Bifrost Entertainment is based in the cold harsh lands of Norway. The bridge connecting the mortal realm to Valhalla, Bifrost represents the link between the player and the game with the aim of delivering original and refreshing games to players of all ages, across platforms. Their award-winning first app, Maja and the Magic Mirror, will be followed by action title Myriad.
http://www.bifrostent.com/
Myriad is a stark naked action game where you make and break worlds. Your choices and actions bend time and are translated into space, as well as an exponential number of new threats. The more space, the more enemies -- until you detonate your newborn cosmos in a brilliant daisy-chain of destruction and start over again. Player actions conduct the soundtrack and give the world rhythm, each performance streamed or stored for future editing and sharing. Show off your record-breaking rounds, or invite people to watch as you conduct a symphony of colour, shape and sound.
http://www.bifrostent.com/#...
Play on: Coming to Windows, Mac and Linux with more platforms to be announced.
Mini Q&A
answers by Erlend Grefsrud, Co-Founder
Why do you make games?
For the challenge the opportunity to explore and maybe help define an emerging art form.
I think in terms of games -- some people have story ideas, some invent riffs or write melodies, their imagination finely tuned to particular modes of expression.
Mine is games. I come up with structures and systems for games, and I have to make them.
Why should people play your games?
They're aesthetically unique, and I don't just mean "they look neat". I care a whole lot about how things feel, how input and player intent and decisions are represented, amplified, diminished in the game, how the player shapes the game system.
I want to make games where players have lots of influence over the game rather than being funnelled through authored content. I want players to express and perform, not just trundle along I path I've drawn.
What element of game design do you hold above all others
Kinaesthetics, the raw moment-to-moment affect of motion. The parts of a game that encourage flow or zoning or whatever you wanna call it, the things that help you fully concentrate on and be absorbed by the game.
The way the game talks to the player not with words but with motion and dynamics.
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Day 26 | Bifrost Entertainment
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?
The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.
A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.
The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .
The description of this game sounds crazy over the top. Bending time and and breaking worlds! I just hope the gameplay translates those concepts well.
The visuals are stunning, these games has a cool soundtrack too.
That's one of the most appropriately-named developers that have been on IndieMonth thus far.
Hmmm...I think a picture is missing that's intended to break up the dev's description and mini Q+A.
I want to see some sort of gameplay for this one
Nice Website for this company.. pretty cool
I like when he says, " I come up with structures and systems for games, and I have to make them." - I am the same way, I come up with games ideas, only thing is, I just wish I could make them..
-Has to be pretty cool to be able to do what you Love to do..
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