we’re working on the particle system now. We are using particles heavily to add lots of detail and interactive elements in the scene.
As you can see in the new screens, we have lots of aliens, glowing plants around. We don’t want to spoil too much for now, but they are an integral part of the story of the game and an important gameplay element.
Hope to have a movie of the game out on YouTube for monday!
Hi everyone, and thanks for following the forma.8 website. With the definitive version of the site online, we’ll share a lot more information about the game and the development progress.
We started working on forma.8 first as a very early prototype and technical demo in june 2011, and then as a full indie project from october 2011: so a lot of time passed, and a lot of things changed. Just to have a quick recap, we decided to show the progress on the game, comparing some early screenshots from our E3 2012 build to the current version of the game. You’ll see how the design changed: the look is now different, some special effects changed a lot, the overall visual impact became more streamlined. We decided to use less colour gradients for a more simple and essential look, to add a lot more details to the background graphics, and to tone down the ‘acid’ colour look, using a more coherent palette.
Take this screenshot, from the final version:
Same area, from the E3 2012 demo:
Or… last version:
2012 E3 demo version:
So, yes, there was some very big progress on the game from a visual standpoint: we kept the starting look we wanted to achieve, but we iterated a lot, changing constantly. Hope you love the new look, we think it’s a massive improvement from the early version of the game.
We’ll love to hear some feedback from you about the game, just contact us!
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/forma_8
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forma8
Or email: info@forma8.net
And if you are a journalist and want to try the game, we can send our demo build: just contact us!
forma.8 is an action adventure game for iOS, directly aimed at the avid gamers crowd, with a nostalgic and essential graphic style and a unique control system. Our goal is to provide an ‘hardcore game’ on a mainly casual games platform, and to achieve this we know that we need to meet some requisite like:
So, think about the classic Metroidvania game. But for mobile. Oh… and you fly. 🙂
We don’t want to spill too much detail about the story for now. Let’s say that you are a little exploration probe, called forma.8, that is on a life-or-dead mission on a remote and foreign planet.
The game is developed using the Unity engine, with the help of some awesome extensions: RageSpline, RageTools, PoolManager 2.
Initially we aimed for a winter 2012 release but maybe we were a bit too optimistic. For now the relase date is TDB, but we hope the game will be ready for mid-2013.
We’re focusing all our strenght on the iPad and iPhone release first. The game was developed for touch screen control in mind and we don’t have the resources to focus on more platform for now. We’ll consider other possible platform at a later date.
