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[Skyrise]

Hi guys!

Time to a revamp to the opening post of the thread, with all the new information, the new trailer, the new screenshots and so on!

We are a small wannabe indie developer studio based in Turin, Italy. And we are called... MixedBag!

Anyway, we are developing an iOS action adventure game, directly aimed at the avid gamers crowd, with a nostalgic and essential graphic style and a unique control system. The game is running at 60fps on iPad 1+ and iPhone 4+/iPod touch, and at 30fps on the iPhone 3GS. We are aiming for constant 60 frames per second because, for a game, it's really worth it. Night and day difference, really, I swear!

Of course we are using Unity for the project, and some awesome extension from the assets store: Ragespline, Ragetools and Poolmanager.

New -revamped- website:
http://www.forma8.net

First teaser trailer (woo-hooo!):



And some new screenshots from the latest version!





















And if you like it:

- follow the project on Twitter: https://twitter.com/forma_8

- and on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/forma8

Thank you!
We'll post soon with new info about the project and the tools and technology we are using, hoping to be an active part of the awesome indie community!

[Franklins Ghost]

Really interested to see this in motion.

[Skyrise]

Really interested to see this in motion.

Thank you!
We hope to be able to show the first video by the end of the week.

[Mnemonic]

Looks great, nice teaser image! i will follow this

[sabajt]

This does look great.  Gives me a Booloid (http://messhof.com/booloid/) vibe... but this looks better imo

[Skyrise]

Hello again!

Just a quick update on the project: we're working on the particle system now. We are using particles heavily to add lots of detail and interactive elements in the scene.

As you can see in the new screens, we have lots of aliens, glowing plants around. We don't want to spoil too much for now, but they are an integral part of the story of the game and an important gameplay element.

Hope to have a movie of the game out on YouTube for monday!

[mauz]

Hello everybody,

Things have gone a little bit frenzy, but we have finished our demo, the art style is more defined and we are quite happy of our little game!
Hope you could like it and give us some feedback.

[Skyrise]

Wow, forma.8 just got featured on Toucharcade homepage!

http://toucharcade.com/2012/06/04/e3-mixed-bag-announces-forma-8-an-old-school-action-adventure/

I am in LA at E3 right now, if some other indie game developer is there and wants to try the game and have a chat, we're in booth OFMR4101 in the West Hall, just near the big Microsoft booth. Just drop by and ask about Mauro Fanelli.

[mauz]

Hi guys,
I would like to add more to this devlog, and I will do it near in the future, sharing some of the backstage work for Forma.8.
For now we are still on the little "e3 promotion tour", so we don't have a proper video trailer for the game, but the guys from apple'n'apps were kind enough to put this gameplay video online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rBiiB5EQEKo

[Chomps]

Hi guys I love the art style! Congrats on getting featured on Touch Arcade. I look forward to more updates

[Bry]

So beautiful How are you finding Ragespline and Ragetools?

[Skyrise]

Thank you so much! Hope to share a lot more after the E3 rush!

I love RageSpline and RageTools, awesome extensions to Unity. They really help our art pipeline, it's so fast! All levels are drawn in Illustrator and then imported in game with minimum efforts.

[jamesprimate]

ahhh i love the look of this!  take it

[eigenbom]

Oh my lordy lord, this is beautiful.

[mauz]

Hello everyone.
Lots of problems -not directly related to the development of the game- has stopped a bit our work on forma.8 (and this devlog), but we are back, and we hope to speed up the process and complete this game as soon as possible.

We have changed lot of things from the demo, the game and the aesthetics are now much more consistent, and everything seem sto be improving for the best. :D

Soon we will open up a testflight for testing the demo, hope some of you will like to try it.

Here is a new image of the actual demo map, because a picture is worth a thousand words.



sorry for compression and gigantism.