"Reset" trailer raises bar for indie game graphics ... by a mile
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Two-man development team Theory Interactive is developing Reset, a first-person perspective puzzle game which, judging by the trailer, has the production values of a multi-million dollar blockbuster video game
Two-man development team Theory Interactive is developing Reset, a first-person perspective puzzle game which, judging by the trailer, has the production values of a multi-million dollar blockbuster video game
More clues can be had from the somber trailer itself which depicts a robot sitting motionless in an apparently abandoned city as time passes around it
The trailer ends with the hint of a hitherto dormant routine on an apparently city-wide computer network, which apparently sparks the robots back into action
The concept of a low-budget indie title with blockbuster production values was inspired by relatively recent indie sci-fi films such as Moon and Cube
According to Edge the player will take control of a robot in an small open-world city. As well as physics-based problems, time manipulation will also figure to add complexity to the puzzling
Solving puzzles will apparently further the narrative rather than simply unlocking further puzzles
Two-man development team Theory Interactive is developing Reset, a first-person perspective puzzle game which, judging by the trailer, has the production values of a multi-million dollar blockbuster video game
More clues can be had from the somber trailer itself which depicts a robot sitting motionless in an apparently abandoned city as time passes around it
More clues can be had from the somber trailer itself which depicts a robot sitting motionless in an apparently abandoned city as time passes around it
More clues can be had from the somber trailer itself which depicts a robot sitting motionless in an apparently abandoned city as time passes around it
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How does a two-man indie development studio create a game with the sort of gameplay and visuals one would normally associate with seven- or eight-figure budgets? That must be the question on at least some of the lips of the 400,000 or so people who've watched the trailer to Finnish studio Theory Interactive's Reset, a first-person puzzle game said to be very much in the mold of Portal.
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