We are extremely happy to be a part of this bundle, with such an amazing line up (HotLine Miami was Alientrap’s favourite game of last year). This also means the debut of Capsized on Linux and Mac!

You can also get 6 of the game soundtracks, including the Solar Fields album Movement, which Capsized used as it’s soundtrack.

Here are two screens of Apotheon, some of the new areas we recently finished. One is of the forest areas – where the player can hunt wildlife, search for items, and talk to the forest inhabitants. The other is the first screen of one of the main town hub spots – filled with merchants to buy/sell from and palaces and houses filled with loot.

There is now a Alientrap facebook page also, so hopefully we actually post dev updates on there rather than just entirely focus on development.

We have two new team members also! Marios Aristopoulos will be writing the Apotheon soundtrack along with some sound effects – and Abe Hutton is helping with art and animations. Our focus right now is on polishing the game section we have now (about 20% of final game’s size) and experimenting with new gameplay mechanics. We will most likely release the first teaser videos and start a marketing effort in October, then start showing it off at any conventions we can find then.

Capsized is part of Steam’s summer sale right for 66% off. It’s still in development for XBLA by Indiepub, with a release date unknown (it’s ready, but the release is in limbo right now as a publisher slot is being found). Indiepub also plans to release a Ipad version of Capsized soon however. We also hope to release Capsized soon for other PC platforms (Mac/Linux) – basically we want to get Capsized everywhere to as many people as possible. Hopefully we can announce a release date for one of the new platforms soon.

]]> https://www.alientrap.com/2011/10/11/capsized-coming-to-xbla-in-december-published-by-indiepub/ Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:03:26 +0000 http://www.alientrap.org/?p=463 The announcement and more information on the Capsized XBLA release can be seen here.

Currently it’s being developed by Koolhaus Games, published by Indiepub, and will feature new levels, XBLA achievements and leaderboards, and a new focus on local multiplayer.

Capsized was originally designed with XBLA in mind but was released on PC first to make development easier for us. So this is a bit of a dream come for us, thanks to Indiepub and the KoolHaus Games developers

But until then I just wanted to give a general Alientrap update. Jesse and I are working on a new project in the hopes of getting a prototype done for the IGF awards in mid October. We are trying some insane stuff with this new project, so it’s been a learning experience getting things together. The new project is a side scroller 2d game alike to Capsized in some ways, since we wanted to use everything we’ve learnt from Capsized playtesting and development, but it’s a very different game. Hopefully we can start showing stuff soon.

Capsized was recently selected in the Fantastic Arcade – where it won the “The Bionic Commando Award for Grappling Hook Excellence Award”. Unfortunately we weren’t there to except the award or take part in the festival, but it looked awesome enough that there is no way we are not going next year.

I am really wanting to give some updates on recent Nexuiz development from Illfonic, but I’ll leave any announcements to them. I’ll just say from what I’ve seen/played the game is turning out amazing, while keeping the Nexuiz intensity and really taking standard deathmatch to a new level. Hopefully there will be some news with that soon also…

Alientrap has yet another project in the works: Indievania. An indie game marketplace developed with indie devs in mind, where 100% of the costs of the game go to developers. We are still developing it, it’s in open beta right now, but we hope to launch it within the next 2 months or so.

Jesse and I also did a interview with 8BitHorse, which you can see here. We briefly talked about our new project but mostly it had to due with development. I also did a interview with ThreeQuaterdpad and GameSideStory, and EpicBrew.net

And lastly – reviews for Capsized keep coming in, we are now at 80% on metacritic! Here is another list of reviews since our last post:
Gamezebo – Gamer.nl – killscreendaily.com –vgnetwork.it – gamestar.pl – titel-magazin.de – pressxordie.com – nightmaremode.net – cpugamer.com – bulletproofpixel.com – aagames.co.uk

Here is a complete list of reviews and scores: (if no score I just quoted a part of the conclusion)

We also have a video interview with the two developers recorded at SXSW – thanks to Indiepub.

Please email us at contact@mediapa.pro if you’d like to request review codes for your site!

So here are some new pics, 2,073,600 pixels each! Click the slideshow to go fullscreen

We should have a firm release date to announce soon – April looks like our month.

Anyway here are pics of our setup. The game looked amazing on the large screen in 1080i, and got a great response.

No new screens, but here is some old concept art some the beginning of 2009, right when the project started: