TIGSource: Guppy, and More

Guppy, and More

Derek Yu — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:20:00 +0000

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!)

"Guppy, and More" by Edmund

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:22:23 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by Petri Purho

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:19:36 +0000

These days Mike Patton seems to be in every game…

"Guppy, and More" by Edmund

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:50:15 +0000

Tomahawk - Crow Dance , off of anonymous

"Guppy, and More" by Phasma Felis

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:15:57 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by Joseph

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:22:06 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by Tr00jg

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:08:17 +0000

@Bob:

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

"Guppy, and More" by Edmund

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:10:42 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by makeshifter

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:51:20 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by Joseph

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:15:03 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by Anthony Flack

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:34:29 +0000

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.

"Guppy, and More" by tantan

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:42:41 +0000

DO WANT!

"Guppy, and More" by Dan MacDonald

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:16:43 +0000

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.

"Guppy, and More" by Stij

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:03:03 +0000

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

With PHYSICS?

Ed, you never cease to amaze me.

"Guppy, and More" by Cas

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:33:22 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by Fishy Boy

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:38:36 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by Bob

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:24:36 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by baconfish

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:36:38 +0000

Sweet zombie jesus. Looking forward to this.

"Guppy, and More" by Tr00jg

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:21:10 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by KJ

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:07:39 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by Zeno

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:59:07 +0000

I wish my sperm were that ferocious…

"Guppy, and More" by BMcC

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:56:40 +0000

Friggin’ great! Love the soundtrack. :D

"Guppy, and More" by Space Ranger.

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:49:42 +0000

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

"Guppy, and More" by haowan

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:46:06 +0000

Looks great!

"Guppy, and More" by Akhel

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:39:28 +0000

Looks interesting, reminds me of Death Worm.