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DoubleFine's Amnesia Fortnight prototyping event for public viewing, voting & playing
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giant_frying_pan
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Brandon's 100mph pitch for Hack 'n' Slash is definitely justifying its' winning result in the vote. Plenty of cool ideas. Funny how he's pitching over Skype from an airport waiting room!
Brandon's 100mph pitch for Hack 'n' Slash is definitely justifying its' winning result in the vote. Plenty of cool ideas. Funny how he's pitching over Skype from an airport waiting room!
Yeah, good pitch given the circumstances. One of my favourite ideas, can't wait to see it finalized.
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Deleted member 102362
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So far, this is a very enjoyable watch! Hack N'Slash sounds very detailed and fleshed out already.
giant_frying_pan
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Love the story of Tim really trying to egg on Levi in getting his Black Lake idea developed to where it could be pitched. It's the kind of positive encouragement that you wouldn't get from many development houses. It seems Black Lake is the idea that has been gestating the longest out of the five.
So far, this is a very enjoyable watch! Hack N'Slash sounds very detailed and fleshed out already.
You can definitely see how some leads have a much more concrete and developed vision of the final product than others who are still in an earlier more concept-y idea stage.
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You can definitely see how some leads have a much more concrete and developed vision of the final product than others who are still in an earlier more concept-y idea stage.
Absolutely. Speaking of developed, Black Lake also sounds like a fascinating and original concept. The preliminary artwork also looks cool.
Absolutely. Speaking of developed, Black Lake also sounds like a fascinating and original concept. The preliminary artwork also looks cool.
It sounds like an original concept, but I'm still completely confused as to what you actually do other than walk about and appreciate stuff. I'm not seeing much "game".
It sounds like an original concept, but I'm still completely confused as to what you actually do other than walk about and appreciate stuff. I'm not seeing much "game".
Seems to me that you track the animal down through various signs etc. and find a way of soothing it so you can enter its dreams. You then solve whatever problem there is in its dreams - whether it be puzzle based or action based - and rinse, repeat etc.
Out of what we've seen, my personal thoughts are:
Hack 'n Slash - a neat idea, but it sounds like it's going to get pretty complex for those of us who aren't maths/compsci geniuses.
Spacebase DF-9 - Space SimCity, it seems, on a slightly more micro level? I'm not big on games without goals so I'm not sure whether this would be my kind of thing - he's clearly got loads of ideas but not many of them translate into anything beyond watching what's going on on screen.
The White Birch - it sounds wonderful, but is clearly artist led. I'm not sure how well much of this would come across in a prototype, to make it totally evocative it needs a real presentational polish, but I love evocative platformers so this sounds really interesting.
Autonomous - I think I lost the idea somewhere along the way, perhaps a bit complex to give in a pitch. Sounds like the UI requirements would be pretty tricky to tackle.
Black Lake - I loved this pitch, but again it feels very artist led. I definitely get the idea behind it, but I think if they can't get to handling a dream sequence in the prototype it might be difficult to convince others of how the whole thing would work on a game level.
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Now the five pitchers are getting asked if their games will have hats.
Lostconfused
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Kaiju Piledriver didn't win? I don't anything to do with this nonsense anymore.
They started streaming again, but I think the sound is buggered http://www.humblebundle.com/double-fine
giant_frying_pan
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Team Autonomous is the craziest. They will get no work done.
The day to day streaming is going to be filming meetings, work and streaming artists desktops as they draw which should be fascinating.
[EDIT - Brad Muir: "If you had to compare Steam to Games for Windows Live..."
Ouch.]
The day to day streaming is going to be filming meetings, work and streaming artists desktops as they draw which should be fascinating.
[EDIT - Brad Muir: "If you had to compare Steam to Games for Windows Live..."
Ouch.]
Dog Problems
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Which teams were up there already? I just got to watch since Black Lake came in.
Autonomous was before Black Lake. Not sure who appeared before that as I got into in the middle of Auto.
I really enjoy the prototype of Brazen and I like the ideas Brad is talking about. As someone who likes Monstef Hunter I want this game to actually get made.
I should probably make thread for it later today to get it some traction...
Daily live video edits
Kick back, watch the live stream, and catch the video digests presented by 2 Player Productions.
I know where the live stream is, but, what about the daily edited videos?
Brazen is just a Dark Souls boss fight. Down to the animation priorities even when healing.
Plays and looks amazing. I'm looking forward to it.
Monster Hunter boss fight. (Ok, same thing really)
YES!UPDATE 3: Tim Schafer announced that there were enough people to develop 5 prototypes. The 5th prototype to be developed is then Black Lake.
So will the prototypes be out the day they do the livestream?
What do you mean? The live streams have been ongoing. I'd expect them to be available at the very end of week 3.
Chris Remo
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This will be out somewhere around 10pm Pacific each day starting today.I know where the live stream is, but, what about the daily edited videos?
Giantbomb's Brazen thing @youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1IZHC-b-EE&feature=em-uploademail
Giantbomb's Brazen thing @youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1IZHC-b-EE&feature=em-uploademail
That was tremendously disappointing...its a monster hunter clone...nothing more
It's a prototype, games often look like ass until they spend more than two weeks of 10 people in them.That was tremendously disappointing...its a monster hunter clone...nothing more
Bomber Bob
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That was tremendously disappointing...its a monster hunter clone...nothing more
Its' a cool monster hunter clone tho
It's a prototype, games often look like ass until they spend more than two weeks of 10 people in them.
The concept itself is disappointing...
That was tremendously disappointing...its a monster hunter clone...nothing more
It's Monter Hunter without the bullshit. I want to play it and by that I mean as a full game.
That was tremendously disappointing...its a monster hunter clone...nothing more
That's not a bad thing.
This will be out somewhere around 10pm Pacific each day starting today.
Thanks Chris, good luck with the project!
What I mean is that it's a sprout of an idea. Monster Hunter + stop motion classic animation + DF humor is a starting point.The concept itself is disappointing...
bigmit3737
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Hey guys I'm a little confused as to what's going on here.
I saw a bit of the stream, and people were showing presentations of the game they would like to make. The only presentation I saw was the the automaton one, which was confusing as heck.
This is what I got from the stream:
Right now 5 teams are showing off a game they want to make.
They have a couple of weeks to make a prototype to show off to the stream?
Then somehow/some way they are going to determine which prototypes are going to be made into full games?
I saw a bit of the stream, and people were showing presentations of the game they would like to make. The only presentation I saw was the the automaton one, which was confusing as heck.
This is what I got from the stream:
Right now 5 teams are showing off a game they want to make.
They have a couple of weeks to make a prototype to show off to the stream?
Then somehow/some way they are going to determine which prototypes are going to be made into full games?
Yeah, that's pretty much it, other than it's just one person pitching to try and put together a team, then those teams will make the prototypes over the next couple of weeks. Those prototypes might not be made into full games, but it's certainly possible they will. It's how a few of their previous games were developed.
bigmit3737
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Yeah, that's pretty much it, other than it's just one person pitching to try and put together a team, then those teams will make the prototypes over the next couple of weeks. Those prototypes might not be made into full games, but it's certainly possible they will. It's how a few of their previous games were developed.
Thanks!
Brazen needs to be made, it is by far the best prototype.
I'm 99% positive it IS being made. Brad was talking on GiantBomb about their plans for other monsters as teasers like the carcass in the prototype. I think the prototype was just included as a bonus since they had it sitting around. That's why he also had Kaiju Piledriver for the Fortnight.
These five are the ones that will potentially turn into a full game. I'd love Spacebase with DoubleFine's humor.
Brazen needs to be made, it is by far the best prototype.
This. Just watching the GB footage and I would buy it in a heartbeat. Hoping the gameplay is not too mashy and still keeps some of the elements of the weighted combat from MonHun.
Mechanized
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I freaking LOVE they way they make the monsters look stop motion style in Brazen. But for some reason I think that if that game does get made they'd cut that.
I freaking LOVE they way they make the monsters look stop motion style in Brazen. But for some reason I think that if that game does get made they'd cut that.
Part of me wants smooth animation to match the way the characters are fluid but it just looks so awesome to see that patchy animation.
Spirit of Jazz
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The concept itself is disappointing...
Not really. It keeps what's good about monster hunter in the big co-op boss battles and combat with a focus on animation priority and it gets rid of everything else in monster hunter which puts a lot of players from it. I know it might not seem that great for monster hunter fans, but as someone who's never been able to get into the game because they find all the minor missions/harvesting/grinding tedious it sounds great.
Not really. It keeps what's good about monster hunter in the big co-op boss battles and combat with a focus on animation priority and it gets rid of everything else in monster hunter which puts a lot of players from it. I know it might not seem that great for monster hunter fans, but as someone who's never been able to get into the game because they find all the minor missions/harvesting/grinding tedious it sounds great.
Ease up the learning curve but keeping it just as deep will win over many gamers. SO far it sounds like they are taking MonHun, stripping out the ageing mechanics and trying to update it.
Part of me wants smooth animation to match the way the characters are fluid but it just looks so awesome to see that patchy animation.
No, no, no. You can't be inspired Ray Harryhausen and not have the stilted animations. If they were to drop that, I would lose all interest. Brad specifically mentions about how he was inspired by Clash fo the Titans, Sinbad and the Eyes of the Tiger, etc. He said on GB also that it was actually harder to animate them like that, but yeah... It HAS to have that. It is the most striking thing about the game.