Wake

By: Xander

On: January 16th, 2010

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.

Posted in Adventure, Platformers, Puzzle, Windows

EE

If anyone would bother checking you’d know that the latest info about it is that it’s finished and going through some testing. And I for one do not see any reason to doubt that. Nor do I see any reason to start a bashfest guns blazing either.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion about each other, but it’s often best to build that opinion on your own experience.

There is no reason to start insulting the pants off James because Mina isn’t covered on Tigsource yet. You should more properly send fire and flames at Derek or someone else who decides what is covered.

Go beat a stick or something if you have to vent. It only spoils the community when you do it like this.
name fail

a wake is the trail left behind a ship as it moves. something a sinking ship does not produce, if i’m not mistaken.
Dodger

@name fail,

Maybe it was the wake of another larger ship that caused this ship to sink… Silly, yes. Improbable, yes. Impossible, no. In this case it could be referring to “left in the wake of” – an accident perhaps, a collision, capsizing, etc. But you’d have to ask James cuz maybe I’m entirely wrong. Still, I don’t really have a problem with the name because it’s sort of relative to the gameplay even if you have to be completely literal in the titles meaning (at least from what I’ve seen and read about it).

@everyone,

aww fuck, I still don’t understand why the level of hostility is necessary. It started off bad and didn’t get much better. I just hate seeing what can be a good group of people acting like asshats. It becomes kinda childish and ends up amounting to the same thing as cyber-bullying, the kind that children end up doing and suffering from. I just think it’s unneeded here and unwarranted.
OV

@Dodger, I don’t know this guy either, so I understand where you’re coming from but have you considered that maybe there’s something in this? It’s not impossible for game devs to be arrogant. Remember Derek’s posts about Introversion’s slogan (“the last of the bedroom programmers”) and spending sprees after the success of Darwinia?

I can catch a glimpse of what they’re talking about even from his comments here. Look at konjak’s post (#18) and James’ immediate response. Also look at his quote saying that he told everyone “time and time again” that a publisher was interested in his game. Does that sound like someone you’d like to know?
Jimbo

OV that was just to Adamski, not to everyone.
falsion

It just reminds me of the crap that used to happen in the click community. A lot of dick waving, showing off games that people never intended to release, all just to stroke their ego. To see that happen again this day and age gives me a really bad feeling. I’d keep my mouth shut otherwise, but I don’t like this, at all.
falsion

It just reminds me of the crap that used to happen in the click community. A lot of d**k waving, showing off games that people never intended to release, all just to stroke their ego. To see that happen again this day and age gives me a really bad feeling. Iâ€™d keep my mouth shut otherwise, but I donâ€™t like this, at all.
falsion

And yes, I was just kidding at first but I’m not so sure now after actually checking out the site and seeing that all this guy has to show for his game is a “rolling demo”
Jimbo

It was rolling because the game still has bugs, some of the doors don’t work which totally f**ks the game up. Was also done to see if it worked on other computers, I’ve tested it on both mine and the testers computers with varied results… one of them had a totally blank screen with music. But so far it seems that was isolated.

Didn’t think people would appreciate a trailer given that I’ve already had a few gameplay recordings of my other games and they don’t go down so well! Maybe that would have been for the best after all. Ah well.
indiegams

falsion if you don’t know who this guy is and have no proof of any of these accusations why don’t you just shut up?

at least pod and konjack have a reason to say something, you don’t.
falsion

cuz I know Pod and I’ve never seen him this upset before. This is unusual for him. He usually never takes anything this seriously. You can tell that something is up here, with him this personally offended at something. Doesn’t that strike you as at least a little bit peculiar? The fact that Konjack echos these statements is icing on the cake.

But you’re right, I should keep my mouth shut and let them do the talking since this has nothing to do with me.
indiegaems

also his name is â€œkonjakâ€ by the way. you got me spelling it wrong too now..
falsion

er, konjak, I meant. not konjack. looks like I started a trend.

i’m used to calling him zerotau anyway
ChrisD

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rinkuhero

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