Post by Butterblender on Feb 15, 2014 13:21:02 GMT -5
Superhot is an independently-developed first-person shooter (FPS) video game created by Piotr Iwanicki and Blue Brick as part of the 2013 7 Day FPS Challenge. The game, as developed from the challenge, was originally released as a browser-based game in September 2013, and a full release is currently under development. Despite using typical FPS mechanics, time only moves forward in the game when the player does, creating a more strategy-based experience.
The web demonstration of Superhot sets the player as an unnamed agent in a minimalistic office environment, taking out characters that are trying to kill him. Weapons picked up by the player have limited ammunition, requiring the player to rely on defeating enemies to get more ammo, or making melee kills. Taking a single hit from an enemy bullet can kill the player, requiring them to restart the level. Though the game mechanics are typical of most shooters, the distinguishing feature is that time only moves forward at normal speed when the player moves the character, otherwise time moves very slowly. This gives the player the opportunity to alter their actions as to avoid the path of bullets or to better assess their current situation. The game has been referenced as the "Braid of first-person shooters", in which the time mechanic makes the shooter more like a strategy game than a shooter.[1] The developers have captured this mechanic in the game's simple instruction "time moves only when you do".[2] The game has been compared thematically to The Matrix film franchise and the Max Payne video game series,[3] and with environments described by Wired UK's Philippa Warr as playing "through Quentin Tarantino's version of the Mad Men opening credits".[4]
Blue Brick has stated that the full game is expected to be as long as Portal, and has planned to add in more weapons, explosives and subsequent explosions that can harm the player, and enemies that have similar awareness as the player and can dodge the player's bullets.[5]
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