By Jim Rossignol on January 18th, 2013 at 11:00 am.
Wisely-named indies Megabot have been working on Tron-visualated arena-shooter Backspace for a while, and now they’re starting to show it off, as you can see below via videovision. It’s a handsome thing, the top-down shooter that has played too much Darwinia, or something. My favourite item on their list of features contained in the game is this: “Explore a spherical environment, using teleports to move between multiple layers.” But there’s also: “Carry a mixture of cargo to solve puzzles and powerups for compound combat effects.”
It’s going to appear some time this year, and I want it.
Yeah, the panning shots at the start of the levels make me a bit hungry for these sort of game worlds. Abstract and diaphanous neon for great victory!
18/01/2013 at 11:05 c-Row says:
That looks sweet indeed!
18/01/2013 at 11:30 Ross Angus says:
Great art style. Thanks for the heads-up, Jim.
18/01/2013 at 11:34 The First Door says:
Ooh, that looks incredibly lovely! I really like the idea of carrying the cargo nodes around with you, Snake-style.
18/01/2013 at 11:42 golem09 says:
“arean shooters” suggested to me, that it was pure multiplayer game.
The trailer didn’t look like it. Since I hate MP in general, I’m quite happy :)
18/01/2013 at 11:49 Runciter says:
Those trailing cargo pods reminded me of an old shmup called Gemini Wing.
18/01/2013 at 12:34 Low Life says:
All hail abstract and diaphanous neon!
18/01/2013 at 13:45 grable says:
This reminded me of Cobra Triangle for some reason… Thats a good thing btw ;)
18/01/2013 at 13:47 AmateurScience says:
Ooooh this looks lovely indeed. I look forward to hearing more.
18/01/2013 at 15:37 Urthman says:
Why hasn’t someone done arena shooter on a sphere before? That’s such a great idea.
18/01/2013 at 19:56 mseifullah says:
Can’t tell if you’re being sincere or sarcastic, but there’s a game series for Playstation 3 and its portable family members called Super Stardust; it’s an arena shooter on a sphere.
I haven’t played it, but it looks just as fun as this game looks based on the videos I’ve seen.
18/01/2013 at 15:43 Hodge says:
Yeah, this looks good.
18/01/2013 at 22:18 Mudlab says:
Reminds me of D-Zone, for some reason…
19/01/2013 at 00:26 Tuco says:
Not exactly my thing, but damn if this doesn’t look pretty.
19/01/2013 at 02:50 particlese says:
Oooo, that does look nice! The mutability of the levels and the way the trangular baddies move (flopping about the triangular grid) really caught my eye, but it also sounds like it’ll be pretty fun. Raiden II’s Purple Bendy Lasers are my all-time favorite shooter powerup, but this one looks to have a little more variety and technique involved than that.
19/01/2013 at 07:44 Shadram says:
WARFACE!
No, wait, wrong post…
BACKSPACE!