Posts tagged “Mike Bithell”

Volume [official site] is a third-person, sci-fi stealth game, in which you direct a little dude around VR-styled, maze-like levels, dodging guards with wits and with gadgetry, with the aim of grabbing all the loot and getting out again. It's out now. I hope Mike 'Thomas Was Alone' Bithell's new game wasn't hoping to pre-empt any 'turn down the...' gags by hiring a celebrity voice…

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“It will probably be the only time in my life when I have no responsibilities, didn’t owe anyone any money, didn’t have staff that I had to worry about. Absolute freedom to do what I want. I wasn’t going to use that to make a sequel to a reasonably well-received puzzle-platformer.” I’ve asked Volume lead Mike Bithell if he’s been worried about over-reaching himself. 2012’s…

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Mike Bithell, creator of Thomas Was Alone, knows a lot about Robin Hood. As we sit in a Starbucks five thousand miles from either of our homes, his tank-like laptop greedily drinking electricity from the coffee store's wall, I find myself scribbling notes not about his upcoming stealth puzzler Volume, but about how it wasn't until King Henry VIII took a shine to the story…

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Mike Bithell's stealth game, Volume, looks like a very different prospect to Thomas Was Alone, even if there might be some similarities in the audio department. A retelling of the Robin Hood story, Volume takes place in a Britain laced with political dissent, rebellion and fancy volumetric display devices. Upon discovering such a device, Robert Locksley sets out to livestream heists and infiltrations, teaching the…

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Something strange is afoot in the land of OUYA. The Kickstarted console, running on Android, is obviously not usually in RPS's purview. But a recently launched incentive to get developers to create OUYA games is treading on our toes, and merits a look. OUYA's Free The Games Fund offers to match money raised by Kickstarted games, if they can reach a minimum of $50,000, in…

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The maker of successful geometrical emotions simulator Thomas Was Alone, Mike Bithell, has revealed today that his next game will be Volume, a Metal Gear Solid-style stealth tactics game. The game is designed, coded and written by Mike and scored by David Housden. Based on burgling futuristic trinkets from behind the backs of tall intimidating AI types, the unnamed hero of Volume wants to steal…

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Thomas Was Alone and he was also a Flash game but now he’s grown up and it’s time for him to meet some new friends and set off on a journey that will change them all forever. It’s a tale of friendship, co-operation, sentience and rivalry, but is it possible to care about a gang of abstract shapes and the puzzling environments they traverse? Here’s…

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