Wolfire Quits Overgrowth to Work on New Game
Posted by Derek Yu Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:02:00 GMT
In what’s undeniably an intelligent and well-considered move, Wolfire Games have decided to drop their current project, Overgrowth, to work on Small Tank, a game that features a very small and cute tank. Although furry-lovers are bound to be angry over the switch, I think I respect Wolfire’s decision. Because quite frankly, the world isn’t yet ready for a rabbit with boobs that aren’t at least a D cup.
Yeah, I laughed
maximum respect to Wolfire.=)
…even on a day like this.
I totally forgot what day it was.
I’m totally looking forward to this tho. Overgrowth was gonna be lame anyway, no doubt. Everyone knows rabbits can’t ninja.
GO TO BED XION.
Anyway, this is totally sexually exciting for me, because I am not into the bestiality scene of Overgrowth, but midgets? Certainly.
My heart skipped a beat before my brain caught up a second later. Good work…
I’m so looking forward to this game, it’s gonna be fucking epic! Seriously, who wants to play a rabbit, and ninja the shit out of dogs, wolves, cats, and other creatures? That’s for furfags, clearly!
Now, Baby Borns in tanks, that’s a real man’s game!
April shit
This game looks so much better than Overgrowth
I wants the chibi MGS. friggin April.
I hate april fool’s day for I am a fool.
Also Nintendo won a lawsuit over platformers, so all platformer indie games will soon be removed from the TIGSource website, forums, and database. This includes Cave Story, Iji, etc. You may want to make backups before we delete them all. :)
Why do some commenters have to spoil all the fun? When I saw this post I was looking forward to all the fine comedy in the comments thread. :-(
Oh jesus, I was like no please don’t do that, I didn’t move for 1 minute and when I clicked on comments while I was waiting that the page loads I remembered what day it is. I hope Overgrowth will be out this year.
This was the best joke they could think of? I guess the 6 people that still care about this game were having fits of the chuckles this morning.
It’s funny that….
The fake game looks like a more fun/interesting project than the real game.
i actually like it more than overgrowth
I preferred the John Madden makeover :)
I’m just glad it’s going to have lens flare.
Needs more bloom.
By the way, Cactus died. =O
After all the hype and effort and shit I read about this game Overgrowth I was so excited to see what would come of it. Now they just drop it like that and no one cares? Fuck small tanks.
haha just kidding guys i had you there for a second didn’t i?
No, you had yourself for a second there.
In order news, I am a girl.
And what the crap, the bloom in that screenshot is totally NOT optimal. Needs to be bumped up at least 34 kilojousts.
As long as it’s a slap in the furries’ face, it’s A-ok with me!
Lugaru is awesome though, I hope they finish Overgrowth.
Haha, I love their pisstake of modern shooters: “We haven’t even mentioned our favorite new feature yet… the cover system! You’ll latch onto things so hard you’ll think you’ve bathed in super-glue. Exploit the third-person camera to blindfire with deadly accuracy…”
Kill.switch was pretty fun in its day but it started a horrible trend.
Classy.
Now that I’ve met Cactus, if there was news of his death I would not be surprised in the slightest.
Damn furries.
Fuck off, noone seriously values your opinion.
Anthropomorphic characters don’t always have to be used in a sexual situation. So um, go die?
I hope this isn’t an april fools joke. This actually looks pretty fun.
It’s obviously an April Fool’s joke, but with all of the people actually wanting to see it made, they would be smart to make a quick game and sell it. I mean seriously, Chibi Tank Wars would be a hilarious game.
Seasoned chain-smoker meets cabbage patch kids.
Why am I reminded of Venture Bros?
Furries?
When I was growing up, every second television show was about anthropomorphic animals fighting, and I turned out all right.
Why is it that some people see the specter of ‘sexual deviancy’ lurking in every shadow? Are you just flat out terrified of sex, or do you really feel the need to punish everything deviating even slightly from normality?
Yeah, it’s pretty out there that people fetishize giant animal suits, but what’s more fucked up is that some people care enough about it to loudly and persistently state their disapproval at every opportunity, even regarding something only cosmetically related.
Please leave your neuroses out of my video games. I am trying to have fun.
Uh, Chris… who are you even responding to?
What’s weirder is raging about obvious jokes barely mentioned once by a few people.
Please leave your neuroses out of my video games. I am trying to have fun.
Furry detected.
I am going to GET ANGRY AT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE AND PROCLAIM THAT I AM PROUD OF BEING SOMETHING I REALLY SHOULDN’T
I’ll buy these guys’ games on their balls alone.
I’m not angry at an April Fools’ joke. I’m angry that you can’t bring up something like Overgrowth without responses of “zomg furries.”
If the accusations are a joke, please explain to me how they are funny, because I don’t understand why accusing someone of having a sexual fetish is funny.
Hey, Chris-
The Wolfire guys related a story to me earlier this year about how someone accused them of being furry-lovers. We thought it was funny, so I gave them a poke in the post about it.
Of course, now that I’ve explained it, it’s not quite so funny! But I don’t think anyone was seriously trying to persecute furries here.
“I don’t understand why accusing someone of having a sexual fetish is funny.”
I’m guessing you’re not British - practically our entire culture is based around the exact opposite assertion.
Fetishes are hilarious. Anything that can be easily construed as sexually fetishistic is thus also hilarious.
It’s not “punishment” because nobody (as far as I can tell) is making a serious accusation. What Jeffries said.
Yeah, i’m a fur - and in the words of the /b/-tard that i am not: i lolled ;)
This was, in fact, one of the only (of very many) april-fools jokes that caused me to release a chuckle, so yup - successful, well done, and people need to grow backbones.
(p.s.: i know furries are creepy to a lot of people, but just to make sure that people are aware - not everybody in furdom is a horrible, huge pervy furvert or whichever term you wish to use. Just because /i/ am does not mean that everybody else is ;) )
^ Awesome. I was also gonna say this, but I couldn’t think of how to phrase it: people can take the piss while not presenting a real indictment.
Incidentally, one reason why privacy is so important is that if everyone knew everything going on in everyone else’s heads, we’d all be perverts.
^thanks buster bunny. your heartfelt post has opened my heart
Hey not chris, I tried to say the same thing in much less pleasant words but I bet the moderator didn’t let my post in… Yeah self righteousness and mind-police rule TIGS these days.
I hope that WASN’T an April Fool’s joke.
The design of the tanks and the character is really great.
I wasn’t looking forward to that bunny game and still isn’t.
But a well balanced game of classic tanks is always welcome!
Not not chris - Will you stop whining? Go fuck your dog if it makes you feel better.
The Overgrowth promotional nabbed me a free copy of Lugaru, so they can cancel for real for all I care.
I wish they would make Small Tank, it sounds pretty decent.
I respect there decision, and am looking foward to a great tank game, but didn’t they put a crapload of work inot onvergrowth? it must have been hard to just drop it all.
Yeah, it wasn’t the original post I had an issue with. A bit of old-fashioned fun-poking is fine if it’s in good fun, but I just think it’s incredibly mean-spirited how the moment you bring up something with… really just any recognizable ‘group,’ it just takes off into the default internet response of mass trash-talking. And if you point it out, you get to deal with “can’t you take a joke?” and accusations that you’re the thought-police or whatever. Give me a break.
Guys, this isn’t exactly the pinnacle of wit, and free speech isn’t a license to act like a dick without criticism. If you want to hop on the bandwagon and be the fourth or fifth person to rub in the fact that being different is funny, go nuts. I’m not going to stop you, but if I think you’re acting like a dick, I think it’s within my purview to say so.
This game is awesome http://thick.mybrute.com/
Its only an April fool (phew).
they will finish Overgrowth before starting another project, I can’t wait for Overgrowth!
@Chris Whitman: “A bit of old-fashioned fun-poking is fine if it’s in good fun, but I just think it’s incredibly mean-spirited how the moment you bring up something with… really just any recognizable ‘group,’ it just takes off into the default internet response of mass trash-talking.” But it really didn’t. Every single furry comment before your original post follows: “…bestiality scene of Overgrowth.” “That’s for furfags, clearly!” “…a slap in the furries’ face.” “Damn furries.” which, in context, are clearly not serious. CW: “Guys, this isn’t exactly the pinnacle of wit” Casual jokes hardly ever are. CW: “and free speech isn’t a license to act like a dick without criticism.” By far the most offensive comment was “the 6 people that still care about this game”, because it can’t be construed as light-hearted. Your criticism is misplaced. CW: “If you want to hop on the bandwagon and be the fourth or fifth person to rub in the fact that being different is funny” There is no “bandwagon”; people’s honest, individually-reached opinions are in opposition to yours. And to say that merely “being different” was being made fun is effectively an accusation of ethnocentrism, racism, and so on.
this actually looks pretty cool though =’(