By Alec Meer on September 27th, 2011 at 10:25 am.
Left to steer the good ship RPS on my own today, I was feeling a little grim. Jaw set, lip slightly curled, brow furrowed, coffee cup crushed by my feeble fist: you know the look. Then I watched this footage of Incredipede (‘a game about life and feet’), the next offering from the creator of Fantastic Contraption, and now I keep giggling to myself and wanting to hug people.
Ambulatory transformable beast in procedurally-generated, physics-based, freeform puzzle solving? Sign me right up. Apparently the creature-creation possibilites are ‘practically limitless’.
Incredipede! There is no finer name for a videogame.
Here also is creator Colin Northway explaining the game at Sense of Wonder Night in Japan a couple of weeks back. Don’t worry, he speaks in English, interspersed by a Japanese translator and ever-so-polite applause. Also, features a creature specifically made to dance and only to dance:
I am really looking forward to forcing the kind of bodge-it mentality that characterised my unsuccessful Lego expirements as a child onto Incredipede. More details on its website.
27/09/2011 at 10:32 Brumisator says:
Bah, it’s always the same thing with these kinds of games.
Hope: “oh looks cool , I want to play it!”
Disapointment: “Oh it’s not out yet”
Rage: “Why did you get my hopes up? I was much happier before knowing this game existed”
Apathy: Forgets this game ever existed and never plays it even when/if it comes out.
27/09/2011 at 16:47 jokomul says:
pretty much nailed it…
27/09/2011 at 10:33 Jams O'Donnell says:
Now that is a game for me. I love this kind of make-a-wonky-thing-and-hope-it-works activity.
27/09/2011 at 16:32 Eddy9000 says:
Great trailer wasn’t it? Introduces all the range of things that can be done with a simple idea. The climbing bit was particularly lovely.
27/09/2011 at 10:40 EOT says:
I’ll take that hug Mr. Meer. I’m suffering from a rather severe case of man flu and wrapping myself in your arms sounds a damn sight better than my own self-pity.
27/09/2011 at 10:47 Zanchito says:
I concur with the previous posters. It’s really great to hear about new and exciting games here, but if you people could make a follow up for every “soon to be released” game you post, it’d be even better. As it is now, they just sort of get forgotten.
27/09/2011 at 10:59 LionsPhil says:
Ooh, Fantastic Contraption. I remember that being quite good.
This one might live or die on how well the controls map to muscles, though.
27/09/2011 at 11:54 KillahMate says:
Yeah, shades of QWOP here…
27/09/2011 at 11:31 Rinox says:
/human centipede flashbacks
27/09/2011 at 13:43 Kaltano says:
Human Incredipede (yea I can’t get it out of my head either)
27/09/2011 at 19:22 amishmonster says:
Yep. I’ve never even seen the movie and it’s ruined the suffix for me. Except for velocipedes, those are too awesome to ruin.
27/09/2011 at 11:33 MiniMatt says:
Phwoar, look at the legs on that.
27/09/2011 at 13:41 Dana says:
His flesh is…OUTSIDE !
27/09/2011 at 13:59 HilariousCow says:
Reminds me of sodaplay but with QWOP controls, and a goal.
27/09/2011 at 15:20 Dervish says:
Thanks, I was struggling to remember what that site was called. If anyone has links to similar stuff, that would be nice.
27/09/2011 at 15:34 geoffreyk says:
Exactly what I was thinking of. Sodaplay is more toy, and less game, but there are definitely similarities. Which is a good thing.
27/09/2011 at 21:36 KitchenDon says:
Dervish: Box Car 2D is a toy/physics sim that features evolving vehicles. You can also design your own cars. http://boxcar2d.com/
27/09/2011 at 22:25 Veret says:
Sodaplay ate my life back when I was 14; it’s a fantastic combination of art and creative engineering that I didn’t find again until Minecraft. Ahh, nostalgia…
27/09/2011 at 15:12 Daiv says:
I’ll wait for the sequel: Incredipede 2 – Inconceivapede.
27/09/2011 at 16:25 Raiyan 1.0 says:
Wait, it’s Big Dog and a spider at the same time?
Oh fu-
27/09/2011 at 21:09 Navagon says:
That looked pretty damn clever. A bit weird, but he’s marketing it to Japan,so he’s obviously already aware of that.
28/09/2011 at 00:48 Sleepymatt says:
This guy has the ideal life…
travelling the world with his beloved,
creating cool games at the same time,
and finding time to grow A TRULY FUCKING HUMUNGOUS GINGER POWERBEARD.
Respect, dude!