Update: Steam Features (and less waffle)

Steam Features

Steam trading cards added
Steam badges added
Steam emoticons added
Steam profile backgrounds added

Content

New event: 'The comm server' added
New event: 'The wall cavity' added

Narrative

The intro cutscene is now a lot more concise
Various in-game conversational dialogues are now a lot more concise
The Padrino introductory conversation is now much more concise
The death text is now much more concise, less patronising, and less waffly
'Flavour' conversations and performance-based conversations have been removed from the between-level conversations for now, as they add little to no value in their current state, but may potentially be reworked in the future
All between-level conversations regarding narrative events have been made much more concise

Tweaks

Major tweaks have been applied to the random level generation. This will also be further enhanced upon in future updates
Increased climbing cpeeds and normalised climbing animation speeds to compensate
Added smoothing and lenience to the camera's movement

Fixes

Resources will now properly reset after the tutorial
Fixed an issue with ice geysir spout not spawning correctly

[ 2017-01-09 18:08:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Mr Makeshifter

Arboreal Games Developer

Arboreal Games Publisher

2015-08-21 Release

Action Indie Casual Adventure Singleplayer EA Tags

Game News Posts: 20

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

1 user reviews (1 reviews)

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The Game includes VR Support

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To play the game 'straight' you would reach each successive exit until you surmount a final challenge. Action-driven puzzle elements encourage exploration and backtracking, and could lead you to alternative routes, or simply spice up the game world based on your choices.

Tools and 'Crafting'
Tools are strewn across the levels, and are sometimes tied to narrative outcomes. Activate two tools simultaneously to 'combine' them at the touch of a button, on-the-fly, to maintain the momentum of play.

For example: while wielding a pole, activate your spring as well to instantly have a pogo stick, then also activate a spike to have a pogo-drill that destroys terrain as you bounce.

Food
Food works in much the same way. For example: combine a sprig of death-fern with a haunch of fresh meat for a somewhat... nourishing morsel.

Player-Driven Endings
Uncover narrative threads that mutate the game world and on occasion lead you to alternative routes.

For example: you may choose to help a creature. They may lay an egg. The egg may hatch. The hatchling may follow you. A few events down the line and this creature could influence a unique ending for you. It may simply add flavour to the usual route. The point is that you make action-based decisions that mutate the game world.

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Features

Randomly generated levels
Combine tools for varied on-use effects and movement styles
Action-driven narrative choice
Real-time 2D shadows make the experience much more tactical (which is a lot more important than it sounds)
Extensive tutorial
Playable with an X-Box gamepad (Recommended actually)

Design Goals

Ultimate replay value.
Loads of possible equipment combinations.
To utilise the core mechanics of picking up, dropping, combining, storing, using, and consuming tools for as many aspects of play as possible, to prevent a disjointed experience.
Multiple methods for tackling multiple potential goals. To an extent, you loosely define these goals yourself.
Through mastery of the game's mechanics and equipment combinations, moment-to-moment gameplay decisions and goals shift from simple wanderlust to deliberate strategy.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04+
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or equivalentMemory: 512 MB RAM
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 9.0c+ Compliant Graphics Device
Storage: 250 MB available space

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