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Down in the North Hall booth crawl I found a light
gun game called Forbidden Terror on Space Station Z. I wasn’t aware of
the title and probably for good reason. Emergent Technologies developed
the “game” with a team of four people as a tech demo. The tech demo was
on three four platforms, but I rushed to try the Wii version since it was a light gun game.
Two players share a life bar, but since no one else seemed interested in it I got to play the game John Woo style. Like any other light gun game, you point and shoot. More specifically shoot zombies. One or two appear on the screen at a time and not all of them are House of the Dead hostile. When I stopped firing to shake the pistols and reload a plump zombie grabbed his loose intestines and flapped them around. Amusing.
For a demo this was actually pretty entertaining so I asked if they considered releasing this as a WiiWare game. The response I got was, “we might be able to work something out with a salesman.”
Correction: As pointed in the comments, a PC version I wasn't aware of was on the show floor.
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7 Responses to “Shooting zombies and saving a space station”
February 21st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Looking forward to this :)
Need a Euro date for WiiWare 1st, though…
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:29 am
> The tech demo was on three platforms
Actually, it’s on 4 platforms (Wii, PC, PS3, and Xbox 360) on the show floor.
We started the project in-house as a Gamebryo Wii demo two months ago, decided to add PC a month ago, then decided to add PS3 and Xbox 360 roughly 2.5-3 weeks ago. Initial porting for each of those platforms was about a day a piece.
So … less than two weeks to get this tech demo running on four platforms, and catering to each.
Yeah, I’m really proud of the guys for that.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:50 am
> So … less than two weeks to get this tech demo running on four platforms, and catering to each.
Whoops — meant “less than two _months_ to get this tech demo running on four platforms”.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
@Adam - Hey Adam thanks for the correction and nice to see you around these parts. I didn’t notice the game in the pods was the same thing. It was a really fun demo to play around with. Congrats to you and the team for the good work.
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February 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am
NICE!!!! I WANT TO SEE INTESTINES!!!!
but this looks like the futuristic version of Resident Evil…