From time to time though, a AAA comes along that actually lives up to its gajillion dollar marketing budget and reminds me that there are things that the AAAs can do that only the AAAs can do and that - just sometimes - they do really, really well.Īn engaging story with multiple endings. I tend to find myself less disappointed with indies on the whole. I’ve played a fair few AAA games and a lot of indies. They weren’t necessarily all this year’s releases - I just got around to playing them this year. There are other things I’ve played, many of which I rather liked, but for the sake of brevity here are just a few. With the end of the year just about upon us I figured I’d round up some of the things I’ve played this year and blather about them enthusiastically. We also have a really popular mailing list you can sign-up to on our website. To keep track of how it develops you can follow me on Twitter, and the main Puppygames feed.
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We’re hoping to have it ready for Steam - on Windows, Mac and Linux - by around the end of the year. Some of these things you’ll have to make yourself by crafting together various trash items you find throughout the city.īasingstoke is well into development now and I’m posting new shots and videos pretty much weekly on my Twitter feed. There are things that stun or dazzle, things that distract or repel certain enemies and stuff to make you stealthier, or faster, or more lethal. Bait that enemies might want to eat instead of you - at least momentarily.
Besides all the various guns and explosives that you’d expect, we have things that can distract enemies in various ways - with sound, with light, by smell even.
Turning it off will help you to be stealthy, but your vision becomes very restricted and spotting useful equipment or dangerous hazards is going to be difficult.Īnd there are masses of useful things to find in the ruins of Basingstoke. You have a torch which makes it easy to find your way and to search out loot but it also makes you a target. The atmosphere is thick with ash and the city is plunged into complete darkness. And there are some enemies for which - once they’ve spotted you - your only hope is to run and hide.įortunately a stealthy approach is fairly plausible. There are burrowing underground horrors dropped during the initial alien incursion that’ll spring up and attack anything that gets close enough - including other aliens. There are enemies that are constantly mobile, some that patrol, others that remain idle until provoked.
So besides a little firepower, your survival is going to depend upon stealth, observation, deception, tricks and traps. There are guns, quite a variety of guns actually, but ammo is going to be very limited and guns are loud. Level by level you’ll pass through various different scenery, collect lots of loot and encounter a whole bunch of hostile alien and maybe a few human adversaries. You play a lone survivor in the ruins of the town, fighting the hostile city to try to escape into the countryside (A story familiar to many who live in real-world Basingstoke no doubt). The Basingstoke of - uh - “Basingstoke” - is in the aftermath of the alien invasion seen in Titan Attacks and/or Revenge Of The Titans but before alien forces are succesfully driven back into space. It’s come a long way since that initial seed and is now really more closely related to our Titans games than our Droid games. I’d imagined a spiritual sequel to Ultratron where instead of being confined to an arena, you followed a more adventuresome path, rampaging through the burnt-out ruins of post-apocalypse Basingstoke. It’s actually that last one where the idea arose from. The Omnicorp factories in Droid Assault, the alien landing in Revenge Of The Titans, even perhaps the robot uprising of Ultratron. In our past games though, Basingstoke has often been at the center of things. Exciting stuff afoot over at PuppyGames where we’re working on Basingstoke, a new game that I’ve been fortunate enough to lead the design and development of.īasingstoke - for those of you who maybe don’t know - is a town in Hampshire, England which has kinda had a bit of a reputation - deserved or otherwise - for being a rather dull, white-collar wasteland.
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