Embark on a wild cruise through the galaxy with the space pirate Annha in this swashbucklin' 3D Jump'n Run Action Adventure! Use your spaced out inventory of gadgets & acrobatic skills to loot the precious treasures of "New Horizons" and solve the mysteries of a universe that has come apart at the seams...

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Arrrr, avast me hearties! T’morrow be “Talk Like A Pirate Day” (Sept 19th)! So polish that hook, put on yer best eyepatch and let yer inner pirate out - like us with this new video!

Posted by Frie on Sep 18th, 2011

Arrrr, avast me hearties! T’morrow be “Talk Like A Pirate Day” (Sept 19th) – so polish that hook, put on yer best eyepatch and let yer inner pirate out!  Here be a video o’ Cap’n Red Beard havin’ a lil’ talk with Annha about me favourite day of the year, aye!


Aside from spreading the word about “Talk Like A Pirate Day” and having a laugh (or not) this video also has some deeper game relevance actually. It shows how we want to implement speech in our game: text bubbles + audio jibberish. Why no full-blown voice acting? a) Because hiring voice actors and the localisation of those files would blow our budget and b) jibberish can be more charming and suitable in a cartoony game like ours than real speech. Banjo Kazooie did it much better than Mario Sunshine in our eyes ears. Moving the camera and an indicator which person is talking has also finally become a reality. However it is just a mock-up and nowhere near a final implementation, so bear in mind that it does not represent the final quality. We hope you’ll enjoy it nonetheless. Don’t forget to get your sky pirate on tomorrow, I know we will! ;)

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Tibyon
Tibyon Sep 18 2011, 9:49pm says:

I highly anticipating this game. Good 3d platformers are few and far between since the Gamecube. Keep it up.

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DillonBarba
DillonBarba Sep 18 2011, 10:08pm says:

this is good, maybe the gibberish is a little too repetitive.
didnt banjo and kazooie only have the sound whenever a new block of text showed up?

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Frie
Frie Sep 19 2011, 4:42am replied:

Nope. They continuously played sound as the text appeared. They really nailed it!

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Sph!nx
Sph!nx Sep 19 2011, 12:39pm says:

Jibberish works for games like these, I would add some variation, though.

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Sanguinius
Sanguinius Sep 20 2011, 11:51am says: Online

Yarr yarr yarr yarr yarr yarr yarr yarr yarr yarr...yarr yarr yarr...my head hurts @_@

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