Primordia

Mati256 · Tue 11/12/2012 21:30:58

Quote from: an Urpney on Tue 11/12/2012 07:30:41
One little theological note : )
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Horus was not a god of death - in Ancient Egypt Horus was a god of Egypt (Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt) united under Pharaoh's reign and Pharaoh himself was believed to be incarnation of Horus (later: son of Amon Ra).
Egyptian god of death, the dead and afterlife was Anubis.
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There's a virus you can use that is called Thanatos, god of death in Greek mythology. You can miss this virus entirely, like some other things in the game. Not entirely sure if a good design choice. My first ending was refusing to ally with Metromind, it was the worst ending in an adventure game ever. I just died and nothing else happened. Thankfully after that I found some other endings much better.

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an Urpney · Wed 12/12/2012 13:59:19

Quote from: Mati256 on Tue 11/12/2012 21:30:58
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There's a virus you can use that is called Thanatos, god of death in Greek mythology. You can miss this virus entirely, like some other things in the game. Not entirely sure if a good design choice. My first ending was refusing to ally with Metromind, it was the worst ending in an adventure game ever. I just died and nothing else happened. Thankfully after that I found some other endings much better.
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Yes, I know about the virus which comes with complete Horatio's backstory - and it's name is pretty accurate: as Thanatos, it's a collector of souls, a Grim Reaper for robots - just as Thanatos was in Greek mythology.
My first ending was merging with MetroMind and that wasn't satisfying as well - I didn't want her to absorb Horatio!
Endings I've found:
- Kill Scraper with the virus (wanted to do the same with Metromind, but Horatio refused), take the power core,
- Blackmail Metromind, take the power core,
- Destroy the power core,
- Merge with MetroMind,
- Destroy every robot in Metropol with the virus,
- Commit suicide,
- Get killed by Scraper.
Still have some items unused (like Oswald's oil can - after taking it this quest just ended without any reward), so maybe there is more...

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arj0n · Thu 03/01/2013 17:00:33

And it arrived, whoohoo!

@ the whole team:
What an amazing game, it did live up to all my expectations. For sure one of the AGS top projects of 2012!
Thanx!

tinyhippo · Sun 06/01/2013 15:14:16

One of the best adventure games I've played so far. Immensely atmospheric. Would like to say thanks to everyone who developed it. For the most part, it inspired me to try doing a game of my own.

Monsieur OUXX · Sun 06/01/2013 17:42:56

The game got 7/10 in the best French video games magazine ("Canard PC") because despite being excellent on so many levels, it's too short (despite its re-playability with several solutions to one puzzle). They say it will reach its full value when the price drops a tiny bit in a few months. (that magazine includes the length and the price in their grades)

qptain Nemo · Mon 07/01/2013 09:15:27

Quote from: Mati256 on Tue 11/12/2012 21:30:58
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My first ending was refusing to ally with Metromind, it was the worst ending in an adventure game ever. I just died and nothing else happened.
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Whoa, I really disagree, I thought it was a cool, emotionally strong ending. I was quite happy about it being included.
And obviously I strongly approve of all the optional missable stuff in the game.

CaptainD · Mon 07/01/2013 09:58:41

I too was pretty disappointed with the ending Mati256 talked about to be honest, although it was my second ending.

Apologies if anyone has already asked this but how many endings are there? I found the two obvious ones, I had an idea there might be another one with

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being able to fix Crispin - man I hope you are able to do that, the little dude#s sacrifice really brought a lump to my throat!!

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But even with being a little disappointed with the ending, and not really taking to the game fully until I got to Metropol, I have to say that the main section of the game was absolutely brilliant - in terms of story and atmosphere, aesthetics, characters, puzzles - particularly the multiple solutions to many puzzles. The music was terrifc, reminded me of Vangelis' Bladerunner score in quite a few places. Congrats to the dev team, you did an amazing job!

kconan · Tue 08/01/2013 10:28:11

Alert the Minister of Propaganda for Primordia, as we haven't yet seen this in the FYC Thread.

ddq · Tue 08/01/2013 19:59:38

I thought the FYC thread was only for games no one played?

kconan · Wed 09/01/2013 04:18:08

I look at the FYC thread as more of an official throwing of the hat in the ring, and some fun game pimping.

CaptainD · Fri 18/01/2013 22:03:53

Finally written my review of Primordia...

Tramponline · Thu 21/02/2013 21:41:37

Next AGS winner at the Aggie Awards!

Primordia won in the category 'Best Setting' today.

Congratulations to all of you!

Also in particular to Victor and Mark for making this eerie dystopian vision come alive.
Had a great time testing it. Well deserved, gentlemen!

Stupot · Thu 21/02/2013 21:48:17

It is indeed a great setting. Congrats to all involved

yashination · Thu 28/02/2013 04:59:27

Honestly one of my favorite games that I've played recently. I really liked Crispen. I wish I had my own sidekick or lackey now.

MarkYohalem · Wed 29/05/2013 15:51:38

We've released "Fallen," a free spin-off story set in the same universe as Primordia. It's a good introduction to the setting if you haven't played Primordia, and if you have, you may enjoy the way it continues the story. You can find it on our Facebook site:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wormwood-Studios/47815438015

Or at a direct download here:

http://www.primordiagame.com/fallen_part_1.pdf

The upside of following it on Facebook as that you'll get notifications when the next parts are released.

Mati256 · Wed 29/05/2013 23:54:26

Nice addition to the adventure game.
Kindle friendly or epub would be awesome!

MarkYohalem · Thu 30/05/2013 04:53:39

Thanks for the suggestion! When the whole thing is released, there will be an ePub version for download.

Pinback · Tue 04/06/2013 09:49:55

Fallen Part 1: Awake is now on Youtube in Audio-Visual format. This was an experimental project of mine created in tandem to Mark Yohalem, Tamás Szathmáry's and my illustrated text version.

For this version, Fallen is read aloud by Tord Johnson, accompanied by an ambient score and animated landscape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vmtgUgifGQ

Anian · Tue 04/06/2013 10:34:19

~~Hold the hell on, damn it, I'm just playing the game now.~~

Just got into Metropol, very nice game so far, oozes atmosphere.

EDIT: finished the game, everything was very nice, except maybe the kiosk puzzle which kind of depends on a small detail that I just didn't catch and thus got stuck. Story, art, music, all interesting. Very nice job.
Now onto those Fallen episodes.

MarkYohalem · Wed 12/06/2013 16:01:26

The graphic novella is now up at: http://www.primordiagame.com/Fallen_Complete.pdf

Audio version will follow soon.