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Tornado Chasing Game
2 years ago
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I uploaded a journal about this the other day before coming to my senses and deleting it. But, since I love futility, would eat it with a fork if I could, I'm putting it back.
Anyway, Steam's got this early access game on sale right now called Tornado: Research and Rescue. It's basically a love letter to Twister as the main idea behind the game is to try and deploy a probe into the path of a tornado and collect wind samples which can be sold for cash to improve your equipment. The game is very rough around the edges, as it's a single dev doing a passion project, and I can't say the graphics are great or even good but what the game gets right in spades in the intensity of the close encounters with the twisters themselves, imparting a real sense of dread on you when you've made a fatal mistake and realize one's bearing down on your position.
But since roughly 73% of my watchers are villiterates (voluntary illiterates), let's just go to the video:
This is probably my best overall video for showing what the game's about at its best.
This is an older clip where I had death settings more lenient so, I'm able to drive like a maniac through the fields without consequence.
The extra clip at the end of this one is to show how amusingly and anticlimactically easy it is to die by hitting a rock or something. Hoping the dev improves on that.
My first death as a direct result of a tornado. The clip afterward shows the tornado after I respawned, and how quickly it grew, which was the primary reason it caught me off guard.
Anyway, Steam's got this early access game on sale right now called Tornado: Research and Rescue. It's basically a love letter to Twister as the main idea behind the game is to try and deploy a probe into the path of a tornado and collect wind samples which can be sold for cash to improve your equipment. The game is very rough around the edges, as it's a single dev doing a passion project, and I can't say the graphics are great or even good but what the game gets right in spades in the intensity of the close encounters with the twisters themselves, imparting a real sense of dread on you when you've made a fatal mistake and realize one's bearing down on your position.
But since roughly 73% of my watchers are villiterates (voluntary illiterates), let's just go to the video:
This is probably my best overall video for showing what the game's about at its best.
This is an older clip where I had death settings more lenient so, I'm able to drive like a maniac through the fields without consequence.
The extra clip at the end of this one is to show how amusingly and anticlimactically easy it is to die by hitting a rock or something. Hoping the dev improves on that.
My first death as a direct result of a tornado. The clip afterward shows the tornado after I respawned, and how quickly it grew, which was the primary reason it caught me off guard.
