Guppy, and More

By: Derek Yu

On: October 22nd, 2007

In a recent Cryptic Sea blog post, Edmund McMillen took a break from talking about Gish 2 to wax off about a few of his side projects, including a 2d RTS game where your goal is to defend a dead carcass with an army of maggots! Nasty!

But the one that got me hot and bothered was Guppy, shown in the video above!

Guppy is a 2d side scroller that kinda plays like GTA… but not. It’s hard to explain and also still very early in development, but I couldn’t help but post a little video of it.

(Thanks, DMac!)

Posted in Developers, Physics, Platformers, Previews, Videos | Tags: CrypticSea

Akhel

Looks interesting, reminds me of Death Worm.
haowan

Looks great!
Space Ranger.

Reminds me of a giant sperm with false dentures…and two tails
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

Friggin’ great! Love the soundtrack. :D
http://internetography.freeforums.org Zeno

I wish my sperm were that ferocious…
KJ

Looks awesome. Great choice of music too, Tomahawk rules!
http://www.shotbeakgames.za.net/niche Tr00jg

Wow, that’s like Killer Worm and Sexy Hiker mixed together!
baconfish

Sweet zombie jesus. Looking forward to this.
Bob

That’s “Death Worm” and “Sexy Hiking”, Tr00jg.
Fishy Boy

Watching the video and hearing about the programmer, I imagine Guppy will be awesome, in other words a bit like Tri-Achnid.
Cas

Was gonna say that sounded remarkably like Mike Patton or Mr Bungle and lo and behold, it is :)
Stij

Fighting helicopters and government agents as what appears to be a giant sperm?

With PHYSICS?

Ed, you never cease to amaze me.
Dan MacDonald

I think it could be improved with better eating animations, so when you pull in a helicopter you actually see the head of the sperm bite into it instead of just bashing the copter into it’s forehead.

Looks like a blast to play though, looking forward to it.
tantan

DO WANT!
Anthony Flack

Interesting! I’ve never been much fond of E.M.’s creepy-cute art style in the past (I always found it a little bit too, um, teenagey? Sorry!) – but there’s no doubt that this giant scary thing WORKS. Brrrr.
Joseph

Looks like try-achnid + nuclear eagle, but more fun than both combined…
makeshifter

*gasp* gimme, gimme, gimme!!!!!!
Edmund

Glad you guys like what you see, Guppy has only had about a month and a half or less dev time between games so a lot of animations are obviously missing.. hell there isnt even a game yet this is just a video of the prototype.

Sadly the dev for guppy is on hold till about march due to the fact that Forian (the programmer) is in the army.

Coil will be done soon though :)
-Edmund
http://www.shotbeakgames.za.net/niche Tr00jg

@Bob:

Oh yeah d’oh. It’s Sexy Hiking and Death Worm.
Joseph

Yeah the movement looks so much more refined and fun than Tri-achnid… CAN’T WAIT TO PLAY!
Phasma Felis

So what’s that music? It’s bloody awesome.
Edmund

Tomahawk – Crow Dance , off of anonymous
Petri Purho

These days Mike Patton seems to be in every game…
Edmund

im not actually using that song for the game, i just put it in the video so there was some sound to go with it :)
-Edmund