Mr. Robot Unleashed On The Public
Posty over at Shoot The Core has some excellent news: "Ok, this is totally non-shmup related, but my gracious hosts, Moonpod, have released their second game today, [PC indie title] Mr. Robot."
He continues of the previously GSW-mentioned title: "I played through the hour demo and it's pretty fun. It's a hybrid action platformer and RPG game, with a robotic/technological backdrop. Think 2001: A Space Odyssey meets Mega Man Battle Network. Very high production values for an indy company, but this is the norm for Moonpod (and no, I'm not just kissing up, other people think highly of their products also.)"
If you want to know about development, there's a fun developer diary from this month, too, with some interesting comments: "The 'reality' sections of the game have had a different set of issues; almost all being related to parts of the game being insanely difficult... We've discovered that people with experience of the old-school isometric platformers are now pretty rare, and so without that vocabulary of actions built into your mindset, even just jumping over a short space can be pretty hard. Things Nick and I can almost do blindfold turn out to be difficult. "
Comments
Having a look at the game's site, I noticed a screenshot in the corner with the caption "Don't Jump!"
For a brief second, I had imagined that this was a reference to Atari's I, Robot game, in which players lost a life if they were in the air while a giant, red eye was open.
Alas, as is happening more and more often I find, my imagination was cooler than the reality. Still, looks like an interesting game.
Posted by: John H. | December 25, 2006 4:00 PM
Seems like it will have a pretty awesome story, from what is hinted at in the demo. Great setting. Let's hope the gameplay delivers; looking forward to someone reviewing this...
Posted by: rusmas | December 25, 2006 8:48 PM
First review up here:
http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2007/01/02/review-mr-robot/
seems to like it:
"Without a doubt, this is the best indie game I’ve ever played..."
:)
Posted by: Letterbomb | January 11, 2007 7:35 AM