Happy Birthday Mel!
It’s been two years already since we released Mel and the reception has been amazing! We’ve taken your feedback and implemented a whole variety of new features, such as story mode, new subtitles, Steam cloud saves and official avatars.
So what are we up to nowadays?
Since the release of Mel we’ve released Portal Stories: VR and in August last year we announced that we started work on a whole new game: “The YR-Initiative”.
During the last couple of months we have concluded that the initial timeframe we’ve set for ourself on the YR-Initiative wasn’t going to work out, and we have decided to temporarily halt development on the YR-Initiative whilst we focus on creating another, smaller (non-VR) game.
Introducing: The Captives.
The Captives is something completely different from what we’ve done before: it’s a top-down adventure game, with a strong focus on combat. We’ve been working on this in secret for a couple of weeks now, and we’re very happy with the progress so far. We hope to be able to release the game in the fourth quarter of 2017. We’ll talk more about The Captives sometime in the close future, so keep an eye out on our social media: Twitter and Facebook
A screenshot of the Captives in early production
So what does this mean for the YR-Initiative?
Our primary focus at the moment is on The Captives; then, once development on The Captives slows down towards its release, we’ll re-focus on the YR-Initiative. We still think the game is going to be awesome, and we’ll still release it, but it will be later than we originally planned.
We are however very pleased to announce that the YR-Initiative will have both a VR- as well as a non-VR version of the game. Both versions of the game are designed together, with separate user interfaces and controls for each version, to provide the optimal experience for both versions. So you’ll be able to play the YR-Initiative in VR, with your keyboard/mouse or with a game controller.
The YR Initiative has developed quite a bit since the last update
Once work has concluded on The Captives, we will continue development on the YR-Initiative.