I will give you another point of view: I'm tired of new games needing stupidly high requirements to just play like everything else on the genre, and looking too nice because there are so many players that care more about graphics than they care for gameplay. Every hour used on graphics isn't used on improving gameplay. A game using sprites isn't necessary worse looking either. I liked Serious Sam games, but I don't think they look better than Doom, Duke Nukem or Blood at all.

An old engine usually means a more compatible and stable game. You may not get why use an old engine, but I personally still don't get why new games need flashy 3D graphics with high requirements using an engine that clearly wasn't needed at all for the game. I'm tired of the graphic's race just to hide that gameplay on most new games is just the same as always (sometimes even worse).

There may be people who see games like this and think "oh, another retro pixel game". Well, there's also people like me who see new games and think "oh, another game with so much money spent on graphics just to be another close of a previous game, but most people won't notice/care about it". Anyway, that's my opinion, but I wanted to share the opposite one.

always love it when devs come in to share, wish you the best and the game is a financial and fun success

Preview is a bit short but finding all the secrets will take a while. Feels like playing Duke3D for the first time again.

I bought it straight away to show my support. Gameplay over visuals any day. No fancy shit, just movement and laying the smackdown with cool weapons, love it.

This looks way too good. Can't wait to try out the preview version I have! This will be an insta-buy for me when it's released. The build engine is one of my all-time favorites, and making Duke3D levels back in 96 with it was what got me into modding in the first place (that, and Civ 2).

I would personally have loved it if we milked existing game engines more than they generally are. A world of Quake/Duke3D clones would not have been anything bad.

Personally, I don't have a problem with an old-cartoony graphic. I can even play old games like Deus Ex and Doom 1 & 2 and graphics won't be a barrier for me (I can also install mods to make them better).
Also: there is no wrong using an old graphic, especially when you aren't a Triple-A studio. Many indie devs nowadays are using retro style graphic, and it doesn't hurt the overall quality of the game!

OK, most evidently I totally failed to explain my point clearly enough. Sorry about that.

Let's try again.

I did not mean that the solution your studio chose is lazy nor that the team isn't full of talented people.

I'm not saying that a full game based on the build-engine is "no better" than mods (whatever that means, modders are cool and their work is quite worth it usually and interesting).

My point was why use such an old engine (however it has been "updated"), why invest time and money in it? To make it look and/or feel "retro"? Other solutions would have been "better" I think, besides there's been a steady flux of "retro" inspired games doing more or less well and they weren't using game engins from the nineties.

It just seems... odd, to me. What the heck maybe it's what's make your project interesting.

Also, about the price it was related to the "why not play mods instead" argument. Mods are usually quite more accessible, from a gamer budget point of view than buying a whole new game (with a whole new IP even).
I know games are big projects requiring the teamwork of a lot of people for an extended amount of time, 20€ is still quite accessible for a videogame, of course. My argument wasn't about the money. It was about the purpose of the project itself, esc considering that there had been countless of mods and maps for all the build engine games, mods that are still existing and playable now.

But you know what? As I write to you these explanations, I notice that I start to sound like the marketing people I tend to hate in the industry, those who tend to overlook the creativity and the "what the heck" attitude that's missing so much nowadays, so I'm going to drop it. :P

Been nice talking to you, sorry if you took it personally, it wasn't intended to be insulting in any way to anyone: I was genuinely wondering why make such a game with such a tehnology, now.

Good luck with the end of the dev, with the release and with the reception. And don't forget to have fun doing it! ;)
Cheers,
It'd have been true if we still were in the nineties, playing in msdos, but we're not. :P

Anyway as I've explained already this wasn't about how the engine looks now.

Ok, total conversion instead of mod then. ;)

Then what's the problem? Using an old engine? Old is inherently bad and new is inherently good? I thought that when I was a kid, but what I've found over the years is that new isn't necessarily good and old isn't necessarily bad.

What I think now is that spending money on new flashy engines won't make any game better. If developers can use an older engine which will play perfectly, and the game looks nice, why use a newer one instead? To lose time and money learning something that won't make the game better? I'm not saying that old engines should be used instead, I'm saying that the engine should be chosen based on gameplay and developer knowledge. If developers know the Build engine and can make an awesome game with it, why choose another engine?

I agree. Games would probably be less buggy and less good developers would have ended being bought by a bigger company or going bankrupt for just one game done wrong.

I own the Deluxe Edition of Bombshell and got the preview campaign that came for owners of the Deluxe Edition. Will I get the same updates as this "In Dev" version?

Hello, I take this opportunity to ask a question about Bombshell, of which Ion Maiden is the prequel if I have understood well. I don't know if you have worked on it, but this question is addressed in general to the developers who worked on it.

I liked very much the initial idea of the game, but unfortunately it's still haunted by very annoying bugs that make the playability very similar to a lottery in which hopefully the game does not crash and you don't have to start over from the start.

It was promised a new patch that would solve all the main problems but it hasn't yet arrived years later, and I read somewhere that it could be due to the loss of the rights to the game by the original creators or something similar.

Do you know if there are any new developments in this area?

I wish good luck to this new project and I will try the demo in the next days!

I am sure we will not - it is just a demo, a foretaste - this a full game, but still in development - if you will buy it, you can play it now, still unfinished, and when it will be fully released, you WILL have access to the full version.

The Ion Maiden team did not work on Bombshell. Sorry I'm not able to answer your questions!

Serious Engine would be my choice if I wanted to make a modern gonzo action game. I don't know if Croteam licenses it any more, though. I know they used to, but no one seemed to be interested. There were only a few games that used it.

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