Tweets by Thomas

[Googolplex]

I actually red some of Thomas' tweets and I got a very bad feeling about Unannounced Project 2 and his future concepts.

It seems to me FG decided to go an other way of development to make it easier. Thomas said:

"For our next game we will probably remove user input altogether. Bound to remove most common development problems and bug issues."

One user had a good answer to this:

"@ThomasGrip you should make your next game a black screen that plays some creepy noises. That way, you don't have to spend money on graphics."


Thomas also said that 99% of all bugs are part of interaction. But is this a reason to minimize interaction? Yust to make work easier and save time? I personally think a game with interaction but some little bugs is even better than a game without that feature. Interaction means immersion for me, that let me feel to be IN the game when I grab objects in the world and use it to come forward. I find it's a shame to choose an easier way and rip off one of the best features which increased immersion and complexity.

I don't want an other Dear Esther, I want to work in the game like repairing a generator - step by step!

Since Penumbra they seems to make games simpler and even simpler than the previous one.

In my opinion this is not a good way.

The name Frictional Games originally means interacting physics. And I always enjoyed the combination of physics, puzzles and horror in all their games. But somehow I think they got too much inspired by Dear Esther to create something different, a primarly story based game.

I hope I'm wrong, but I feel they won't keep the good work.
They are still one of the best developers out there, but the best concepts they had are already six years ago.

[Ghieri]

Dude...


They were joking.

[Acies]

I think the 'frictional' might be a reference to the tension which arises as one plays one of their games (horror and all that).

I believe that they know what they are doing. Perhaps they have some sort of idea for a game which cannot be explained, but rather, has to be played to be understood. Sometimes one needs to take a shot in the dark to discover something great, and they might just do that.

Otherwise, if it turns out to a failure, they'll surely return to what they know works (= Amnesia/penumbra styled games). That way it's a win-win for us gamers!

Edit: Oh, as Aldi said it's probably joke..

[Traggey]

Yeah that tweet was, a joke..

[DavidS]

A game with no interaction is called a movie after all

If you are interested though, there are minimal input and interaction experiments (like One
Button Bob) and also minimal display experiments like "Capsule" by Adam
Atomic.

[Adrianis]

"For our next game we will probably
remove user input altogether. Bound to remove most common development
problems and bug issues."

It's a joke but, he's not wrong either

Physics interaction is a massive pain in the ass, I wish God never invented it

[LHudson]

A game with no interaction is called a movie after all

Or Heavy Rain :3

[Froge]

A game with no interaction is called a movie after all

Or Heavy Rain :3

The number of diverging paths in that game was awesome.