And we should be able to find an audience for these games that is feasible for us as an indie studio. These have to be games that we can make to our quality standards and within a reasonable time frame like two or three years. So, in 2015, I founded ION LANDS to produce the narrative-driven visual experiences that I myself would like to play.
You need a lot more resources, you need to be a lot bigger to even reach a critical mass of players for these games to make sense. So I finally realized that online games might just be too much for an indie studio. This learning experience had its nice times, but it was also very stressful and draining. My first project was an MMO, and I continued with online games for quite some time. What made you keep reinventing yourself and never settle?
Cloudpunk first person driving Pc#
Genre: Adventure | Format: PC | Developer: ION LANDS | Publisher: Merge Games | Price: £16.Oleg Nesterenko, managing editor at GWO: Marko, you founded several studios and worked in very different genres, including MOBA, MMORPG, as well as single-player experiences both on mobile and PC. Verdict A chilled, combat-free courier-’em-up set in an inviting voxel cityscape with plenty of stories to tell, unfortunately let down by bland mechanics and technical issues. Building the game out of rudimentary blocks has surely been a huge factor in allowing such an ambitious project to be pulled off by a relatively small studio, and it’s a great example of how compelling works of art can emerge from interesting limitations. The city of Nivalis and all her inhabitants are gorgeously rendered in voxel art. It’s tricky to get running smoothly, even on a nice PC. To make matters worse, regular patches are being issued to deal with Cloudpunk’s disproportionate performance issues. Whether that makes for a good video game is up to the player, but for me, a little too much time is spent holding RT and waiting. Indeed, if this aspect is deliberate, it’s eminently faithful to the experience of metropolitan life. But it’s such a chilled-out game that its quiet stretches are not an unmitigated disaster. For a game principally involving travel, the traversal being dull is quite the oversight. Moving around the city, even with upgrades, fast becomes tedious. At times the game seems best appreciated as a short story collection with an elaborate interface – which, given the literary origins of its chief inspiration (Blade Runner, rather unsubtly) is a fitting way to enjoy it.
The society of moisture farmers on the outskirts who cling onto survival by the warmth of thermal vents.
Cloudpunk first person driving android#
The android who has become so involved in detective work that he speaks in external monologue. The street seller who’s had an argument with his artificial falcon. There is an overarching narrative, but it’s nowhere near as compelling as the little vignettes that branch off it. There is an element of moral tension here: fuel and upgrades aren’t free, but are they worth becoming a criminal for? It’s a quandary, unless you’re a libertarian, in which case you won’t get to those bits anyway because you’d have uninstalled it in a huff about having to play as a woman. Your task seems perfectly sound at first, but before long you’ll be sent on errands of increasing dubiosity. You play Rania, a recent immigrant to Nivalis, on her first night running jobs for an illicit delivery firm.
Though Cloudpunk is ostensibly about driving a Jetsons car, considerable time is spent on foot, where you roam streets crammed with people doing city things: plying wares, smoking tabs, having coffee, wearing jackets, and so forth.
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