“Chaos Engine - I’ll be back for some and didn’t wait” - the original position of the developers regarding the remake of the game

Just recently, I already touched the work of a group of developers known at the time called Bitmap Brothers. Touched casually, with apprehension and secret hope. Sometimes hopes are justified. Sometimes miracles happen. Sometimes a person really gets what he wants.

Devolver Digital did not reinvent the wheel and went on the original path. "Originality" in this case can be interpreted in two ways. First, this is following the original canons, and secondly, to see something old in the world of bloody and all-consuming 3D is difficult. The exceptions are those fronts where indie developers fight every day for life and death. In this and in another case, we can say that the developers ... are original.
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How deep in the love of origins are they in their originality? Should I take a spatula and remove several layers of pixelated earth? Is the news hiding another nostalgic "whining" so hotly unloved by many? Shovel - at the usual place. To dig or not you decide.

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The official website of the game is www.thechaosenginegame.com
Wiki-page developer game Devolver Digital
News from video on RPS (Rock Paper Shotgun)
Similar news on Den of Geek

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In order not to waste your time, I will put aside my verbiage and handicraft to the side, focusing on the news itself, if possible avoiding a meeting with a bunch of enthusiastic puppy delights. On the agenda we have Chaos Engine, developed at the time Bitmap Brothers.

In their video interview, the developers calmly and without emotion said that the “new” Chaos Engine is more of an extended version than a full-featured remake. More levels, more features, expansion of the existing controller, team play and saving the spirit of the game. Step in many ways amazing. Not because there is a mainstream every day releasing more and more new games in pixel-art style, making the cries for the revival of the industry a bit wild, and not because it is the return of a cult game (who said that it is cult? Who ever remembers about CA except gray-bearded old men?), but because the developers turned out to be original and ventured to leave unchanged unchanged.



What I mean? In an age of advanced technology, following traditions is more likely to rank a developer as a geek, not as an innovator. Nevertheless, a man in love can be distinguished for a mile, for a lover in love, you truly feel respect, because in his feelings a person often goes into insanity for people who are not sensible. No joke to release the game in 2013 ... unchanged.

Changes, of course, are present. First of all, they note that the new Chaos Engine will have:
• Updated special effects
• Sixteen (16) driving directions as opposed to the classic eight (8)
• A more tactical system of preservation, making the process of the game less hard-core
• The possibility of cooperative passage
• Ability to create levels by players
• Adaptation of pixel graphics in a different style for today's player, with the ability to return the setting to the classics (see video).

Nevertheless, all of the above can be summed up in one fat and soothing quote (and my loose translation thereof):

- "The core of it is built around the Amiga code"
- “The heart of everything is built around the original Amiga code”

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In many ways, we can say that the new Chaos Engine is a good replica of the old one. That he is interesting. If this company succeeds, other representatives of antiquity who wish to shake can enter the market. I do not know about you, but I'm just glad. Perhaps too childish, with a fair amount of nostalgia, and what is called whining on Habré. But…

... no one pulled you by the shovel.

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Note: Versions of the wiki wording may and will not be the same as the wording versions of the author.

Mainstream is one of those words that I began to use in order to seem smarter. In fact, this is just a term - “popular trend”, fashion, or the main and popular trend in something (wiki version) .
Geek - I prefer to think that this is a cute eccentric, one of those who change the world for the better. Well, everything else is also a revolutionary from the heart (wiki version) .
Pixel art. Minimalism in the world of raster. A form of art that grew out of technical restrictions and turned into one of the branches of minimalism (wiki version) .