WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.279 lonus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:11.440 and steel series hey guys I'm here at the Indie meab Booth again with a game 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:15.120 that I'm going to call ryus but uh I will have the developer actually tell me 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:20.519 how it's actually called so it's a Dutch game and we actually pronounce it 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:24.080 Rose we still allow you to say Rus though that helps me a lot because that 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:27.480 pronunciation is difficult for me can you go over a brief overview of what 00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:30.679 this game is about yeah sure uh so it's a God game and you control several 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:35.520 Giants you probably see them here in the background and these Giants shape nature 00:00:33.760 --> 00:00:39.719 and you shape nature to create a Utopia for mankind so mankind settles down 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:43.960 they're not on your under your control but they do use all the resources on the 00:00:41.440 --> 00:00:47.559 planet and at some point they will want more than you can give them and they'll 00:00:45.480 --> 00:00:51.840 start attacking each other and they'll even start attacking your Giants so even 00:00:49.879 --> 00:00:56.520 though your goal is to develop Humanity they're actually really impeding you 00:00:53.800 --> 00:01:00.079 with that so it's the goal to balance greet and growth there's a really 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:03.399 interesting background narrative now these Giants are they different types 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:07.479 yeah so there are four different types you control all of them at uh any time 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:11.520 there's a rock giant who responsible for the mountains you got an ocean giant 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:16.119 Forest Giant and then the swamp giant who does some more exotic uh things yeah 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:20.439 and how would you balance those like how would you go about I know there's different ways but how would you go 00:01:18.320 --> 00:01:24.320 about creating your personal Utopia for Humanity so there's several uh ways 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:28.320 about it you start off with a clean planet or clean slate so you can do 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:32.720 whatever you want but uh Humanity will behave differently so they will uh give 00:01:30.520 --> 00:01:36.759 you different rewards so you'll have to definitely interact with that and then 00:01:34.399 --> 00:01:40.759 there's an RPG element to the Giants so at any uh in any session you can only 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:44.759 pick a few abilities that you will level up high so that means you would either 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:49.280 go for animal life or plant life or for many upgrades or lots of resources now 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:53.280 going through this game what are some key events that a player would run into 00:01:51.320 --> 00:01:58.320 okay some key events it starts up with ter escaping and then you've got like 00:01:55.320 --> 00:02:00.320 the first settlement and if you're good 00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:05.920 enough you'll get War eventually because it'll only happen if Humanity grows too 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:07.520 fast so war is actually a very important 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:12.319 event because it stops you from developing humanity and makes you deal 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:17.319 with problems instead and then there's a tragic moment that your giant is 00:02:14.200 --> 00:02:19.640 attacked and might it might even die so 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:24.280 losing a giant losing a big core element of the game how does that play in and 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:28.400 how did you go about balancing that so it's very hard to lose a giant you would 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:32.400 really easily destroy a village or an army but because your goal is to develop 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:36.680 uh Humanity you wouldn't really do that you try to avoid that so actually if the 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:41.000 player is too greedy about that he's going to lose the giant only them and 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:46.480 without one of the Giants you can never do anything in the game anymore so you 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:51.720 you just lose the game yeah so really can you actually win this game you can 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:55.440 but uh it's based on a meta game in which you try to create a Utopia but 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:59.360 every time your Giants go to sleep and wake up again like all of Utopia is gone 00:02:57.640 --> 00:03:04.640 planet is Barren again so humanity is screwed up up so you would only win if 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:08.040 you unlock every different uh development for Humanity you learned 00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:11.720 everything there is about humanity and you create the perfect Utopia all the 00:03:09.760 --> 00:03:15.120 way in the end game and that's that's when you win actually it's a really 00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:19.040 interesting spin on a God game because in most God games there might be 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:22.239 rebellions but it's usually rebellions against a king that's in the game not 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:26.440 the actual God that you control so it's interesting to see that they can actually attack you directly what is 00:03:24.920 --> 00:03:31.120 your personal favorite part about this game my personal favorite part uh like 00:03:29.239 --> 00:03:34.519 I'm going AI programmer of this game so I really like watching the tiny humans 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:39.360 and they can talk about all kinds of different things and they'll do different things and they'll start 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:43.799 asking for resources so my favorite part is watching those yeah awesome thanks 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.360 you for checking out ryus or how you're actually supposed to pronounce it if you 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:52.480 want to see the rest of our Indie Mega Booth content if you want to see the rest 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