Vapourware Routine - Upcoming First Person Space Horror

[potatojohn]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/15/deserves-some-buzz-routine-is-amnesia-on-the-moon/

Routine is a first person horror exploration game set on an abandoned Moon base. Your job is to find enough data to uncover the truth behind the strange disappearance of everyone stationed on the Lunar Research Station.

A non linear experience lets you explore any part of the fully open Moon base and find out secrets that other players may not!
Be immersed with Full body awareness, Deadzone aiming, no HUD, no health bars or points system... you must run, hide and survive the best you can against what lurks in the base.
There are no health packs or multiple lives, in Routine there is a Perma death system that will keep you on the edge!

Looks like near sci-fi, my favourite.

 

[Peter]

Trailer is too short for me to really form any sort of opinion, but it certainly sounds cool. We need more hard-ish, not totally ridiculous sci-fi in video games. Looking forward to more screens/vids/info.

 

[Phelot]

Yeah, not much to go on, but it sounds kind of cool. Wonder if there will be Event Horizon vibes.

 

[Brayko]

Sounds cool, but the trailer didn't really do it justice. *waits for next batch of previews*.

 

[MapMan]

Trailer sets the right mood, looks good. Gotta wait to see a gameplay preview.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

I'm somewhat worried about the mention of an upgradable weapon. Hopefully, it's a puzzle-solving machine like the gravity gun in HL2. Other than that:

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Okay.

I noticed.

 

[Don Peste]

Do you remember these two?
http://www.dreamdawn.com/sh/gallery.php?name=Echo Night: Beyond,Nebula - Echo Night
http://www.moddb.com/mods/hollow-moon

 

[Flanged]

This looks to be a thing that will be of interest in the future.

 

[Excidium]

Looks cool. Seems to be a retro sci-fi, what with those diskettes lying around.

 

[Whisky]

Perma-death, just like on the real moon

As opposed to our temp-death on Earth?

Though yes, the game looks interesting.

 

[Jaesun]

THIS (in reading the description) Is what I wished Dead Space would have been. Instead of:

Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters Enter new corridor, get ambushed by monsters

That shit got old quick. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

 

[dnf]

This kind of complaining is very similar to the people that said "DooM is just about hunting keys in the levels"! Yeah, i know that games need to have variety,complexity,etc.. but if your implementation of variety is half-arsed like ME1-that make the public praise the sequel for axing features-then is better to just stick to what work. That been said, i think the combat in Dead Space is good for modern standarts.

 

[Malpercio]

Looks interesting, i'm in.

 

[General Maxson]

I think this look good! I dig that kind of subtle retro sci fi horror settings. Will wait to see more.

 

[DraQ]

As of now there is 99% probability that I will buy this game when it's released.

 

[keppj0nes]

Has anyone been following this game? Seems pretty promising given their selling points here. I guess I haven't seen a game since Myst that drops you in an open world with objects around you, leaving you to figure out what to do, with no quest compass NPCs yelling and pointing at the next objective. Is anyone familiar with Steam Greenlight? Was that a good route for this game to take? I have no idea what that is.

• A non linear experience lets you explore any part of the fully open Moon base and find out secrets that other players may not!
• Be immersed with Full body awareness, Deadzone aiming, no HUD, no health bars or points system... you must run, hide and survive the best you can against what lurks in the base.
• There are no health packs or multiple lives, in Routine there is a Perma death system that will keep you on the edge!

http://www.lunar-software.com

 

[potatojohn]

We've discussed this game before, about as much as you can discuss a game that's described only very vaguely and has one trailer and 5 screenshots to show for.

It looks like it has potential but we need more information.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/routine-penumbra-in-space.75147/

The setting in space and horror elements are very intriguing. But it needs more information that the project lives.

 

[Jaesun]

Gozma have you heard of this game yet?

 

[Gozma]

I have now

Seems kinda "immersion based" rather than having tension based on basic gameplay, and it's on an indie budget... so I dunno

"Has potential" for now

 

[Boyarpunk]

I've had my eye on it since it was first mentioned here. Horror + space = hell yeahs (if done right).

 

[SerratedBiz]

I like the idea of a permadeath system in a horror game, though I don't know how well it'd work in practice. I either see the length of the game falling short or its ability to surprise you being lacking, as focusing on either of the two inevitably hurts the other.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Permadeath.

Also, Four (4) people only are working on this. A testament to how small, dedicated, tireless and smart teams can out-compete bloated teams who only know routine (haha) and over-specialization (I model guns!), not creativity and challenge.

Yeah Ken Levine, take note.

 

[warpig]

3:15 - floppy disks still in use in the future.

A non linear experience lets you explore any part of the fully open Moon base and find out secrets that other players may not!

I like the sound of that, linear horror games just suck. It looks very nice and atmosperic, impressive for a four-people team. I wonder about this permadeath thing, maybe combat will be rare and avoidable, with the game concentrating on exploration an puzzles. I can't really picture a combat-heavy game with permadeath, unless it's very short.