Tim Keenan of A Virus Named TOM fame has been teasing his new game Duskers for awhile now. I don’t remember a time when there was a date to get excited for until now and that date is August 13th 2015! The indie funded game sees you as the pilot of some space drones who are flying into hulking derelict spaceships trying to find not only salvage to survive and continue the mission but also answers to some big questions like how in the hell did the universe become this big giant space ship graveyard? From the get go the low-fi aesthetic of the game won me over, emulator that old retro style properly with some scanlines, a little noise, vector graphics and a some barrel distortion for good measure and you’ve already made me look at your game closer and Duskers does this nicely. It also makes sense in the game world, if you’re out there piloting drones looking for something, anything in a crazy post apocalyptic universe where space has been reduced to a giant junkyard then everything you have is probably all cobbled together too, it’s a nice touch.
Continuing with the very end of the world scrapheap that the Duskers’ universe seems to reside in you’ll be issuing your drone commands from a command-line interface, groovy. This may make a ton of gamers shy away but I think in a game like this where anything can be out there it ratchets up the tension better than anything else. Think of the original Resident Evil, sure those tank controls suck now but back then when it was all you knew it made the slow turn agonizing when you were surrounded, I don’t think that game would have been considering the horror masterpiece it is with modern controls, it loses too much. Duskers also has that dreaded word, procedurally generated content, attached to it which again makes sense in this cause, you don’t know what’s out there and you are able to memorize the world then it becomes less of an adventure and more of a game of trial and error. Be sure to check out the teaser trailer above and get ready for the Duskers August 13th 2015 release on Steam Early Access.
Source Link: YouTube | Duskers on Steam Early Access | http://duskers.misfits-attic.com/
