By Alec Meer on November 23rd, 2010 at 10:12 pm.
‘Tis the day for revisiting indie delights from months gone by. In this case, scenery-destroying treat Tiny & Big: a game whose prototype demo offered lovely art, big ideas, crazy physics and slightly cumbersome puzzles. Developers Black Pants are gearing up for the game proper’s first chapter, ‘Grandpa’s Leftovers.’ Going on the trailer below, they’ve clearly ramped up the excellent world-cleaving merriment… CLEAVO!
CLEAVO!
(CLEAVO! is my new favourite word).
CLEAVO!
Sorry.
As well as CLEAVO-ing, you may also have spotted a new rocket weapon that allows Tiny there to push rocks around. The game’s chest-thumpiest feature is just how destructible its environments are, and the previous demo definitely demonstrated that the devs were damned serious on that front. Very excited to see how they’ll manage to ramp that up.
With the devs acquiring funding (‘collecting money for no apparent service in return, as they cutely put it) and IGF attention following the Up That Mountain demo, the next step is a full-on release, a demo of which is promised in ‘the coming weeks’. Grandpa’s Leftovers itself is due next Summer.
In the meantime, they’re ever so keen that you go vote for them in the IndieDB awards.
CLEAVO!
23/11/2010 at 22:22 MrEvilGuy says:
cluedo
23/11/2010 at 22:37 faelnor says:
neato
23/11/2010 at 22:43 LimEJET says:
Creativeo!
…Didn’t work, did it??
24/11/2010 at 15:13 P7uen says:
So funny I nearly peedo!
No wait… better not.
23/11/2010 at 22:43 Oak says:
Randomly popped into my head yesterday and now it’s back for real. Only one explanation.
23/11/2010 at 23:11 manintheshack says:
What have you done?! I give it two days until the aliens descend.
23/11/2010 at 22:44 BAReFOOt says:
En cleavoge!
23/11/2010 at 22:48 Earl-Grey says:
Enormo-Kudos for using Uriah Heepo in the trailero!
24/11/2010 at 00:02 Earl-Grey says:
Contrasto and compareo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-kyXDYBIAE#t=4m20s
24/11/2010 at 05:20 Sale says:
Fork off!
24/11/2010 at 05:34 Earl-Grey says:
Right, I’ll just (s)cut(t)lery off then.
23/11/2010 at 23:05 Lambchops says:
“Music by Zippy Zither and Vandal Cock.”
Vandal Cock? Weirdo!
Anyhoo . . . cumbersome was definitely the right word for the puzzles in the prequel tech demo thing. Hopefully they are better this time as I desperately want to love something which looks so gloriously charming.
23/11/2010 at 23:09 Brumisator says:
Eeeeehhhh… I get a big feeling of “trying too hard” from this.
23/11/2010 at 23:43 D says:
Are you for real?
23/11/2010 at 23:12 Om says:
Looks fantastic but I’ll be interestedo (doesn’t work) to see how the charm translates into actual gameplay
23/11/2010 at 23:39 LionsPhil says:
Ah, but do the rockets have a finite fuel source, and is the skybox infinitely high?
Oh, Red Faction 1. You did have some bonkers little gimmicks. If only you had been a better game.
23/11/2010 at 23:49 Caiman says:
I think it looks great, and that they’re heading in the right direction with the concept and how to use their tech. Still following this with interest.
24/11/2010 at 00:48 Hmm-Hmm. says:
Lookin’ pretty spiffy.
..and no, I don’t mean the shoes.
24/11/2010 at 01:03 pakoito says:
Best McGuffin ever.
24/11/2010 at 01:40 Torgen says:
I would love to see these guys take this art style and gameplay and make a sandbox game, allowing Minecrafty exploration and building.
It would be glorious!
24/11/2010 at 01:44 Shazbut says:
Looks great, but….aren’t those big words going to get annoying? They’re kind of in the way and not too attractive.
24/11/2010 at 01:56 icupnimpn2 says:
Certainly has a Psychonauts vibe to it.
Can someone explain to a poor ignorant American how “pants” came to mean “underpants?” Has it always been that way for you? What word do you use for outerwear, “trousers?”
24/11/2010 at 04:52 Item! says:
Yes and
Yes.
HTH.
24/11/2010 at 09:30 Ricky says:
If I were to take a wild guess, I’d suggest that “underpants” originated as a name for the clothing you wore under your pantaloons. While brits then went on to shorten “underpants” to simply “pants”, americans shortened “pantaloons” to “pants”, leading to the hilarity we sometimes see today.
All of the above may be entirely wrong of course, just taking a random guess at it.
24/11/2010 at 15:16 P7uen says:
We also call trousers ‘loons’.
24/11/2010 at 02:15 Killer6 says:
Looks awesome, but i agree with Shazbut about the big word annoyance.
24/11/2010 at 02:18 Killer6 says:
Oops, double, sorry.
24/11/2010 at 08:59 boommoob says:
looks extremely awesom’
this rubs me in all kinds of good
24/11/2010 at 09:57 One Million Monkeys says:
This little man would be so cool to have, when modelling in 3d Studio Max.
24/11/2010 at 11:57 TomSmizzle says:
GNIRSH has to be my favourite of the sound effects.
24/11/2010 at 01:11 Navagon says:
Well thanks for making my comment seem needlessly insulting, guys. :P