By Quintin Smith on November 24th, 2010 at 1:12 pm.
You all downloaded and played Super Crate Box, right? Back when that came out I pored over Dutch developer Vlambeer‘s site to see if they had any other projects. They had better than “another project”. They had a game called Radical Fishing, which as of today has been released in browser-game format. I think I’ll just let this game speak for itself. You can play it here, and watch trailers for both it and Vlambeer’s next mini-project (entitled SPACE MURDER) below. Man, we have so many indie teams doing wonderful, wonderful work these days.
I’m really enjoying the number of developers that are putting out trailers which go completely off the rails towards the end. This is a trend to be encouraged.
And here is SPACE MURDER. There’s a lot in this trailer that makes me laugh.
As I understand it, Vlambeer wanted to finish this game in 1 week but that pretty much hasn’t happened.
24/11/2010 at 13:47 Handsome Dead says:
You stole this from your wife, afraid of the day she would kill you.
This is the best game. The only way it could be better is if Billy was Ice T
24/11/2010 at 13:52 Quintin Smith says:
Yeah. There’s an oddly high percentage of independant developers that write amazing dialogue.
24/11/2010 at 14:21 Gap Gen says:
And a disappointingly large number of commercial titles that never bothered to hire a decent writer.
24/11/2010 at 13:52 AndrewC says:
The trailer fails to explain that, once you catch the fish you throw them in the air and shoot them with a big gun. It isn’t explosive decompression, the bends, or hilarious indie randomness, it is you blowing the shit out of fish.
ACCEPTABLE
24/11/2010 at 14:03 Alexander Norris says:
Surely it’s “It’s a Reel Big Fish,” Quinns?
24/11/2010 at 14:10 Babs says:
It’s essentially a reverse of the ‘launch a hedgehog/turle’ games, only with more skill involved.
My favourite bit is after you shoot all the fish and he just sits there while fish blood and gore falls from the sky around him, revelling it his piscicide. Awesome.
24/11/2010 at 14:16 Lewie Procter says:
Oh very nice, I remember seeing the reveal trailer for this and thinking it looked delightful.
24/11/2010 at 14:25 jeremypeel says:
Absolutely can’t wait to play this when I have time later; I never stop going on about Vlambeer at the moment, they’re fantastic.
I submitted ‘Space: You’re In It’ as my entry for the space-game-in-a-week naming competition, but I must concede that Space Murder is undisputably better.
24/11/2010 at 14:27 Bascule42 says:
My name? It’s J.R.Hartley.
24/11/2010 at 14:36 Novotny says:
You rule!
24/11/2010 at 14:54 Dominic White says:
SPACE MURDER needs to be somehow worked into being a prequel to SPACE FUNERAL. I know that wouldn’t make any sense, but that, in itself, would make sense, nonsensically.
24/11/2010 at 15:04 Quintin Smith says:
Yes. Also, someone should make a third SPACE SUCHANDSUCH game and then release them all in a SPACE PACK whereby we can actually pay the developers something.
24/11/2010 at 15:04 Quintin Smith says:
There’s SPACE STATION 13, I guess.
24/11/2010 at 15:09 Dominic White says:
Cactus made a game called SPACE FUCK. We’d probably need another game or two between that and SPACE MURDER, which in turn leads into SPACE FUNERAL.
24/11/2010 at 15:14 jeremypeel says:
Those filler games would have to be SPACE MARRIAGE, followed by IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU PREMATURELY EJACULATE.
cactus has made so many space shooters that if you were to compress them together into a ball, they’d be bigger than The Beatles.
Who in themselves were bigger than Jesus.
24/11/2010 at 15:17 deejayem says:
Jesus wasn’t that big – it was just a flattering loincloth.
24/11/2010 at 15:17 KillahMate says:
Technically, the games between SPACE FUCK and SPACE MURDER would have to be SPACE PREGNANCY and SPACE BIRTH, maybe a few more after BIRTH but we wouldn’t want to milk it.
24/11/2010 at 15:23 AndrewC says:
Presumably SPACE OH NO MY HUSBANDS HOME, SPACE OH GOD HOW COULD YOU, SPACE ITS NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE and SPACE SO THIS IS WHY LITTLE BRIAN IS A GINGER.
24/11/2010 at 18:25 KillahMate says:
I love this website.
24/11/2010 at 21:13 Spacewalk says:
And an unofficial SPACEBALLS game too.
24/11/2010 at 15:27 JW says:
rock paper shotgun this is why I love you
24/11/2010 at 15:31 Rob says:
What a fantastically fun game. I’m not too surprised though, coming from the makers of the awesome Super Crate Box.
24/11/2010 at 16:33 RagingLion says:
I’m really digging the boss music for SPACE MURDER.
24/11/2010 at 18:48 msarge says:
This is one of the reasons I love PC gaming.
24/11/2010 at 18:56 Perching Path says:
From the game’s fishopedia:
“Lipfish
Piscus Lippaeanius
A dumb and rather heavy fish known for its lips
Commonly used in west african cuisine”
screenshot
I’m hoping there’s a joke/reference here I’m not getting, because I don’t much like the pseudo-joke I am getting.
24/11/2010 at 19:08 Rinox says:
Wow, that’s pretty fucked up.
24/11/2010 at 22:49 Ricc says:
Uh, hmm, yeah. That’s no good.
24/11/2010 at 19:10 Bahumat says:
Radical Fishing made me laugh out loud far too many times.
Fishipedia entry:
Name: MONSTER EEL
Description: HAARBGLARARBHGHGHGAHGHHH
I died laughing.
24/11/2010 at 19:10 bob arctor says:
Hmm it wouldn’t let me fill the encyclopedia, that blue fish with the goofy eyes is bugged. Won’t unlock it. Also no victory screen for having everything and getting the prize at 500m.
Oh well, still awesome game, played it for ages.
24/11/2010 at 19:26 Zogtee says:
I would totally pay monies for these games on Steam or the iPhone. Just sayin’.
24/11/2010 at 19:46 amishmonster says:
Oh god, the boss robot in Space Murder is shooting out Mike and Ike’s! Run from the liquorice horror!
25/11/2010 at 00:16 Down Rodeo says:
That is an awesome game. Even the music!
25/11/2010 at 00:22 Dominic White says:
The double-speed music in the Radical Fishing trailer is totally better than the super-laid-back version in the game itself. It doesn’t sound nearly half as manic and unhinged as the game itself is.
25/11/2010 at 10:34 President Weasel says:
I liked the laid back music, myself.
I also “won” the game, but I never managed to get that brown armoured fish. The hairdryer wouldn’t electrocute it, but neither would it grab the bait. Whenever I caught a fish below it and started back up, the possibly-a-ceolocanth was gone.
25/11/2010 at 13:22 Reko says:
Hmm. I can’t seem to exit the shop after the tutorial level – the clicking, it does nothing