By Jim Rossignol on April 5th, 2011 at 6:23 pm.
Tesla: The Weather Man is a side-scrolling platformer in which the godfather of electricity must save himself from his arch enemy by using weather manipulation techniques. Hmm, yes, occasionally the developer-supplied description of a game will do: “Use weather control powers to stop Thomas Edison and his army of DC-powered robots! You play as Nikola Tesla after the triumph of alternating current has sent Edison into a violent rage.” There’s a demo.
And a video below, of course.
Sooo what you are saying is this is a game based on historical fact? Sounds good to me
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I respect these people with all my heart.
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Oh my goodness, I have to own this NOW. I have not felt this way in a loooong time. But Tesla fighting robot dinosaurs with the aid of the Sun and pigeons is a must-buy.
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Is that Mark Twain starring in the tutorial dialogue?
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Oh, why must this game be a platformer. I want to play it! (This is not me having disdain for platformers, this is me acknowledging that I have the hand-eye coordination of a potato, and not the sort of potato that gets invited into Portal 2 ARGs).
I suppose I shall have to live vicariously through other people playing it and posting videos.
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Tesla vs Edison you say? I’m totally on that, Tesla’s the man.
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If he stopped T.Edison, then Americans would have 50 Hz mains like the normal world. Alas.
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best indie game I played this month
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Love that trailer – for a while the art style bothered me, but there was so much beautiful SILLY and interesting mechanics, that I stopped worrying about art and just enjoyed the ride.
PS: HARNESS THE SUN. FOR JUSTICE.
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Yes, that’s Sam Clemens as the Narrator, which is curious since I recall that he and Edison were friends.
Also, I don’t think I could ever make something with a premise as awesome as this.
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Actually no, Twain and Tesla were friends. Very good friends actually.
Here is Twain in Tesla’s lab:
http://i.imgur.com/pnScG.jpg
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oh, bah. misremembered. I do know that Ford and Edison were friends, had winter cottages in Florida in the same neighborhood.
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Holy shit; yes.
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Awesome. Also, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2zwBRa0YhA
and this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Fists_of_Science
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