VVVVVV Trailer

By: Brandon McCartin (BMcC)

On: September 14th, 2009

Distractionware‘s Terry Cavanagh has released this trailer for his upcoming gravity-shifting platformer/exploration game VVVVVV. (Yes, VVVVVV.) Initially a small “design exercise,” VVVVVV has evolved into Terry’s biggest game yet. A few months and nearly 200 screens later, it’s looking great.

Head over to Terry’s dev log for more details and screens. And look for VVVVVV to be released “in the next few weeks.” (Hopefully!)

Posted in Physics, Platformers, Videos | Tags: TerryCavanagh

Benji

This is awesome. Especially if it comes with the NES-esque music.
Argh

It’s got a great Jet Set Willy vibe to it with the names of the rooms and the random looking enemy graphics.
jeb

http://twitter.com/terrycavanagh/status/2446708255

=)
Sam

Like Mighty Jill Off and Tower of Heaven and so forth, another “pixel-perfect jump” platformer that I will seethe and froth at and complete in its entirety.
Technicolorjesuschristsuperstar

Cave Story rip-off, BUT, this looks absolutely amazing. Beatles Rock Band WAS the greatest game this past decade… for a week… Now we have “VVVVVV”, which is now THE greatest game within a decade!

Hallelujah!

Sweet!
http://0xdeadc0de.org Eclipse

looks trippy, cannot wait to play it.

…Beatles Rock band was what?
JoeHonkie

Looks sweet. I love the retro PC font.
http://members.cox.net/crazyduck84 Rynen10K

Oh, hey, SuperJoe.

Even though the mechanic isn’t exactly new (see Metal Storm), it looks like this game expands upon the idea of gravity-switching.

Should be fun :)
hryx

It’s like he turned the album art from “OK Computer” into a game. Terry Cavanagh keeps winning!

At first I thought this might relate to the multimedia toolkit VVVV.
Annihilator Beta

One word. Awesome. Cannot wait.
someonespecial

Lookin’ good!
I only hope he finds the right balance between puzzles and exploration because, quite honestly, I’m more than a bit tired of “puzzle platformers”. Might have something my general preference for action and/or strategy oriented games but whatever, more power to you, Terry!
http://www.woggleknot.com Adam94

Looks awesome. Looking forward to it!
Anthony Flack

Looks fuckin’ rad. Great style, fast and unforgiving-looking platform action, and yeah, that charming Jet Set Willy vibe. Definitely keen.
superflat

Aye.
handCraftedRadio

looks like I’m going to be playing this one while doing a handstand.
Paul Eres

i don’t get what the green lines do
Paul Eres

oh, to flip twice (figured it out)
Mooseral

Huh, makes me think of the old NES game Metal Storm. Same sort of flip-gravity-avoid-spikes type concept. But still awesome, even today.

Playing with gravity is usually fun, and always funky. Looking good to me!
seth

yeah apparently Terry hadn’t heard of Metal Storm when he made this, so either it’ll just be the same ideas or (from what it looks like) approaching the same concept from an entirely different angle–I like that you can’t jump in this game, where as (i think) you could jump in Metal Storm. Plus MS was very actiony.
Mooseral

This one also appears to have dystopian bits flying around everywhere, which sets it apart somewhat.

Also the fact that the player only changes his own gravity? Metal Storm’s gravity changes affected the whole level, as I recall.
O_o

Scary and awesome in an awesome-I-think-I-would-totally-spazz-out-playing-this-game kind of way. Seems really fun, yet also really hard. Thumbs up anyway for the teaser vid.
guy

Oh hey, gravity inversion. Never seen that gameplay mechanic before.
Anthony Flack

It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it.
http://mixtape.be/ boomlinde

>Oh hey, gravity inversion. Never seen that gameplay mechanic before.

Oh hey, platform game. What are you trying to say here?

It looks pretty fun, but the music is awful and seems to lack direction. I hope the in-game music will actually be something less obnoxious and more fitting for puzzle game play.
http://lumberingdream.com/ !CE-9

it’s like the gaming equivalent of pop songs. in a very good way.

yeah, what do the green lines do?
Shortbread

Oh wow i want this so bad. I especially love the music and hope it’s that awesome ingame.
cm

Sometimes you can tell you’re going to suck at a game just by looking at it :

Looks great, though. I like the level designs.
perse

The music is the best part of the video.
juice

V6 does look very promising in a Jet Set Willy way :)

That said, a lot of the rooms appear to be lacking in safe starting points – “Give me a V” and “Manic Mine” being examples. Hopefully there’ll be something to balance this out a little!
Ezuku

Sweet, but looks like it’ll be too difficult for me to play.
http://mixtape.be/ boomlinde

The track itself is not that bad, it’s just that I don’t think it would fit a game, especially not one like this.
Paul Eres

@ !CE-9 – watching the video carefully, the green lines allow you to flip gravity while in the air, as opposed to only being able to flip it while you’re on the ground
cmpsice

loving use of text.
Anthony Flack

There’s a room called “Manic Mine”? Excellent.
Mailman

Looks promising! Can’t wait to see the final product!
Chris Whitman

This looks like awesome fun. Terry’s stuff is usually top notch.
JamesGecko

This reminds me of an unfinished prototype I made in Games Factory years ago when I first became interested in developing games. At the time I couldn’t figure out how to keep it from getting too easy what with the player using gravity inversion to easily bypass obstacles.

Oh, spikes! Brilliant! And wrapping around the room! Why didn’t I think of that? ;-)
http://souleye.madtracker.net SoulEye

If you like the music, download them and more at my page! Full versions, HQ bitrates. http://souleye.madtracker.net

ps. Gamedevs can me for project work. ds.
FLaiL

http://mattmakesgames.com/games.php
FLaiL anyone? Gameplay looks exactly like in FLaiL, what is by the way a great game. Total rip-off.
Paul Eres

you couldn’t manually change your gravity in flail, you had to go into special lights and such
Barf

Not enough boobies.
Ark

WELL SAID!!!

Give us ***BOOBIES***

Gravity defying BOOBIES!!!!!
Xeno

Very much reminds me of Flail.. looks easier than Flail though!
Nemsin

Does flail have boobies?