Trailers A-Go-Go

By: Derek Yu

On: April 11th, 2009

The extremely weird first-person brawler Zeno Clash is coming to Windows April 21st.

Here’s some WiiWare Night Game gameplay for you. (Source: GregWS)

Old-school run n’ gun action from Teknogames, creator of Armed Generator Doom Machine – this one’s called Action Fist. (Source: AuthenticKaizen)

Posted in Previews, Videos, Wii, Windows | Tags: ACETeam, Nicalis, Teknogames

http://indiegamesblog.ru/ VladErmakov

Night Game is a brilliant
Fools

Night Game looks insanely awesome.
Craig Stern

Holy crap–Night Game looks amazing.
Spenot

Say, wasn’t there a game in the making similar to Night Game, only instead of a ball, the protagonist was a little kid? I remember the trailer (at the end of it, a huge spider appeared from the darkness), but I can’t remember the title.
cigarettes

wow. night game. i want it.
and zeno clash.
and braid too? im going to have no money.

action fist looks awesome too. i think AuthenticKaizen just makes it his job to find great games.
cag

@spenot: perhaps you are thinking of FEIST?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54WYi-wdhqc
raelz

Zero clash: Amazing beginning of the trailer. I hope the whole game will keep this atmosphere. Night game: Well, that’s nifflas, it’s bound to be awesome. Action Fist: great run’n’gun with great music. So much awesomeness in one post!
jolli

teknooooo what happen to lapratans
jolli

o and wheres brother jellyfish :(
RayRayTea

Spenot:

http://www.limbogame.org/ ?
http://www.limbogame.org/ RayRayTea

Spenot: Limbo? Makes NightGame look really bad.

Aww urls not allowed… click on “RayRayTea” then.
Alex

OH BOY NIGHT GAME IS SO AMAZING IT IS ALL SHILOUTTES AND YOU ROLL AROUND I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING MORE AMAZING IN MY LIFE UNNNNGH IM A PRETENTIOUS INDEPEDENT GAME FAGGOT
JoeB

Can’t wait for the Action Fist. Looks awesome.
Karry

Night game looks all pretentious and conceptional and stuff, but…can it even be considered a game ? I didnt see any challenge in the video, no puzzles, no skill, nothing. Just roooolllllling around. Great.

The other one is okay-ish.
b0rsuk

I’m comparing Night Game to Knytt Storries.
Both by the same author. Similar style, visuals, sounds. But Night Game has much more inflexible controls. You can only roll the clumsy ball. I think it’s a bit like reading a book where you can predict the exact ending 300 pages from the end. I like what one guy said about Knytt Stories in ‘Design Panel’ serries: it’s much more rewarding to pass complicated challenges with a nimble character than primitive ones with a clumsy character. I agree, and that’s why I think Night Game will be fun to watch but not much else.
An example of a game which had excellent visuals, audio, physics and concept but clumsy and annoying character – Gish. Gish was fun, but it would be much better if Gish was a bit more nimble while keeping some inertia.
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php%3Fid%3D166 RayRayTea

When will somebody finally make a good Blade Warrior game!

Hmmm now here’s an idea…
Craig Stern

Karry, I think the puzzles and skill in Night Game are going to be in how you navigate the world; just getting from point A to point B looks like it is going to be a puzzle that also requires some reflexes and sense of physics. Watch the trailer again.
King

Very well put Craig.
TCM

I love when pretentious and arrogant people presume all others to be arrogant and pretentious on the basis of them liking the trailer of an unreleased game.

Or something.
Chris Whitman

I don’t think the word ‘pretentious’ means what some people here seem to think it means.

In other news, I’m pretty excited for both Zeno Clash and Night Game. 2009 is already shaping up as an awesome year for indie games.
TCM

*I donâ€™t think the word â€˜pretentiousâ€™ means what some people here seem to think it means.*

I know it doesn’t.

Incidentally:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
Gene G.

Wow, there is 3 games coming out, all of which involve silhoutted characters in a physics-based world.

They all look very cool, but come on. What happened to the indie gaming world? Why does everything have to be silhoutted? I kinda wanna see some color.

Action fist looks cool, but nothing amazingly new either. Just another Gunstar Heroes-ish shooter. You can only put so many spins on the same gameplay mechanic.
Valkyrie

“Armenia peed on herself and starved to death anonymously.”

Fucking sold.
http://www.mawsoft.com/blog Impossible

b0rsuk: Have you actually played Night Game or are you making assumptions about the controls based on the videos? The ball in Night Game isn’t hard or clumsy to control, imo. You don’t get 100% direct control with zero inertia, and it still behaves like a ball, but it is much easier to move around than Gish is.
Radish

The night game remind me of a certain game…that you control a ball…the difference is that one is less imprvessive visually and you have more control (you can be different kind of balls)…the name escape me at the moment.
jimmykane

Wow, Zeno Clash looks fantastic. Got this nice, twisted Neil Gaiman-esque look to it.
A Guy

I’m looking forward to Zeno Clash more than Night Game. It looks great, and that narration in the trailer is pretty awesome.
Lyx

Radish: I think you are remembering “Ballance”. That game was more about dexterity and reflexes…. nightgame as usual for nicklas seems to be more biased towards atmosphere, rather than gameplay.
Jeff

Radish — you’ve gotta be thinking of Within a Deep Forest. Honestly I am really surprised this isn’t a nifflas game since it seems like such a direct comparison. What else have those guys done (besides Wii Cave Story, which couldn’t come soon enough)?
http://www.dyson-game.com Alex May

Uh it is Nifflas’s game, Nicalis is codeveloping it.
Robert

*Watches Zeno Clash trailer*
Congratulations to its makers, you now have my attention and interest…
qnp

I was really digging the Action Fist music.
Jeff

Well, awesome. WaDF was one of my favorite indie games, and I’m sure NS is going to be a stunner too.
Dustin

“They all look very cool, but come on. What happened to the indie gaming world? Why does everything have to be silhoutted? I kinda wanna see some color.”

Because it’s easy as fuck to draw and people love minimalism. And to people complaining about the lack of gameplay, you should be grateful it even has a little bit! Knytt didn’t have any at all.

It did have non-interactable characters and moody music though so instant classic!
Spenot

@ RayRayTea: Thanks, yeah, it was Limbo.
Huzzah

Action Fist looks better than all of these art games.
Phasma Felis

I really hope the dialog in the final version of Zeno Clash is less stupid. I mean, there’s “charmingly weird” and then there’s “doesn’t actually understand English…”
Phasma Felis

Though I do like the girl in the Zeno Clash video, whose expression so clearly says “what the *fuck* are you talking about?”

Sadly, I fear that was not the developers’ intention.