In Case of Emergency, Release Raptor (tuxdb.com)

In Case of Emergency, Release Raptor

Arcen Games, LLC Developer

Arcen Games, LLC Publisher

2016-08-29 Release

Action Indie Adventure SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 34

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support

Mostly Positive (86 reviews)

http://arcengames.com/in-case-of-emergency-release-raptor/

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The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Raptor Linux [2.26 G]

Update to the press preview build.

There have been a few other updates since the press preview build first went live (I think 4?), but I figured this time I should actually post some release notes somewhere. I'll get more organized about that later; normally we have huge release notes pages that are very well organized. Things of note in this patch to the preview, anyway: -some various new ambient sound effects from objects in the Lab demo level. -fixed up the area secure message in such a way that nobody should be having a freeze when it's coming up anymore. We had two people with that issue, and nobody else, so it was a finicky sort of a thing. -fixed up an issue where sounds were propagating incorrectly in some places (like the lab). -fixed a bug where if you had the objective counter turned off, it would not finish levels (not sure anyone saw this but me). -fixed an issue where the speed of the raptor's movement got reverted at some point to being slightly too fast for its animations. (so it looked like she was sliding along the floor -- oops) -the turn speed of the raptor has been cut in half to give a better sense of control of it when using the keyboard in particular. -- Misery had suggested making this faster, and in certain ways that makes sense, but as Quinn pointed out this leads to LESS control on the keyboard+mouse. It also felt more cartoony in general. I'd like for this to not require quite that degree of turning speed in general, mainly because you have the side-jumps and tail-slaps anyhow. I may make this customizable if this continues to be an issue of taste, though. -The default sensitivity on the mouse and gamepad camera controls is now higher so that people won't feel those are sluggish if their DPI isn't set in a good way. They are more likely to look for adjustments if it feels too fast than too slow. -The settings menu now has messages about where you can find the settings for the inversion of mouse, and messages about how to tune the performance of the game, etc. Some folks were missing these things, so a little note helps out.

[ 2016-06-19 16:31:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Be a velociraptor.
Feel like a velociraptor -- this is our central design goal.
Procedural levels: a pleasing blend of hand-crafted locales and randomization.
Fight robots! Tear giant ones limb from limb, pounce on small ones, and try not to die.

Sell Me The Idea In One Sentence

If I have to convince you why being any form of dromaeosaurid is freaking awesome, then I'm not sure we can be friends.

This game is carefully crafted to give you the closest possible feeling of being one of these glorious monsters -- then turning you loose to do fun stuff. That means you don't get (or need) "frickin lasers," health upgrades, or character progression.

That said, as we know from historical documents, it's hard to be a raptor in a futuristic dystopia. Robots have guns, and you don't. Despite the fact that you're an incredible hunting machine, you've got your work cut out for you if you want to master the game.

What’s The Point?

1. For the pure fun of the thing. In 1993, a certain game let you be a raptor. The controls were iffy. The levels were short and static. It's very dated. Yet many of us still dust it off periodically -- just to be a raptor. Release Raptor gives you a far more satisfying, modern, dynamic experience.
2. For the challenge. Brutal Mode approximates what a real theropod might experience when attacked by robots. Aka, if you get shot by a rocket that's the end. You'll need to use all your raptor skills to tear your foes to shreds.
3. To play with kids. I want to be able to play this with my 5 year old son, but still have dismemberment (because that's cool). How to do that without blood or gore? Robots! Little robots = pouncing targets; giant mechs = dismemberment targets.
4. For a power trip. Brutal Mode is only fun for some. So we have Power Trip Mode, where you're on an invincible rampage. It's not about IF you can do it, but how WELL you do it. Speedrunning is encouraged. Your performance is scored and rated (avoiding hits, etc), so mistakes still have consequences.
5. For daily runs — maybe. My hope is to build out some daily leaderboards for both play modes, but no promises on that yet.
6. For the strategy of it — probably. The idea is to make these branching mazes kind of like AI War: Fleet Command maps in terms of how they provide you with opportunities. Each opportunity may increase the heat you take while moving forward, but at the same time net you some good things (thematic secondary goals like blowing up part of the facility, etc). I think I have figured out how to avoid excessive backtracking or frustration with this, but I don't want to state that as a definite feature until I have it prototyped in.

NB: Yes, we know that’s not a velociraptor (and there should be feathers).

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 10.10 or later. although other unsupported distros may work
Processor: Dual Core 64bit CPU (2.2+ GHz Dual Core CPU or better)Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 8xxx+. Radeon X2400+. or Intel G45+
Storage: 5 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Important: final specs may substantially differ. but this is our best guess for now.
RECOMMENDED SETUPProcessor: Any Quad Core or 3.0+ GHz Dual Core CPUMemory: 5 GB RAM
Memory: 5 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD 7870 2GBAdditional Notes: Important: final specs may substantially differ. but this is our best guess for now.

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