They did that on purpose because most people never bother to use their shield. So they force you to get familiar with that first.

Yeah, don't worry. Just have some patience

Also, bonus gif

It runs! Without sound... also very slowly. Also scaled up - I prefer pixel perfection, can I change that setting?

Ok, I'm going to do something stupid and try to run it under Wine Linux on a four year old netbook. Wish me luck!

GANGNAM STYLE!

Not so much listening to it as not being able to get it out of my head...

It felt kind of like watching an ancient force of nature stroll by, not noticing you like we hardly notice ants.

I admit it's not as marketable as something short and sweet like Psychonauts or Halo or Half Life but it appeals to me on a personal level.  I think, aesthetically, if anything about the name needs to change it's "Environmental". It's unwieldy but it still seems to capture the atmosphere of the game perfectly.

Personally I think Eristys is a beautiful word and defines the game well but would need to be explained to non-Finnish players.

So why not "Eristys: Environmental Station Alpha"? You can say Eristys is the name of the station, and people can choose between Erystis, Eristys:ESA or the full name at their whim.

Basically, the biggest mistake with the game was trying to put in lots of "cool" things instead of elements that made the game fun to play. Simulated behaviors that saw enemies interacting with each other was only cool for a few seconds, we should instead have tried to make enemies that provided unique challenges and that complimented each other in a good way. We should have also gone for a lot more pre-designed content level wise, and have the random elements more toned down instead of the messy garbled layouts we ended up with.

I'm surprised, the gameplay looked great in the teasers.

Also, Roguelikes have done this for years, it's been successfully used with a number of platformers (starting with Spelunky), and Minecraft also pretty much did this. Maybe you could reflect on those and see what the right balance would be?

That was beautiful

Possibly, though I should hope no one is actually petty enough to not download a game because of its lack or use of an installer!

Some people might not have administration rights

Multiple personality syndrome?

It looks very nice on the trailer and the premise is intriguing as well.

Sadly no access my windows PC for a while... Oh well, guess I'll catch the improved version by the time I do.

Unless he is a jerk and forces you to collect a hat to unlock a character 

A poet? Nice, also fits thematically with the title :D

[@Charybdis:]

@Charybdis: I also have a bit of a problem with the anti-aliasing. Not that it looks bad, but the lack of contour compared to other foreground features make it move to the background - so it looks more like scenery. Basically, I think the use of pictural and paintlery features are mixed inconsistently, causing confusion.

We will definitely be doing Windows/Mac, and weve been thinking that the whole layer switching mechanic would be really great on the ipad with some nice swipe controls. But that would be a pretty long ways away.

Even better, you could use the accelerometer data and shift the layers a little depending on the iDevice shift. Might appear a little shaky though.

A bit of inertia would probably fix that.

Not sure if objectifying women, or implying Roy is absentminded inventor...

Well, judging by other animation movies developed for decades (cobbler and the thief, le roi et l'oiseau) I'm not sure. But we're getting off-topic .

Fun fact: Norshteyn's "Tale of Tales" has been considered the animated movie as voted by professional animators a number of times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_Tales_(film)

Sadly, I haven't been able to find a good subtitled version yet