By Jim Rossignol on July 11th, 2012 at 7:00 pm.
Tomorrow Corporation (Kyle “World Of Goo” Gabler, Allan “Worked At EA” Blomquist, Kyle “Henry Hatsworth” Gray) have released a trailer for their forthcoming game, Little Inferno. It tells of a world which is suffering a mysterious ice-age, and children who must burn toys to stay warm.
Yes, it’s a bit odd. See it below.
11/07/2012 at 19:08 squareking says:
So…World of Goo 2?
11/07/2012 at 19:11 misterT0AST says:
A bit too dramatic for my taste. It should be more subtle to make more impact. Because I say so.
12/07/2012 at 07:50 jimjam says:
Ou oh! Trying to be clever I see.
Who is this game aimed at?
Young kids would be better served playing with real fire ( we can all remember the fun with that) & us older peeps have already done this stuff already….
So who wants to pretend to burn pretend stuff?
11/07/2012 at 19:12 Orija says:
This teaser has me all fired up for the game.
11/07/2012 at 19:17 Coccyx says:
The thought of what could be outside makes me shiver.
11/07/2012 at 19:22 Orija says:
Yea, I wish more devs would toy with similar ideas.
11/07/2012 at 19:59 bglamb says:
It’s got a sure fire place in my watch list.
11/07/2012 at 19:21 anotherman7 says:
The spark of creativity really shines.
12/07/2012 at 05:59 ReynoldLacusong says:
You are right it is really shining. I am just amused by it.
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12/07/2012 at 08:32 frenz0rz says:
And so we learn that forum bots are dazzled by shiny things.
Now, how can we use this to our advantage?
12/07/2012 at 16:29 drlemon says:
SHINY SHINY SHINY! Let’s see if that works.
11/07/2012 at 19:22 byteCrunch says:
I have a burning desire to play this game.
11/07/2012 at 19:35 Cryptoshrimp says:
It certainly kindled my interest in this game.
11/07/2012 at 20:04 lordcooper says:
Hot stuff
11/07/2012 at 20:29 Lambchops says:
I inferno chance of disappointment when they Celsius this game.
11/07/2012 at 20:51 LTK says:
Given that World of Goo was such a blazing success, I am hotly anticipating this.
11/07/2012 at 20:58 Safewood says:
These puns come straight from the burning hells i tells you!
11/07/2012 at 21:13 lowprices says:
Don’t worry, pun threads usually burn out pretty quickly
12/07/2012 at 00:34 InternetBatman says:
If they don’t turn into a flamewar.
11/07/2012 at 23:03 Fumarole says:
Pun threads really make my heart melt.
11/07/2012 at 23:15 Engloutie says:
These puns get really doll over time.
12/07/2012 at 05:06 Nim says:
What have I done to receive this punishment?
12/07/2012 at 05:26 Hardlylikely says:
Perhaps you cinder lot?
11/07/2012 at 19:15 Faldrath says:
Oh no, a thinly veiled smokescreen for a pun thread :(
11/07/2012 at 19:36 pakoito says:
Too creepy for my own taste. Luckily in Spain there’s good weather.
11/07/2012 at 20:32 symuun says:
Well, this is disturbing as all hell. I want to play it. Now.
12/07/2012 at 00:17 Xzi says:
My thoughts as well. Just disturbing enough to pique my interest. Of course, World of Goo had a similarly disturbing style to it, but I didn’t feel as bad about messing up the lives of goo balls.
12/07/2012 at 06:18 Kollega says:
I don’t know why you think this is disturbing, but it’s obviously not disturbing enough. The only thing i got out of the trailer is that the theme song is catchy. Maybe it’s because IИ SФVIЭТ ЯЦSSIД, everyone has to burn their toys to stay alive. In the snow! Uphill! Both ways!
(Or, to be less of a twit, i want to say that the premise is not nearly as disturbing as certain other works. Go read Battle Royale or Nineteen Eighty-Four to see what i mean.)
12/07/2012 at 07:12 RakeShark says:
Suppose the correct terms are “bleak” and “unsettling”.
11/07/2012 at 20:42 niuqqa says:
http://dv.gd/oej
11/07/2012 at 21:10 Bob_Bobson says:
Someone broke into my head and decided to make what lurks there into my perfect game. And that someone(s) includes Kyle Gabler. Awesome!
11/07/2012 at 21:11 lowprices says:
I sense an outraged Daily Mail campaign in the making. “Sick videogame encourages children to play with fire, claims disgusted Keith Vaz.”
11/07/2012 at 22:56 Stevostin says:
A bit odd ? Even I found it creepy.
11/07/2012 at 22:59 cylentstorm says:
Well, color me intrigued. World of Goo was great, and the “message” was received. So–any details on the game behind the trailer?
11/07/2012 at 23:03 Fumarole says:
Am I the only person here who burned their toys? Y’all are weird.
11/07/2012 at 23:21 RakeShark says:
Seems Gabler still has a musical chop or two after World of Goo. Certainly channeling his inner Danny Elfman.
11/07/2012 at 23:50 thealienamongus says:
The Little Match Girl -http://www.online-literature.com/hans_christian_andersen/981/
Can’t watch video atm but this “It tells of a world which is suffering a mysterious ice-age, and children who must burn toys to stay warm” made me think of it (the story is SO sad)
12/07/2012 at 00:22 Tom Walker says:
This game can’t fail to be amazing, can it? I promise you it will be amazing. I know nothing of it, of course. It will be amazing.
12/07/2012 at 03:59 Aimeelove says:
I am hotly anticipating this.
12/07/2012 at 07:35 LionsPhil says:
But….gameplay?
12/07/2012 at 23:35 Urthman says:
Well World of Goo’s gameplay was exactly like what we saw in the cutscenes that used this art style, so it should be obvious … that this tells us absolutely nothing about the game.
12/07/2012 at 10:21 TechnicalBen says:
Let’s hope they don’t sell out to the consoles this time and sign a contract insisting they take down the PC sales store the day before I try to log in to purchase it like they did with World of Goo.
Me, feeling burned much? Yep.
12/07/2012 at 17:03 Phasma Felis says:
What?
12/07/2012 at 18:07 DrGonzo says:
What are you talking about?
12/07/2012 at 10:24 Shadrach says:
Absolutely love the art style, and looks like the game will have a lot of humour. It’s a must buy for me.
12/07/2012 at 12:30 Belua says:
A must buy? Without even having seen gameplay? Or, for that matter, without even having a description of what the gameplay would be, if we were able to see some? I skimmed the game’s website and even there I couldn’t find anything like that. If I’m blind and/or wrong about that, feel free to disregard this comment.
Now, I’m all for supporting indies, I loved World of Goo and I will keep an eye on this, but despite all that, I won’t declare their games (or anyone else’s) “must buy” unseen based solely on a vague trailer (probably) telling us that they (probably) will have cutscenes with an interesting art style (which may or may not resemble the style found in the actual game) and (probably) some amount of humour.
12/07/2012 at 17:41 Shadrach says:
It’s a must buy for me since I loved their first game, and how good this one turns out is pretty irrelevant really, I will preorder just to support what they do, making original games. It it turns out shite I will not play it, and it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve shelled out $20 for a game I didn’t play, so not a big deal either way.
12/07/2012 at 22:17 Keith Nemitz says:
I love the video! But I didn’t find a comment here that mentions one aspect.
It says to me, let’s all sit around our monitor screens and let the world go to hell.
silly rabbits, thinking this story’s about children burning toys…