A Message from Bizarre Creations
Veck 2 gets two thumbs up from the creator(s) of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. Here's an excerpt from the article:
....we'd like to call out a really nice example of exactly what we were talking about.[Veck review]
The game in question is Veck2, a rather kick ass top down shooter. You can see it here. I love the crazy particles flowing around the screen in the background. The enemy types are interesting, and there's generally been a lot of thought put into the concept.
Our hat is off to Smayds, good job man.
Comments
Oh!! The innovating people of GW:RE giving lessons of originality, again! They're more hypocrites than the politicians.
Posted by: drBoiffard | March 24, 2007 1:00 PM
It's just a little bit precocious of the, innit?Bill
Posted by: the2bears | March 24, 2007 4:44 PM
Precocious or not - it made my day. No, make that my entire year.
Posted by: Smayds | March 24, 2007 5:51 PM
I didn't interpret the message as "lessons in originality" -- it seemed like they were just saying they didn't want their game cloned directly, but are happy with and encourage games in the same style being made. Sounds like a reasonable request to me.
Posted by: Paul Eres | March 24, 2007 6:58 PM
More proofs they, in fact, never really played Grid Wars and just watched screenshots then ;)
Posted by: Anonymous | March 24, 2007 10:04 PM
Haha, it is delightfully "do as we say, not as we do". :)Tbf, the only one that they used the banhammer on *was* ostensibly identical unless you invested a bit of time in it.
Posted by: DrDerekDoctors | March 24, 2007 11:42 PM
The evil side of me asks: "Why are they sounding like they're the absolute authority on twin-stick shooters?"The evil side of me adds: "Maybe they're trying to get positive PR by wooing the independent development community, now that the Windows version of GW:RE is soon to be released."^_^
Posted by: pixelizr | March 25, 2007 1:59 AM
The windows version of GW:RE is already out - and it only runs on Vista. So nobody will get to play it. It's pretty clear that MS is the driving force behind that, which is a pity, as I've never played GW, and it's not likely I'll get a chance in the near future - because the day I downgrade my PC with Vista will be a pretty sad day indeed.Sorry, what was the topic again? :D
Posted by: smayds | March 25, 2007 4:18 PM
I'm with Smayds, I'd love to buy GW for Windoze, to give it a what for run through to see what the fuss is about, but I'm not about to shell out $399 for a Vista downgrade. And how about that after 90 days $59 a phone call technical support. I smell A Microsoft Rat back there. BZ can't tell me that they couldn't make a version that would run on 98-XP-Vista. I'd plunk down the cash for a XP version, but like OSX too much to burn myself on Vista. Oh The Humanity. The Horror, The Horror
Posted by: Carnacki | March 25, 2007 7:49 PM