Herobyclicking talks with Dejobaan founder, Ichiro Lambe, about Drunken Robot Pornography, their new title Elegy for a Dead World, platforms and design influences.
Herobyclicking: Why do you make games?
Ichiro: Instead of tossing me a baseball when I was a kid, my father sat me down in front of a TI 99/4A. Flash forward 30 years later, and when I wake up in the morning, I think about creating games. And when I go to sleep at night, I think about creating games . It's a wonderful obsession.
Herobyclicking: Why should people play Drunken Robot Pornography?
Ichiro: Folks love DRP for its fast-paced, bullet-hell action. There's a certain visceral thrill involved in going up against a giant, 30-story tall Titan and picking it apart, piece-by-piece (first the fins, then the arms, then the hardened joints, then the core weapons). On the flip side, building those robots and levels is a blast -- we've had players create all sorts of challenges -- someone did a pinball machine, where you're the pinball. Crazy.
Herobyclicking: What element of game design do you hold above all others?
Ichiro: More and more, we're thinking that if something's been done before, do something else. For instance, our next-up title, Elegy for a Dead World, is a writing game. You explore long-dead lands based on the works of British Romance-era poets such as Keats, Shelley, and Bryon, then write stories about them. I want us to ask ourselves what's new and interesting from a design perspective?
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Herobyclicking: Drunken Robot places the player in a role of a bartender who has allowed his robot run amok. What led you to that concept? How many bar napkins is this game written across?
Ichiro: While on a magical high-speed train out of Shanghai during the Game Developer's Conference, fellow developer extraordinaire Tim Ambrogi suggested to me that our game should experiment a bit with narrative. I listen to whatever Tim says, because he's bright and awesome. So, in DRP, you're a bar owner who owns a robot bartender (named R. Tim Ambrosia in honor of Tim Ambrogi -- see!). You give him sentience, he processes all the patrons' sob stories all at once, and goes crazy.
Herobyclicking: With the success of Drunken Robot and Dejobaan's other games on its current platforms, can we look forward to seeing this on Wii U, Xbox 360/Xbox One, PS3/PS4, heck why not Vita or 3DS while were are at it?
Ichiro: I hope so; we're talking to Sony and Microsoft about that. We're already invading the living room via Alienware's sexy Alpha console, and I'd like to see our games go beyond PC/mobile.
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Herobyclicking: Can we expect DLC? Sequel or follow-up? When?
Ichiro: Right now! In fact, for the past half year, we've been putting out new levels as part of our Drunken Robot Battle Royale. Every week (except when we're travelling), we've put out a new challenge that typically comprises a new level, new Titans, and so forth. Players give that a go, and compete for first place. Rinse. Repeat. This is giving us a chance to have fun with the game's level and Titan editors (how many times can I copy-and-paste a row of robots before it bogs down the system?) and feature the best player-created levels.
Herobyclicking: What non-video game games, movies or books if any, have influenced your design/development processes?
Ichiro: The question is timely, because I'd recently been telling myself that we shouldn't let too many things influence our design. But that's silly -- we should experience as much as we can, and build on the best bits. To wit, these things have really gotten me excited lately:
• Valve's VR room, which is pretty much like the Holodeck, minus Professor Moriarty coming to life and screwing everything up.
• Jodorowsky's Dune -- there's a creative lunatic who brought together some of the most interesting minds to [almost] make a movie.
• Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull. You know, the guy who helms Pixar, and INVENTED TEXTURE MAPPING. It's a book about failing repeatedly, and analyzing what went wrong.
Cheers!
Day 7 | Dejobaan Games
PSLS writes: I have traveled across the country using the Razer Kishi Ultra in airports and hotels for both PlayStation Remote Play and mobile gaming in general, and I am thoroughly impressed.
Stellar Blade might be the hot game right now, but we already got a better version of it more than half a year ago.
Stellar blade is currently higher than lies of p on metacritic with 40 more reviews. No shade on Lies of P but just pointing that out.
But i don't even know why compare them? Because both are souls type games?
Then you can just reuse this article all the time and say Elden Ring is "whatever new souls game" but good for every new souls game.
Stellar blade hate articles must be rolling with clicks...
I mean… it’s like saying we have a better NieR with Devil May Cry. Yea, there’s some similarities, but Lies is really hardcore in the sense of emulating a FromSoft game almost perfectly, where Stellar has some Souls-like elements, but I’d say it’s closer to Sekiro than say a Dark Souls game. This almost feels click-baitey
Fallout 4 is now available on next-gen consoles, offering 60fps gameplay and 4K resolution. But it's bad news if you claimed the game on PS Plus.
Probably won't happen for PS+ since Sony makes a clear distinction between a PS4 game and a PS5 game, unlike PC and Xbox where it is not a specific device game (It's now always an Xbox game).
So to make the PS5 game of fallout 4 available. Bethesda would need to renegotiate the complete deal with Sony.
hence why there's often only the PS4 version of the game available on PS+.
Let's hope Bethesda and Sony can arrive to term quickly.
Love that they are constantly expanding the game. :) Looks like a heck of a time!
Keep making great games, wishing you all the best of luck and a very bright future.
Looks great , and i hope sony get the game on PS4
and i love shooting big giant titan robot and destroying it piece by piece !
wow such a contrast between drunken robot and Elegy for a Dead World but im really interested in playing both!
Hoping to see a Wii U release.