Rocketbirds Revolution (aka I can haz shipped title?)

LoTekK · Oct 2009

Oo-rah!

Rocketbirds Revolution

So for the past 10ish months, I've been with Ratloop doing the lion's share of the background art (plus some miscellaneous art here and there) for Rocketbirds Revolution, an old-school in-browser platform game (think FlashBack). It's been a three-man development team, with my boss doing the design, characters, programming, and cutscenes, and his partner doing programming and audio design.

Play the demo, buy the game.

And do feel free to drop any comments, suggestions, critiques, grievances here.

(ok yeah, not really "shipped," per se, but it's been released.

)

pior · Oct 2009

Woah dudes!!!
Not at the end of the demo yet but already some awesome mechanics actually taking FlashBack to the next level ... hiding in the shadows was very very cool!!
Fantastic game, want more!!!

sama.van · Oct 2009

I only come for saying I played and really liked the little demo ^_^

Mark Dygert · Oct 2009

The intro was awesome, the demo is great, I'll pick it up after I finish. Nice work!

Muzzoid · Oct 2009

crazy long loading screens

. Everything else is awesome though

.

Can we download the demo instead of just streaming it?

Japhir · Oct 2009

awesome demo! i liked it a lot! i did have the feeling that he collides slightly to the right of himself (because of the kindof skewed environment) but that just took some getting used to. Great work!

urgaffel · Oct 2009

About time you got to show this off

Excellent work tekk, hope it sells well. Now to go and grab me a copy so I can see the rest of your wonderful(?) art

danshewan · Oct 2009

Great idea, like the art style and really funny. You've definitely captured the feel of Flashback really well. Demo was great fun, and I'll probably pick this up, too. Good job!

bearkub · Oct 2009

This is some great stuff. I would really rather have it as an XBLA or PS3 downloadable game, but that's just because I am not a big fan of browser based games.

Fantastic stuff, the art is really cool and the demo was really fun.

hobodactyl · Oct 2009

Awesome! The style is great, and it reminds me a LOT of FLashback/Out of This World in a REALLY good way

EmAr · Nov 2009

Nice game! Reminds me of the first Oddworld game too.

pior · Nov 2009

Yeah, it would sell like pancakes on XBLA, PSN and maybe even Iphone too?
It looks very compatible with these casual formats ... yet also very appealing to 30-something retro gamers, which I think are a huge part of this console generations market.
What about steam too?

LoTekK · Nov 2009

Cheers, guys, thanks for the love!

Flashback was definitely a huge influence, as well as Out of this World, the 2D Oddworld games, and BlackThorne.

japhir: haha yeah, that initially screwed with my head as well, especially when putting together some of the backgrounds.

Muzz: Initially we were planning on offering a client in addition to the browser format, but a number of technical considerations came up along the way. I'll have to double-check with the boss again, though, see what's the status of that.

bearkub, pior: We have a couple of guys on hand who have experience with console porting, so that's definitely been a consideration. The main goal up til this point, though, was to get the PC side done in time for IGF.

We definitely have some ideas for iPhone bouncing around, as well, though we're not sure a straight port would be entirely feasible due to the control scheme (possible, but potentially clunky). Mainly tie-ins and whatnot.

Lamont · Nov 2009

Let me know when it's on Steam

!! I'd like to have it tied to something that's easy to retrieve.

Mongrelman · Nov 2009

Looks great indeed.

Thread needs video love http://www.vimeo.com/7346946

kary · Nov 2009

Awesome Teck, grats!

SubPablo · Nov 2009

Oh man, PrinceOfPersia/Flashback/OutOfThisWorld/Blackthorn/Oddworld/HeartofDarkness style gameplay is one of my absolute favorites. I've been hoping some of those old games would be remade for PSN/XBLA/Steam. -in the meantime, I'm all over this. Thx for the heads up.

-little bug report, I got stuck in the first air duct and had to restart. The character is stuck jittering between his standing and crouching animations. I was able to reproduce it.

LoTekK · Nov 2009

Lamont: hoping to get it on Steam, we'll see how that goes.

Mongrelman: Haha, thanks for the video link, I'd totally forgotten to link that.

SubPablo: Aw damn, we thought we'd fixed the rare situations that was coming up. Thanks for the heads up, sent you a PM.

oXYnary · Nov 2009

Can you give us a laydown on how you created those backgrounds? You really went full out (I love the "Big Brother likes to Watch" joke)

LoTekK · Nov 2009

oxy: Sure thing, man, I'll put something together when I have a bit of time this week and post it in p&p.

For now I've gotta cut a proper trailer together (the one on our vimeo account was slapped together pretty quick during crunch

)

Yozora · Nov 2009

I cant download the demo

It just brings up a black page and I tried leaving it on that page for an hour and nothing happened apart from a little "click to focus" message pops up

LoTekK · Nov 2009

Hmm, strange. Did you try refreshing the page? Also, what browser are you on? Literally just left work, and the boss man has family visiting, but we'll look into it asap.

Yozora · Nov 2009

ahh it doesnt work in google chrome, works fine in safari though

LoTekK · Nov 2009

Glad you got it working.

Weird, though, I just tried in Chrome and it's working just fine.

bounchfx · Nov 2009

wow that's awesome! I love the style and the animation. really cool. I also want this on either XBLA or just steam - but with controller support.

Great job!

Mark Dygert · Nov 2009

Steam or XBLA with controller support? Yes please that would rock.

Jay Evans · Nov 2009

wow, cool game. Congrats. Look great too.

griffinax · Nov 2009

Awesome stuff, loving it totally

rasmus · Nov 2009

Cool game, well done! Captures the gameplay spirit of Flashback/Abe's Oddysee, but has plenty character of it's own.

LoTekK · Nov 2009

Thanks for the comments, guys.

The glitch with the vent shaft in the first demo's been fixed and uploaded.

Still figuring stuff out re: steam, xbla, psn, and a standalone client, but while I wind down a bit from mainline production, I decided to start putting some assets together for a simple horizontal shmup (just fer shits n giggles). No concrete plans yet, but I'm envisioning either a free browser game, or a cheap/free iPhone game (though I suppose that'll depend on how involved the development ends up becoming

). Pixel art love coming up:

LoTekK · Jan 2010

Holy fuck! IGF Finalists are out, and we managed to snag 3 nominations, including the Seamus McNally! I'm stupid-stoked right now.

Lamont · Jan 2010

Whoo hoo!!

You can dev the XNA/PC version and kick out a Steam version.

LoTekK · Jan 2010

Yeah, we're definitely working to kick it out on Steam and D2D, and hopefully console ports as well.

I gotta stop hyperventilating. o_O

JasonLavoie · Jan 2010

Weopp!!!! Congrats!

StephenVyas · Jan 2010

ha! I really enjoyed that demo

You've got a great looking game there LoTekk

LoTekK · Jan 2010

Cheers, guys!

I'm still in shock (also possibly OD'd on nicotine and caffeine from sitting and smoking with the bossman

).

achillesian · Jan 2010

this is gonna be the next alien hominid, except its good. Also i know this borrows largely from flashback but i like it better.

Davision3D · Jan 2010

The game is very cool but the control scheme is very akward for german players because on germany keyboards z is on the position of y on the english keyboards.

urgaffel · Jan 2010

Wooo congrats man. Fingers crossed

LoTekK · Jan 2010

Cheers

Still psyched after drinks; I was thinking the alkie would calm me down a bit; guess that didn't happen

Davision: Hmm, hadn't realised that about the German keyboard. Controls can be rebinded from the main menu though.

Asmuel · Jan 2010

The demo was awesome

grats

Lamont · Jun 2010

Hurry and get this on XBL or PSN. I got 800MS points I want to give you. Actually, PSN would be better, much better directional pad.

Steve Schulze · Jun 2010

Congrats Tekk. You damn well deserve those prizes. The game is well wikid.

LoTekK · Jun 2010

Lamont: Assuming nothing blows up, it'll be on PSN. Not gonna be a straight port, though, so it's not gonna be anywhere near immediate.

Jackablade: Cheers, dude. We didn't win any of the awards, but totally stoked that we got the nominations in the first place

KhAoZ · Jun 2010

Nice job! Looks awesome!

Cody · Jun 2010

Ya LoTekK! Get some! Awesome work, on a fun as hell game.

HandSandwich · Oct 2011

Well done LoTekk! Played the demo on Saturday. Immediately bought the game. Its awesome, super fun and not at all what I expected. Great soundtrack too. Got through a bit of the co-op and the entirety of the single player where I noticed a familiar face:

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