By Craig Pearson on March 29th, 2012 at 8:00 pm.
I keep reading the name Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet as one word in my head, delivered in breathless American advertising fashion. Whoever stole the spaces from those words in my thoughts, I truly hope you’re putting them to good use. If you’re using them to add double spaces after full stops, then I will hunt you down. Erm, things went a little surreal there. Back on track: the attractive adventure shooter thinger is maneuvering its way to the PC, with its co-operative DLC coming as an added bonus.
I managed to travel back in time and convince them to put a video of the DLC up on their site, so you could see it in this post. Hmm, that was a big waste of my time travel privileges. I probably should have thought that through a bit more.
I warn you: there is mild fantasy violence within.
Via Joystiq.
29/03/2012 at 20:05 wodin says:
That reminded me of a game from last year One where you repopulate underground with plants. Was abit surreal. Can’t remember it’s name now.
29/03/2012 at 20:25 ivedefected says:
Lost Mars on the iOs? That sounds similar to what you described.
Also, i hope the PC version comes with all the stuff cut from the XBLA version…some of the early trailers show some amazing boss fights and gadgets that i never saw on the console :(
29/03/2012 at 20:25 Untruth says:
The Undergarden. Which is adorable but somewhat lacking at times.
30/03/2012 at 09:24 phlebas says:
That reminds me – I gave up on Undergarden as the keyboard/mouse controls were quite broken, meant to go back to it once I’d got a gamepad and haven’t yet. I must!
30/03/2012 at 15:44 wodin says:
Correct thats the one! Undergarden. Sounds like some porn film, however it was a rather hypnotic game experience.
29/03/2012 at 20:10 Kollega says:
“Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet”. What kind of name is that, anyway? Couldn’t they name it “The Virgilian Effect”, “Sanction #532″, or “Directive Omega”?
29/03/2012 at 20:15 LTK says:
I know, right? The only thing more surreal than this game is the fact that recent (indie) games have been getting decreasingly nondescript names.
29/03/2012 at 21:12 oyog says:
It’s a reference to Insanely Twisted Rabbits, a small collection of bizarre rabbits drawn by Michel Gagne, the guy who did the art for the game, or at least who’s art the game’s style is based on.
He’s done art for a lot of different animated pop culture.
30/03/2012 at 01:57 Bhazor says:
Actually its more closely based on Twisted Shadow Puppets. A series of bumpers he made for Nickelodeon in 2005.
http://www.gagneint.com/Final%20site/insanelytwisted.com/main.htm
29/03/2012 at 20:10 jaronimoe says:
That mild fantasy violence scarred me for life.. wish I hadn’t ignored that warning :(
29/03/2012 at 20:14 Khemm says:
One word: YAY!
29/03/2012 at 20:19 Dr I am a Doctor says:
The title sounds like an official ICP game.
29/03/2012 at 20:21 magnus says:
Well, at least it didn’t say ‘contains scenes of mild peril/ comic mischief’ whatever they mean.
29/03/2012 at 20:40 Shadram says:
When did we stop using double spaces after full stops? I do it out of habit, having done so for the last 20 years…
29/03/2012 at 20:53 identiti_crisis says:
Just think, anything you may have written in type since the decline of monospaced typefaces has probably been sneered at with the smugness of perceived superiority.
I like double spaces, but I actually consider them unnecessary in monospaced fonts, whereas supposedly that was precisely what started it all off. Oh well.
29/03/2012 at 20:58 Mctittles says:
I’m guessing HTML helped kick off the new style, since double spaces don’t matter in HTML and most editors (like the one I’m typing on right now probably).
A A – Single Space
A A – Double Space
(Edit – yep didn’t make a difference)
29/03/2012 at 21:57 Shadram says:
I still remember when Word used to highlight single spaces after a full stop as a grammar error. Granted, that was when Word still ran in DOS, but… Kids these days, with their lazy thumbs.
30/03/2012 at 04:56 wouldestous says:
i remember when word was called wordstar
30/03/2012 at 13:54 pistolhamster says:
Then you’re hitting the booze too much. WordStar was a competitor to Word and Word Perfect.
29/03/2012 at 23:23 bear912 says:
You are all relics of a bygone age. You have been cast aside by the systems of tomorrow and will spend the rest of your days gripped by the terror of your own obsolescence.
… Eh, I probably just have lazy thumbs, actually…
29/03/2012 at 20:53 Universal Quitter says:
For a second, just from the image, I was like, “Someone’s making a Mystery Science Theater 3000 Game!?”
30/03/2012 at 13:29 Harlander says:
Sure.
It’ll be out next Sunday, AD.
29/03/2012 at 20:56 identiti_crisis says:
Looks sort of like Pixeljunk Shooter, superficially. That’s OK, because I loved that game. Also, I like purple; this means I am somewhat interested.
29/03/2012 at 21:21 hypercrisis says:
reminds me of that one early level in earthworm jim that was harder than the rest of the game
29/03/2012 at 21:34 Quasar says:
Great news – I really enjoyed this on 360, and I thought it’d be a pretty good fit for the PC. Anyone else find the last boss bastard hard, though?
29/03/2012 at 21:38 Kaira- says:
… using Dimmu Borgir as soundtrack? What.
29/03/2012 at 22:04 InternetBatman says:
How long has the game been in development? I feel like I’ve been hearing about it for a long, long time.
29/03/2012 at 22:21 Bhazor says:
Soon?
But how soon is now?
29/03/2012 at 22:30 Jubaal says:
Does it remind anyone else of Thrust?
29/03/2012 at 22:35 Chris D says:
Some similarities but as he didn’t ever spin out of control and shatter against a wall on balance I’d have to go with no.
29/03/2012 at 23:52 jacobvandy says:
Crudelypaintednotsofunnyplywoodcutoutfolkart!
30/03/2012 at 00:15 liquidsoap89 says:
“HEY everyone! A real funny bugger lives here!”
30/03/2012 at 00:14 liquidsoap89 says:
I can’t tell if this looks fun or not. Somebody form an opinion for me please.
30/03/2012 at 00:20 MadTinkerer says:
YEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
About time an originally-PC-exclusive game finally gets released on it’s own platform. I wonder if it’ll be like Cthulhu Saves The World and it’ll sell ridiculously more on PC than XBox Live?
30/03/2012 at 15:41 squareking says:
I sure hope so. I’ve wanted this since the first teaser video. Showing my support through purchasing on Day One™.
30/03/2012 at 00:45 Noise says:
Strangely enough this is where the music is from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-hsa1a7kyM
30/03/2012 at 13:07 zind says:
Double spaces after full stops are better, even if HTML eats them and even if they aren’t technically correct.
While we’re at it, long live the Oxford comma.
Also, I punctuate outside of quotation marks if said punctuation isn’t “part of the quote”.
:o
30/03/2012 at 15:39 squareking says:
My Associated Press-educated brain is screaming at you.
31/03/2012 at 17:14 Contrafibularity says:
I don’t claim to consciously understand what was going on there, but I like it already.
08/04/2012 at 11:05 Bassem says:
Yes! I recently emailed Michel Gagné of Shadow Planet Productions, asking him when/if ITSP would be released for PC. He just said to “stay tuned.”
Can’t wait. This is one of the prettiest games I’ve seen. I hope it will play well on PC and have proper options and what not.