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Wadjet Eye Unavowed - Dave Gilbert's RPG-inspired urban fantasy game
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V_K
Arcane
Looks like his accuracy needs a bit of leveling up.
amateur. my fireball can beat his fireball
Ivan
Arcane
Is it just my imagination or does the game render at higher resolution than 320x200px?
MRY
Wormwood Studios
It's 640x400
DaveGilbert
Wadjet Eye Games
640 x 360, to fit with the all those newfangled (e.g., ten year old) monitor sizes!
Damn, time to upgrade my computer.
i bought $500 monitor for this
DaveGilbert
Wadjet Eye Games
Being chased down the Hudson River by a sea monster. As one is.
V_K
Arcane
It looks like it just wants to hug though.
Modron
Arcane
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Just another day in New York for those people huh?
Being chased down the Hudson River by a sea monster. As one is.
looks delicious. i love seafood.
DaveGilbert
i watched your adventurex 2016 presentation while driving home tonight (yes, i watch youtube while driving. i'm not dead yet) and quite fascinated by how you handle the forest room. props to you. anyway about the game itself is it gonna be bigger than shardlight?
i watched your adventurex 2016 presentation while driving home tonight (yes, i watch youtube while driving. i'm not dead yet) and quite fascinated by how you handle the forest room. props to you. anyway about the game itself is it gonna be bigger than shardlight?
DaveGilbert
Wadjet Eye Games
Very much so. It already is.
So weird watching myself in that video. I'm particularly impressed how I kept hold of that coffee cup almost the whole time.
nice. yeha, i noticed how you held that cup all the way trough .is the coffee really that good? lmao.
DaveGilbert
Wadjet Eye Games
Haha. Not "good" as much as "necessary." It was the first talk of the event and I was still jetlagged from travelling there. 
Great Deceiver
Arcane
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I'm sorry, I like Wadjet Eye games and all that, but praising Hamburger Helper and the execrable school of nu-Bioware game design just made me not want to watch that presentation at all.
Adventure games are a distinct class from RPGs. Even then, I would argue that gameplay matters even in adventure games, and that is part of the reason why modern adventures haven't felt as satistfying as older ones (less possible interaction - compare a modern adventure game to something like a Legend parser and you'll see what I mean, but even something more primitive like the old SCUMM verbs). Why can't you have both - a strong narrative and compelling gameplay? There's no reason not to, aside from low aspirations and a continually dumbed down, increasingly more passive audience.
In my opinion, cutting gameplay to "get to the story" defeats the purpose of games.
Of course, I'm just a random dude on a message board and you actually have a (well-established, even successful) company that puts out good games, I just found your opinions as expressed in the beginning of that video curious.
Adventure games are a distinct class from RPGs. Even then, I would argue that gameplay matters even in adventure games, and that is part of the reason why modern adventures haven't felt as satistfying as older ones (less possible interaction - compare a modern adventure game to something like a Legend parser and you'll see what I mean, but even something more primitive like the old SCUMM verbs). Why can't you have both - a strong narrative and compelling gameplay? There's no reason not to, aside from low aspirations and a continually dumbed down, increasingly more passive audience.
In my opinion, cutting gameplay to "get to the story" defeats the purpose of games.
Of course, I'm just a random dude on a message board and you actually have a (well-established, even successful) company that puts out good games, I just found your opinions as expressed in the beginning of that video curious.
So, Dave, you lovable bastard, will I be able to play this before summer 2017?
DaveGilbert
Wadjet Eye Games
That's... exactly what I was talking about doing? In the talk, I went step-by-step to show you how I tried to achieve exactly that. In the case of the forest-basement area in the video, I added several layers of gameplay to make the area more compelling. So I don't know where you are coming from here. If I am misunderstanding your post, please correct me.
Honestly, it's hard to say. I'm hoping to get it to beta by then, or at least a fully playable alpha. As I said in the talk, this game is looonnng and it's much harder to design for. I've been working on it full time since Shardlight launched in March, and I'm at about the halfway point. I'll announce a release date when I know for sure!
Nice. So this is so far WGE's buggest project? Will wait patiently and later 
DaveGilbert
Wadjet Eye Games
Nice. So this is so far WGE's buggest project? Will wait patiently and later
The game's not even out and people are talking about the bugs!
(I assume you mean biggest. In that case... yes. It's already the size of Blackwell Epiphany and we're only at the halfway point)
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