The most obvious change is, of course, the new intro sequence and opening in the apartment.It feels like a big step up from the old one, even though it's essentially the same chunk of game. Sunk a little time into the demo finally. I really liked the hacking too, even if I wasn't sure of where I was going. I mean, it's not DOOM Eternal, but it does the job and feels nice enough. Thankfully the shooting feels much better, at least based on the two weapons I've tried. More like hitting the enemy by swinging the weapon, it seems that the important thing is to have the cursor above the enemy when you click on the attack button, which feels kinda weird to me. , the melee combat with the pipe feels like shit. They nailed the cyberpunk-terror vibe I guess they were going after. Environments make great use of colorful lights and the ambient music is pretty nice, so great atmosphere overall. The voxel/pixelated vibe gives it a very unique look, and it's clear that a lot of care has been put into that. This is an easy day 1 for me, specially given the 40€ price tag. On the day before the show, we spent 4.Tried this for about 45 minutes, don't want to keep going to avoid spoiling anything until the game releases. We had something working but it wasn't any fun. See, with all the work going into the booth, and then launching the greenlight campaign, the actual playable demo (really, the whole point) kept getting starved for attention. From there we could take the stuff to the show and set it up.īut we had one problem.

Figuring out what to get, and then to order the appropriate pieces and ship them to Nic's house. It took about 37hrs work over 3 months to plan out the 10'x10' (3mx3m) space. Nic and I wore custom Archmage Rises T-Shirts.A photo banner where you can stick your face in and have your picture as the Archmage!.Yes the last one generates a lot of questions. 3 giant game boxes (24'x36' or 60cmx100cm): one for IBM, Mac, and C64.Each segment is 5 minutes long before breaking into something else. A 42' TV running a demo/speed painting/game overview loop.3 playing stations, running Alienware X51's with 24' monitors.We designed our booth in preparation for GenCon Aug 4-7. We were thrilled to put Archmage Rises playable demo on display for the first time to the public Jul 14-16.

System shock demo impressions