Monsterland Windows game

2 comments by shihonage on Feb 2nd, 2012

The trailer shows (and sometimes hints at) the following:

• Much of the ASCII has been replaced with simple, optional graphics.
• Doom-style weapon behavior (Power Shotgun can kill multiples with one shot, Range Shotgun is weaker but has distance, Chaingun pushes enemies back...
• New weapon recoil screen effects.
• Resource gathering elements are used to break through obstacles, activate generators, and create necessary items, such as boats for getting over water, or torches for seeing in the dark.
• In dark areas, when your torch goes out, things turn from bad to worse. However, Monsterland uses darkness sparingly, unlike Doom 3.
• Levels are not just abstract maps but locations with ambient atmosphere and sound cues.
• The game is peppered with "as you go" textual descriptions of what the player's character sees.
• In-game ambient voiceovers by the colony computer. They come unexpectedly and are on variety of different subjects, from reflecting on current status of the colony, player's actions (such as powering a generator), to advertising futuristic items.
• Evidence that part of the colony is controlled by a futuristic government called New Soviet Bloc.
• The game is not far from completion.