By John Walker on September 4th, 2012 at 9:00 am.
Mr Ron Gilbert, inventor of clicking, has released a bunch more screenshots of his forthcoming adventure, The Cave. The existence of The Cave does seem something of an anomaly – Doublefine ran their famous Kickstarter campaign on the basis that publishers won’t fund the development of adventure games. And almost simultaneously announced they’re developing a new adventure game published by Sega. Huh. IS the sort of disguise as a platformer really that effective? You can take a look at how it’s shaping up below.
You can read lots more about the game in Nathan’s interviews with Ron Gilbert here and here.
04/09/2012 at 09:07 Lars Westergren says:
This is looking awesome, and I am looking forward to this game so much. Love the puns on the vendor machines on cave8b.jpg.
04/09/2012 at 09:30 frightlever says:
Puns?
04/09/2012 at 09:36 RaveTurned says:
Assuming you’re too young to remember New Coke?
But you should probably have got Oh My Dog.
04/09/2012 at 09:39 cryocore says:
umm they’re still not puns… they’re not punny.
04/09/2012 at 09:47 Lemming says:
The grog reference is amusing though.
04/09/2012 at 10:46 RaveTurned says:
Eh, puns/funs. General world-play.
04/09/2012 at 10:16 Lars Westergren says:
Oh fine. Amusing reference then.
04/09/2012 at 09:37 cryocore says:
What pun? Grog has been the beverage of choice for bucklers of swash and piratey types since 1990.
How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
04/09/2012 at 09:08 InternetBatman says:
That’s absolutely beautiful. I’m loving the creativity that’s coming out of games these days; I just saw this article after seeing some really cool Shadowrun in-game artwork.
04/09/2012 at 11:36 Rikard Peterson says:
You have two sets of tags for Double Fine: Doublefine and Double-Fine. You may want to merge those.
04/09/2012 at 12:10 Lars Westergren says:
Probably they’ve seen in the logs that people are using both Doublefine and Double-Fine when searching.
04/09/2012 at 15:59 Sic says:
That’s not helpful unless they use both tags on the articles.
04/09/2012 at 12:34 Wang Tang says:
How can it still be Mr Ron Gilbert instead of Sir Ron Gilbert.
Seriously.
04/09/2012 at 13:30 MikoSquiz says:
Looks lovely. I want to play it. Also I want to put down $100 for two copies of Psychonauts 2 please.
04/09/2012 at 13:54 Urthman says:
I think they told Sony, “Why, it’s no more of an adventure game than Stacking was!”
(Stacking was totes an adventure game)
04/09/2012 at 14:53 Contrafibularity says:
This looks superb, I can’t wait.
And almost simultaneously announced they’re developing a new adventure game published by Sega. Huh.
Looking purely at the timing of the DFA Kickstarter and the announcement of The Cave, I’d say The Cave was in development well before they discovered KS was feasible.
Of course, SEGA, to my knowledge, also isn’t an evil publisher like Activision/EA/Ubisoft etc. or at the very least, one of the better publishers. But those are RARE. ^^
04/09/2012 at 15:00 Memphis-Ahn says:
Quite clearly.
And it was a good thing they waited to announce this until after the KS was over, I probably wouldn’t have pledged if I knew this was coming (it definitely looks way more interesting that what we’ve seen of DFA so far, too).