Anyone ever heard of City of the Metronome?

HonkyPunch · Dec 2006

It looked super awesome, seriously. The art was all crazy stylized, and the buildings were all tipsy and shit.
I wanted that game.
Anyone know what happened to it?
http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/gallery/1128/Metronome/p1/
Go.
Look.
NAO

Bort · Dec 2006

It seems it's still alive. There is a 'New site and trailer coming soon' message on the dev site that was put up earlier this month. But the silence over the game is a bit iffy. - http://www.tarsier.se/metronome/

After Banjo Kazooie it's the game I'm looking forward too the most.

HonkyPunch · Dec 2006

I hope to god it doesn't get canned, looks to promisiing.

Emil Mujanovic · Dec 2006

That looks really nice, a lot of the artwork is really amazing. Will have to look into this game some more.

-caseyjones

aesir · Dec 2006

I think until they manage to find a publisher/funding, they're just self funding the project off money that the studio is making from their outsourcing bussiness.

If anyone is interested, heres a new screenshot I found
http://www.tarsier.se/attachments/switchboardman.jpg

Kovac · Dec 2006

I've been following this one for a while, I love the Smoking Octopus design. All of it is so interestingly stylized, and they're definitely putting in some great use of the Reality Engine.

Joshua Stubbles · Dec 2006

It was shown at first as a 360 launch title, but it never happened. Hopefully it still comes out.

cH_aos · Dec 2006

Wow, thanks for sharing that!

Wahlgren · Dec 2006

Those guys have attended the school im now attending (it was even a school project) and the last time i heard anything (a loooong time ago) they said something like...

"Everyone says it´s cool, everyone want´s it but no publisher wants to pay for it. They want to release it but not help us get it finished."

I know they are making some kind of tech demo right now though. Link is below, sorry for the swedish. If interested i guess i could translate it for you but im lazy and assume nobody would want that

http://www.gamereactor.se/nyheter/9306/Svenskar+g%F6r+Desert+Diner/

HonkyPunch · Dec 2006

This game sadly looks like it would never hit home with the "big crowd"
IT would be a very good cult hit, though...
WHo knows, i'm usually wrong.

Robert Headley · Dec 2006

Its unfortunate its using a Dead engine.

aesir · Dec 2006

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yea... its very sad that it looks so damn kickass.

firestarter · Dec 2006

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Huh? What does that mean exactly?

It probably has no working game play, bar traversing levels. Yet another beautiful ruse, all too common.

Robert Headley · Dec 2006

Metronome uses the Reality engine, which was purchased and subsequently closed by Epic Games. The lead developer of the engine now works on the Unreal Engine.

It was a wonderful engine, while it lasted, hopefully metronome will actually release, since it seems many of the titles original scheduled for Reality engine release changed to UE3.

fmnoor · Dec 2006

Here's a gameplay preview. The aspect of recording sounds and playing them back sounds cool. Around 10 minutes of footage.

http://downloads.adventurecorner.de/download.php?id=21&auth=572dbc0da2ed9ff010db39d0afe679f0

Vitor · Dec 2006

True story Robert. I think Epic actually gave some nice offer to studios working with the dead now Reality Engine to switch to UE3

aesir · Dec 2006

hey fmnoor. where can I find that on the site. I looked around and cant find it at all and your link just goes back to the main site. the lack of english is probably causing most of my trouble.

rooster · Dec 2006

if you search game trailers for 'metronome' you can see it there, looks real nice

fmnoor · Dec 2006

Yea it's on gametrailers too as a usermovie. Not sure why that link isn't working though as I used it earlier.

aesir · Mar 2012

Gonna necropost the shit out of this.

Apparently it's not dead yet!
http://kotaku.com/5897582/on-the-trail-of-metronome-the-sound+bending-marvel-that-never-was

I absolutely love the art and imagination in this game, so news that they still really want it to happen makes me happy. Go Tarsier!

Seirei · Mar 2012

Holy shit! Just reading the 'necropost' made me realise that there are people waiting for this since 2006.
Well I hope some might be glad to hear that it's still up and running.
Definetly looks intriguing.

HonkyPunch · Mar 2012

Oh holy what the fuck, this game is still being made? My god. Necropost indeed... good to hear it's not entirely dead.

Jeff Parrott · Mar 2012

Just Kickstarter this already! I've been waiting since 2005 for this one.

Anyone ever heard of City of the Metronome?

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