By Kieron Gillen on February 23rd, 2010 at 10:36 am.
Hurrah! More of the critically acclaimed (by us) Radiator in the near future. Robert Yang sends news of its third part to debut in either March or April. One of the two, unless it doesn’t. What’s it about? Well, it’s called Much Madness and Robert describes it as: “You’re trying to escape a sinking submarine after stabbing your husband in the back repeatedly — to make matters worse, Emily Dickinson’s ghost keeps reciting those blasted poems of hers… Maybe drowning to death isn’t so bad?”. Bloody Emily Dickinson, that’s what I say. The trailer follows, but you can download the previous episodes over at Radiator’s site…
We especially like the use of our quotes. Hint-hint, devs.
‘trascendantly beautiful’ – hardgoredeathfuck.com
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Hurray! I love Radiator. Also did you guys know that (friends of the Radiator project) Blendo Games have a new game in development? Its called Flotilla and there is a trailer here: http://www.blendogames.com/flotilla/.
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Bland: Yup.
KG
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Honestly, coming in here, plying your wares!
Worse than spam bots you are.
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Oh! Serves me right for not paying the RPS feed the attention it deserves. @ Rich I’m a fanboy, not a representative of either party.
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Bland: I think that as a joke aimed at me, btw.
KG
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If I’m honest, it was aimed at Bland.
I misread Captain Bland as Captain Blend and mentally linked him with Blendo Games.
Time to stop making a tit of myself and go get a cup of tea.
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If anyone from blendo is here i would like to play your game, even in beta. I am willing to pre order to achieve this.
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@Rich: If you make me one too you can have a couple of these biscuits.
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I don’t know why I didn’t pay this attention the first (and second?) time(s?) it was on RPS. Half way through the video I had to pause it and order Steam to start downloading Episode 2 to my laptop. 2 MB a second don’t you know?
Excited.
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It’s a little sad, that the screenshot at the top of this post could never have come out of a commercial game. No fighting, no explosions; nobody would publish that.
That being said, I just saw on his website that he is looking for a job in the games industry starting in May, and I hope somebody like Obsidian hires the guy and then they make something amazing.
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Ahem… Heavy Rain?
Alright it’s story is slightly below that of a mediocre episode of CSI but its trying dag nabbit.
It is the future of both gaming and cinema.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfXhhw9X7Uc&feature=related
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I understand your sentiments, but I have to disagree. A random example off the top of my head:
Ico http://almach238.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/ico_pic01.jpg
I could think of more, but I cbf.
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Always worth a Lovecraft reference…
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When I first saw the screenshot, I thought it was from The Sims 3. So maybe one such game [franchise] would be published without explosions.
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Handle With Care is one of the few good “art games” ever made. it doesn’t seem to think that banality and poor design are par for the course, and we all benefit from such a bold idea.
(I’ll add Today I Die, the La La Land games, and Braid, to the extent that it qualifies)
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I’m just a little bit proud to say I got the music well before it came up. And I barely know who the Pixies are. Yay me!
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I get the sense that you’ve seen Fight Club.
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Indeed. Why, is that song in it?
I’m not saying it’s an amazing achievement, I just don’t normally do well at recognizing piano instrumental versions of songs.
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And then its me who couldn’t figure it out until credits rolled but listened the where is my mind cover at the end of Fight Club to death; boohoo clusterfuck.
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Music by Maxence Cyrin. He’s a bit of a one trick pony (in that his whole career is based on doing piano versions of songs that really shouldn’t work on a piano) but personally they really work on those certain sunday afternoons that follow very long saturday nights.
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With my feet in the air and my head on the ground…
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You know, I’ll have to give this a go. I was reading through my Steam games list, and realized that I’m pretty low on Vitamin Arthouse Pretension. This looks poised to be my Total cereal for pretentiousness.
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for some reason the radiator games are the only art games I can tollerate, maybe its because they have actual gameplay?
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In 95.5% of same sex couples the relationship ends with one being stabbed to death in a submarine.
This is why same sex marriage is wrong. They also disrupt radar.
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They also disrupt radar.
Hehe
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47.8% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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@Bhazor
Don’t forget sharks – and generally just mucking about.
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What a pleasant trailer. Which is something I so rarely get to say about game trailers, as they are usually just NOISE!!! and quick cuts.
Will definitely playing episode 3. The previous ones were always interesting, if not perfect all the time. Hopefully, this one won’t rely so heavily on the fiddly physics engine used by Half Life 2.
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The music makes me want to play Silent Conversation. I like that flash game.
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As bland as a below-average indie movie.
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I love the self-mockery in this one. More indie arthouse fare could do with a sense of levity, especially with respect to its own importance. Nothing is less deep than that which needs to go around shouting, “Look at me! I’m deep!”
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Before I read the article that picture led me to believe that someone had created a machinima involving Kieron and Alec in a field of yellow flowers.
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Shame, that sounds awesome.
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Beautiful version of Where is my mind? by Pixies.
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Just curious, but wasn’t this supposed to drop sometime around August?
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… Yeah, and then I re-designed everything. The submarine’s been re-designed at least 4-5 times now.
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Oh, hey, cool, Word of God.
Just curious. Loved the first two episodes, couldn’t wait for the third. *fingers crossed*
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That was a very nicely-put-together trailer. I’m still occasionally impressed by how emotive the Source engine character models can look, but then I remember that they usually look like they’re robots made of rubber once you get ingame.
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Radiator 1-2 (Handle With Care) is, quite frankly, shit. I don’t care if it’s an “art game”, it has some of the worst gameplay I’ve ever experienced. Stacking boxes? Seriously?
I get the feeling that everyone gushing over it wouldn’t know a good game if it hit them in the face with a brick.
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How many ‘good’ games actually hit the player in the face with a brick? That really doesn’t sound like the mark of a quality title.
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Is that a Lovecraft-referencing title?
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It is. And as it’s posted by Gillen, it isn’t even by accident. ;)
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Emily Dickinson? Is this a spiritual sequel to “The Room”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGiPUx9Zgi0
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