Crypt of the Necrodancer - Bad guy slaying DDR style, PAX 2013
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·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel
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and steel series all right guys we're here at the Indie Mega Booth checking
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out Crypt of the necro dancer which the name sounds crazy and the game is crazy
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can you tell me more about the main premise of this game yeah sure um it's a
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Rog likee rhythm game so it combines dungeon crawling with moving to the beat
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and attacking to the beat um so you crawl around a dungeon and you attack
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dragons and and a lot of Undead uh monsters cuz of necro dancer um so yeah
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that's a premise of it yeah so basically the whole the moving to the beat thing
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there's a song playing in the background you can load your own MP3s correct so
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you can load Your Own MP3 so if there's a song you like a certain dance song you like you can load that up and then at
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the bottom of the screen you see bars coming into a heart and you have to move
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on the rhythm of the song so you can load in whatever you want and dance to
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that tell me more about the main mechanics I know there's a shovel and a
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weapon how does that play into the game um so you move around with only the
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arrow keys or if you're playing with a DDR pad with your feet and and uh you
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move around with just those and if there is an enemy like in the attack range of
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your weapon then you'll attack instead or if you run into a wall you'll dig it
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out instead so it's all like context based uh mechanics cool there's also
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hidden shops in the game and stuff that you can find and to purchase things you
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have to dance on top of them which is actually pretty awesome what's your
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favorite part of this game oh manal
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question I know right yeah well it's a Rog leg so it is randomly generated
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dungeons uh and so every time you play it it's different when you die started
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all the way over and it's just like a has a lot of replayability it's really
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refreshing as a developer it's super fun for me cuz I don't get bored of it so
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yeah yeah not getting bored of a game as a developer is kind of a big deal so I
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don't blame you for that being a favorite part of the game at all um this
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is a really interesting game you guys won an award I've heard uh editor's
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Choice uh best of show that's actually pretty epic yeah yeah so that's actually
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pretty epic award to win so even just seeing that you guys should definitely
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check this game out Crypt of the net Road answer if you want it how can you
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get it um we're going to do Early Access it'll be on Steam Mac and PC Early
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Access we're hoping November and then uh
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we're we're looking for early 2014 next year release fingers crossed yeah sounds
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