Game News ICY Released

[Infinitron]

Tags: Icy; Inner Void Interactive

ICY, the post-apocalyptic Ice Age survival RPG from indie developer Inner Void Interactive that was Indiegogo'd just over five months ago, was released today. It's now available on Steam for the price of $13 minus 25% launch discount. Here's the launch trailer:

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An additional gameplay trailer is also available. Codexers who have played ICY's beta report a similarity to the excellent NEO Scavenger, so you might want to check it out.

 

[Kem0sabe]

To forever be remembered as 'that rpg with the retarded name.'

 

[Namutree]

That was one try hard voice actor.

 

[Cassidy]

To forever be remembered as 'that rpg with the retarded name.'

That was already pretty much achieved by xenial ELEX.

Stereotypical Villain, what are you impressions about this game?

 

[Tigranes]

Oh god, what a terrible, terrible voiceover. It's a good thing I already backed the game, or it might scare me off a purchase.

Good on them for finishing and looking forward to trying soon.

 

[Lady_Error]

Some people in Steam claim that it is still very buggy. Might be worth waiting for the first couple of patches.

 

[naossano]

Is it iron man game ?
It would probably make the thing much better...

 

[Kem0sabe]

From reading the steam discussions and reviews, game is nowhere near ready for release.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

Stereotypical Villain, what are you impressions about this game?

No tentacle rape, no likey!

 

[Mortmal]

No tentacle rape, no likey!

Nope no tentacle rape . Even the pic with boobies, they removed it . in fact they cut part of it , probably not to offend codexers.... After all the abuse they got cause of it , not too surprising.

 

[thesheeep]

Put it on my to-buy-despite-lack-of-tentacle-rape-list.

 

[Harg Harfardarssen]

Put it on my to-buy-despite-lack-of-tentacle-rape-list.

Modders will fix it.

 

[M0RBUS]

I'm playing it on my YouTube channel and I'm having lots of fun.

There are few bugs though and a few typos and weird sentences.
So far, it's nicer than NEO Scavenger on the story front, but gameplay-wise, it's not even close. This is very much a text adventure kind of deal.
But it does promise lots of CnC, that's for sure.

 

[Crane]

 

[Bubbles]

All of those indie devs could probably get free proof reading from their fan forums.

 

[edhead]

The writing is fucking atrocious both stylistically and grammatically. For a narrative-driven game, that's a big no-no. After half-an hour and a particularly cringe-worthy encounter of "black dude vs racists", all I can say is "Thank Gabe for Steam refunds".

 

[OwNathan]

The writing is fucking atrocious both stylistically and grammatically. For a narrative-driven game, that's a big no-no. After half-an hour and a particularly cringe-worthy encounter of "black dude vs racists", all I can say is "Thank Gabe for Steam refunds".

I am sorry for that.

I am not a native speaker and that's why we managed to find some editors, but the fact is that none of them actually said me "Hey, the writing in the early stages of the game sucks", so some not so nice things ended in the final game. I felt confident that the editing process could fix this stuff, but it needed some rewriting all across some parts of the game. According to different feedbacks coming from native speakers, after those early stages the writing improves dramatically.

The only thing we can do now is check all those dialogues and fix them. And we're already doing that, with the help of some native speakers and a native writer. For example the racists part got already fixed, now it should appear less like a retarded "Hey, we're racist, so we're obviously the bad guys" and more like "Meh, we need slaves, black slaves will give us less ethical issues".

If there's someone interested in helping us, not for free, we'll be more than willing to have another person to work with us on this issue. EDIT: We found someone and the script is getting heavily edited.

 

[ElderGnome]

Some people in Steam claim that it is still very buggy. Might be worth waiting for the first couple of patches.

That's what I'm waiting for. It looks interesting enough for me to give it a whirl, but I'm waiting to see if the bugs get fixed.

 

[OwNathan]

We found a way to get all the script fixed in no more than 2 weeks, and we'll keep patching and improving the game in the meantime, so I highly suggest you to wait a couple weeks until most issues will be solved.

 

[Irenaeus II]

Make the racists the good guys and I'll buy it.

Oh wait, I already bought it

 

[Lurker King]

I accepted a lot of new members on my team, but the increase in consummation of food was too much. I died of starvation.

Make the racists the good guys and I'll buy it.

I think you can help the racists, if you so choose.