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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Mar 2017 14:09    Post subject: Harold Halibut (handmade adventure)


Release: Jan 2019

Genre: Adventure
http://haroldhalibut.com/
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Dive into this nautic adventure as curiosity will guide you through a space ship wreck on an unknown planet made up of water. When one of the lead scientists still on board tries to unriddle the possibility of a relaunch young Janitor Harold is around to assist her. Join Harold in his clumsy undertakings to stir up the ark-like ship’s stale day-to-day life and find the secrets that lie behind its doors.

Underwater atmosphere, self-reflective humor and contemporary adventure mechanics make up the foundation of this game created entirely out of craft supplies.

Harold Halibut started out as a dinner table conversation about the adventure games we played as children. We soon started building dollhouse sized sets and puppets in our bedrooms. The result works like a game but it looks like a stop motion film. Welded metal, carefully sewn textiles against tiny wooden floorboards and clay faces the size of walnuts pull the player into Harolds world.







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ixigia
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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Mar 2017 22:58    Post subject:
Nice, really like the stop motion-ish effect Very Happy
Here's hoping it's a proper full-fledged adventure and not just a...cinematic pressabuhon one (always my #1 fear).


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vurt




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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Mar 2017 05:08    Post subject:
Looks like it's filmed and not assets photographed etc and turned into 3D models / environments. The later would have been a more interesting result, probably. Cool idea nontheless.
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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Mar 2017 05:15    Post subject:
Do other developers only use feet Philosopheraptor
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vurt




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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Mar 2017 09:10    Post subject:
Got a reply from one of the devs (i guess).

"Hey, the game is all in 3D Assets. Everything is build as real miniatures and then 3d scanned. So you have full interactivity (freely walk through the environment, interact with it and characters) in the game and no FMV-Adventure."

That's pretty amazing Smile
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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Mar 2017 17:56    Post subject:
@vurt

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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Jul 2017 15:18    Post subject:
Kickstarter goes live in some hours:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slowbros/812172286?token=58da2cd7

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Fugen




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PostPosted: Tue, 16th Apr 2024 16:57    Post subject:
Harold_Halibut-FLT

chill out man, life is beautifull...
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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Tue, 16th Apr 2024 17:55    Post subject:
wow that took its time
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PostPosted: Tue, 16th Apr 2024 18:19    Post subject:
Where bobsen at? Scratch Head

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Yuri




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PostPosted: Tue, 16th Apr 2024 19:02    Post subject:
tonizito wrote:
Where bobsen at? Scratch Head

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1 and 2 are still amazing.
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FireMaster




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PostPosted: Tue, 16th Apr 2024 20:12    Post subject:
I'm intrigued men, why so little reviews? only 4 on steam.
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Nodrim




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PostPosted: Tue, 16th Apr 2024 20:52    Post subject:
The demo was really junky.
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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Tue, 16th Apr 2024 21:25    Post subject:
I like the style, but the story seems very uninteresting judging by the description.
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vurt




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PostPosted: Tue, 16th Apr 2024 22:50    Post subject:
...so they totally removed that really cool stop motion effect, or that part was faked perhaps, it looked a bit too good to be true (it's why i thought it looked "filmed" in my comment from 2017).
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FireMaster




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PostPosted: Wed, 17th Apr 2024 00:24    Post subject:
I did wonder why they didn't skip frames in animation for a stop motion effect. Maybe they thought today's kids may not get it or find it jarring
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