Legend of Grimrock

phill1978 · **Legend of Grimrock -** 01-14-2012, 18:24 | posts: 708 | Location: uk

Didnt find any talk of this? sorry if its a repost

http://www.grimrock.net/

I used to play EOB on the Amiga and Dungeon master too. Loved dungeon crawlers

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If you’ve found your way into this blog, you should be interested in what the game is all about. Legend of Grimrock is a fantasy game loaded with underground adventuring, tricky puzzles, combat and role-playing elements. In other words, it’s a dungeon crawl game.

It’s a genre that a lot of people consider old fashioned since nowadays there are huge open world RPGs filled to the brim with stuff like customizable horses, several-hundred-page scripts for subplots alone and, uh, talking dragons or spaceships I think. But we feel that some of the simple charms of dungeon crawl games have been forgotten and for no good reason too. To many, it might feel silly to make a 3D game in this day and age that constrains itself to grid based movement and environments but it actually works rather nicely when you think of combat as a game of tactics and timing. It works very well when designing puzzles too, which is an element we feel is very lacking, and in some cases completely absent, in modern RPGs. And, possibly most importantly, it also makes it possible for a small team of four developers to make a rather sizeable game!

Obviously it won’t have the same mainstream appeal as many big budget RPGs, but when you don’t have too much money you can afford to make niche games. And I’m not even joking! It’s pretty darn expensive to compete with the industry giants in their own game (ha!), so why not play the game by your own rules? That being said, we do hope that we can attract some players new to the genre too. After all it is a nice genre. It’s just that its fans have not been treated very well in the past, uhh, ten years or so… But we are doing our best to ease their plight!

So. Legend of Grimrock is a dungeon crawl game. It will be influenced by oldschool games of the genre but it won’t be a game that would have been possible to make fifteen years ago. It will look great, have loads of atmosphere, sound good and play well. We won’t be making many promises during the development since things will often change down the line, but those aforementioned parameters I can pretty much guarantee. And lastly, we’re hoping on bringing this game for iOS, PC and Mac and possibly some other platforms as well.

The game is Beta testing stage now

Cant wait

Is it me or are Indy studios Ruling right now? I think Independent studios are bringing back proper gaming and the quality produced is getting so much higher now

phill1978 · 01-14-2012, 18:27 | posts: 708 | Location: uk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut4CcxrnMdY

trailer

Sprecker · 01-14-2012, 19:11 | posts: 2,431 | Location: Ottawa, Canada

Looks very very good.

Gromuhl'Djun · 01-14-2012, 20:49 | posts: 5,196 | Location: Netherlands

Look nice, but repetetive. The old-school clunky movement will be nice for a short time for people (like me) who played these type of games a long time ago.

But you'll probably soon realise why games like this aren't made as much anymore. I'd rather see a nice new Might&Magic.....

RyPaul

I am replaying Lands of Lore right now so I already payed for my copy of this great looking game

volkov956 · 04-03-2012, 06:00 | posts: 5,875 | Location: Soon to be Disclosed

I bought it on GoG now to wait...

Subaru Swift · 04-03-2012, 12:55 | posts: 913 | Location: UK - Staffordshire \ bromsgrove

i have ordered 2 copies !!

Texter · 04-10-2012, 14:34 | posts: 2,147 | Location: Netherlands

*bump*

Out tomorrow.

quaker3 · 04-10-2012, 17:55 | posts: 561

After seeing this game i srsly thinking how expensive is for indie games to get dx11 or at least dx10 featurs in games? This game in dx11 would totally shine!

eclap · 04-10-2012, 19:02 | posts: 18,470 | Location: Hampshire UK

I want. Looks amazing

Mufflore · 04-10-2012, 20:44 | posts: 9,533 | Location: UK

Very interested in this.

Veteran · 04-10-2012, 22:02 | posts: 7,400 | Location: United kingdom

If this is half as good as Dungeon Master or Eye of Beholder ill be very happy,somehow i dont think it will,hope im wrong.

harkinsteven · 04-10-2012, 22:08 | posts: 1,522 | Location: Ireland

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Originally Posted by Veteran

If this is half as good as Dungeon Master or Eye of Beholder ill be very happy,somehow i dont think it will,hope im wrong.

It looks very good. Here a 25min gameplay video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzIiX...eature=related

Cant wait to play it, only £8 on GOG if you preorder.

harkinsteven · 04-11-2012, 00:58 | posts: 1,522 | Location: Ireland

Its not out till 6pm GMT

eclap · 04-11-2012, 01:05 | posts: 18,470 | Location: Hampshire UK

yeah... can't even pre-load or buy it on steam yet. I finish work 6pm GMT tomorrow. will buy when I'm in. shame I can't pre-load, I was gonna jump right into it.

harkinsteven · 04-11-2012, 01:30 | posts: 1,522 | Location: Ireland

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Originally Posted by eclap

yeah... can't even pre-load or buy it on steam yet. I finish work 6pm GMT tomorrow. will buy when I'm in. shame I can't pre-load, I was gonna jump right into it.

Buy it on GOG.com Eclap. You get a 20% discount for preordering there.

eclap · 04-11-2012, 01:37 | posts: 18,470 | Location: Hampshire UK

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Originally Posted by harkinsteven

Buy it on GOG.com Eclap. You get a 20% discount for preordering there.

same for buying directly from Almost Human but I'm gonna wait and see what happens. I don't want to buy from GOG right now just in case I finish work tomorrow, come home and the game isn't available. I'll wait to finish work and then see where it's available to buy. looks amazing, have to say.

rflair · *Last edited by rflair; 04-11-2012 at 01:48.*

Will be buying. Loved these type of games.

Edit, Bought!

harkinsteven · 04-11-2012, 01:54 | posts: 1,522 | Location: Ireland

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Originally Posted by eclap

same for buying directly from Almost Human but I'm gonna wait and see what happens. I don't want to buy from GOG right now just in case I finish work tomorrow, come home and the game isn't available. I'll wait to finish work and then see where it's available to buy. looks amazing, have to say.

It'll be out at 5 tomorrow. There was an official post on GOG forums. Im not sure your GMT+1

There you go.

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/...imrock/post503

harkinsteven · 04-11-2012, 01:59 | posts: 1,522 | Location: Ireland

Heres a benchmark for it also.

http://games.on.net/file/48903/Legen...re_Test_v1.0.4

eclap · 04-11-2012, 02:01 | posts: 18,470 | Location: Hampshire UK

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Originally Posted by harkinsteven

It'll be out at 5 tomorrow. There was an official post on GOG forums. Im not sure your GMT+1

There you go.

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/...imrock/post503

cheers for that mate. 7pm Warsaw is 6pm London time. I wish I could pre-load this!!!

JonasBeckman · 04-11-2012, 14:09 | posts: 7,719 | Location: Sweden

It's up on their (Well GoG) servers now.

harkinsteven · *Last edited by harkinsteven; 04-11-2012 at 14:21.*

Were you able to download it from GOG Jonas? I dont have a download link on my account.
I tested the Benchmark with SMAA, it looks pretty nice with it.

eclap · 04-11-2012, 14:19 | posts: 18,470 | Location: Hampshire UK

Yes! Tonight will be good!

scatman839 · 04-11-2012, 14:29 | posts: 8,741 | Location: Dundee, Scotland

Bah, and here was me buying from their own preorder to get a steam key