Zombie Cow Studio's Privates!

[markbilly]

       

Zombie Cow Studios, the lovely people who brought us Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! have just officially announced their new project, Privates, with Channel 4.

Go here for Zombie Cow update. Go here for the press release (text below).

Super excited about this, I've not seen a game quite like it!

London, 11th of May 2010

A BIT CLOSE TO THE BONE: Zombie Cow Studios and Channel 4 offer FIRST LOOK at new game ‘Privates’, which aims to poke a little light where the sun doesn’t shine.

BRITAIN. Land of Hope and Glory-holes. Where pregnant, waddling teenagers take up the full width of the pavement with their oversized triplet pushchairs, unaware that their rampant, perpetual humping has filled them to the brim with all manner of grotty infections.

Privates is a platform twin-stick shooter in which you lead a teeny-tiny gang of condom-hatted marines as they delve into peoples’ vaginas and bottoms and blast away at all manner of oozy, shouty monsters. It’s rude, funny, bitingly satirical and technically pretty accurate if you don’t count the tiny people or the germs with teeth.

“Privates is a totally crazy concept. It’s very exciting to finally be able to reveal what we’re up to,” said Dan Marshall, founder of Zombie Cow Studios. “We’re exploring some pretty unique gaming environments and themes… I can honestly say I can’t imagine you’ve ever played anything quite like it. These first five screenshots should give you a pretty good idea of what we’re up to, but there’s a hell of a lot more to come soon.”

“Channel 4 have been awesome in giving us a load of money and then keeping pretty quiet no matter how filthy and objectionable the content became. It’s gone really well.”

Privates boasts five whole levels of bug-busting action across a variety of gorgeous 3D locations, with a fully-voiced comedy script and a nutso soundtrack. You never know, you might even learn something handy about your downstairs-department.

Privates contains the word ‘merkin’ and is a PC and Xbox360 download developed by Zombie Cow Studios, creators of the critically-acclaimed indie title Time Gentlemen, Please!

The PC version will be available to download for free from Channel 4 and E4 websites this summer. The Xbox one will probably cost a little bit of money, we’ll see.

[lemmy101]

Weee! Ta for the plug Mark. We've been sitting on this a good while now nice to have it out there we're very excited!

Privates: Reason #14262 that there is still no TFE OR Balloon Headed Mexican. :p

[GarageGothic]

Awesome! Love the concept and am getting some serious Earthworm Jim vibes from the screenies, which can only be a good thing. I have no idea what a "twin stick shooter" is, but it sounds dirty (though probably I'll discover it's just console-speak for mouse aim). Good luck with the project guys! Looking forward to it.

[markbilly]

This just got a trailer! http://www.zombie-cow.com/?p=859

[Nikolas]

Excellent! I wasn't aware that the trailer was released in public! Now I know and I can start linking it everywhere...

[ALPHATT]

I've dreamt of such a game since forever.

[Chicky]

Tasty lighting and brilliant VO!

[Peder 🚀]

genius!

[m0ds]

Nice well done! Is this that thing where channel 4 asked game makers to contact them a few months back? Cos I submitted Grundislav's details to them without his permission

Fraid I'm the opposite though, from the trailer the game looks great, but I found the voice acting way too cringe-worthy.

LOOK ITS A FUCKING VAGINA!

CAPTAIN WE'RE COVERED IN SPUNK!

OH MY GOD THESE BALLS ARE FOUR THOUSAND TIMES THE SIZE OF MY OWN MASSIVE COCK!

And other disgusting lines read by the same woman that did the PA in Theme Hospital.

Still, because it looks so much like a sequel to Jet Set Willy, it gets a thumbs up from me.

[Dualnames]

AT LAST A GAME ABOUT SEX. I CAN QUIT AGS NOW.

[Eggie]

I'm happy about this.
Might get a little bit choked up in fact.
I'm drunk.

[GarageGothic]

Can it be true this hasn't been posted on the forums yet? Zombie Cow finally exposes their Privates for all the world to see!!! Download now and find out how they measure up!

[Stupot]

Can it be true this hasn't been posted on the forums yet? Zombie Cow finally exposes their Privates for all the world to see!!! Download now and find out how they measure up!

It crashes my computer at the title screen :-(
Says it needs Shader 2, aswell which I know I havent got from not being able to play Via Domus :-(

[markbilly]

Sorry, that's me slacking!

I was too busy playing it...!

[Igor Hardy]

I wish I could play it, but my PC all broke down a day before the release and only now I'm finally getting to the stage where a fresh Windows install will work.

[GarageGothic]

Brilliant interview with Dan on GameSetWatch, dodge the initial penis puns and bask in the glory of what Dan claims to be his most wry joke ever (indeed, Stephen Fry would be proud).

[totally off-topic, but linked on the same front page, so I thought I'd sneak it in here - if you have any interest in Japanese video games and/or crime syndicates, I very much recommend this Boing Boing article where three Yakuza bosses play and comment on the realism of the Shenmue-like PS3 title Yakuza 3. Highly entertaining, and kudos to the journalist and his massive balls!]

[Kweepa]

That interview reconciles some of my differences with the game, so that's good. Thanks!