{"id":14718,"date":"2011-10-14T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"indie-focus-legend-of-grimrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/14718-indie-focus-legend-of-grimrock","title":{"rendered":"Indie Focus: Legend of Grimrock"},"content":{"rendered":"

When someone mentions “dungeon crawler” to you, your mind doesn’t immediately spark up high resolution textures, dynamic lighting and the first-person perspectives.<\/p>\n

Yet that’s exactly what developers Almost Human are delivering in Legend of Grimrock – a contemporary dungeon crawler RPG that’s being set for release at the end of this year (2011)<\/p>\n

Far from the static, pixellated crawlers of old; Legend of Grimrock combines awesome visuals and strategically varied gameplay to drag a rather aged genre into the present.<\/p>\n

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By their own admission, Almost Human realise that the dungeon crawler genre will never really catch onto mainstream success, but they seem really passionate about what they’re doing.<\/p>\n

You’d have to be, for four people to produce something that looks this amazing.<\/p>\n

Also, with sights set on iOS (iPad and iPhone), mainstream success may very well be on its way.<\/p>\n

A recently released gameplay video shows off how some of Grimrock’s features will play out:<\/p>\n

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Players move through the grid-styled maps, interacting with the environments where possible; and kicking ass in real-time combat when the need arises (i.e. if something big and nasty moves onto the screen).<\/p>\n

Taking action entirely through one interface, you attack with your party members while deftly and strategically moving around the area; upgrading your character as you find more loot.<\/p>\n

Good to see that picking up anything not tied, glued or bolted down is still very much alive in CRPGs.<\/p>\n

The video also shows how magic will be cast – with you having to map out specific patterns on a grid to case different spells – as well as small things that we wish we had in our own homes, like pressing a broken stone to reveal hidden doors and passages.<\/p>\n

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The game will feature character creation (or the option to select a preset, if you’re lazy) and a respectable goal of 15 different kinds of enemies.<\/p>\n

For a 4-man team with a game that looks this good – colour me impressed.<\/p>\n

Almost Human is an indie development team of 4 guys who are self-proclaimed “game industry veterans”, with a combined experience of 30 years working on commercial titles; Legend of Grimrock is their first project as a team, and it’s running off of an engine they built themselves.<\/p>\n

Legend of Grimrock is aiming for release before the end of 2011; launching first on PC and then following with Mac and iOS.<\/p>\n

Check it out at www.grimrock.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Indie Focus: Legend of Grimrock<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indie devs, Almost Human, are making the dungeon crawler genre cool again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}