Indie dev slams the handbrake to pivot to what might be the first match-3 Metroidvania after playtests for a “match-3 survival horror comedy RPG” shockingly fell apart
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:El Paso, Elsewhere developer 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xalavier Nelson Jr. has announced his studio Strange Scaffold's intentions to turn their upcoming game Creepy Redneck Dinosa☂ur Mansion 3, which is not a sequel, into possibly the only match-3 Metroidvania in existence after the developer decided the genre was more streamlined than💖 its original plan to make a match-3 survival horror comedy RPG.
"We had a playt𒀰est," Nelson says in , "and no one knew what they were playing. Otherwise, the feedback ♏was glowing."
.But Nelson summarizes in his video that Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 will be "a game about the joy of unlocking, as well as using match-3 – not just for combat, but for everything from debating a robot, to swallowing a bunch of jewels so that a jewel thief can't steal them first." Right, of cou📖rse. I knew that.
Nelson has clearly thought about his new Matchroidvania game way too hard for me to be skeptical. , he emphasizes his philosophy that "match-3 isn't just for puzzles, it isn't just for combat, it's not just Candy Crush. It can be used as a metaphor forꩲ practically any type of interaction that you would find in a🐻n action game or an RPG."
"The fact tha𓃲t, everyday," he continues, "I get to come up with metaphors like this alongside the rest of the ಌ[Strange Scaffold] team makes me fucking feral."
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