Guppy, and More

Posted by Derek Yu Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:20:00 GMT


In a recent Cryptic Sea blog post, Edmund McMillen took a break from talking about Gish 2 to wax off about a few of his side projects, including a 2d RTS game where your goal is to defend a dead carcass with an army of maggots! Nasty!

But the one that got me hot and bothered was Guppy, shown in the video above!

Guppy is a 2d side scroller that kinda plays like GTA… but not. It’s hard to explain and also still very early in development, but I couldn’t help but post a little video of it.

(Thanks, DMac!)

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  1. Akhel said 19 minutes later:

    Looks interesting, reminds me of Death Worm.

  2. haowan said 26 minutes later:

    Looks great!

  3. Space Ranger. said 30 minutes later:

    Reminds me of a giant sperm with false dentures…and two tails

  4. BMcC said 37 minutes later:

    Friggin’ great! Love the soundtrack. :D

  5. Zeno said 39 minutes later:

    I wish my sperm were that ferocious…

  6. KJ said about 1 hour later:

    Looks awesome. Great choice of music too, Tomahawk rules!

  7. Tr00jg said about 1 hour later:

    Wow, that’s like Killer Worm and Sexy Hiker mixed together!

  8. baconfish said about 1 hour later:

    Sweet zombie jesus. Looking forward to this.

  9. Bob said about 2 hours later:

    That’s “Death Worm” and “Sexy Hiking”, Tr00jg.

  10. Fishy Boy said about 4 hours later:

    Watching the video and hearing about the programmer, I imagine Guppy will be awesome, in other words a bit like Tri-Achnid.

  11. Cas said about 5 hours later:

    Was gonna say that sounded remarkably like Mike Patton or Mr Bungle and lo and behold, it is :)

  12. Stij said about 8 hours later:

    Fighting helicopters and government agents as what appears to be a giant sperm?

    With PHYSICS?

    Ed, you never cease to amaze me.

  13. Dan MacDonald said about 10 hours later:

    I think it could be improved with better eating animations, so when you pull in a helicopter you actually see the head of the sperm bite into it instead of just bashing the copter into it’s forehead.

    Looks like a blast to play though, looking forward to it.

  14. tantan said about 10 hours later:

    DO WANT!

  15. Anthony Flack said about 11 hours later:

    Interesting! I’ve never been much fond of E.M.’s creepy-cute art style in the past (I always found it a little bit too, um, teenagey? Sorry!) - but there’s no doubt that this giant scary thing WORKS. Brrrr.

  16. Joseph said about 12 hours later:

    Looks like try-achnid + nuclear eagle, but more fun than both combined…

  17. makeshifter said about 13 hours later:

    gasp gimme, gimme, gimme!!!!!!

  18. Edmund said about 14 hours later:

    Glad you guys like what you see, Guppy has only had about a month and a half or less dev time between games so a lot of animations are obviously missing.. hell there isnt even a game yet this is just a video of the prototype.

    Sadly the dev for guppy is on hold till about march due to the fact that Forian (the programmer) is in the army.

    Coil will be done soon though :) -Edmund

  19. Tr00jg said about 24 hours later:

    @Bob:

    Oh yeah d’oh. It’s Sexy Hiking and Death Worm.

  20. Joseph said 1 day later:

    Yeah the movement looks so much more refined and fun than Tri-achnid… CAN’T WAIT TO PLAY!

  21. Phasma Felis said 3 days later:

    So what’s that music? It’s bloody awesome.

  22. Edmund said 3 days later:

    Tomahawk - Crow Dance , off of anonymous

  23. Petri Purho said 3 days later:

    These days Mike Patton seems to be in every game…

  24. Edmund said 3 days later:

    im not actually using that song for the game, i just put it in the video so there was some sound to go with it :) -Edmund

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