Video Previews in Space

By: Derek Yu

On: April 30th, 2009

First up, the fantastic-looking Gratuitous Space Battles, from Positech Games (Democracy, Kudos). Wow. Amazing. Scale.

Next is Oddbob’s SYNSO: Squid Harder, the sequel to the retina-obliterating arena shoot ’em up Squid Yes! Not So Octopus!. (Source: the2bears)

Finally, a very early preview of Bullet Candy 2. Charlie, the creator, has also released a new version of Space Phallus with two new levels. (Source: the2bears)

Kudos 2 2 soduKo

By: Lorne Whiting

On: October 13th, 2008

Positech Games released Kudos 2 recently, so, yeah, have at.

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The game’s a sequel to their possibly-popular life-sim Kudos (which I think Rockstar was a spin off of?). The main change to the sequel, to my knowledge, is that they hired an artist to vector them up some non-undead (which I guess would go back to being dead? It’s a conundrum since the graphics are good and livin’) graphics.

And uh, that tells you nothing about the game, so, it’s like the Sims only instead of having a family of people who pee themselves and catch on fire, you play from a first person perspective and spend all your money making your friends hate you because you go bowling too much.

The game has a lot of charm, as a sim game should, and it’s easy to get hooked. It might seem shallow at first, with very little to do, but in the minimal GUI there’s a lot of depth: many activities do more than the basic “you did this all day, you get 14 heart points”, and you unlock new activities, make more friends, and piss more friends off with time.

So, yeah, check it out.

(Thanks, seregrail7!)