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[Edmund]

so yeah, in early 09 Cryptic Sea (Alex and myself) are releasing an "album" of retro inspired games that will play kind of like tracks on a cd, the project is called No Quarter.

The current track listing so far is: (Note that track titles are not final)

1."gun" (Mario + N + Wolfenstein)
2.Trivium (Tetris + Physics)
3."epic flail" (Missile Command + Rampage)
4.Hext (Scrabble + Hex board)
5."tree" (Art game + Sim)
6.Odyssey ( Lunar Lander + Awesome )

The project is still very early in development, so more tracks might pop up as time passes.

I put together a video showing the basics of what we have so far, this video represents the first few months of development and what we submitted to the IGF this year. The build we have up is obviously very early, but we will be updating a lot this month, lets hope the judges check back.

Video = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-aCL__FuJ0&eurl=http://crypticsea.blogspot.com/

i also posted more info on gun (character design and video) on my blog here
http://edmundmcmillen.blogspot.com/

tell me what you guys think so far.
-Edmund

[skaldicpoet9]

Nice, I love the look of these. Epic Flail is a awesome title by the way. Oh, and I am not buying this unless it is released like a music cd, jewel case booklet and all

[Edmund]

Nice, I love the look of these. Epic Flail is a awesome title by the way. Oh, and I am not buying this unless it is released like a music cd, jewel case booklet and all

thats the plan i just realize i posted this in indie games and not announcments.. if anyone reads this that can move it there.. that would be awesome.

[agj]

And it sounds like a good plan. Cool stuff!

[William Broom]

This sounds awesome. I love the idea of new, um, like, formats for games. In the same way Farbs is doing that whole 'game blog' thing.

[george]

this is so weird. A couple of days ago the title No Quarter popped into my head and has been there ever since. 

[fish]

its starting to become increasingly clear that edmund is actually 12 guys working under the same made up name.

like Shakespear.

[agj]

Yeah, no shit.

edit:

like Shakes pear.

[Tanner]

OH MY GOD EPIC FLAIL LOOKS AMAZING
PHYSICS!

[skaldicpoet9]

its starting to become increasingly clear that edmund is actually 12 guys working under the same made up name.

like Shakespear.

Actually I am pretty sure he is a collection of sentient robots working to spread the propaganda of the galactic overmind.

[Türbo Bröther]

But is he the monkeys or the typewriters?

[Edmund]

im actually 6 incestuous homosexual clones.

Yeah alex is pulling out all the stops with the physics. "gun" will feature a ton of physics very similar to Gish. we should be updating again by the xmas break, i really want to show you guys what we are working on with gun and the tree game, its exciting stuff

-Edmund

[Zaphos]

I am so looking forward to Gun and Odyssey

[skaldicpoet9]

Okay, I have no idea how this would work but I think it would be pretty cool nonetheless if possible. Going with the album thing here I think it would be awesome if the game disk could also double as a music disk that would play the music from the games in a cd player...just a thought...

anyways, looking really forward to this

[BMcC]

Totally rad. 

Stop making games so fast, your face'll get stuck that way!

[Edmund]

well this one will take a while to finish, its more of a full length game like gish broken into 5-6 pieces. most of the games are less then a month in dev wise and i would expect it would take another 2+ months to get them all really playable.

-Edmund

[team_q]

I really want to play Trivium. The idea of sloppy tetris seems really funny to me.

[Edmund]

playing with basic objects and weight... good times
 www.edmundm.com/awesome.wmv

[Hideous]

I really want to play Trivium. The idea of sloppy tetris seems really funny to me.

Also by Chronic Logic: http://www.chroniclogic.com/index.htm?triptych.htm