And formerly Eubrich the Bedwetter."Īnd there you have it – a smattering of the type of humor and storytelling you'll find on display in DeathSpank. Formerly Eubrich the Bastard of Hillhaven. well, we'll just let him introduce himself: "They call me Eubrich the Retired. In the town of Cluckmuckle, DeathSpank's hero gene is triggered by some missing orphans however, the mayor doesn't want DeathSpank to venture out in search of them without a weapon, so he's sent to talk with. Now, stripped of his prize – and his weapons! – DeathSpank continues his journey anew. So, the game! DeathSpank is a wandering hero, in search of "The Artifact." He finds the fabled item early on in the title, only to have it stolen from him by Lord Von Prong (who, by virtue of his nobility is obviously totally evil!).
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Figure out how to get the ship, and your adventuring goes global. There are different regions (snowy! mountainous!) connected by water. It's an RPG and, as you might expect, it's got an RPG-sized map. So, much like navigating the spherical world's in Super Mario Galaxy, you feel like DeathSpank's planet has a observably limited circumference however, one glance at the world map ought to dash that concern. To compensate for the game's fixed perspective, they've created what appears to be a constantly rolling horizon. If you could, "the whole thing falls apart, " Gilbert laughed.
To prevent completely breaking the game's illusion, the player has "limited camera control." You can zoom in and out, and have some lateral movement, but you can't circle around DeathSpank as he traverses the map. Gilbert says the 2D art "has a certain charm to it" that 3D art "doesn't really have." Not flat, as in boring rather, flat as in light on the Z-axis. While not as flamboyantly 2D as Parappa the Rapper's paper cutouts, the architecture and landscaping of DeathSpank are notably flat. Unlike something like Shadow Complex – a 2D game with 3D graphics – you can perhaps think of DeathSpank as a 3D game with 2D graphics. The video does a good job of illustrating the game's. "We really just melded the whole thing back together." And with that introduction, Gilbert loaded up the DeathSpank demo to show me just what this "weird little game" looked like.Īnd sure enough, it didn't look anything like what I thought it would. "We took a lot of those little stories and just told them all at the same time," Gilbert said.
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Though DeathSpank was developed as an episodic title "for about a year or so" Gilbert told me, there wasn't much wasted effort when development morphed into a full game. "And then once we stopped making it episodic, it was really interesting how the design blossomed at that point." "With DeathSpank, he's such an epic, over-the-top character that as we were working all the stories together for him – it sounds silly – but it was hard to contain him," Gilbert said.
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Initially billed as an episodic series in the vein of the Hothead-developed Penny Arcade Adventures, DeathSpank has outgrown that distribution model. I met Gilbert in a small meeting room in the PAX expo hall – inconveniently located adjacent to the cacophonous Rock Band stage – and he explained the pairing this way: "I really wanted to marry those things because obviously I like adventure games a lot – I really like the way adventure games tell stories I like the way they tell it through dialog, through puzzles – but also I'm a big fan of Diablo and having this kind of action RPG stuff in there, I just wanted to meld those two things together. Just a few scant hours after delivering the keynote address to a very pax'd audience at PAX 2009 (more on that later), legendary game designer Ron Gilbert gave me a tour of his latest creation, DeathSpank, best described as equal parts comic adventure game and Diablo-esque RPG.
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