pubs
Hey, a couple of the games I’ve worked on are out now.
Lost Empire is a grandiose space strategy thing. I rewrote most of the game text and the manual on a short timescale.
Penumbra is a… I’m not sure. I haven’t played it. Some kind of first-person Lovecraftian survival horror thing. I rewrote the manual, and I think some of the game text. Hard to remember everything I do; this was months ago.
Though I have no comment on the games themselves, I rather like their packaging. Nice, big no-nonsense logos. Understated cover art.
To note, there’s a silly typo on the back of the Lost Empires box. That’s not my fault; they didn’t run that text past me.
EDIT: Speaking of typos… I feel I must have rewritten the text in that Lost Empire trailer, yet those punctuation errors can’t be my own. So I’m not sure what’s going on there. Maybe they used an earlier draft? Maybe I never touched that after all?
I think I remember playing some PC demo for a Penumbra game a year or two ago. I didn’t actually beat the demo but I remember running around in some underground bunker beneath the arctic/antarctic, knocking physics-enabled objects around, and running from ghosts or something supernatural. I guess it did alright enough that they made another one, and you got some work out of the deal. Not too bad.
I like that Lost Empire cover. Makes me want to dig out some old hard sci-fi I haven’t read in a while.