Wadjet Eye Primordia - A Point and Click Adventure - Now Available

[MRY]

I think there actually is gender in Primordia, particularly if you think gender is a social construct. :D

 

[Zarniwoop]

So is there any chance of getting it on smartphones for adults and non-hipsters?

The Android version of Gemini Rue was perfect on a Galaxy Note with the stylus.

 

[MRY]

I think there will be an android port along with the iPhone, but I don't know.

 

[MRY]

And with that, a Russian player pushes us up to 900 Steam reviews.

:russia:

 

[vortex]

I would like combat gameplay mechanics in Primordia 2 similar to Pillars of Eternity. MRY, could you you make RPG adventure game?

 

[MRY]

Funny you should mention that, as a Chinese review just said: "If made 3D action RPG, will be very amazing."

 

[vortex]

Funny you should mention that, as a Chinese review just said: "If made 3D action RPG, will be very amazing."

Yep, Chinese are right.

 

[MRY]

Once again two bucks on GOG, only now if you bundle it with other games it gets even cheaper (I think?): https://af.gog.com/promo/20160722_weekend_promo_rebellion_wadjet_eye_double_fine?as=1649904300

 

[tuluse]

MRY

Do you have a discussion thread for your new project? Some place we can get overhyped, butthurt, and ultimately just call you a dumbfuck?

 

[Infinitron]

MRY

Do you have a discussion thread for your new project? Some place we can get overhyped, butthurt, and ultimately just call you a dumbfuck?

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...ng-rpg-ish-game-from-wormwood-studios.106012/

 

[Anthedon]

Finally played (and enjoyed) this. Post-apocalyptic stuff is somewhat rare in adventures and this was well done. The robots revering Man The Builder as some quasi-mythological figure was a nice touch. Only complaint I have is that it was too short. I'd have loved to explore some of the themes more. Oh well, going to check out the novella now.

 

[MRY]

Thanks! Consensus seems to be it's too short. In hindsight, it would've been better if the emergency exit from the Council Tower dumped you into a new area (probably the Cathedral), which would've helped pace out the ending a bit too. Glad you liked it. "Fallen" is really too short to be a novella itself, more of a short story. But it's something!

[EDIT: Also, thanks for posting. We basically live by positive word of mouth given the crappiness of our commercial reviews.]

 

[Zarniwoop]

That's a problem with most adventure games these days.

Of course your average modern "gamer" has the attention span of a goldfish but with a game like Primordia you really want it to keep going since it has a well developed setting and backstory that you just want to keep exploring.

 

[MRY]

Yes, it's one reason why I have such admiration for Quest for Infamy -- when one talks about the pyramid at Giza, the main point of interest isn't whether it's a perfect square pyramid (although it's pretty great in that respect, too), but simply that it's gigantic. Most adventure games now are miniatures and some of them are very fine miniatures but it's really a very different beast (much easier to make, imho, because you need fewer coherent ideas and thematic puzzles).

 

[Bubbles]

Cyberpunk adventure game "Primordia" heads to iPhone/iPad on September 21

Wadjet Eye Games is in the process of bringing their catalog of acclaimed adventure games to the App Store, and a new one is almost here! The cyberpunk adventure Primordia will release for iPhone and iPad on September 21.

Original launch trailers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YvWQi_5fsw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBNfqwt3YyQ

Review copies: App Store promo codes are available now for press - please email pr@wadjeteyegames.com to request one. Prefer to check out Primordia on Windows? No worries, we have Steam keys too!

 

[Beastro]

Like the treatment of religion, it's very "human" in that it's inaccurate, and yet has a kernel of truth to it and hope.

What stands out though is what doesn't stand out, that the deeper implications of the story and world are left unsaid for you to figure out, that make them all the more unsettling that even the characters don't really understand the full impact of the truth. It makes for a neat balance between serious themes and a sweet innocence, which a lot of good adventure games possess. I've read elsewhere people arguing over the influence of BASS in the game, but that one is one of the biggest.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Still too brown.

 

[Beastro]

Still too brown.

At least for once it's thematic and appropriate.

 

[MRY]

Thanks, Beastro -- we were definitely shooting for that balance. I don't know that BASS was really the inspiration for that; almost all of its inspiration was on the art side, though I'm sure I subconsciously pilfered stuff, too.

I wouldn't mind more range in the palette, but it does sort of fit the theme. We actually have a joke about it in the "Fallen" spin-off story: "This was how it had looked: like an oil painting in reds and browns, abstract and smeared, then reduced to crude squares. . . ."

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I don't mind the pallete in itself, I just genuinely had massive problem finding hotspots, and ended up abandoning the game completely. Which is a shame really, the game had lovely atmosphere.

 

[MRY]

The iPhone version has a hotspot highlighter! Problem solved.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

The iPhone version has a hotspot highlighter! Problem solved.

Oh, thanks! I've been playing these games for 25 years and normally have zero problem with pixel hunting, but for whatever reason Primordia was too much. That should definitely solve the problem.

 

[MRY]

Possibly some degree of color blindness? Not being facetious, it's something give discovered as I got older that gets taken for granted. Anyway, iOS version is slightly inferior (mouse is always better!) but it's cheaper and solves this issue.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Possibly some degree of color blindness? Not being facetious, it's something give discovered as I got older that gets taken for granted. Anyway, iOS version is slightly inferior (mouse is always better!) but it's cheaper and solves this issue.

Funny you should say that, because that was my first thought too, when I've read other people don't have any problems. I've had basic tests done way back and everything was fine, but with an unusual pallette like that, it's possible that I have some sort of slight color blindness that standard tests don't cover.

 

[MRY]

There's a puzzle in the game where you see something kind of like the old Red Reveal decoder, and I had a great exchange with a player who insisted that his version of the game was glitched because on his, it was all red and illegible. Eventually we figured out that, in fact, he couldn't distinguish between shades of red. Primordia: the new WebMD!