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ARMIKROG. Spiritual successor to The Neverhood claymation game

KlaymenKlaymen Registered User regular
edited June 2013 in Games and Technology
I loved the everloving shit out of The Neverhood as evidenced by my alias. For those that don't know the game, it is an entirely claymation point-and-click puzzler that came out in 1996. Oldschool trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjofUax2Y-Q

The same team (including Terry S Taylor on music) is assembling for Armikrog and it looks to be of a very similar ilk to The Neverhood. Here is the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_OK3_BbSv0

Can't wait to play this, it looks fantastic! More information: https://www.facebook.com/armikrog

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  • LanrutconLanrutcon The LabyrinthRegistered User regular
    I remember the Neverhood. I remember a music box.

    I remember running, and screaming :D

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    Sadly there is a blanket forum-wide ban on linking Kickstarters. I don't even know if the thread would be allowed in the absence of any mention of the Kickstarter.

    I wish this game every success, though!

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  • KlaymenKlaymen Registered User regular
    Oh sorry, I didn't refresh on the posting rules. I am happy to remove the Kickstarter stuff if it means the thread can stay.

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    You did not read our rules sir.

  • KlaymenKlaymen Registered User regular
    Thanks for the unlock Tube-san :)

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    I wish this game every success, though!
    TenNapel is a homophobic jackass, so I feel very conflicted giving this any money since I know the game isn't being made by a cabal of bigots just because he is head. However, because he IS heading the project, I just can't give him any money. It's a clear way to say that he needs to stop being a mega-dick.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    I don't think he's head. Dietz and Schofield are running the show, they've made most of the posts, etc. He's the art guy.

    There is a very good chance that any given project has at least one person you strongly disagree with. In fact, in any American project with at least 10 members working on it, chances approach 100% that somebody there is against gay marriage. I suppose knowing about it is what makes the difference, but I'm not going to go through life avoiding everything because I might disagree with someone on their crew.

    Plus in his particular case the whole event was blown out of proportion. He is no Orson Scott Card (who worked on Shadow Complex!).

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    I wish this game every success, though!
    TenNapel is a homophobic jackass, so I feel very conflicted giving this any money since I know the game isn't being made by a cabal of bigots just because he is head. However, because he IS heading the project, I just can't give him any money. It's a clear way to say that he needs to stop being a mega-dick.

    Really? That sucks. I really enjoyed Ghostopolis and Cardboard...now I'm afraid to read about him.

  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited June 2013
    When he was doing his webcomic Ratfist, he got in a pretty ugly conversation with one of the other users one time. That's the extent of it, he doesn't seem like an activist or anything, just a man with an opinion he shouldn't have expressed.

    He was right at the time when he said people would use it as justification to boycott his entire body of work.

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    Yeah, a few users were trying to troll him, so he trolled a bit himself. He's always been pretty open about his beliefs; I think his primary issue was expressing them the way he did in the comments.

  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    He used his celebrity to express his bad opinions in an extremely repugnant way. We've done to death whether people should boycott on moral beliefs, but it's certainly not beyond the pale that some folks would choose not to buy his product as a result.

    And it's absolutely appropriate that the gaming community call out bigots in their ranks. It doesn't reflect well on the company putting this together that they let such a bad person who likes to express his bad opinions publicly on their project.

    What is this I don't even.
  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    He also linked to the primary article calling him out, apologized for his behavior and hasn't done anything similar since, afaik.

    But anyway, 4cr has an interview up with several members of the team. Sounds like TenNapel isn't actually leading the project, but has a pretty major creative role.

    Elsewhere, there's a post about how one of the major puzzles in the game is going to be what sounds like a fusion of Problem Sleuth's architecture and the Mechanical Age in Myst.

  • KlaymenKlaymen Registered User regular
    Hey Frem I'd love to see a link with TenNapel apologizing for his homophobic comments

  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    Klaymen wrote: »
    Hey Frem I'd love to see a link with TenNapel apologizing for his homophobic comments

    The drama played out in the comments on one of the Ratfist pages. TenNapel removed all but the first 50 pages from the net when it was published in book form; status updates, posts, commentary, comments and all. So I can't give you a link to the apology (or the full argument, for that matter, although bits and pieces were thoughtfully documented by the internets).

    He did apologize in the GayGamer comments, which are still around.

  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    Armikrog has been successfully funded, just barely, including enough to meet the stretch goal of a Wii U version!

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