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and steel series hey guys I'm here at the Indie meab Booth again with a game

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that I'm going to call ryus but uh I will have the developer actually tell me

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how it's actually called so it's a Dutch game and we actually pronounce it

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Rose we still allow you to say Rus though that helps me a lot because that

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pronunciation is difficult for me can you go over a brief overview of what

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this game is about yeah sure uh so it's a God game and you control several

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Giants you probably see them here in the background and these Giants shape nature

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and you shape nature to create a Utopia for mankind so mankind settles down

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they're not on your under your control but they do use all the resources on the

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planet and at some point they will want more than you can give them and they'll

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start attacking each other and they'll even start attacking your Giants so even

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though your goal is to develop Humanity they're actually really impeding you

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with that so it's the goal to balance greet and growth there's a really

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interesting background narrative now these Giants are they different types

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yeah so there are four different types you control all of them at uh any time

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there's a rock giant who responsible for the mountains you got an ocean giant

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Forest Giant and then the swamp giant who does some more exotic uh things yeah

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and how would you balance those like how would you go about I know there's different ways but how would you go

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about creating your personal Utopia for Humanity so there's several uh ways

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about it you start off with a clean planet or clean slate so you can do

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whatever you want but uh Humanity will behave differently so they will uh give

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you different rewards so you'll have to definitely interact with that and then

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there's an RPG element to the Giants so at any uh in any session you can only

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pick a few abilities that you will level up high so that means you would either

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go for animal life or plant life or for many upgrades or lots of resources now

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going through this game what are some key events that a player would run into

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okay some key events it starts up with ter escaping and then you've got like

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the first settlement and if you're good

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enough you'll get War eventually because it'll only happen if Humanity grows too

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fast so war is actually a very important

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event because it stops you from developing humanity and makes you deal

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with problems instead and then there's a tragic moment that your giant is

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attacked and might it might even die so

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losing a giant losing a big core element of the game how does that play in and

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how did you go about balancing that so it's very hard to lose a giant you would

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really easily destroy a village or an army but because your goal is to develop

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uh Humanity you wouldn't really do that you try to avoid that so actually if the

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player is too greedy about that he's going to lose the giant only them and

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without one of the Giants you can never do anything in the game anymore so you

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you just lose the game yeah so really can you actually win this game you can

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but uh it's based on a meta game in which you try to create a Utopia but

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every time your Giants go to sleep and wake up again like all of Utopia is gone

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planet is Barren again so humanity is screwed up up so you would only win if

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you unlock every different uh development for Humanity you learned

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everything there is about humanity and you create the perfect Utopia all the

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way in the end game and that's that's when you win actually it's a really

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interesting spin on a God game because in most God games there might be

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rebellions but it's usually rebellions against a king that's in the game not

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the actual God that you control so it's interesting to see that they can actually attack you directly what is

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your personal favorite part about this game my personal favorite part uh like

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I'm going AI programmer of this game so I really like watching the tiny humans

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and they can talk about all kinds of different things and they'll do different things and they'll start

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asking for resources so my favorite part is watching those yeah awesome thanks

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you for checking out ryus or how you're actually supposed to pronounce it if you

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