the XBLA ones hit. Felt a little gypped when I bought the Steam one, only to find out it was the same as the second XBLA one (with new hat!), but I got some fun online play out of it. I believe I bought the Saturn port of the first game somewhere in here (because the copy of Worms United I got in the threepack my copy of Worms 2 came in - Worms Pinball being the third, if you cared - never seemed to run); not sure why, but the port was handled well enough.
Didn't really get to play much of Armageddon, sadly. A roommate lent me a copy to install, but since it was his disc and not mine, and since I've changed computers since then, I no longer have access to that...
MMaRsu
Banned
Good to hear he's back, and also it's cool to see him here at neogaf.
My respect to you good sir, I have very fond memories of playing Worms 2 and Armageddon in the hotseat with friends and later on consoles. At one particular LAN party it was especially amazing, since after a very long session we crashed on a couch near a gaming area, ordered a pizza and saw an Xbox hooked up that had a ton of games to play, we booted up Worms 3d and have an absolute blast that night.
Still play Worms 2 every now and then. Very curious about Worms Revolution!
My respect to you good sir, I have very fond memories of playing Worms 2 and Armageddon in the hotseat with friends and later on consoles. At one particular LAN party it was especially amazing, since after a very long session we crashed on a couch near a gaming area, ordered a pizza and saw an Xbox hooked up that had a ton of games to play, we booted up Worms 3d and have an absolute blast that night.
Still play Worms 2 every now and then
. Very curious about Worms Revolution!Baby Yoshi
Banned
But,this game is almost at the end of the development,gonna wait for the next worms game where his influence will be bigger.
lol, link?
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
Well getting it off my Amiga somehow is the first step!
But yes, it is a bit sensitive
Basically details the physics of the whole game, and the cause+effect of everything that happens in it.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Haha, them were the days!
It would have said "Keep on worming!" I believe
Yes
With a worm between some breasts. I miss those days.
You're probably referring to me, but you're not exactly fairly representing what I said.
Yes
With a worm between some breasts. I miss those days.
You miss the days of worms between breasts?
Well Ocean France were responsible for the breasts apparently, maybe it's something we should revisit!
Well getting it off my Amiga somehow is the first step!
But yes, it is a bit sensitive
Ah, shame, but yeah, fair enough. Team17 wouldn't like that being out in the wild. But please consider releasing it in the many years to come when everyone's retired and the franchise is no more, because I bet it's a fascinating read. It's like a historical document!
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, this sounds exciting!
Ok, that is spooky!
I was describing the significance of the Angular Wooden Giraffe, and what it would do, last week.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
You're welcome!
I didn't want to make a big deal of it for a long time, because I just wanted my opinions to be seen as just someone who just loves games. Like everyone else here, and I didn't want to limit what I could or could not say.
But yeah, it's me
See, now I'm being told about some of your crazy ideas from back then and I want to ask you about them, but at the same time I kind of don't in case they ARE in one of the games you're working on and you want them to be a surprise...
You're welcome!
I didn't want to make a big deal of it for a long time, because I just wanted my opinions to be seen as just someone who just loves games. Like everyone else here, and I didn't want to limit what I could or could not say.
But yeah, it's me
Thanks for hours of fun, bro!!!!
Quick question. Were you a Scorched Earth fan? Did you know of its existence when you created worms?
It started life as a bet with one of my mates as to who could make a game on a Casio graph-plotting calculator. It was just a simple Artillery clone, random landscape but you couldn't move or anything. I then rewrote it for the Amiga and made them move to see what would happen, and all the strategy started opening up. Put in water for instant kill, and then jumping and being thrown by explosions, and at that point it became a challenge for myself to see how deep I could make what was at its core a simple Artillery game that I'd typed into my C64 all those years ago.
At that point I also decided to not play any other game of that type, to ensure it evolved in its own way. I knew they existed, but I didn't want to know what they'd done to the formula.
Very cool! Thanks for taking the time to answer! Welcome back to the industry, and best of luck!
I know you weren't 100% satisfied with armageddon, but when me and my friends were playing that game years ago in a boarding school dormitory, it stopped us from punching each other in the face, and let us work out our aggression on tiny creatures instead. Thanks for that
lol, it was the opposite for me. That perfectly arced Holy Hand Grenade that sent three worms skipping across the ocean often resulted in a fist fight, but once the dust settled we were still bros. Good times.
out0v0rder
Member
this thread makes me happy
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Put me down for having my mind blown too.
All those days of me and my friends spending hours playing Worms on the Mega Drive and Playstation were priceless.
My childhood sincerely thanks you! Looking forward to seeing what you do with T17 in future!
I'd been hoping for this day for a long time
<3
Dreamcast Worms Armageddon+Worms World Party= Time of my life