Incoming news! Lots of indie activity going on as usual.
NIS America is releasing Disgaea Dimension 2: A Brighter Darkness for PS3 in North America on Fall 2013.
Super Robot Wars UX Trailer #2.
The iOS tactics game Highborn has been ported to Mac/PC and is available on Steam.
Frozen Synapse announced for PS3 and Vita.
Rainbow Skies, a new tactics (?) game by the Rainbow Moon developers.
Indie Games Corner: mostly sourced from Rui Castro's facebook group:
Shattered Throne Beta available
Warmage Battlegrounds update
Telepath Tactics Developer's Log
Interview with Julian Gollop on Chaos Reborn and lots of blog updates
Footbrawl Quest free download
Xenonauts Beta incoming
What I've been up to:
I've been playing Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It's another great Platinum Games action game with solid controls that runs at 60 fps most of the time.I have a few nitpicks about the difficulty and scoring, but otherwise it's a pitch perfect action game without too many weapons and abilities to get bogged down in.
Check out this video of a Japanese player (not me) clearing the Cave shoot em up Mushihime-sama Futari 1.01 on Ultra difficulty. This is easily one of the most difficult shoot em ups I have ever seen, right next to Daioujou's 2nd loop. Get ready to hand in your gamer card after watching this.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
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Hehe bit of real-time gaming at the end there! Can't deny that after suffering yet another campaign-ending glitch on xcom I'm starting to really lose patience with it and have been drifting back to realtime. Mostly retro though: Galaxy Fight on Sega Saturn and the Classic Doom Collection from the PSN. I hope to finalise some design work and start coding a text based tactics game at some point soon too (tbtbs?!)
Will defo check out Frozen Synapse though.
I can't believe they haven't patched all the bugs in Xcom. Western developed console tactics games do have a reputation for being buggy and slow.
Doom is a classic, lots of fun to be had there. I played that a lot as a teen. Never heard of Galaxy Fight, as far as fighting games I mostly watch whatever is on Team Spooky on twitch.
So your tactics game will look something like Nethack, Angband, and other roguelikes? No graphics at all? Tell me more lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW-JCivkGdw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Galaxy Fight is massively underrated. Would love to see top level fighting game players have a go. I have a load more matchvids to upload as well. The session ended with a double-double KO draw game but unfortunately didnt capture that one on vid!
My game will be developed with Inform 7, which is an interactive fiction language which uses a sort of pseudo natural language for source code. I've seen it used to make a tetris clone of all things, so why not tactics? No graphics at all though so it'll need to be an elegant system I figure. Maybe a map when I get better.!
And what the heck is a 'Roguelike'?
Its the second time this week I post this comment :) Roguelike is a genre now but it all came from a game called Rogue from 1980. Its a turn based game but usually you only control one unit, the hero. There are squad based ones and they are almost like a normal turn based tactical game like Steam Marines that plays like XCOM. Diablo is the most famous roguelike BUT for many it is one of the worst ones but good as the game it is, just doesn't do the roguelike parts well. Nethack is another famous one, Cave Noir, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and Shiren The Wanderer for the Gameboy. Many features in roguelike's today are used in games, like Fire Emblem permadeath, or when levels are randomly generated in Diablo. They can have graphics or not. The hardcore ones are all character based. Some are very puzzlelike, for example Zaga 33 and tactical like Steam Marines. Like all genres some roguelikes are good and others are bad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
Lebowski1 you have my curiosity, where can I see updates on the game: twitter, facebook, google+?
I would love to post stuff on your game at this FB group about turn based tactical games https://www.facebook.com/groups/turn.based.tactical.games/
Do you mind?
Its the second time this week I post this comment :) Roguelike is a genre now but it all came from a game called Rogue from 1980. Its a turn based game but usually you only control one unit, the hero. There are squad based ones and they are almost like a normal turn based tactical game like Steam Marines that plays like XCOM. Diablo is the most famous roguelike BUT for many it is one of the worst ones but good as the game it is, just doesn't do the roguelike parts well. Nethack is another famous one, Cave Noir, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and Shiren The Wanderer for the Gameboy. Many features in roguelike's today are used in games, like Fire Emblem permadeath, or when levels are randomly generated in Diablo. They can have graphics or not. The hardcore ones are all character based. Some are very puzzlelike, for example Zaga 33 and tactical like Steam Marines. Like all genres some roguelikes are good and others are bad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
Matt I have played Metal Gear Acid 1 and 2. Have you ever played it, very interesting concept LOL But Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance really looks stunning.
:) just watched this week Mushihime-sama, the hardedt boss ever WOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZuidKexBQ
The boss in the video I posted is a more difficult version. The player also clears the game without continuing (1cc).
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Rui I'm in your group (Chris Mullans) and will post updates if/when I get my game off the ground!
@Lebowski1
:) I would never get there LOL
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