Sombrero - OUT NOW!

UPDATE: Sombrero is now LIVE on Steam, with a 33% off launch special!

Trailer:

Steam Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/472690/

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Hey there! After a first successful playtest last night at the NYC Games Forum, I'm officially announcing Sombrero, a local multiplayer game for (as of now) up to 4 players.

Press mentions:

IndieStatik

GameZone

Here's about 9 minutes of playtest footage from the event. Sound wasn't recorded, so what you're hearing is the stage's theme music in the background.

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And a few screenshots:

There's still some bugs to squash, and a LOT more art to do, but thanks to C2 things are moving along at a pretty quick pace - the work above represents about 2 months of part-time work, though some of the art and the original idea date to about 2 years ago and a stack of Post-It notes with sketches and scribbles on them.

digitalsoapbox2014-01-21 17:21:26

Wow great work.

Ethan

Thank you, kind sir!

This looks very cool!

love the art style and the soundtrack is awesome.

CandyFace

Thanks!

Music is by Nathaniel Chambers of Bubble Pipe Media, who I've worked with on a number of game projects & prototypes and who I couldn't possibly recommend more. He also put a great soundtrack together for an old-school adventure game called Primordia that anyone who likes that kind of game should check out: wadjeteyegames.com/games/primordia

Check out his stuff other at: bubblepipemedia.com

Very impressive. Nice work.

Oh wow, I'll be following this one for sure. You got a nice style going on there. Two thumbs up!

Reminds me a lot of TowerFall.

Looks awesome!

Is this going to XBLA?

Reminds me a lot of TowerFall.

Looks awesome!

Is this going to XBLA?

Thanks!

I haven't tried Towerfall yet - I should play my Ouya more. The video I've seen shows it to be a bit slower-paced than Sombrero, but the basic idea seems similar.

Does Construct 2 run on an XBox360/One? I haven't really looked into that, I've just been concentrating on getting it working on Mac/PC/Linux so far. I know PS4 supposedly supports HTML5-based stuff, but haven't looked into that either. If anyone has an opinion/experience messing with that I'd be curious to hear it.

Chances are I'd look at the Android-based consoles first though. They seem to provide an easier pathway to release, even if I've got to trim a few bells & whistles to get the game running smoothly on them.

This looks amazing, well done :-)

spongehammer

Thanks!

There's a new article on Indiestatik mentioning Sombrero here:

indiestatik.com/2014/01/16/playtest-2

Based on feedback from playtesting, I've revised the playtest level a bit. Some of the oranges and yellows of the stage were giving the players with orange and yellow shirts a bit of an advantage (whoops!), so I've desatured the state tile colors and shifted them a bit away from yellow/orange.

Below is an animated .gif of the evolution of the sage from one of its early incarnations, the stage as it was playtested, and the updated stage, which (after a few more gameplay tweaks and bug fixes elsewhere) will be ready for another playtesting round soon.

<img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14245368/Sombrero/hideaway_evolution_01.gif" border="0" />

If for some reason the image doesn't animate for you, here's a direct link: db.tt/mKJ1AZg5

Questions/comments welcome!

Would you consider releasing this on the Wii U? Could be great fun with friends.

digitalsoapbox this looks awesome. What effect are you using on the waterfalls to make them wavy like that?

Dude! This looks so fun!