I was worried myself - I've been keeping a close eye, insofar as one can on an almost completely silent project - the last word was around a year ago, quietly replacing the website with a 'under construction' splash-screen and making a polite statement to IGN (I think) that the game was still in development but had been delayed by the publisher for unknown reasons.

I'd be more desperately glad it's still coming, if I wasn't still so emotionally levelled by that music.

If someone does post this on the frontpage, please include this quote somewhere near the bottom; a response to the video in the youtube comments..

"ive waited for games were kids could die its no big deel there peeple 2 just like adaults

im 13 ur sayn i cant die if i shot myself right now" - videogamelover1997

 

I am with the crowd hoping against all likelihood that the video was developed with significant in-house involvement, indicating a similar attitude possessed by the developers as the director/designers of the video. If we get a cheap, cheesy and buggy linear FPS romp I will be a sad bunny.

Although by all accounts, it will at least be closer to what I want than L4D ever was.

You definitely appear to be part of the minority, Armand.

It remains powerful either way, which dulls any suggestion that it relies upon the reversal gimmick - but I adored it as it was presented. By running it backwards you're drawn into a complex and detailed sequence of events, realising through deduction what 'has' happened and dragged along to find out -how-. In witnessing segments of it piece by piece, drawing connections from the future to the past, it almost feels like a game in itself. In this, it is a far more appropriate advertisment for a game than a straightforward CG chonological sequence would have been.

It also captures perfectly the sense of futility inherent in, and vital to the zombie setting - by showing us that the child is dead from the first moment - then revealing that the father is badly bitten, infected and surrounded while the mother has been born to the ground by a gang of zombies, we know from the start that this is not a story about a hero - but simply the way a family died, terrified, together.

Watching it forward we'd have expected heroic victory then been shown failure, and I don't think that would work as well as it did.

It's a work of art, to my eyes - I'm sad you don't get the same enjoyment from it I do, but interested that there are those who see it differently.

*smiles* maybe oneday I'll get my rear in gear and petition Steerpike for the keys to the frontpage, get things up in a more timely fashion 😉 And what's wrong with my avatar? It's just my face o.o