Gaijin Games, Introversion, Hello Games and Brian Provinciano discuss Sony’s approach to the PS4 indie scene with VG247′s Dave Cook. Get an insight into next-gen independence here.
The Last Starship is the next project from Prison Architect developer Introversion Software, and this base-building strategy game will launch in late 2022.
Hello Games' new project would feel impossible to create even with 1,000 people behind it, the developer has said.
Speaking to IGN, studio co-founder and managing director Sean Murray said that, while it's not a sequel to No Man's Sky, the new game is just as ambitious.
Sean really? Haven't you learned a thing since your first game about over promising?
Here we go again…. Yes he did. That’s why there was a class action lawsuit against him. With an ultimatum. That’s why we’ve received a free overhaul of the entire game.
@ 1nsomniac
What exactly has he promised about the new game? All I can see is him saying it's ambitious.
Edit: Hold on, maybe you're talking about No Man's Sky?
Oh, but if we want to hate something, we need to read into everything and create our own narrative./sarcasm.
If he hadn't learned anything, he would have offered a long list of specific features, released an E3-style pre-rendered cinematic trailer labeled "in-game footage", and made the round of talk shows gushing his enthusiasm for the project.
All we have here is: "We're working on something. It's a challenge for us."
If anything, he has demonstrated again and again that he has learned to be very disciplined in how he communicates with the public. He doesn't even make promises regarding updates to NMS until after they have released. All we get ahead of time is a single, cryptic emoji on his Twitter feed.
It seems to have been mostly just a matter of him underestimating the time it would take to do what they wanted with it. They have yet to announce a release date for the new game, so they have as much time as they need for a proper launch this time around.
NMS is also currently far beyond what was ever promised.
It’s like he’s trying to throw all the good will away that he’s earned with these free updates. Under promise-Over deliver. The hype train that leaves too early will likely run out of steam before it’s destination.
Well that's just poor planning of your resources. I don't see what time you leave having any bearing on fuel
C'mon now haters. How many teams this small even have the guts to try to make games this ambitious? Most of them are happy to make the billionth pixel art rogue like.
By far. Particularly since about 40% of the promises they supposedly made were just things the community made up from watching trailers.
So go the Star Citizen route and get paid for your idea. Then you can create infinite ideas inside a game while never releasing the game.
‘You can experience parts of Star Citizen now’ would be a more accurate statement.
Hello Games founder Sean Murray said the letter "broke our hearts and made us want to set things right". It has now been relaunched on iOS.
What an amazing story, Joe Danger was a fantastic game and hearing about these kinds of stories makes me much happier than hearing adults bicker back and forth about which animations a game is re-using and the amount of pixels on the screen.
This is what gaming is really about and I feel like some people just tend to forget that
Great article.
Sony is getting alot of indie support. Alot of the games coming to the ps4 & pc look sweet. Glad sony are really supporting these indie devs.
It all has to deal with Sony's easier policies now. I just hope this carries over to game patches from publishers also. I hate how if there is a problem with a game the consumer has to wait for a patch to go through certification to have the patch fix the problem.
Developers should have the option to self-publish game patches also. I know that was hinted at, but I want to see a confirmation.