The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Defy Gravity Extended

There are a lot of reasons to work independently. You have ample more liberty to emanate your own prophesy and take large risks building an eccentric game. Defy Gravity Extended is a flattering unique game, and may as well extreme of a pattern for a large determined firm to implement.

I regard that you should always try to bring your thought to life with the minimal amount of people necessary. Braid and Cave Story were done by in essence a guy. World of Goo was done by two. The more people entangled in a project, the reduction adaptableness you have.

I've talked to designers who've worked on games with $10 million budgets, and they protest about the fact that they're frequently sealed in to their designs once prolongation starts. Once you beginning to obviously play-test your work, you noticed that that there are a million things that you'd similar to to change, but by that indicate there are 40 coders working on implementation, the turn designers are already half done, and the high-poly models have already been received from Singapore and paid for. So you can't only lift the breaks and do a redesign, and your diversion ends up being worse off for it.

So we say, if you can emanate your mental condition diversion with a or two people working in their living rooms, then by all means do it.

What's your diversion called and what's it about?

Our diversion is called Defy Gravity Extended . It's an action platformer that unequivocally pushes the format in a unique direction. Our heroine, Kara, uses a sobriety gun to control the world around her by altering the laws of physics.

We attempted to unequivocally do something new with the genre rsther than than carrying out a reversion to 1990's type gameplay -- not that there's anything incorrect with games whose allure rests on that, but we longed for to emanate both a novel and fun platforming experience. You'll unquestionably need your platforming skills to obtain by Defy Gravity , but you will moreover must be able to chief the unique physics altering characteristics of the sobriety gun to be able to obtain by the game.

Now we know the diversion -- who are you?