By Craig Pearson on February 20th, 2012 at 5:07 pm.
In my life I’ve shot about 100 bullets and taken about 12 billion photographs, so why are the stats in games skewed towards bangthings? I’ll tell you why: Gov’t funded Big Ammo have been lobbying to have guns replace photographs in all games. Doom was originally about photographing demon families for their Christmas cards, until the developers were visited in the dead of night. Then it mysteriously became about killing things with bullets. Check the game code. It’s all in the code, people! Well brave soldiers Retro Affect are fighting the good fight with Snapshot, their bullet-free platform game where you use photos of the environment to solve puzzles. Five minutes of Zapruder-beating footage is right here. You can’t stop the signal!
Pixabyte’s Indie Interview covers a lot of aspects of the game, but reading between the lines I can tell it’s a call to non-arms. Everybody: grab a camera and reclaim the streets!
The release date remains “To Be Announced”, but you can be damn sure we’ll be sending a press entourage to obnoxiously fire cameras off in the developers’ faces at the first hint of one.
20/02/2012 at 17:10 whexican says:
I’ve covered wars, you know.
20/02/2012 at 17:36 Squire says:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/20/now-youre-thinking-with-screenshots/
Came up the concept in a dream eh? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….
Jokes aside this looks confusing as all hell. Is momentum preserved?
20/02/2012 at 18:11 oldkc says:
yes it is, hence turning the pic of the falling box: sends it flying screen left rather than down…. now you’re thinking with portals….
20/02/2012 at 23:17 jamesgecko says:
Well, I’ve been waiting forever for this to come out, so I guess three years might have passed since November. Things go all wibbly wobbly after a while, so it gets hard to tell.
Now, if only Cly5m and darthlupi would release Velella… It’s been seven or eight long years there. :-(
21/02/2012 at 11:43 Matt says:
I saw this at the IGF booth at GDC 2009 so yeah, it’s been a long time coming.
20/02/2012 at 18:11 Berzee says:
Oh look. Spikes.
20/02/2012 at 20:49 MondSemmel says:
Dear Mr. Craig Pearson, Sir,
I have noticed the conspicuous absense of any mention of the game Beyond Good & Evil in your post about photography. I believe this to be a critical but unintentional oversight and hope it will be swiftly corrected.
Regards,
MondSemmel
Society of Concerned Beyond Good & Evil … Fan-ish … People
I wish I was a native English speaker =|.
20/02/2012 at 22:09 StickyNavels says:
That looks like a lovely thing. Clever, but not too clever – and quite pretty to boot!
21/02/2012 at 02:50 Malawi Frontier Guard says:
I shot one bullet and 20 photographs in my life. I made every one of them count.