Hi everyone,
My apologies, it has been too long since our last post - a side effect of us being deep into finishing this game. We've actually recently been working on improvements to our mouse/keyboard controls. Though we support controller and often play it that way ourselves, we like mouse/keyboard too, and know a lot of you prefer it. We've looked at Monaco and Hotline Miami for inspiration, but If anyone has any top-down exploration-based games that do mouse-keyboard well I'd love to hear about them in the comments below.
We've also got some big news coming up that we'll be announcing next week. The best first place to find about any of that is on our mailing list. Oh and you can sign up right over here:
www.paranoidproductions.com/mailinglist
If the mailing list really isn't you speed though, don't worry, we'll be sharing the information back here, but it might not be quite as quick.
In other news, happy to say we will once again be at PAX West! This is a hometown show for a bunch of us so it feels like a tradition - we even still call in PAX Prime. This year we’ll be bringing the “One Shot One Life” challenge we first did at PAX East earlier this year - see if you can make it through our demo on the hardest difficulty on one playthrough and you might win something special. If you're going to be at the show, come find us on the 6th floor in booth #6218. Here's a flashback to our booth from last year:
We can confirm we will be having our preacher actors Ellen McLain and John Patrick Lowrie stopping by the booth Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 3:30 each day. You may also want to attend their panel "Video Game Voiceovers: The Sequel" on Saturday night at 8PM in the Cat Theater with a bunch of other great actors.
Or, if design is more your speed, come see me talk along with developers from BioShock, Horizon Zero Dawn, State of Decay and more on "Why We Love the Apocalypse." The panel will go over why developers keep making games set in an apocalypse, after an apocalypse, or in our case, an apocalypse that may or may not be coming. That's Sunday morning at 10:30am in the Sphinx Theater.
But if you can't make it to PAX, no worries, we've got plans for how to get a good look at the game to all of you too. Did you see where I mentioned the mailing list above? If we don't see you at PAX West, we hope to see you on there. And if not there, well, I promise not to wait so long before posting again here...
- Richard