Preview: Owlboy

Posted by Derek Yu Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:30:00 GMT

Owlboy

How could I not post about a game that’s called Owlboy? Especially when it’s by the Project Rhapsody team (now called D-pad Studio). Described by the game’s artist, Snake, as “a free-roaming flying game with dungeons,” Owlboy is heading to this year’s IGF as a PC and Xbox 360 Community Games title. That’s the plan, at least!

Holy hell this game looks good. Like, finger-lickin’ good.

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  1. Kvalsternacka said 23 minutes later:

    Oh god. I need to change pants.

  2. Stwelin said 28 minutes later:

    Snake? Owls? How could this game fail?

  3. Ryan said about 1 hour later:

    Those are godly pixels. I am imagining metal-slug esque animations in my mind. This game is going to be gooooood O_O.

  4. Zeno said about 1 hour later:

    But wheeeeeeeeeen?

  5. Furries said about 1 hour later:

    FURRIES

  6. BMcC said about 1 hour later:

    Owlboy?! Truly the stuff of nightmares!

  7. ChrisL said about 1 hour later:

    Oh dear sweet jebus. Those screenshots are beautiful.

  8. MP said about 1 hour later:

    That’s some nice art. I’m looking forward to this one.

  9. alspal said about 1 hour later:

    Reminds me of those bird people from Wind Waker.

  10. Exoduster said about 1 hour later:

    So he’s an owl, and a boy?

    I don’t get it.

    By the way, did Snake ever make any more progress on that circus strongman cave exploration game?

  11. Satsuz said about 2 hours later:

    All I can think of is this horrific episode of Tales from the Crypt, where some guy’s (a burglar/safecracker, IIRC)face fell apart an exploded into disgusting owliness. Thanks for bringing the nightmares back, Derek.

  12. Eli said about 3 hours later:

    This game is exciting in so many ways; I esp. like whats going on in the screen-shot labeled ‘emotional’. Interesting stuff.

  13. Debbie Downer said about 3 hours later:

    Should be “it’s,” not “its.” That misspelling ruins the whole thing for me.

  14. Fawful said about 3 hours later:

    Is there any sort of site that keeps up with Xbox Community Games? Seems like there should be more news out there considering how many XNA games are in development, but it’s hard to track down the sites/blogs for every random group of people who are making stuff.

  15. Lim-Dul said about 3 hours later:

    Owlboy is heading to this year’s IGF as a PC and Xbox 360 Community Games title.

    And DS? Please, please!

  16. Twisted Rabbit said about 3 hours later:

    AETHER!!!!! go GISH PEOPLE! Aether makes sick panda happy. (but still sick)

  17. Dusty Spur said about 3 hours later:

    This looks beautiful.

  18. Adam said about 4 hours later:

    Well that made me feel totally shit LOL. Im going to bed.

  19. Kyle said about 4 hours later:

    Hot dang, that looks gorgeous! Way to not have an RSS feed there D-pad Studio.

  20. deadeye said about 5 hours later:

    Those are some of the holy-shittinest pixels I’ve seen in a while. Holy shit.

  21. Zaphos said about 6 hours later:

    This looks totally brilliant :)

  22. Valkyrie said about 6 hours later:

    Even the most HDR, normal-map addict in the world could look at Snake’s pixelwork and have a small orgasm. On my to-watch list.

  23. Impossible said about 6 hours later:

    Needs more bloom.

  24. IceD said about 8 hours later:

    Looks fantastic to me! It reminds me the classical works of Henk Nieborg and good ol’ Lomax. It’s even darn good enough to say it’s possibly better than some of his earlier works, and I’m making sacrilege, but hell what - guys at Dpad deserve this :D

  25. Secret Admirer said about 9 hours later:

    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

  26. DrDerekDoctors said about 9 hours later:

    That does look like the sex.

  27. !CE-9 said about 9 hours later:

    badgers, please.

  28. ChevyRay said about 10 hours later:

    I love the colors and pixelwork in that shot. The concept for the main characters is awesome as well.

    I’d like to see how this unfolds.

  29. coloFool said about 11 hours later:

    Wow, so purty! Hope this gets done!

  30. scorchedMIRTH said about 13 hours later:

    Oh Wow! It’s free AND it involves roaming. I can’t wait.

  31. Blake said about 15 hours later:

    Thanks a lot for the front page mention, Derek. It’s nice to hear all the positive comments!

    We’ll be working hard to make sure Owl Boy’s adventure is an fun one, and I’m sure before long we’ll try and get some videos up too.

  32. FISH said about 15 hours later:

    hot damn.

  33. Turniper said about 19 hours later:

    It is going to be an instant classic upon release, believe my word.

  34. Quetz said about 20 hours later:

    It’s like Wind Waker (funny I thought of that too alspal) and Final Fantasy XI made a delicious pixel-art baby. The description Snake gave for gameplay doesn’t sound overly astounding, but I know him to be modest!

  35. Quetz said about 20 hours later:

    Sorry for the double post, but these screenshots.. they’re so beautiful! ;_;

    Some day I’ll get to play this, and that makes me so happy.

  36. Eclipse said about 20 hours later:

    looks good, i hope the free-roaming is not like the one in Cave Story, because even if you can travel around that part it’s almost non-existant and doesn’t add nothing to the game…

    @scorchedMIRTH: it will not be free at all dude

  37. Del Duio said about 22 hours later:

    Aw man.. This is awesome but just think how much more awesome it would have been had it been named..

    WALLET BOY!

  38. konjak said 1 day later:

    DIVORCE PAPERS BOY!

  39. Yaen said 1 day later:

    GARNISHED WAGES BOY

    Thanks for all the compliments about our game. The exposure here and on Kotaku has been a real shot in the arm for all of us.

  40. YM said 2 days later:

    More screenshots at Pixelation:

    http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=7038.0

    Looks orgasmic.

  41. soupy said 3 days later:

    WIND WAKER RIPOFF

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