Hitbox Team’s first game was indie janitorial platformer Dustforce, released to critical favour back in 2012. For their next project, they’re switching to the FPS genre with the proceedurally generated Spire.
GamesBeat writes, "Swords and guns. It’s hard to find a game without one or the other. But some developers are thinking a little harder about how we blast away the bad guys.
Dustforce has players sweeping dust and attacking enemies with a broom. Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft can sink an ax into her foes and a cliff wall. And titles like Mike Bithell’s upcoming stealth game Volume and Harmonix’s first-person music-shooter Chroma use sound as offensive and defensive tools.
GamesBeat spoke with the developers of these titles to uncover how thinking smarter about weaponry benefited their games — and what it can do for others."
Holy sh*t!!!! Nice call- You went old school. Completely forgot about that one. Great, inventive weapon. Turok 2 takes me back. The first 2 were great fun (downhill after that).
I liked the stake gun from Painkiller. The physics were rather satisfying.
It's all fun until someone pulls out a Peasant Pole-arm (a pitchfork made entirely of sticks tied together) in War of the Roses. That thing is OP
Cool article! I loved the custom weapons in Dead Rising 3. My favorite was the combination dragon head, parasol, and katana, for a freaky, flying, death machine.
Dustforce is an immensely challenging game that will quickly become an addiction. Easy to learn and hard to master, the mechanics of sliding, double jumping, air combos and wall-running will take hold of you and deliver an adrenaline rush every time you achieve one of the coveted SS ranks.
Indie Statik writes: "This new game called Spire, though adopting a first person perspective, isn’t a million miles away from the twitchy design of their previous title, you’ll probably be glad to hear. Even more of you will probably be excited to hear that Spire is heavily influenced by how top-tier Quake players have mastered first person platforming and shooting and that Hitbox want to capture that speed and weapon-swapping style with more variation that will be designed around ascending the monolithic tower the game takes place within."
