Boss Baddie, the two man team behind exploratory platformer Lunnye Devisty have announced their new project to be released within the next coming weeks.
Wake is being pitched as a kind of survival platformer inside a sinking ship. As an engineer on board you have to make your way to the top of the ship in order to escape, whilst numerous obstacles line the path. The biggest of these is of course the rising sea level, which is the only element of the game capable of killing you. There’s also a scoring system in place which awards you based on how long it took you to escape and whether you fainted along the way (as well as other unknown objectives), so it appears that simply surviving isn’t the whole experience.
There’s also a ‘Rolling Demo’ available, but after the 40MB download there really doesn’t seem to be any real point to it. I suppose it’s meant to give you an idea of the atmosphere, but there didn’t seem to be anything to be gained from watching it that wasn’t conveyed simply by the screen shots. Still I’m pretty excited about the survival game concept, so looking forward to seeing more soon.