Duæl Invaders - official trailer alive at last!

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Duæl Invaders - official trailer alive at last!

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Started 1 year ago by evanac
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evanac
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Hey guys! Long time no speak!

Just a quick one to let you know that the official Duæl Invaders trailer is now live on Youtube!

Hope you like! ;) There's lots of game info in the description text on the video page.

To remind you guys of the set up, here's how release and pricing are going to shape up:

'Duæl Invaders' is to PS+ SUBSCRIBERS ONLY on April 4th (SCEA) and April 5th (SCEE) 2011 for FREE.

The game releases to the rest of you (publicly) on April 19th (SCEA) and April 20th (SCEE). I realise that you guys may have to wait for the game and - to make up for it - we're doing a launch sale.

So, for 2 weeks from April 19-20 the game will be available for just £0.99GBP / $1.49USD / €1.49EUR!

The sale lasts for just two weeks so get your copy before the price goes up! After that time the game will move to its regular price of £2.49GBP / $3.99USD / €3.99EUR!

All those dates are 100% confirmed for SCEE and 99% for SCEA. :)

Cheers guys - check out the blog later in the week for more updates on Cubixx HD. An update on Fighting Fantasy: Talisman of Death will be added soon as well, plus the first details on our next minis title - the ominously titled: OMG-Z!

Byeeee! :D

Posted 1 year ago #
ZOMBIE WINE GUM
Member

This looks really good but is there any single player?

Posted 1 year ago #
evanac
Member

Hey ZOMBIE WINE GUM,

Glad you like the look of the game. We've designed it so - within reason - the game is manageable enough for the single player to control both ships simultaneously by using the skew system to control the enemy fire so they only have to worry about the safety of one ship at a time.

Provided you get the balance right, that's what should happen! ;)

It's also worth mentioning that the trailer I put up yesterday had the wrong bit of footage for the combos section. The proper trailer with some larger chain reactions visible is now back up on the Laughing Jackal blog and on LJ's Youtube channel, so apologies for the mix up.

Let us know what you think everyone - and apologies for being away from the forums for so long. I kept reading though, honest! ;D

Cheers for now,

Al

Posted 1 year ago #
goob
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@ evanac what is the skew system? is there a campiagn?

Posted 1 year ago #
evanac
Member

Hey goob,

The skew system works by tracking consecutive kills by either the red or blue ship and using this to build score multipliers and control enemy movement and fire direction. In summary:

* The more kills-in-a-row (skew) either red or blue ship gets, the higher the score multiplier gets. 2 kills = x2 multiplier, up to 32 kills = x32 multiplier.

* The higher the skew gets, the quicker enemies move towards the ship building the skew.

* The higher the skew gets, the more fire is directed at the OPPOSITE player ship.

So, killing more enemies is a row with one ship builds your score, but makes enemies move nearer to you while directing more of their fire at the opposite player ship.

Balancing the need for good scores and survival is the key to getting the game right. In single player it's essential to build up skew, as without it it's tougher to survive while moving two ships simultaneously!

The final thing to note is that killing enemies of the same colour as your ship gets you more score and triggers enemies area effects, resulting in chains which build skew more quickly. Often its a race to spot the pattern in a wave and start your chain first!

Hope that explains things a little better. It's really simple in practice - you just need to:

* Try to kill lots of enemies in a row with one player ship at a time.
* Try to kill enemies of the same colour as you to build chains and score more (10 times more, in fact).

Hope that makes things clearer! :)

Thanks for now,

Al

Posted 1 year ago #
evanac
Member

Oh and to answer the campaign question, single player is an infinite mode that plays through 25 waves over and over, with enemies getting touch after each complete run of 25 waves.

The idea of the game is a basic score chaser like the original Space Invaders and Galaxian...

Posted 1 year ago #
volcane
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Trailer looks awesome! :-D

Posted 1 year ago #
evanac
Member

Cheers volcane. ;)

We do try...

New game, OMG-Z! is starting to look cool too. :)

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