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.
02/09/2011 at 15:27 McDan says:
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.
02/09/2011 at 16:11 I4C says:
More like blur :P
Since it has powerups.
02/09/2011 at 15:31 fishmitten says:
Great album :)
02/09/2011 at 15:36 BatmanBaggins says:
I always knew RPS writers were pretentious hipsters
02/09/2011 at 15:50 Balobam says:
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.
02/09/2011 at 15:58 Doth Messar says:
Holland 1945. Great album indeed.
02/09/2011 at 16:00 Lipwig says:
i like the title track but i’ve never really bothered with much else in it
02/09/2011 at 17:34 godgoo says:
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.
02/09/2011 at 17:36 Bearrorist says:
I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIST
02/09/2011 at 21:31 TheTourist314 says:
I went to college at where Jeff Mangum’s from. /hipstercred
02/09/2011 at 23:32 Lightningproof says:
I like NMH’s music but I don’t really listen to it since they went mainstream.
EDIT: OhGodthat’sajokepleasedon’thurtme.
03/09/2011 at 05:41 Adventurous Putty says:
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.
03/09/2011 at 14:09 TheGameSquid says:
It’s obviously a great album, but personally I think it’s nowhere even close to On Avery Island.
02/09/2011 at 15:32 Bhazor says:
And…. cue Bethesda lawyers.
02/09/2011 at 15:47 phosgene says:
Well played, sir.
02/09/2011 at 15:54 Balobam says:
“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”
02/09/2011 at 15:59 Unaco says:
And… Cue failure to understand the Bethesda/Mojang case.
02/09/2011 at 16:04 Bhazor says:
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.
02/09/2011 at 16:24 Urthman says:
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.
03/09/2011 at 12:59 LionsPhil says:
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.
04/09/2011 at 19:32 Zelius says:
Urthman hits the nail on the head.
02/09/2011 at 15:33 coldvvvave says:
Blue pointers kinda ruined that screenshot for me.
02/09/2011 at 15:39 Merkoth says:
This looks freaking ace to me. I’ll keep a very close eye on this one :)
02/09/2011 at 15:42 pkt-zer0 says:
So this is what the Imperium Galactica guys are working on these days. Umm… interesting, I guess.
02/09/2011 at 15:43 NieArch says:
Modern version of Plane Crazy. I like this a lot so far.
02/09/2011 at 15:50 kuran says:
Remember Gee Bee Air Rally for Amiga?
02/09/2011 at 15:59 Rii says:
“Are you all up for a bit of Mario Kart with planes?”
Mario Kart 7 has planes.
02/09/2011 at 16:05 Lewie Procter says:
I thought it just had Hang gliding?
02/09/2011 at 16:09 Rii says:
Details!
Incidentally this game does look pretty slick.
02/09/2011 at 16:12 Bhazor says:
Diddy Kong racing had planes AND hovercraft 14 years ago. I now feel so old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwfEoRnDxY
02/09/2011 at 16:18 Rii says:
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…
02/09/2011 at 16:18 Urthman says:
Yeah, my first thought was Diddy Kong Racing HD!
02/09/2011 at 16:16 aldo_14 says:
Could this be the spiritual successor to Slipstream 5000 I’ve not been waiting for but might still be interested in?
03/09/2011 at 00:06 Sweetz says:
Thought the same thing. Great to see there’s another person out there that actually played that game ;)
03/09/2011 at 13:04 LionsPhil says:
That game had some real pretty artwork.
02/09/2011 at 16:59 jon_hill987 says:
Looks like Excite Truck. But with planes.
02/09/2011 at 17:32 Skystrider says:
Reminds of Plane Crazy. With modern and rather gorgeous graphics. Looks fun.
02/09/2011 at 18:10 shoptroll says:
If there’s local splitscreen play this has “date night” with the girlfriend and my HDTV written all over it.
02/09/2011 at 19:40 Quine says:
I humbly submit you may be doing ‘date night’ wrong.*
Or co-op.
*Unless you really like planes…
03/09/2011 at 00:02 Balobam says:
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.
02/09/2011 at 21:14 LMAOMOBILE says:
and mom would stick a fork right into daddy’s shoulderrrrr
and dad would throw the garbage all across the floorrrrrrr
03/09/2011 at 03:59 Shadowcat says:
Surprisingly, it turns out that “SkyDrift is a eunuch racing game”.
03/09/2011 at 15:21 Crius says:
Remember me the concept of Slipstream5000
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXTZTNkErRA
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