By Kieron Gillen on December 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 pm.
Nothing much to add to this, but wanted to show it. Earlier, Introversion twittered a recent shot of Subversion. You’ll see it above, fucked up a bit by our JPGing and expanding of it. Go see the original here. It’s looks both quintessentially Introversion and as beguiling as ever. My money’s still on something Neuromancer-y.
02/12/2009 at 21:05 Skyvik says:
Looks almost like Strafe Left the game
02/12/2009 at 21:09 DMJ says:
If so, Introversion may be on to a winner.
02/12/2009 at 21:10 Wooly says:
I (mis?)read that title as “Bad JRPG-Conversation”
03/12/2009 at 02:22 Sam says:
Second.
03/12/2009 at 08:41 Gap Gen says:
Ah, I wondered why they looked near-identical. I was expecting a Darwinian with giant spiky hair lining up politely to fight a virus for a minute.
03/12/2009 at 16:28 westyfield says:
Same. I was really worried for a few seconds, before realising.
02/12/2009 at 21:22 pirate0r says:
I’ve been watching this for a LONG time on their dev blog but then they stopped updating it. More please
02/12/2009 at 21:24 Wisq says:
Even the original JPEG was pretty messed up if you look closely. Expanding it probably just revealed all the old artefacts, just as much as re-converting it created new ones.
With all the cel shading, it probably would’ve been better as an 8-bit PNG … but we’ll never know, because all the JPEG artefacts have added enough complexity that you can’t achieve good PNG compression any more.
02/12/2009 at 21:58 CMaster says:
I’ve for a long while suggested that Subversion is a terrorist/anarchist simulator sort of thing. Best analogy I could find was the Panther Modern raid on Sense/Net in Neuromancer. When I mentioned this to Chris + Mark at Eurogamer, they wouldn’t confirm much, but said that a Neuromancer feel was the sort of thing they were after.
02/12/2009 at 21:58 stormbringer951 says:
Wicked. Introversion games have always been awesome, and Subversion looks no different. I hope they put out an offer pack of Darwinia, Uplink, DEFCON and Subversion sometime soon.
02/12/2009 at 22:22 duel says:
ahh cool, Introversion has a twitter, and now im a follower ; )
02/12/2009 at 22:27 guisim says:
Can’t wait for the sequel, Mercurial.
02/12/2009 at 22:35 Zerai says:
I see computers, and i see servers
I remember an explanation of how doors would work, and how one could interfere with them
I think a hacking game with “real” world consequences is what we have here, and that, is WIN
02/12/2009 at 23:07 Bhazor says:
With the name and a randomly generated city I’m expecting a Republic:The Revolution style thing. But hopefully with more whizz bang fun and done in Introversion’s lovely jubbly neon retro presentation style.
02/12/2009 at 22:56 Heliocentric says:
No idea whats going on. But lets have at it.
Darwinia and Uplink both fired up strong emotions with extremely limited pool of focus. So while i don’t mind the limited graphical style in the slightest i do wonder if this move to full 3d world will produce the same effect.
02/12/2009 at 23:06 Mike says:
Looks like the internal building generation has got a lot better.
02/12/2009 at 23:11 Spacewalk says:
I think that it would be ace if they injected a bit of Cholo into it. I see that screenshot and I imagine being able to wander around a large city taking over other characters so you can accomplish a larger goal and I just get incredibly excited. ‘course, I am terrible at predicting how games turn out but it’s nice to imagine things.
02/12/2009 at 23:36 TheSombreroKid says:
mmm looks delicious, i’ll definatly be getting this, i have a lot of faith.
02/12/2009 at 23:37 Caiman says:
Every time I see the name Subversion, I want to cast a spell at a Golden Dragon to make it mine.
03/12/2009 at 09:05 Taillefer says:
It’s probably an illusion.
03/12/2009 at 13:31 Tei says:
Wen I see surversion, I think on a source code control/revision system. The game sould be renamed git.
02/12/2009 at 23:48 Railick says:
Isn’t this going to be a 3d version of Liberal Crime Squad ? :P
02/12/2009 at 23:54 SH4RKY says:
I love introversion games, but this one slipped past me… umm whats the concept of this one? Last time i saw it was an image of a city scape from above… this is slightly different.
03/12/2009 at 04:50 TeeJay says:
I think it’s a kind of a blue-sky/”in-development” thing where they have been playing around with various ideas, for example, one part was using clever techniques/mathematics to create city-scapes. Another part is about constructing machines/systems in-game from smaller logic-gate like units and wires.
They have been keeping a “developers blog” describing bits and pieces: http://www.introversion.co.uk/subversion/
…also a bit of stuff on their forums: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/
03/12/2009 at 00:49 Da'Jobat says:
I’m so incredibly excited about Subversion. Hoping for a Neuromancer/Snow Crash-esque game, possibly mixed with syndicate and incredible machines or Hitman.
03/12/2009 at 01:25 Heliocentric says:
I’m hoping for far cry meets settlers 2 meets monkey island.
05/12/2009 at 12:28 Frankie The Patrician[PF] says:
Doom meets Transport Tycoon Deluxe meets Sonic The Hedgehog would be much better!
03/12/2009 at 03:39 reginald says:
I love a good Sense/Net
03/12/2009 at 04:23 tapanister says:
Looks way to clean to be Neuromancer-y imo.
03/12/2009 at 04:24 tapanister says:
*too
03/12/2009 at 05:09 Gpig says:
I’m hoping for Doom meets Finnegan’s Wake, with elements of Final Fantasy and Hentai games
03/12/2009 at 17:38 Lilliput King says:
Man can dream.
03/12/2009 at 06:24 MacD says:
Shadowrun. Or something like it; preferably a multiplayer industrial espionage game.
Well, I can dream, can’t I?
03/12/2009 at 06:40 slaine says:
Surely the next one would be called GIT.
03/12/2009 at 07:47 Shadowcat says:
That depends. If it’s a prequel, it would be CVS.
Git would probably be considered more of a spin-off, in any case.
03/12/2009 at 10:23 jon_hill987 says:
And this children is why I nearly always use .png.
03/12/2009 at 10:24 jon_hill987 says:
Damn, forgot the comma.
03/12/2009 at 13:33 Tei says:
You can also use JPG with quality set to 100%, to avoid pixel artifacts. It will probably ruin the color deep of black areas, but It will still looks like the original.
03/12/2009 at 13:50 TotalBiscuit says:
It’s still a format that’s lossier than PNG, regardless of how high you crank the quality slider.
03/12/2009 at 14:39 Tei says:
The idea is to give files that people that only have IE on his computer on a very old windows can open. There are people that will not know how to open a PNG file.
Hell.. probably most people have problems using PNG with some popular versions of Microsoft Word. JPG is lossy, but has still much more compatible software out here than PNG. PNG is what professional or amateur people will use. JPG is what you give to people that barelly know how to turn the computer on.
03/12/2009 at 11:45 Knark says:
Maybe this allows you to fly through a subversion repository, I’ve always wondered what they look like.
03/12/2009 at 13:43 Tei says:
Uh.. everyone has already done the joke about GIT and SVN. note to self: I must read all the comments before posting.
*looks at the image*
It looks to me like a procedural room generator where you can see (and maybe target-pain?) the next rooms you will visit. If else.. It looks like a Introversion game, so… here.. I suppose thats was intended, as a thing intended, is a sucess :-)
03/12/2009 at 14:19 Ffitz says:
Cholo. Such a strong impression of Cholo from that picture. I wonder why that is.
God, that was a long time ago. I’m so old now.
03/12/2009 at 15:16 LionsPhil says:
NO. JPEG quality 100% is NOT lossless. It will ALWAYS lose colour resolution relative to brightness resolution (chosen because JPEG is a perceptual encoding, like MP3, so it throws things away based on human senses). This is not controlled by the quality setting.
03/12/2009 at 15:36 Tei says:
Indeed. No one is telling anything different.
03/12/2009 at 15:51 LionsPhil says:
You are telling people to use it in preference to PNG, however, which is complete nonsense. Internet Explorer has supported PNG since version 4. Even some hypothetical person still running first-edition Windows 98 will have at least this version. You may as well say “don’t use CSS”, which has even worse historical support (Netscape 4, anybody?).
03/12/2009 at 16:54 Tei says:
Nope. I say that If you are forced for some reason to use JPG. You can still send something that don’t look like crap zoomed, If you save using 100% quality. I say that some information will be lost, probably mostly about color.1) Repeat: I say that some information will be lost. 2) Goto 1.
03/12/2009 at 16:52 Lucas says:
This isn’t Slashdot you git.
03/12/2009 at 20:53 Wowza says:
And here I thought Introversion went out of business. How long can Dar/Multiwinia and DEFCON sustain them? Do the last of the bedroom programmers have day jobs now?
Subversion tech looks impressive as ever but what’s been going on with it? How far along is it?