Trine: Blue wizard is about to draw
Frozenbyte, the Finnish studio behind Steam's top-down sci-fi action game Shadowgrounds, are making good on their new original IP strategy with the announcement of the forthcoming Trine for PlayStation Network and PC.
The short teaser above goes a long way in selling the game, giving away one of its most intriguing gameplay aspects: a drawing mode looking nothing if not like Crayon Physics brought to fantastic life, placing platforms and boxes into its fully physics-based world, and hot-swappable characters which each have their own specialty to advance you further into its levels.
The studio says the game should appear in the second quarter of 2009.
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HarshLanguage
#1 – 4:33 PM December 5, 2008
That looks great. Shadowgrounds is an underappreciated game, I hope Trine garners a lot more attention.
bencongdon
#2 – 8:56 PM December 5, 2008
Shadowgrounds still has me going back for more. Enjoyable series.
Trine looks fantastic!
Fang Xianfu
#3 – 9:02 PM December 5, 2008
Shadowgrounds is awesome, this looks like it will be, too.
Not many games have managed to do hot-swappable characters in a compelling way, though. In most games it seems like a pretty pointless mechanic to make you press some more buttons and give a veneer of usefulness to the other guys. For the most part, I'm left wondering why they couldn't just give all the abilities to my main character and save me having to press some extra buttons.
Sonic Chronicles is the latest game I've seen this in, and it's pretty pants.
Coxswain
#4 – 5:02 PM December 6, 2008
That looks pretty interesting. I wasn't a huge fan of shadowgrounds, but it was fun enough that I'll definitely give this one a try.
Anonymous Anonymous
#5 – 6:45 PM December 7, 2008
Can't see how this is going to be much fun. It sounds like stopping regularly to position platforms around the game world is totally going to kill the game's flow.