Scarygirl Game Preview

Posted by Derek Yu Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:00:00 GMT


Touch My Pixel sent me this preview of a Scarygirl Flash game they’re working on. It looks like fairly standard platforming action, but boy, is it pretty! Love those underwater levels, natch.

Great name for a game company, too!

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  1. slang said 24 minutes later:

    Pretty indeed. The Beetlejuice way…

  2. Thur said about 1 hour later:

    Pretty impressive…. these guys are rocking =DD Remembers Mark Ryden style

  3. xerus said about 2 hours later:

    Wowee, that looks silky smooth.

  4. qrqe said about 3 hours later:

    It’s rare to see awesome physics in a flash game, I’m sold.

  5. Shoo said about 3 hours later:

    Every so often (though not often enough) I’m reminded that we are, in fact, in the age where a video game can look just like a Saturday morning cartoon - something I used to dream about as a kid. This game looks soooo nice.

  6. Winterous said about 10 hours later:

    omg, that looks fucking amazing… Nothing special gameplay-wise, but the graphics make up for it.

    Touch my Pixel, you can touch mine any time you want.

  7. Melly said about 11 hours later:

    Oooh, I’ll touch it alright.

    Touch it goooooood.

  8. Tarwin said about 12 hours later:

    Awe thanks guys!

    The art is by Nathan Jurevicius, an Australian comic artist.

  9. Adamski said about 19 hours later:

    Beautiful work ;_;

  10. Lim-Dul said about 21 hours later:

    Looks fantastic!

    Love those underwater levels, natch.

    Well, obviously. ;-)

  11. Secret Admirer said about 23 hours later:

    Looks pretty and all, but also looks like a generic 2D sidecroller with nothing new to offer Don’t know if want

  12. Al3xand3r said 1 day later:

    Well obviously if one is not into platformers this can’t possibly do anything to change their mind, nor would one expect it to. What new things could they possibly do for the genre anyway? Everything really has been done.

    All that matters now to make the game fresh is to give it the just right game flow and its own charm thanks to the music, art, story (whatever little it has) and well thought out levels and enemy interaction, none of which can be judged by this video, as sweet as it looks.

  13. Al3xand3r said 1 day later:

    Correction: well, “none of which” applies to the gameplay stuff I mentioned actually, obviously we can already love the art :P

  14. MikeK said 1 day later:

    Firefox is hating the video. i can kind of scrub through. Also their website seems to be lacking (and strange). For instance i can’t find this video on there.

    What i saw looks grand though. I’ll have to check back later…

  15. raigan said 1 day later:

    Looks really slick, the platforms moving along curves is high-tech!!

    @Al3xand3r: you can’t really believe that “everything has been done” in platformers! I can’t really think of any genre where that statement would correctly apply..

  16. Lim-Dul said 1 day later:

    Firefox is hating the video.

    Is it? No problems here at all - both on FF2/Vista and FF3/Linux Mint. ^^

  17. chutup said 1 day later:

    No, I don’t like it. Sure, it’s pretty, but the gameplay doesn’t just look typical, it looks boring.

  18. Toadsanime said 1 day later:

    Wow. If this is gonna’ be freeware, I think I might just make love to this company, somehow. O_o

  19. PippinZ said 1 day later:

    I will be impressed if people still know of this game half a year after its release, like other medium-sized independent game releases that don’t get support from big online distributors like Steam.

  20. Tarwin said 1 day later:

    Hi,

    Thank you all for the feedback. Truth to tell we don’t think we’ll be creating the “next best newest most different” platformer out there. That kind of crown belongs with wonderful games like Gish - so full kudos to those guys.

    In a way this is an adver-game, for Scarygirl and Nathan’s work in general, so at the moment it is the plan for it to be free to play. That said, we are trying our best to make an extemely pleasurable time to play.

    What is not shown in the video is all the mini games that will be incorporated which will hopefully help to bring the gameplay out of the pack.

    If anyone’s interested in testing the game in a little while please just email us - contact [at] touchmypixel.com

    Again, thanks heaps for all the comments, positive and negative.

  21. Lim-Dul said 2 days later:

    By the way - I love how people are dissing the gameplay before the game is even released. ^^

  22. Jäd said 2 days later:

    Well, we DO have the video, and well, since many of us have played an awful lot of platformers, one can often tell how the gameplay feels by looking at it.

    But of course, you’ve gotta play it before you can appreciate how it really feels. I don’t see a lot of dissing in here though … ?

  23. RayRayTea said 2 days later:

    I’m having problems with that video too (Opera on Vista)… cursor disappears, loads forever etc. What I managed to saw before losing patience was very pretty though!!

  24. Tarwin said 3 days later:

    For those that are having trouble, there is now a Youtube version as well.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=NmdUEdMh-H0

    Warning: it doesn’t look anywhere near as good here and the aspect is all screwy!

    It’s fair enough to diss it a little, as we don’t really show any of the enemies / bosses. I’m hoping for them to raise the stakes a little.

  25. chutup said 3 days later:

    I’m dissing! But I said it ‘looks’ boring. I can’t say for sure if it is that way, though.

  26. Quetz said 3 days later:

    Surprised no one has pointed out the exploding baby chick. Holy crap.

  27. Quetz said 3 days later:

    Or whatever that creature is.

  28. Dan MacDonald said 3 days later:

    DOPE FISH!! Gotta love the keen references

  29. DanFan said 3 days later:

    Is the real Dan MacDonald really back? :O

  30. Tarwin said 3 days later:

    Oh, I love Commander Keen! Though I’m not sure where the reference is - dam - gonna have to put one in now!

  31. Uli.S said 4 days later:

    Beautiful artwork, put together skillfully. Great work, guys. Music also yours? Great too.

  32. Dan MacDonald said 5 days later:

    I’ve been lurking.. super busy with the day job lately, but that will change soon, I’m quitting! :)

  33. DanFan said 5 days later:

    Woohoo!

  34. jenn frank said 5 days later:

    I collect Scarygirl toys and I am so excited for this game I could just horf.

    I’ve sent the preview video around to other Scarygirl toy collectors. The response has been uniformly favorable; we’re all big fans of Nathan Jurevicus, and I can’t help but think a lesser designer could have mucked it up for fans. It’s hardest to please the fans and all that.

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