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Play Elegy for a Dead World the write way on Steam today
Elegy for a Dead World is available now on Steam for PC, Mac and Linux, 10 percent off ($13.50) through December 17. Elegy for a Dead World is a game about writing and a lesson in British Romantic poetry – players travel to far-off, alien planets and complete phrases about the environment, typing in whatever they wish to craft their own stories. The worlds are created in the vein of famed poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and John Keats. The game offers 27 writing challenges across different landscapes, with a cast of characters ranging from archaeologist to thief. Players can share their completed stories and read other players' writings through Steam Workshop. Today's launch places Elegy for a Dead World ahead of schedule, as it was originally due to release in early 2015. Elegy for a Dead World is making its way into classrooms, featured in ESL, creative writing and game design programs at almost 50 institutions in 13 countries. The game comes from Dejobaan Games and Popcannibal. [Image: Dejobaan Games]
Elegy for a Dead World lives to write another day
Dejobaan Games' conceptually fascinating Elegy for a Dead World has achieved its Kickstarter goal of $48,000. The studio, best known for intense experiences like AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! and Drop that Beat like an Ugly Baby, is working with Girls Like Robots developer Ziba Scott of Popcannibal on a thoughtful fiction creation game. The game's three worlds are inspired by classic English Romantic poetry, pulling from Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Once players complete the game they'll "have the option to share it with other players through Steam Workshop or reproduce it in digital and print media," according to the developer. The game's beta is planned for this month.
Humble Flash Bundle features Aaaaa! creator Dejobaan
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! ...is what you might say upon learning that you can purchase the majority of Dejobaan Games' PC catalog for $8 as part of today's Humble Flash Sale. Pay any amount for the package and you'll get Dejobaan's skydiving sim Aaaaa! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity and Katamari-like The Wonderful End of the World. Beat the average purchase price (currently $4.95) and you'll also get Aaaaa!'s Brutal Concussion DLC, sequel Aaaaa! for the Awesome, and Monster Loves You! Buyers who pay $8 or more will additionally receive a copy of Dejobaan's latest game, Drunken Robot Pornography. The bundle will only be available through tomorrow, so jump on it fast if you want a safe outlet for your screamy skydiving fantasies. [Image: Dejobaan Games]
Drunken Robot Pornography makes it rain metal on Steam today
Dejobaan Games' bullet-hell first-person shooter Drunken Robot Pornography has officially launched on Steam. As promised, the game is available at a reduced $12 until next week, February 28, at which point it'll revert to its full $15 price. Drunken Robot Pornography is a jetpack-fueled shooter where players take on massive, 30 foot-tall robots hell-bent on destroying the city of Boston. Drunken Robot Pornography is also a phrase you probably shouldn't Google at work. Like, ever. Indie developer Dejobaan Games calls Massachusetts home and has produced a slew of oddly-named games such as AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!, a game about base jumping off buildings in Boston, and Drop that Beat like an Ugly Baby, a game that turns your MP3 files into explorable cityscapes. Aside from Drunken Robot Pornography, the studio is currently collaborating with Girls Like Robots developer Ziba Scott on Elegy for a Dead World – a game where players must explore the ruins of alien civilizations and share their histories with others through Steam Workshop. [Image: Dejobaan Games]
Drunken Robot Pornography takes (it all) off on February 19
Drunken Robot Pornography, the high-flying robot shooter from Dejobaan Games, launches in full on February 19 via Steam and the Humble Store. DRP has been sitting pretty on Steam Early Access since the day that service launched in March, and next week it's finally ready for deployment. In the game, players don jetpacks to battle giant robots called Titans – Dejobaan started working on DRP two years ago, ages before that other game about titans showed up – and attempt to stop the metal beasts from destroying Boston with their fancy lasers, rockets, bullets and claws. It's a first-person shooter in a bullet hell (not Boston – that's just the game style). DRP will retail for $15, but it may come with a Steam discount on launch day. That's all outlined in Dejobaan's open marketing document, a Google Doc that displays the studio's launch plans, marketing strategies and hopes for the game's release, including the repeated phrase, "NOTE TO SELVES: None of this matters if we don't make a great game." This open marketing plan joins Dejobaan's public design document for Drop that Beat like an Ugly Baby as an example of transparent development in the indie world. Dejobaan will stream DRP in a Twitch marathon on February 20 from 10AM ET to 10PM ET, featuring a lineup of fellow streamers. And giant, drunken robots, of course. [Image: Dejobaan Games]
Jetpack FPS Drunken Robot Pornography nets weekly challenge mode
Dejobaan Games' jetpack-powered, titan-battling first-person shooter Drunken Robot Pornography has been updated with a new Battle Royale mode via Steam Early Access, giving players the chance to show off their robot-slaying skills in unique challenge maps released weekly. Every Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern time, Dejobaan will upload a new Drunken Robot Battle Royale map, and players will have until the following Thursday to upload a high score to its leaderboard. Dejobaan will highlight winners during their weekly Twitch broadcast as they gear up for a final Steam release in the first quarter of this year. More than 20 new Battle Royale challenges are scheduled to launch over the mode's planned six-month stretch.
Twenty developers you don't know, but should
Between consoles, PC, mobile and everything in between, there are so many games released today that it's impossible to keep up with everything that's coming out – and it's even harder to keep up with the studios behind them. Even with a gaming public that's grown accustomed to following big developers like Valve and small studios like Double Fine, countless other studios slide under the radar. In the interest of sifting a signal from the noise, the Joystiq crew has selected 20 developers that deserve your attention. These studios are making games you should play, and their future work should be highly anticipated. This list is by no means exhaustive, and we invite you to share your own favorites in the comments!
Elegy for a Dead World turns players into poets
Dejobaan has a reputation for crafting obnoxiously titled, outrageous games such as AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! and Drop that Beat like an Ugly Baby, but Elegy for a Dead World is different. Created with Girls Like Robots developer Ziba Scott, Elegy is a soft-spoken, experimental game that has players observe the ruins of lost civilizations and write down their histories to share with the Homeworld, the Steam Workshop. There, players can compare notes and rate each other's stories, poems and thoughts, Indie Games reports. Elegy is inspired by classic English Romantic poetry, and its three worlds pull from the works of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Dejobaan recently entered Elegy into IGF 2014, eventually slated for PC and Mac on Steam. Sit down with some poetry in its first teaser trailer and sole screenshot below.
Monster Loves You on iOS and Android this October
Monster Loves You, Dejobaan Games' ferociously charming adventure game, will arrive on iOS and Android this fall. The game launched on Steam in March, and is available for $9.99. Dejobaan told Joystiq at PAX Prime that the studio is aiming for an October 10 release date for the mobile version of Monster Loves You. Describing how the game evolved on PC, Dejobaan Games' Ichiro Lambe said that the month Monster Loves You launched on Steam, it underwent changes from being a "life simulator" to a choose-your-adventure game, cutting a number of the game's elements out entirely. Choices made by players in the game affect different personality traits, from kindness to honesty, shaping the arc of the game's story, which Lambe said is a carry-over from its original life simulation ambitions.
PSA: Oculus Rift support now in AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! on Steam
VR fans that were making dinner plans ... STOP! Oculus Rift support for AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome has been added to the game's Steam version, currently priced at $9.99. Developer Dejobaan Games announced last month it was collaborating with Owlchemy Labs to add support for the VR goggles, increasing the vomit quotient of its free-falling title by a factor of one bajillion. Your friends at Joystiq recommend waiting at least one hour after a meal before proceeding. You can trust us: we're not doctors, but we've been practicing.
Thoughtful Bundle: Fieldrunners, Reckless Disregard for Gravity and more
Indie Royale's Thoughtful Bundle is live, and features five different PC and Mac games for a pay-the-minimum price, which is currently $5.46. Included in the bundle are Snapshot by Retro Affect, Cognition Episode 2: The Wise Monkey by Phoenix Online Studios, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity by Dejobaan Games, Subatomic Studios' Fieldrunners and Snuggle Truck from Owlchemy Labs. Buyers that fork over at least $8 will also receive Night Animals, a chiptune album by Bright Primate.The Thoughtful Bundle will be available on Indie Royale's site until Saturday, March 23.
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for iOS on sale for a buck
Dejobaan's AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (Force = Mass x Acceleration) is dropping its price to $0.99.The universal iOS app, regularly priced at $2.99, is tossing its regular price "in honor of the 25th anniversary of the first successful base jump from the Eiffel Tower by a Ukrainian woman's alto choir." We'd fact check that but, frankly, our intern took the day off and it's taken us all day to figure out the k-cup machine.The Dejobaan crew will be at PAX this weekend as part of the Indie Megabooth. The team will show off new games Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby, Drunken Robot Pornography and Monster Loves You!
'Aaaaa!!!' plummets onto iOS 'February 30'
Dejobaan's AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome drops into the iOS App Store next week as AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (Force = Mass x Acceleration). The game will launch on March 1 as a $2.99 universal app. Meaning, you pay once and play it on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.Having had some hands-on time with the mobile version recently, the iPad experience can be particularly intense. The tilt controls are super intuitive -- since you're falling and trying to avoid buildings -- and I found myself tilting my head to avoid scraping against buildings. The size of the screen and focus on the experience started making everything else around me fade away.For a less intense, but still enjoyable game, the iPhone version feels like guiding an object through space instead of yourself.%Gallery-148245%
'Aaaaa!!! for the Awesome' dropped on PC, Mac
Dejobaan Games and Owlchemy Labs have launched a "semi-sequel" to AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!-- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, entitled AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome -- or just "Awesome" for short. With the original game's code rebuilt from the ground up, the follow-up adds a "new lighting system and fancy shader effects," along with 43 new levels and the 82 levels from the original game. It's available on Steam for $9.99. Officially, the game has only been announced for PC and Mac, but since Dejobaan teamed up with Owlchemy Labs on the project, the studio that created Snuggle Truck, an iOS version might drop in at some point.
Aaaaa! devs holding art contest for 'semi-sequel'
Dejobaan Games is creating a follow-up to its brilliantly titled BASE jumping simulator, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!-- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, and it needs your help to make it perfect. The studio is holding a contest for fans to create billboards out of public images and clever catchphrases, and submit them before this Friday, September 30. The winner will not only win a copy of the heretofore unannounced "semi-sequel," their billboard will actually appear in the game. You can find out more details about the contest on Dejobaan's site. Frankly, we'd be more interested in a contest to come up with a name for the sequel -- we'd probably go with AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA TwoOoooOo: Gesundheit!
AaaaAAaa! Dejobaan announces '1...2...3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby)'
Indie dev Dejobaan Games, best known for AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, has officially announced its next game, the less difficult to spell, easier to remember: 1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby). The studio tells us that Kick It! is the result of the "very strongly prototyped" Musorqua project, which creates levels based on your MP3 library. Kick It! is currently in alpha testing and available to purchase for $9.95 (33 percent off), with an official release date expected in the next six to nine months. The studio will continue updating the game free of charge for those who purchase now. Dejobaan is also seeking feedback with "crazy-ass ideas" while they continue to polish the game. Speaking of crazy, drop on by past the break for the game's non compos mentis trailer. %Gallery-110314%
Sign up for Dejobaan Fan Club, receive free game
Indie studio Dejobaan Games, best known for AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, is giving out a free game when folks sign up for its "Free, Sexy Dejobaan Fan Club." The studio tells us that the fan club, for which over 1,000 have registered since PAX East, will also grant participants access to future alphas and betas. Because, if you're a true fan, you'll help with the bug testing process for free and love the studio anyway. In addition to the free game, those who sign up will also receive a song by studio founder Ichiro Lambe. Although the studio hasn't announced its next "real" game yet, it is currently "very strongly prototyping" the Musorqua project.
April Fools: 'AaaAAAaaa' dev announces '14. Drunken Robot Pornography'
Dejobaan Games is giving into the financial realities of being an indie developer and has announced its next project: 14. Drunken Robot Pornography. The developer of AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity will have 14DRP revolve around an idea that gamers can really support, thus, making the small studio buckets of moolah. Players take control of a giant robot designed to destroy humanity, but, because this is an indie title, you know there has to be some academically-pretentious niche twist. Sure, you destroy buildings and kill people, but the idea is to ruin the life of Penelope Raindance, "a young girl who wants to grow up to be a neurosurgeon. She's a promising young first grader, now -- but if you do things right, you can do away with her nuclear family, leaving her homeless and starving. Don't crush her. Crush her dreams. ... You win!" The game will release in the third quarter of 2015 on PC and requires Windows 2K/XP/Vista; a 3.5GHz processor; 6GB system memory; a 3D card with 16MB video memory; and Microsoft DirectX 12.0.
Dejobaan looking to branch out to other platforms, strongly prototyping Musorqua
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity developer Dejobaan Games is looking to take a "derivative of Aaaaa" to other platforms. Studio founder Ichiro Lambe told us at DICE, "Over the course of 2010, we want to investigate branching out both to mobile, we're talking about iPhone and Android, and also Wii and Xbox development." One of those titles taking the multiplatform walkabout would likely be Musorqua, which Lambe describes as a game the studio is "very strongly prototyping." He explained, "If that works, that's the direction we're going to take if people are excited, if the press is excited about it, if it excites us. If not, we're going to tweak that a bit." He also said that they'll "definitely" be showing it off at PAX East next month.
'Aaaaa' creator announces music game, 'Musorqua'
Dejobaan Games, developer of AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, has announced a new game with a somewhat less nonsensical title (and one that, should it ever be released in a physical format, would fit much more easily onto a CD case's spine: Musorqua. The game, built on Aaaaa(etc.) technology in its prototype form, evokes Rez, involving shooting at different items to create musical sounds. Each musical track is represented by objects of a certain color, and bonuses are awarded by "kissing" buildings of the same color by brushing against them. You can see footage of the prototype after the break. It's pretty abstract! No release date or platforms have been named, making even the idea of this as a playable product abstract. [Via Shacknews]
