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Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me

Derek Yu — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:11:00 +0000

On the Cryptic Sea blog, programmer Alex Austin explains that the physics for our favorite ball of tar have changed quite a bit in Gish 2. Gish is now composed of 128 independently moving particles, as opposed to being a single, deformable object. The possibilities for this, of course, are tremendous!

I can’t wait for this game! (whine)

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by DaVince

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:56:35 +0000

Technically quite impressing. Playing like this could give the advantage of having “weights”, multiple buttons, etcetera. Nice.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Smithy

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:21:23 +0000

Didn’t that Edmund guy clarify in the forums that Gish won’t actually have the ability to deconstruct himself and leave parts of himself behind in the actual game? That it was just a debug test he was using?

That probably should have been pointed out here, somewhere or other. Now people are starting to have expectations of an explosive gish.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Stwelin

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:59:09 +0000

It’s gonna be fun to see how they keep gish’s face on that blob of particles… will each group have it’s own gish face? hmmm

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Miso

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:13:15 +0000

Interesting… but how do you die now? When more than X percent of your original mass gets destroyed?

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Pip

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:59:10 +0000

@PHeMoX

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by ZeppMan217

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:39:03 +0000

OMGDG! I impressed! This is just…just…AAA… PS: sorry for emotions. its just so..SO…..

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Hunty

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:46:16 +0000

groovy. I had a lot of trouble with the controls of the first game, but hopefully I’ll get along better with this one.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by PHeMoX

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:58:43 +0000

It basically was a ‘tank tracks’-like physics object, but without anything else but the ‘tank tracks’.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Pip

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:49:00 +0000

(That wasn’t meant to sound facetious, I’m genuinely interested…)

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Pip

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:44:25 +0000

So how did the blob work in the first game if it wasn’t a particle system?

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Chase

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:28:01 +0000

Awesome. Gish has always been one of my favorite games, and like Derek said it can’t come soon enough!

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by fartron

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:47:38 +0000

Mike Patton is the Derek Yu of music.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by AmnEn

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:46:01 +0000

Looks rather confusing to me. I hope it really turns out to be a great game mechanic aside from playing with physics.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by shinyerbil

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:32:01 +0000

/me sighs

That was supposed to read <bungle worship>. I guess I’ve learned something about input sanitisation today.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by shinyerbil

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:29:34 +0000

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by raelz

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:12:20 +0000

gimme gimme!!

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Victo

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:48:08 +0000

Think I just came in my pants o_o

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Eclipse

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:52:02 +0000

Loco Roco meets Gish

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Ilia Chentsov

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:38:54 +0000

Reminds me of this game by Running with Scissors which they never made, Flesh and Wire.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Bezzy

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:06:47 +0000

Awesome. Looks almost like a return-nod to Goo (which has a Gish skin).

Definitely harder to get this kinda physics based stuff working really well, but if there’s some way to pull the split off droplets back to you automagically, I can see it totally working. You can already see the old behaviour emerging (which is still my favorite platform game mechanic - so versatile once you’re used to it).

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by DocDark

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:37:44 +0000

Looks sweet to me. Didn’t play Gish alot though, but I think I’m gonna get II. :D

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by muku

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:13:23 +0000

Hm, I hope they make this more, um, user-friendly in the final game. I wouldn’t want to go chasing after dozens of my split off parts after every jump maneuver just so I don’t run out of goo.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Brokenbroll

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:32:41 +0000

I wasn’t a huge fan of Gish, but the creators have some nice taste in music, first with using Estradasphere for the first game’s soundtrack, and now some Mr. Bungle for this little demo.

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Trav

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:25:41 +0000

Let’s get pedantic. The particles do not move independently, they interact, however their position is tracked independently, allowing them to split and recombine in fanciful and possibly even erotic ways

"Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me" by Joseph White

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:23:33 +0000

This looks like great fun.. Alex is obviously working hard to get the feel of the new gish just right. Now that I’ve seen more than one gishoid, I kind of want a whole bunch of characters with different properties and controls. Ms. Gish, super stretchy gish, in-built blobby grapling hook gish.

There is the danger of the game feeling like a physics toy, but that’s what good level design is for.