Sneak Peek At Bionic Dues

[Aquohn]

Er, somewhat off-topic, but shouldn't the banner at the top be announcing Bionic Dues instead of SC and EotM?

[Oralordos]

So the game is an alternate universe from AI War where space technology was never developed? 

Is there going to be multiplayer? You have had it in every game so far, but a turn based game is harder to develop a good multiplayer for.

[tigersfan]

Er, somewhat off-topic, but shouldn't the banner at the top be announcing Bionic Dues instead of SC and EotM?

Fixed. Sorry about that. I kind of forgot about that part of the forums, then when you mentioned it, I was off.

[x4000]

So the game is an alternate universe from AI War where space technology was never developed? 

Is there going to be multiplayer? You have had it in every game so far, but a turn based game is harder to develop a good multiplayer for.

Sorry, I missed this for some reason -- yep, there is multiplayer!

[Winge]

Color me interested.  A roguelike that isn't FTL does sound nice right now.

[MaxAstro]

Hm, for some reason the way you describe this reminds me of the new X-Com game.

Which is one of my favorite games ever, so color me interested. 

[x4000]

This has drifted more in the direction of roguelike than tactics game in its actual moment-to-moment play, I should note.  Though all of the big picture stuff is the same, and really it's just come down to what felt most natural and fluid as we prototyped repeatedly.

[keith.lamothe]

Even the big-picture stuff has changed a lot since we talked about it initially, iirc, but that's not as recent a change.

[x4000]

Actually, most of the sections up there are pretty much unchanged; we waited until pretty darn late to talk about this, so that helps.

[Penumbra]

This just makes waiting all that more difficult... 

[nas1m]

This just makes waiting all that more difficult... 

Yeah, Chris must be really busy for having leaked this few information so far .
Looking really forward to this one. The more roguelike the better!

[Penumbra]

I wonder if it would take only a little push to get Chris to spill more info.....



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[keith.lamothe]

I wonder if it would take only a little push to get Chris to spill more info.....

You might be on to something.

[nas1m]

I wonder if it would take only a little push to get Chris to spill more info.....



::poke::

I think you might be right .


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[x4000]

I am planning to post some screenshots pretty soon, which is something.

But if you like, I'll leave you with some cryptic tidbits because I'm just mean like that:

1. Your Exos can "whistle" (not in a musical sense), and it's critical to your survival for a reason that is obvious once you play the game.
2. Your Exos are super fragile.  Seriously, it's easy to screw up a mission pretty darn fast.
3. There is a stealth move that looks really awesome on your Exos, and which lets you move freely for a bit.
4. The first main thing that changed since my original writeup is that you only control one Exo at a time, despite your roster of four being at your fingertips.  This was mentioned earlier in the thread.
5. The second big thing is that the concept of AP (in a tactics game sense) is gone, and instead this controls more like a traditional roguelike.  That just felt more natural.
6. Here's a few more Exo portraits if you like.