Jakub Dvorský, Machinarium’s lead producer just dropped me a line with news about a new trailer, some amazing concept art and the release date for the game!
The big news is that it has been confirmed that Machinarium will be released on the 16th October via Machinarium.com, Steam, Impulse and more. Machinarium is a delightful adventure game which follows the life of the robot Josef in the big city of Machinarium. I previewed the game on Resolution a while back and I loved it. This is sure to be a cracking game.
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Comment by Tak — September 28, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
Uh, I don’t get it… the trailer, I mean.
Looks nice, otherwise.
Comment by Chris Evans — September 28, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
Do you not get the thought bubbles? They are designed to show you what Josef is thinking and provide hints on what to do. That help you?
Comment by Tak — September 28, 2009 @ 6:16 pm
While I appreciate your brief explanation of the quite obvious, no that didn’t help me.
I guess I should have explained. This video is labeled as a trailer for the game, and as such, I expected it to contain something more than a brief snippet of gameplay. Most trailers would try to sell you a product by showing its best aspects, try to be flashy, stylish, humorous, exciting, witty, and/or whatever else gets the target audience interested.
I guess I thought there was a joke I’m not getting or something more to this video, but from your answer, I gather it’s as simple as it seems; it is nothing but less than a minute of regular gameplay.
Comment by Chris Evans — September 28, 2009 @ 6:19 pm
Heh, pretty much I think that it is just a new trailer being released to celebrate that the release date for the game has been confirmed
Comment by The Second Spartan) — September 28, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
This will get a release earlier then I thought. Great news.
Comment by The Second Spartan) — October 2, 2009 @ 10:39 am
They released a demo!
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/machinarium/download.html?sid=6230738&om_act=convert&om_clk=picks&tag=picks;img;3
Comment by Chris Evans — October 2, 2009 @ 11:40 am
Heh yea
Waiting for the review code though :p
Comment by The Second Spartan — October 2, 2009 @ 8:10 pm
Wow, that was short. Great game though! I’m definitely gonna buy (after the review that is).
Comment by Chris Evans — October 2, 2009 @ 10:46 pm
First three levels only isn’t it? Doesn’t give you much of what there is!
Comment by The Second Spartan — October 2, 2009 @ 11:08 pm
Yeah, if you can call them ‘levels’ (since they’re pretty short). You’ve got the intro, the level with the policemen and the level with the little cart. How long is the full game going to be by the way?
Comment by Chris Evans — October 2, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
Ooh there was at least 25 when I played with it in the Summer, got myself stuck plenty o times so didn’t get to play with them all. I remember those ones, and if I remember correct I got stuck at one point with the cart. May have been early build bugs back then, or just my apalling adventure game skills
Comment by The Second Spartan — October 3, 2009 @ 2:27 pm
I love how you’ve got to complete a mini-game to get more hints for the level. Not that I really use them anyway.
Comment by Chris Evans — October 3, 2009 @ 4:18 pm
That may be something new!