Last week we had the first ever publicly playable build of Mechinus at Format in Manchester, UK:
We kicked off with the VIP industry event on Wednesday, with Mechinus being displayed on the big screens along with other games from exhibitors:
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Then, on the Thursday night the public came to play at the main event. The feedback we got from players was incredible, and we also got details from a host of streamers, journalists and podcasters who want to run features on Mechinus - watch this space!
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GDC 2023 Steam Deck PitchingPitching a game on the SteamDeck is great! There’s something great about being able to shove it into people’s hands and say – look here is our game, play it! Anyone else view it as an essential bit of kit? As GDC approaches I was looking at some photo’s from last year, and remembering all the fun we had taking our steam deck whilst pitching our game - Mechinus. The locations ranged all the way…Would there be flowers in a world that evolved mechanically?The core concept of the game is that its set in a world where life has evolved mechanically, rather than organically. Evolution has shaped the mechanical eco-system over millions of years, and created a living breathing (sentient, refuelling?) environment. The first level is set in the equivalent of a mechanical jungle. The idea behind these ‘Flowers’ is that they use their petals like funnels…Using the power of prototypes to craft a show stopping demoI wanted to talk a little bit about how, when we see a finished feature in a game, we don’t see the months of prototyping that goes behind it, and how each of those prototypes helps to solve a problem and builds upon each other to get to an end goal. The video attached shows some of the protoypes we went through while developing a pitchable demo for our game - Mechinus - as a bit of a case stud…