SPACE PUNKS IGN UPDATE
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“We want to extend the planets, but also we want to add new planets, totally nuts planets,” Kuk says. Part of shaping the game’s future will include adding new locations. We hear it, and we shape the game in a way that the players want it to be.”

So it's really important for us that we get this feedback from players. “We want to start as a live game, and at some point become a living game,” says Kuk. And in time, that will make its way into the game.”īy gradually introducing new modes over early access, Flying Wild Hog will be able to guide Space Punks’ growth and enable it to transition between two different states. “Lots of short-session-type stuff that's super fun and competitive. “We've had some insight into some of the additional modes that the team has been working on and there's so much fun to be had there,” says Simon Bull, executive producer at Jagex. Instead, the pre-v1.0 period will provide a multitude of activities that focus on gameplay. “So we don't want to spoil anything right now with the early access.” As such, the campaign won’t be delivered piecemeal through the early access period. “We want to release the whole package with story, lore, backstory, and everything in one update,” explains Kuk.

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But Flying Wild Hog promises a full story campaign that will put everything into context.

No matter where the camera is.”ĭuring the early access period, missions will drop you head-first into the action, with very little narrative dressing. The sounds, the animations, the particles. “We're just translating this feeling into a top-down view,” he adds. “These three need to be together to have snappy gunplay.” “We referenced our games - Shadow Warrior, Hard Reset - because in them we found this good connection between melee combat, ranged combat, and movement,” explains Michal Kuk, studio head and game director at Flying Wild Hog. That feel derives from the studio’s points of inspiration. A central player hub - Devil’s Gambit - leads to numerous fast and frantic missions that, while being played from isometric perspective, have something of an FPS feel about them. It will launch as an early access game on July 14, exclusively on the Epic Games Store for 12 months.īut while it may be launching in early access, Space Punks arrives with a fair amount of playable components already in place. But much of that will only come in time, as Space Punks is starting small(ish). Space Punks will support both solo and cooperative play, have a story-driven campaign, an endgame with a diverse array of modes, and character development across abilities and gear. In August 2020, Jagex announced that this project with Flying Wild Hog would be the first title signed under this initiative.This is Flying Wild Hog’s first go at making a live service game, and the Polish studio has large ambitions. Jagex is best known as the developer of Runescape, but studio has started a third-party publishing deal under its Jagex Partners division. We otherwise don't have much information on the game yet, but Flying Wild Hog does state on its website: 'Space Punks is designed to be a living, breathing, and ever-changing game world - a true living game built in line with Flying Wild Hog’s creative mission to make action-packed, fast-paced, and wholeheartedly unique titles that transport players into unexpected and exciting new worlds.' The trailer shows four playable characters with apparently varied gameplay styles, all in a top-down twin-stick shooter style of gameplay.

SPACE PUNKS IGN UPDATE

Update (July 2): Jagex has announced that Space Punks will launch in Early Access for PC on July 14, with a full PC release coming in Winter 2021 and a console release in 2022.

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