Mr. Robot: Out Soon

By: Tim

On: November 12th, 2006

New developer diary entry and gameplay trailer for Mr. Robot now available.

And here’s something rather interesting…

Posted in Community, Previews | Tags: Moonpod

Mazapan

Now THAT’S a gameplay trailer! Wow!
I’m all hyped up :S
Dracko

So, what exactly is Aquarica?
Brain

Hot damn I cannot wait for Mr. Robot! And War Angels for that matter, well done Moonpod!
Tim W.

Aquarica is Derek’s latest project. Oh wait.
Lorne Whiting

That’s a month old Developer Diary, Tim.

Also, assuming from that last post, you have no idea what Aquarica is, huh?
anonymous

(sigh)
Lorne Whiting

Research has been done!

The pictures are from a game concept by White Bird Productions.
http://www.whitebirdsproductions.com/siteang/index-actualite.html
Teeth

Great trailer that!

Also any chance we can close comments on the X Operations post? It’s getting gigaspammed by drug sales bots. Shows up in the RSS dontyerknow
http://www.moonpod.com/diary Fost

Yeah, that’s last month’s diary. New one has just gone up this second here:

http://www.moonpod.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=2163

Should have mentioned on the indiegamer forums that the video was only for testing purposes – I didn’t expect anyone would link to it :) Your thirst for news is insatiable!!!

Proper link is now up:
http://www.moonpod.com/mrrobot

Which should work in a few other browsers.

Btw – thanks for all the coverage of Mr. Robot all these years. We were working on Mr. Robot when Tigsource first started, it’ll be a happy moment for me when I see the Mr. Robot is finished post on here :)
http://www.arsecast.com The Arsecast Host

Good gravy I loved the trailer when I saw it on Indiegamer Forums and it’s great that there’s a high-res version too. The game really does look like fantastic blend of genres – although I’m praying like mad that the RPG stuff isn’t its achille heel for me because it’s been a while since I enjoyed turn-based RPGs.
Tim W.

Disabled comments for X Operations and deleted all 200 spam messages.

Any more?
negative zero

graphics look awesome. is this game mainly a puzzle solver?
Teeth

Think that’s it Tim, nice one :)

Fost, loving the achievements medals. XBLA ready :) I hope to see it on the 360 one day!
http://www.moonpod.com/diary Fost

@negative zero: Hmm, it’s really hard to describe what happens in the game, which is a bit of a problem for us. At the end of the video there are glimpses of ‘ghost hack’ which is like a ‘classical’ rpg – you power up your robot’s virtual presence in the computer networks, and have to hack various terminals that are defended by enemy programs. It’s a huge part of the game and is balanced against what happens in the ‘real’ world – which is a combination of platform action, adventuring and puzzle solving. We’ve tried to put a bit of everything in the demo, so hopefully it will be enough for people to make up their minds.

@Teeth: yeah, we’d love to get on live arcade, but I’m not sure we have the resources to do it. I really would love to spend some time and do that properly – because the way the editor works, I think we could make it pad-driven. Imagine an XBLA game where you can crate your own levels and share the content – I think that would rock. Pretty sure that unless a huge crate of cash lands on us from somewhere our main focus will be PC-only for the next few years though.
Tim W.

Teeth: thanks for the info. :)
XiV

I’m surprised at the lack of comments regarding Benoit Sokal.
http://www.TScreative.net BMcC

Fost! I wanted to tell you you rock and that Mr. Robot will in all likelihood rock as well, but I kept getting server errors.

You rock, and in all likelihood Mr. Robot will rock as well! Keep up the good work.

ALSO: I think Derek ripped off this place downtown. They call it the “Aquarium” and it’s all filled with fish and *everything.*
http://www.moonpod.com/diary Fost

Thanks BMcC!

I think Derek is secretly the world’s greatest fan of Scandinavian pop sensation ‘Aqua’, and Aquaria is his homage to sexy front-woman Lene NystrÃ¸m

who can blame him…