RESET (First Person Puzzle Game)

HitmonInfinity

I've been showing this trailer to everyone I know today. Let's discuss!!!

"We are very proud to present the debut trailer for Reset. Everything you see in the trailer is straight from the in-game engine, no up-ressed textures, geometry or effects. What you see is what you will get."
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLd8kEQJIzw"]Reset Debut Trailer HD - YouTube[/ame]

"Reset is a single player co-op first person puzzle game with a strong emphasis on story and atmosphere. The unique game mechanic in Reset is the ability to travel back in time to solve puzzles co-operatively, with yourself."

Here's the Developer Blog

EmAr

The trailer looks good, I like the setting and the mood. It would be even better if it included some gameplay too. It's good to see a new studio from Europe

ambershee

Nice FMV. Trouble with nice FMVs is 'Dead Island' syndrome, where your trailer vastly surpasses the quality of your product.

We are very proud to present the debut trailer for Reset. Everything you see in the trailer is straight from the in-game engine, no up-ressed textures, geometry or effects. What you see is what you will get. Except hopefully a little bit better since we’re not even in alpha yet. This is however a big milestone for us, and we are going to be concentrating more on the gameplay side of things next.

You do that - it is a game after all

Stromberg90

Trailer looks sweet, developer blog site don't work for me.
Gameplay video would be nice

ambershee

Yeah, I'll reserve all judgement until we can see some gameplay. Not showing gameplay in a game trailer is like not showing any of your movie in a movie trailer.

HitmonInfinity

It's only two dudes! I'd like some gameplay too, but I'm betting we'll have to be patient... they're building literally everything from the ground up.

BlvdNights

Ditto on waiting to see gameplay. Seems promising.

marks

ambershee wrote: »

Nice FMV.

The video description says it's 100% ingame footage.

ambershee

There's no game in that trailer, ergo, it is not 100% ingame footage. It's the same as saying Epic's Samaritan is 100% ingame footage - it isn't. It's in-engine.

marks

That comment strikes me as somewhat pedantic when the intention of the description was clearly to make it obvious that the video wasn't pre-rendered.

ambershee

It's not pedantry, it makes a colossal difference.

It is one thing to prove your tech by rendering something in it (we don't even know if this video is rendered at an interactive frame rate), but it is another thing entirely to build something that runs as a playable game on console hardware with all the physics, AI and other myriad processing time eaters, as well as not requiring very limited views of a small number of assets.

HitmonInfinity

"We would be poorly allocating resources if we'd make huge amounts of extra stuff just for a trailer," he continued. "So in a sense the trailer is a byproduct of the development. We wanted to have full control over the visuals and gameplay elements and Mikko is quite the guru when it comes to tech."

Gamasutra posted a little more info about the tech.

Ark

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ygZCDoCVec"]Reset Atmosphere Tech WIP - YouTube[/ame]

Wow...That lighting!

fearian

Woah. They just grabbed the "most realistic clouds" award from crytek. I admit, there's not many nominees, but I think we should have more people competing for this thing I just made up!

Ark

Just Cause 2 had some nice clouds.

Mcejn

Art looks nice, but it felt a bit too long for what I saw.

Interesting teaser.

Justin Meisse

Since it's a puzzle game they could potentially devote the majority the platforms computing power just to the graphics.

Of coarse, plenty of gamers will claim it isn't a game because you aren't shooting dudes in the face which is a shame because games like Myst & Riven where some of my favorite games as a kid.

HitmonInfinity

They made their crowd funding goal just in time!

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/reset--4