This week I spoke to Vex Studios’ Ryan Wenke about their forthcoming UDK-based game, Jeklynn Heights. It’s a sort of spooky fairytale multiplayer game with visuals that look like something out of one of the Alice games, or a Tim Burton movie. If that wasn’t interesting enough, it’s also messing about with a number of concepts such as character progression and mixed perspectives. Wenke told me a bit about his studio’s esoteric approach to game development, and opens an invitation to you lot to sign up to the beta test of the game and find out what it’s all about.
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And Now: A Tour Around Jeklynn Heights
By Jim Rossignol on December 18th, 2010.
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