So, when is the next big thing?

[Markie]

I know Jeff tweeted that we will be very surprised when it's announced, but what can it be? and when?

[gilesgoat]

I know Jeff tweeted that we will be very surprised when it's announced, but what can it be? and when?

"In a while" .. it's more now a "when I am done" than "when Jeff is done" .. I mean sure Jeff will be constantly refining it "until the last minute" but quite a lot of it been done ( gameplay speaking ) ..

Me instead I am in an "BIG phase of code re-arrangement" and I am at the moment quite a bit stressed because the work is really BIG ..

CANNOT SAY ONE WORD ABOUT THE GAME/ETC. except that "is really something YOU NEVER SEEN BEFORE" ... so this time is really something "totally new"

[Markie]

"is really something YOU NEVER SEEN BEFORE" ... so this time is really something "totally new"

That'll do for me Giles!

[PVB]

CANNOT SAY ONE WORD ABOUT THE GAME/ETC. except that "is really something YOU NEVER SEEN BEFORE" ... so this time is really something "totally new"

Can’t say because of a publisher marketing NDA or just that you don’t want to say?

A little bit of news (even without screenshots/video) is good marketing.

[gilesgoat]

CANNOT SAY ONE WORD ABOUT THE GAME/ETC. except that "is really something YOU NEVER SEEN BEFORE" ... so this time is really something "totally new"

Can’t say because of a publisher marketing NDA or just that you don’t want to say?

A little bit of news (even without screenshots/video) is good marketing.

It's VERY DIFFICULT to TALK about this game ... "anything we could say would give away probably enough hint to make it clear what the game is" ..

And this is not because "the game is simple" but "because it's really hard to describe it" and the moment you start trying to give some hint away that should NOT give much it's too hard and you end up in "giving away too much".

I really have no idea about what could be said without saying anything apart that humm ..

- it has A LOT of really nice effects

- quite complex mechanics, I mean the game is simple to play but has LOT of things going on/you can do

- surely people will get "nuts" IN A GOOD WAY to master the game/look for ways to get better scores

- I don't think there are many games, if any at all, with that sort of gameplay ( I mean "OK" from a "physical point of view" yes but the game as a whole hum .. I mean ok there's something you move and something you shoot but there's much more than this .. )

- it's "A very Minter's game"

- it has various elements of .. surprise ..

I am really not sure "how you could describe it" without giving anything too much away

[Markie]

and is there a vague idea of release date? or are we looking at Autumn/Winter?

[Deckard]

I would be more interested in the possible platform(s) than a release date.....

[gilesgoat]

I would be more interested in the possible platform(s) than a release date.....

.. you see this is where *I* go totally insane, I loose even more hair, I spend all the time with Visual Studio, I get strabananez with "forms" and ultimately I end up in wishing of lizards and stuff like that ..

Without kidding .. the answer is .. "ALL of them" ... well PC / Switch / VCS / PS4 / PS5 / Xbox variants .. IF I manage to get alive at the end of all this .. I'll get even more nuts .. I know ..

I dream of bytes .. (*)

.. release date .. I don't want to think about it now ... or I'll go super bananez ...



(*) actually no I dream of "extreme oddities" very rarely containing any of the stuff I'd really love to dream about ...

[gilesgoat]

and is there a vague idea of release date? or are we looking at Autumn/Winter?

NOOOOOOO AAAAARGH NOOOOO !!! ( see below ) ...

[Little stoned kiwi]

super bananez

Is that the working title?

[Deckard]

No its "Giles goes mental with a hedge strimmer and kills half of Wales"

[VanAlphen]

Looking forward to this. If possible a demo and participation in a Steam Next Fest a few weeks or months prior to release helps with exposure.

[gilesgoat]

Looking forward to this. If possible a demo and participation in a Steam Next Fest a few weeks or months prior to release helps with exposure.

Any "reveal" of the thing DOES NOT depend on us .. I suspect "those with powers" will want to keep it secret until the last moment ...

[Frogacuda]

CANNOT SAY ONE WORD ABOUT THE GAME/ETC. except that "is really something YOU NEVER SEEN BEFORE" ... so this time is really something "totally new"

Can’t say because of a publisher marketing NDA or just that you don’t want to say?

A little bit of news (even without screenshots/video) is good marketing.

It's VERY DIFFICULT to TALK about this game ... "anything we could say would give away probably enough hint to make it clear what the game is" ..

And this is not because "the game is simple" but "because it's really hard to describe it" and the moment you start trying to give some hint away that should NOT give much it's too hard and you end up in "giving away too much".

I really have no idea about what could be said without saying anything apart that humm ..

- it has A LOT of really nice effects

- quite complex mechanics, I mean the game is simple to play but has LOT of things going on/you can do

- surely people will get "nuts" IN A GOOD WAY to master the game/look for ways to get better scores

- I don't think there are many games, if any at all, with that sort of gameplay ( I mean "OK" from a "physical point of view" yes but the game as a whole hum .. I mean ok there's something you move and something you shoot but there's much more than this .. )

- it's "A very Minter's game"

- it has various elements of .. surprise ..

I am really not sure "how you could describe it" without giving anything too much away

Unity, back from the dead and upgraded to WiiU, awww yeah.

[Misfit]

Yes, it would be really bad if you released some details and generated some excitement, and actually did some potential marketing...

That would be terrible.