Category: Capsized

Capsized part of Humble Bundle 8!

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Pay what you want for Little Inferno, Awesomenauts, Capsized, Thomas Was Alone, and Dear Esther on Mac, Windows and Linux and give a customizable portion of your contribution to the EFF and Child’s Play Charity. Plus if you beat the average purchase price on the site, you’ll also get Hotline Miami and Proteus.

We are extremely happy to be a part of this bundle, with such an amazing line up (HotLine Miami was Alientrap’s favourite game of last year). This also means the debut of Capsized on Linux and Mac!

You can also get 6 of the game soundtracks, including the Solar Fields album Movement, which Capsized used as it’s soundtrack.

Apotheon update!

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Here are two screens of Apotheon, some of the new areas we recently finished. One is of the forest areas – where the player can hunt wildlife, search for items, and talk to the forest inhabitants. The other is the first screen of one of the main town hub spots – filled with merchants to buy/sell from and palaces and houses filled with loot.

There is now a Alientrap facebook page also, so hopefully we actually post dev updates on there rather than just entirely focus on development.

We have two new team members also! Marios Aristopoulos will be writing the Apotheon soundtrack along with some sound effects – and Abe Hutton is helping with art and animations. Our focus right now is on polishing the game section we have now (about 20% of final game’s size) and experimenting with new gameplay mechanics. We will most likely release the first teaser videos and start a marketing effort in October, then start showing it off at any conventions we can find then.

Capsized is part of Steam’s summer sale right for 66% off. It’s still in development for XBLA by Indiepub, with a release date unknown (it’s ready, but the release is in limbo right now as a publisher slot is being found). Indiepub also plans to release a Ipad version of Capsized soon however. We also hope to release Capsized soon for other PC platforms (Mac/Linux) – basically we want to get Capsized everywhere to as many people as possible. Hopefully we can announce a release date for one of the new platforms soon.

Capsized coming to XBLA in December! Published by Indiepub

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The announcement and more information on the Capsized XBLA release can be seen here.

Currently it’s being developed by Koolhaus Games, published by Indiepub, and will feature new levels, XBLA achievements and leaderboards, and a new focus on local multiplayer.

Capsized was originally designed with XBLA in mind but was released on PC first to make development easier for us. So this is a bit of a dream come for us, thanks to Indiepub and the KoolHaus Games developers

Capsized announcement.. soon! AT news, NEXUIZ, and etc

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We may have some important Capsized news to announce tomorrow!

But until then I just wanted to give a general Alientrap update. Jesse and I are working on a new project in the hopes of getting a prototype done for the IGF awards in mid October. We are trying some insane stuff with this new project, so it’s been a learning experience getting things together. The new project is a side scroller 2d game alike to Capsized in some ways, since we wanted to use everything we’ve learnt from Capsized playtesting and development, but it’s a very different game. Hopefully we can start showing stuff soon.

Capsized was recently selected in the Fantastic Arcade – where it won the “The Bionic Commando Award for Grappling Hook Excellence Award”. Unfortunately we weren’t there to except the award or take part in the festival, but it looked awesome enough that there is no way we are not going next year.

I am really wanting to give some updates on recent Nexuiz development from Illfonic, but I’ll leave any announcements to them. I’ll just say from what I’ve seen/played the game is turning out amazing, while keeping the Nexuiz intensity and really taking standard deathmatch to a new level. Hopefully there will be some news with that soon also…

Alientrap has yet another project in the works: Indievania. An indie game marketplace developed with indie devs in mind, where 100% of the costs of the game go to developers. We are still developing it, it’s in open beta right now, but we hope to launch it within the next 2 months or so.

Jesse and I also did a interview with 8BitHorse, which you can see here. We briefly talked about our new project but mostly it had to due with development. I also did a interview with ThreeQuaterdpad and GameSideStory, and EpicBrew.net

And lastly – reviews for Capsized keep coming in, we are now at 80% on metacritic! Here is another list of reviews since our last post:
Gamezebo – Gamer.nl – killscreendaily.com –vgnetwork.it – gamestar.pl – titel-magazin.de – pressxordie.com – nightmaremode.net – cpugamer.com – bulletproofpixel.com – aagames.co.uk

Capsized reviews, responses, and some videos

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Capsized was released over 2 weeks ago now and the response has been awesome – both from players and reviewers. Currently has a 76 on Metacritic, had a great video review from GameSpot, and just today another review from Bytejacker. We also did an interview with ArsTechnica that was posted on their site today.

Here is a complete list of reviews and scores: (if no score I just quoted a part of the conclusion)

Gamespot.com – 8/10
Jayisgames.com – “Capsized is a great-looking action game that gives “intense” a new meaning.”
Edge Network – Next-gen.biz/ 8/10
Techflaws2011 8/10
Gameblog.fr 3/5
Cheatcc.com 3.4/5
Gamechronicles.com 7.5/10
Pigames.pl/ (Polish)
Multiplayer.it 8.5/10
Xboxplus.net “Capsized is one of the best indie games of recent times. Addictive, beautiful, cheap and full of details that fill the eyes.”
Malaysiangamer.com “Capsized is a really good 2D platformer with amazing combat that is frantic, intense, and ultimately satisfying”
Mashthosebuttons.com 4.6/5
Eurogamer.net 8/10
Invisioncommunity.co.uk 8/10
Gamesidestory.com “Capsized less than perfect, it just comes close”
Games.tiscali.cz 9/10
Livingwithanerd.com “This one is worth more than twice the price of admission”
Technoid.nl 3.5/5
8bithorse (Summary of game)
IndytalGames 6/10
Brainlazy.com 82/100
Trgamer.comg 8.2/10
Thunderboltgames.com 7/10
Arenaturbo.ig.com.br (Portuguese)
Desconsolados.com (Spanish)