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and steel series hey guys I'm here at the Indie meab Booth again with a game
that I'm going to call ryus but uh I will have the developer actually tell me
how it's actually called so it's a Dutch game and we actually pronounce it
Rose we still allow you to say Rus though that helps me a lot because that
pronunciation is difficult for me can you go over a brief overview of what
this game is about yeah sure uh so it's a God game and you control several
Giants you probably see them here in the background and these Giants shape nature
and you shape nature to create a Utopia for mankind so mankind settles down
they're not on your under your control but they do use all the resources on the
planet and at some point they will want more than you can give them and they'll
start attacking each other and they'll even start attacking your Giants so even
though your goal is to develop Humanity they're actually really impeding you
with that so it's the goal to balance greet and growth there's a really
interesting background narrative now these Giants are they different types
yeah so there are four different types you control all of them at uh any time
there's a rock giant who responsible for the mountains you got an ocean giant
Forest Giant and then the swamp giant who does some more exotic uh things yeah
and how would you balance those like how would you go about I know there's different ways but how would you go
about creating your personal Utopia for Humanity so there's several uh ways
about it you start off with a clean planet or clean slate so you can do
whatever you want but uh Humanity will behave differently so they will uh give
you different rewards so you'll have to definitely interact with that and then
there's an RPG element to the Giants so at any uh in any session you can only
pick a few abilities that you will level up high so that means you would either
go for animal life or plant life or for many upgrades or lots of resources now
going through this game what are some key events that a player would run into
okay some key events it starts up with ter escaping and then you've got like
the first settlement and if you're good
enough you'll get War eventually because it'll only happen if Humanity grows too
fast so war is actually a very important
event because it stops you from developing humanity and makes you deal
with problems instead and then there's a tragic moment that your giant is
attacked and might it might even die so
losing a giant losing a big core element of the game how does that play in and
how did you go about balancing that so it's very hard to lose a giant you would
really easily destroy a village or an army but because your goal is to develop
uh Humanity you wouldn't really do that you try to avoid that so actually if the
player is too greedy about that he's going to lose the giant only them and
without one of the Giants you can never do anything in the game anymore so you
you just lose the game yeah so really can you actually win this game you can
but uh it's based on a meta game in which you try to create a Utopia but
every time your Giants go to sleep and wake up again like all of Utopia is gone
planet is Barren again so humanity is screwed up up so you would only win if
you unlock every different uh development for Humanity you learned
everything there is about humanity and you create the perfect Utopia all the
way in the end game and that's that's when you win actually it's a really
interesting spin on a God game because in most God games there might be
rebellions but it's usually rebellions against a king that's in the game not
the actual God that you control so it's interesting to see that they can actually attack you directly what is
your personal favorite part about this game my personal favorite part uh like
I'm going AI programmer of this game so I really like watching the tiny humans
and they can talk about all kinds of different things and they'll do different things and they'll start
asking for resources so my favorite part is watching those yeah awesome thanks
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