Crescent Moon Games is here at GDC showing off a menagerie of upcoming iOS games, one of them the puzzler roguelike MicRogue which is being developed by Jason Pickering and published by Crescent Moon. We posted about MicRogue just a few weeks ago, and the game itself has been in the works for quite some time. It’s finally finished though, and if you enjoy strategic dungeon crawlers with puzzle-like elements, such as Hoplite ($3.99) or Auro ($1.99), then I think you’ll dig MicRogue.
As mentioned, MicRogue is finished, and it was even submitted to the App Store. However there was a snag with getting it approved related to the name Crescent Moon is publishing under, so they’ll be putting it back into submission and can hopefully sort out the issue with Apple. If all goes well we should be playing MicRogue on iOS in the next month or so.
Ok. This looks really fun to me.
Looks epic can't wait
YES!
I liked Hotline Miami, so...
......you're buying Hotline Miami 2 tomorrow?
...you're developing a Hotline Miami-based game?
You wear a horse mask?
This looks excellent!
Cool! The ultimate party crashing madness! Gotta have this! Looks like lotsa fun!
This party is totally killer!!!
Well this looks fun and mildly disturbing
I remember playing this on Gamejolt. It's a really fun game! I hope the controls transfer well to touchscreens.
ex-Deception fan here. This game looks like good times.
I love how he spends the rest of the trailer just dancing as all hell breaks out around him after people find his victims covered in blood. I think it's the dancing animation that really does it for me.
"I'm not sure how well the game will succeed in that point, as making a game that comments on hyperviolence where hyperviolence is the norm is kind of a challenge."
hmmm... did you really think that the violence in schindler's list was advocating violence?
there is DEFINITELY a way to showcase violence in a manner that indicts it rather than celebrates it. can be done seriously and somberly as in SL and other anti-war movies or it can be done in a satirical manner where the heroes gleefully go around killing every living thing that comes within arm's reach but the audience is alienated from the action instead of rooting for it - ala natural born killers.
that's the BEST way to make the point imo. the other way is to be preachy about it and that's just terrible.
you gotta get cecil b. demille on this bitch - celebrate the 10 commandments by showing 90 minutes of breaking it.
Definitely getting a Hotline Miami vibe from this, looks cool!
I'm surprised Apple will allow a mass murdering game on the App Store with their strict policies.
if you think this is something then wait until you see this game called Grand Theft Auto! It's crazy! Got approved and everything PLUS there's sequels to thing!!
Do we know a release date?
Reading the descriptions, all I can think of is Elder Scrolls Oblivion, brotherhood of assassins quest where you were put in to a three story house with 9 or so people and your goal was to kill them all. Bonus rewards if no one saw you doing so.
Was alot of fun getting them in corners, in far off rooms, convincing the party goers that others were killers, getting them to off eachother. hehee!