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[Jonas Kyratzes]

Just a quick update:

For a variety of reasons, which I hope to explain in a longer article at some point, I decided to go back and redo the whole game as a platformer of sorts. (Bit of a change, huh?) Why? Because it was the only way to do the game's story and setting justice. It was a hard decision - discarding an almost-complete game and more than 100 hours of work - but it was absolutely worth it.

I've updated the game's page on my website with some screenshots & info, and am considering doing a slightly bigger preview soon.

http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/?page_id=462

And for those of you who liked the graphical style of the old version, I haven't deleted all that stuff, and I'm sure it will show up somewhere, in some way, in some other game.

[Bood_war]

Do you think that I could possibly get the original version to try?

[muku]

For a variety of reasons, which I hope to explain in a longer article at some point, I decided to go back and redo the whole game as a platformer of sorts.

 

Your original concept seemed really unique. If you say the game was almost complete, is there really no way you could post it at least as a curiosity?

[Jonas Kyratzes]

I'm glad you guys are interested in the original version, but I won't be posting it. There are two reasons:

a) I don't like the idea of putting half-finished works out there.
b) There is still a lot of stuff in there I might use one day.

I hope the new version will be equally interesting, though. It's quite different in many ways, but the spirit is the same. And I'm very happy with it.

[muku]

For shame. I'll be looking forward to the article you mentioned to hopefully understand your motivation behind this move better...

[Jonas Kyratzes]

For shame. I'll be looking forward to the article you mentioned to hopefully understand your motivation behind this move better...

For now, trust me when I say that this is the best thing that could possibly have happened to this project. It's more atmospheric, it plays better, it's more immersive, and I can finally tell the story I wanted to tell the proper way. And it's not just a generic "old-school" platformer - it still has a heavy emphasis on exploration and on improving your ship, on collecting resources, avoiding anomalies and completing research.

[Bood_war]

I'm okay with this, since you feel so strongly about it. (I actually like this a little better as I love explatformers)

[Jonas Kyratzes]

A small preview: