Gravitronix: September 2007 Archives
Up until now, I've briefly mentioned in interviews that Gravitronix (our upcoming WiiWare game) will feature hand-drawn characters to represent the players on screen. While character selection will not influence game play, your character will react to your performance in game. As such, characters might seem like a "fluff" addition, but the significance of these characters lies in their origins...
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I'll address some of the more common concerns and questions regarding Gravitronix...
What is Gravitronix?
Gravitronix is an action/battle game for 1-4 players (possibly 8, and possibly online). You'll be defending your territory from enemy players while trying to assault theirs by using the four different projectiles pictured in the Gravitronix logo.
Why are you being so secretive about how it actually plays?
The short answer? We're afraid of having it ripped off. We're a small team so the concept will take some time for us to create, but if we put the idea out there in totality, it would take a larger development house less than a month to create their own version of it.
Are we being too paranoid? Possibly, but it's also better that players are introduced to it a month before it releases with our full video presentation of Gravitronix than hear small pieces of the game and misunderstand how it actually plays.
What's so special about it? Why should I give a damn about this game?
That's a question I can't answer right now, and it's best that I don't answer it right now, either. The launch of WiiWare is still months off so getting people excited now is rather pointless.
We have something planned to gradually reveal more about Gravitronix, and I'll let you know about that soon.
What kind of plans do you have after Gravitronix?
We have a plethora of game ideas, some more for WiiWare and some others which will work as retail titles. Aside from occasionally writing random ideas down for those games, we're focusing entirely on Gravitronix. We're going to actually release a game before we focus on future games.
Who are you people?
Medaverse was three guys who ran a gaming fan site who toyed with the idea of making a game but never moved toward it until the Wii remote pushed us over the edge. We saw it back in Oct. 2005 and we knew we wanted to develop for it. Since then, we've grown to 8 people and are in the middle of working on our first WiiWare game.
How do I know you're not a bunch of nerdy, DnD-playing, video game-collecting otakus?
You don't.
I'll have another update for you soon...
