By Lewie Procter on September 2nd, 2011 at 3:17 pm.
You may remember that Quinns fellow told us about SkyDrift all the way back in May. It’s the one with the planes. Developer Digital Reality thought it was time to let us all check in on the development, by way of a series of video diaries. Here’s parts one and two:
Those backgrounds are quite lush aren’t they? I can’t see any one thing that’s particularly original about SkyDrift, but it’s got a nice level of visual spit and polish, and brightly coloured racing spliced with power-ups is a classic formula. Could be fun.
What do we think? Are you all up for a bit of Mario Kart with planes? Burnout in the sky? Crimson Skies with arrows floating at either side of you telling you where to go?
SkyDrift is coming to consoles next week, but no date is set for the PC release yet.
Burnout in the sky sounds excellent. I miss burnout revenge. And I’m pretty sure that “quinns” is just a word you made up, there’s no one called that.
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More like blur :P
Since it has powerups.
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Great album :)
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I always knew RPS writers were pretentious hipsters
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I don’t think knowing it exists can be either, but liking it sure can. I tried listening to it once, do not understand what people hear in it.
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Holland 1945. Great album indeed.
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i like the title track but i’ve never really bothered with much else in it
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I love this album and if that makes me a pretentious hipster then so is my 65 year old dad who introduced me to it.
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I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIST
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I went to college at where Jeff Mangum’s from. /hipstercred
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I like NMH’s music but I don’t really listen to it since they went mainstream.
EDIT: OhGodthat’sajokepleasedon’thurtme.
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Oh my God yes, what an album. Probably one of the best indie albums out there, although I’m sure someone will come along and say it’s “overrated” or “pretentious” or some other meaningless truism.
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It’s obviously a great album, but personally I think it’s nowhere even close to On Avery Island.
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And…. cue Bethesda lawyers.
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Well played, sir.
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“Unfortunately, the term Sky has become synonymous with the Elder Scrolls series, so if you do not change your game title to AtmosphereSkidding we will sue you for everything”
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And… Cue failure to understand the Bethesda/Mojang case.
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Actually I have to admit until a second ago I thought the next Elder Parchment game was called “Skyrift”. I don’t know what else to say.
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What? Digital Reality tried to trademark the word “Sky” for video games? That’s as dumb as Notch trying to trademark the word “Scrolls.”
Oh wait. Digital Reality aren’t actually idiots and Bhazor doesn’t understand the thing he’s trying to make a joke about.
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Silly Internet people, Notch is automatically in the right because he’s a successful millionaire indie developer and can do no wrong! Bethsda are a big mean old company with people working for money, grr.
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Urthman hits the nail on the head.
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Blue pointers kinda ruined that screenshot for me.
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This looks freaking ace to me. I’ll keep a very close eye on this one :)
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So this is what the Imperium Galactica guys are working on these days. Umm… interesting, I guess.
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Modern version of Plane Crazy. I like this a lot so far.
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Remember Gee Bee Air Rally for Amiga?
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“Are you all up for a bit of Mario Kart with planes?”
Mario Kart 7 has planes.
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I thought it just had Hang gliding?
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Details!
Incidentally this game does look pretty slick.
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Diddy Kong racing had planes AND hovercraft 14 years ago. I now feel so old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwfEoRnDxY
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Yeah DKR was awesome, great ‘adventure’ mode too. But it was too damn hard and its weapons lacked the punch of MK64′s. Of course as it turned out the later Mario Kart games would share the same flaw…
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Yeah, my first thought was Diddy Kong Racing HD!
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Could this be the spiritual successor to Slipstream 5000 I’ve not been waiting for but might still be interested in?
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Thought the same thing. Great to see there’s another person out there that actually played that game ;)
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That game had some real pretty artwork.
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Looks like Excite Truck. But with planes.
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Reminds of Plane Crazy. With modern and rather gorgeous graphics. Looks fun.
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If there’s local splitscreen play this has “date night” with the girlfriend and my HDTV written all over it.
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I humbly submit you may be doing ‘date night’ wrong.*
Or co-op.
*Unless you really like planes…
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Allow me to recommend a nice game of Mario Party for you and the lucky lady.
Yesiree, the ultimate in ‘getting people to like you’ technology.
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and mom would stick a fork right into daddy’s shoulderrrrr
and dad would throw the garbage all across the floorrrrrrr
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Surprisingly, it turns out that “SkyDrift is a eunuch racing game”.
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Remember me the concept of Slipstream5000
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXTZTNkErRA
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