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Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/307580/
GOG pre-order: http://af.gog.com/game/technobabylon_deluxe_edition?as=1649904300
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There’s so much to celebrate about how the game’s story is put together. While familiar tropes are in place, they’re often delivered in surprising ways. It’s far too deeply into spoiler territory to give good examples, but just having an all-powerful sentient AI that isn’t moustache-twirling evil, or terrorist baddies whose ill-actions aren’t entirely clear-cut, makes for something a lot more sophisticated than we’ve come to expect. No, it’s not the new Philip K. Dick, but it’s pleasing to see echoes.
Overall, Technobabylon is a superb game, and a game that deserved a better platform than the increasingly aching Adventure Game Studio. I desperately hope publishers Wadjet Eye will be moving on from the needlessly retro engine in the future, and allowing Ben Chandler’s exquisite pixel art to shine in something like Unity. It gives a beautiful and superbly written game a clunkiness it doesn’t merit.
But it is a beautiful-looking and well-written game, in a way that adventures far too rarely see. It’s a game that proves to me that I’m right to demand so much more from point-n-clickers that get eulogised despite their enormous flaws. It has restored my faith that the genre deserves high expectations, even if it occasionally fails to meet them. And it’s a long, detailed chunk of hefty sci-fi, with some careful character work.
I believe just published.Is this a game made by Dave Gilbert, or does he just publish it ? I'm too lazy to google it.
So now, one can only wonder what Gilbert is up to.
So now, one can only wonder what Gilbert is up to.
Any chance you can tell us what you're working on now that Technobabylon is out?!
Internally we are working on a game called Shardlight, a post-apocalyptic type game. It's being written by our new full-time designer (with me as consultant!) and it's shaping up to be pretty sweet. I haven't talked much about it yet, but now that Technobabylon is done you'll be hearing more. We have some basic info on this website: www.shardlight-game.com
Game has been pretty easy so far (finished act 4, I think, binary is confusing me) with each act taking place in 3 screens max and you having 7 items on you at best. The game also seems to lack the infamous hazy adventure game logic (the worst thing so far has been the fishing the gun out og a jacuzzi puzzle, which is pretty mild as far as classic adventure games go).
Also no wonder Walker liked this, it's Tumblr: the Adventure settings wise, with MtF transsexual as one of the protagonists, interracial gay married couples, religious secessionists waging a war in Texas and heroic teenage rebels fighting the Man's evil online.