Also the premise, for Splat and others wondering. They are research mission, and the planet they're on is peculiar: it has everything perfect for life - enough sun, oceans of water, breathable atmosphere. They come expecting a paradise world. But as they come, surface is as dead as barren moon. And then this story happens.
I'm so ready for this. The fact that there's no decent Pirx game is disgrace. Also, the planet from "Report from a reservation" would be an amazing exploration/survival game.
I read a book by Stanisław Lem that this is based on at least three times - and it's one of the best hard sci-fi survival horrors. And you correctly guessed the 60's vibe - the book was written in 1963.
Lem's Invincible was published in 1964. A very good story, with some deep, almost philosophical meaning behind, if you want to see, and none of that goofy alien lazer show you'd see in pop culture back then. Could make a good movie, too, really weird that in half a century it was even attempted just once and never done. Been one of my childhood books somehow, so i likely have unrealistically high expectations for this game.
It has a comic book adaptation as well, though in native Polish. I find the story and concepts mildly interesting, but dated with the standard "slow reveal" being, by today's standards, lacking in 'punch'.
@@walterroche8192 If punch is what you want, if you haven't, check Star Diaries or Cyberiad, also from Lem. There's something to think about in them also, but they also work as pure comedy.
@@BuranStrannikLem's was some of the earliest scifi I read as a little kid. He really did spin exciting stories even without war or combat. And made the latter seem silly when he did.
They shouldn't have been so obvious with the name at least. They basically stole the name, the premise, the plot, and the style, and to those who read a book it's quite obvious what happened there in the game.
I like the 60's hard sci fi look. The robot, the vector graphics detector, the tents. The tents look like a temp camp, the sort they set up when they're going to stay at a site and decide if they want to raise a permanent structure.
This game makes me feel like I escaped Fallout Earth before the big war and I'm now on a research mission, maybe not knowing there's almost nothing to go home to. Two thumbs up!
This is what it was meant to feel like. The novel this game is based on was written during the bleak and gloomy era of the communist occupation of Poland, behind the Iron Curtain and under the constant danger of a nuclear war.
The overall feel reminds me, pleasantly, of The Dig combined with the otherworldly and loneliness aesthetic of Planet Crafter. This game absolutely intrigues me! It's a shame the hardware requirements are so stout, or I'd be purchasing it right at release. Perhaps it will undergo some optimization in the future.
I think the hardware req issue is a side-effect of how far computer tech has come.. now, programmer's barely even need to worry about memory or performance to anywhere _near_ what devs used to have to do. Kinda annoying, but there are worse problems to have, I suppose 🤷♂
@@idontwantahandlethough I really feel like there might be something to it. I feel like games nowadays often don't really look much better than what we had a couple of years ago, yet the requirements keep on climbing.
I get your "Laser to the forehead" fear. Ever since seeing Ghost Ship I have a deep seated fear of metal Wires under intense stress cutting me in half. Guitar strings snapping make me want to curl up in a ball..
Both that and the RE part he mentioned were disturbing to me when I was younger. I hadn't watched a lot of horror or gore movies, so getting straight into that was gross.
Having read the book I can more or less see what happened there in the demo mission, but devs gave us a different protagonist and it feels the same, but looks novel enough - as if we are one of the other Invincible crewmembers doing the survey and research in parallel. P.S.: Splat is right - the air is breathable, if only for a limited time. That's why survivors might have their helmets off or rebreathers detached.
@@stupich5868 Yes and no. This is a different person supposedly from the same crew. Which is fine by me. Hope we'll get to meet book characters as well.
@@SergMuller Im not so sure about same ship - based on the description at the beginning of that demo you aren't from Invincible, which was a military cruiser if I remember correctly, but from a research ship called Dragonfly... In the book the Invincible was doing sort of a search&rescue operation on the planet where another ship disappeared, buuut... Quick google search tells me it was Condor, not Dragonfly. Dunno, maybe they switched the name, maybe they diverged further from the source material or maybe the Dragonfly is suppose to be a smaller shuttle craft from Invincible? If I remember correctly it was a pretty big spaceship in the book, capable of fielding quite an army.
@@notyetidentified9720 perhaps military search and recuse will come later in the game and increase the tension and danger somehow (I never read the book so I’m just spitballing)
I'll be honest for me I haven't found an exploration game that has excited me since I played subnautica. Even though it was short, that game covered all the basis, storyline, graphics, exploration, engineering. There were areas that were beautiful and amazing to explore and then there were areas that was dark creepy and scary. At times I found my heart beating fast as I traveled with my mini sub in huge underwater caverns.
This _screamed_ Stanislav Lem to me right from the quote on the title screen. Same with the old school sci fi aesthetics, the slavic names, and sure enough, a lil googling showed me a story by the old man that I either forgot or never read. Guess its name. Lem is one of the Great Old Ones, right along and surpassing Verne, Heinlein, Lovecraft. If there are guest appearances in this title, they will be called Klapaucius and Trurl.
I was quite surprised to find this suggested to me by RUclips, and my mind immediately jumped to the book too. I read it in high school as part of a book exchange program(... and forgot to hand it back, which I feel a little guilty for because I'm probably never going to meet that person again), though in German, but seeing that thumbnail and the title... couldn't have been much else. Speaks to the impression that book left when I just read it once, but remember specific details from it well enough to instantly recognize something based off it many years later.
Or a semi-competent Pilot named Pirx, but only if the ending is grim and brutal because *someone* did something stupid. Pirx, destroyer of worlds (because he forgot he was supposed to radio command). You really should read The Invincible.
I like the first person view, with the mic and borders of the helmet, but giving the player a bit more peripheral vision would not reduce immersion, au contraire.
Loving the aesthetics and mood, very early-Soviet sci-fi film feeling. Makes me think of Solaris (1972). Also the title makes me think of the novel by Stanislaw Lem, which has the common element of stupefied crew members scattered about following a big event. Very cool, will definitely be wish listing. Thanks for the preview!
I love thematic games such as this. The atmosphere seems wonderful and it's moments like this I wish I retained full hearing just so I could have all that auditory context too.I think I will have to try and support this game.
I'm not going to yell at you Splattercat, I still fondly remember your let's play of FireWatch. Which is why I still follow your channel, and pop in from time to time so see what you are up to.
I was and am quite curious when it comes to this game. 'The Invincible' from 1964 by polish author Stanislav Lem, although not many people not growing up in the Eastern Bloc knowing it, is one of the huge classics of eastern european sci-fi or 'phantastic literature', as it was called in our climes. It is one of the books that introduced me to this genre and which turned me into the massive sci-fi nerd I am today. So far the demo does not really tell if the game's story lives up to the story told by the book, which is not only quite grim, but was also faaar ahead of anything written with this topic by western authors (won't give any spoilers, but seriously, the first western sci-fi novels with this theme that come to mind were written in, I don't know, the 1990's) - but the 60s eastern sci-fi movie aesthtetics look great indeed. I am under the impression, though, that the devs seem to take the book merely as an inspiration, without being too close to its story. So far, I have seen nothing that actually reminds me of the story of the book, including the characters.
@@justvid366 I think Lem is different, in that he covered different themes. Ones that the west wouldn't really touch till much later. Plus, most of his books have a melancholy vibe that, while not unique - is very distinct. It's more a wonder at the futile struggle against an uncaring, incomprehensible, universe; than a race to the stars. His characters deal with cold tedium of bureaucracy and space work. If you ever seen a run down spaceship, hauling cargo, bump into an existential terror - that's a Lem influence. His spacers are working class, not naval heroes. Not all books though, sometimes it's about wordplay and world building. He really is underrated.
PS. I suspect that it's going to be a similar relation to Stalker (game) - Stalker (Tarkovski movie) - A Roadside Picnic (short story) I'm kind of okay with that
@@justvid366 Yes, what about them? It is interesting that you think I would try to 'diminish' anyone - this wilful assumption says more about you than about me really. All I did was to praise Lem for writing about a topic as early as in 1964 that was not a thing in any western novels I know about and which, and I have no problems with being corrected, western authors and even scientists (around the world) truly had on the radar _much_ later. SPOILER AHEAD The topics of 'The Invincible' are machinary evolution, about how it actually might follow principles that are also true for biological life and how it might influence said biological life and _its_ evolution. Also, what Lem describes as outcome of this machinary evolution is actually swarm intelligence, something that even scientist have discovered as an actual field of research and speculation in the last two, three at best, decades. Please feel free to name any western sci-fi author who writes about this, even more so at this depths and with coming to conclusions that scientists deem possible _now,_ as soon as 1964. Feel free to elaborate why I should not be allowed to 'particularly praise' an author. I praise Shakespeare, for instance, for his incredible use of the english language, uuuh, how can I? And please feel also free to enlighten me how praising an author for showing an exceptional degree of foresight equals 'diminishing the western sci-fi mastodons'. I hold authors like Clarke and Asimov in highest regard, I love their work dearly and I appreciate them for, waaait for it... _their_ foresight as well. Asimov's ideas about social engineering, about using mathemathics in order to predict human behaviour and the course of societies and about finding regularity in the perpetual raise and fall of civilisations in his 'Foundation' cycle are groundbreaking and visionary - now would you say I try to drag other authors down by saying that? It is actually quite interesting, of all the ways you could have interpreted my comment, you decided to take the route of reading the least favourable and most infamous intention into it.
Not too sure Invincible isn't well known outside the East -- Stanislav Lem is a Giant of Giants in classical sci-fi. The term "fantastic" is not specific to the East, by the way. It was used internationally as a response to criticism that scifi and horror were grouped together with sword & sorcery and adventure novels as "fantasy" in the 70s. It faded from use in the late 90s. Already in the 70s Lem was the most read sci-fi author in the world. Over 50 languages, dozens of millions of sales -- dozens of adaptations for radio, theater, tv and cinema. The Invincible is right up there with millions of copies sold.
I glad that they decided to stick with technology, how it was described in the book, especially considering the year it was written. What I like even more, they seems to build story exactly how it was built in the book (just with different characters). Original was very slow burn, with the question of WTF happened here being central for quite some time. And since Lem was writing significantly closer to scientific fiction than more popular sci-fy - in the end, there are still question, but mystery is partially solved (no magic/occult bullshit). I hope in this game it will happen too.
I was the type to mess with TVs and VCRs back in the '80s because I watched MacGyer and so I also jerry-rigged things. Needless to say, I got shocked once or twice by the tube in the TV even though the power cord was disconnected. You learn by doing and by failing.
"Every now and again, I get foggy vision. It's like... Somebody breathed on my visor or something..." Like maybe the person in the helmet who's walking/running, jumping and climbing in desert heat? "I don't seem to have a headlamp, or tactical flashlight, or anything." Like the one that was right beside the metal detector you left in the camp! Oh wait, probably not important.
Dick Brown of Epson decided techs could replace CRTs under warranty. When I brought up the fact that a lethal discharge could happen and it wasn't worth the risk to me he said "you'll just get zapped across the room." I don't think I worked on Epson CRT monitors after that.
This isn't my type of game. Feels slow and uninteresting over all, but I thank you for covering it and I can appreciate your excitement about it's full release. Good job as usual.
This game looks interesting, well presented with a story. Those Seegson robots are creepy and are eventually deadly, best leave the AI things switched off.
Im really waiting for this one, mostly because its based on a sci-fi novel by Stanislaw Lem, The Invincible, ant it's actually one of my favourite books. It was written in... Uh, 60s I think, so that's why they went with a retro-futuristic aesthetic. Curious how they adapted it, based on the character's origin it seems they might have diverged from the novel - nothing wrong about it, just interested in what they did with the source material.
Stanislaw Lem got the Dr. h.c. from my university when i was studying there in 2003. Just read "The Invincible" a few weeks ago. Looking forward to this.
I see that there is a market for games based on Polish authors. First Witcher by Sapkowski, here is The Invincible by Lem, I'm telling you next will be... Pan Tadeusz.
so splat what studio is one where you see its name on a game you are instantly worried? for me its Team 17 they have some interesting game concepts however it feels they often also often just drop a 1.0 patch and abandon the game in what feels an unfinished state (the two biggest ones are genisis alpha one and the other is hammerting)
Liked the retro scifi of mid-century Americana films. It's like magic based games the need for higher artistic values are almost requirement. I did find it constraining that linear actions of the storyline when it came to objects. I should have been able to pickup the radio relays, metal detector and all the other things the moment I noticed them. The program should have compensated that you now had them in hand continue the story with them. Since, it is a demo I'll forgive it. I have added to my wishlist with a release date of 2023. Ty for showing us the game.
21:33 this is amazing. it been soooooooooooooo long since i saw something that is hand crafted and it actually look like concept depiction of an environment. As much as people think a lot of new games look good. most of them maybe even all. use some sort of procedural generation tool. what make the environment look so generic and uninteresting.
You know how everyone wants to pet the cat or dog in games, for good reason? That's me and retro robots like ARTi, I just want to be their friend and it's sad that I have no doubt they'll start attacking you real soon.
Yes, but 'lamp' and 'can supply light when you are out in the alien environment' aren't necessarily the same thing, and based on the design of that lamp in the storage container, it wouldn't be of much use for the latter.
This game will be amazing. I can already see it. I mean even if they just repeat the first 30mins you played over and over itll be good. But man im a sucker for a good wtf is going on story.
My old tube tv almost killed me when I was 15. Touch a capacitor w back of hand and I've never felt a pain like that since. Scared the hell out of me..
Yeah... about the CRT's, we learned that in electronics in high school. To drive home how hazardous capacitors were, our teachers even went so far as to get a huge one (not as big as a CRT capacitor) and intentionally powered it on with the polarities reversed. It sounded like someone let off an M80. For as stupid as my class could be (like passing a 30 volt battery around, and licking one finger to press against one of the polarity posts, and the putting their tongues against the other end because it was funny that it hurt, or, melting an entire spool of solder into a ball, and then chewing that lead based ball of solder like bubble gum...) at least they weren't THAT far gone. Although, admittedly, we were pretty dumb in some less lethal ways, like the time I volunteered for them to crack open an 8 track cassette so we could figure out how much tape those bastards have which was... enough to totally mummy wrap me and still wrap around the electronics lab 2 or 3 times. No, I was not stoned or drunk, just bored; yes, most of the rest of the class was at least drunk and possibly stoned too; yes that was common for them; as a result, we both learned a lot about electronics that are no longer relevant except to antiques dealers, and didn't learn a thing because of the constant intoxication factor they kept in.... we did learn the most important thing !For Science! applies to non-sexual stuff too. Like the time that a local softball team gave us their ball launcher to try and fix... my Air Force recruiter was in the class helping me do the paperwork... I heard my classmates plotting as the ball launcher was running after the repair to test to make sure it was good to go.... the next moment an anonymous shoe went zipping by my recruiter's head from the ball launcher (unintentional; my classmates just suck that much at aiming cannon like devices) and a cloud of chalk exploded from the chalkboard at the front of the class... or the time that the largest and tallest in our class (around 6'5" or a bit under 2 meters for you guys in ... the rest of the world) was too drunk for his own good, and, we'd all decided to play hide from the senile electronics teacher... and no one could find him; the teacher left again to notify the principle that we'd "skipped class", we were going to go back to our seats and get back to work, when all of a sudden we heard a meek whimper of "Help me", and... after much effort, realized that he was flexible enough to curl up and fold his body into a very small corner at the back of a bolted down lab desk... but was too fragging big to get himself out of that predicament... it was like watching a tiger that still looked like a tiger in body, but had the eyes of a helpless kitten that was stuck in a tree. As a result, for that year and that year alone, electronics was graded on a Bell Curve... At any rate, this game looks pretty interesting. I hope it capitalizes on open world exploration. Sure, Open World is a bit overdone in a lot of ways, but, I think that this game would be a perfect fit. Especially since the only other first person "open world xenoplanet exploration" game was developed by a douchebag of a developer called Fenix Fyre Games, and is titled Osiris: New Dawn.
Also the premise, for Splat and others wondering.
They are research mission, and the planet they're on is peculiar: it has everything perfect for life - enough sun, oceans of water, breathable atmosphere. They come expecting a paradise world. But as they come, surface is as dead as barren moon. And then this story happens.
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Sounds interesting AF
It looks and sounds awesome. I hope it turns out good.
Based on Invincible by Stanisław Lem. I feel this game is going to be special.
I'm so ready for this. The fact that there's no decent Pirx game is disgrace. Also, the planet from "Report from a reservation" would be an amazing exploration/survival game.
@@lucidnonsense942 Pirx.
Came to reference the book. It is an excellent read, highly recommended.
@@SierraSierraFoxtrot HA! Autocowreck got me!
That name sounds Polish. The Witcher has taught me that Poland has the best stories, so yes, I'm inclined to agree with you!
Completely agree about motion blur, I immediately turn it off in any game I play (I don't even wait to notice it, I hunt it down in the opening menu).
Depth of field goes down for me also.
I read a book by Stanisław Lem that this is based on at least three times - and it's one of the best hard sci-fi survival horrors. And you correctly guessed the 60's vibe - the book was written in 1963.
How scary is the horror? Will my panzy ass be scared bad?
Lem's Invincible was published in 1964. A very good story, with some deep, almost philosophical meaning behind, if you want to see, and none of that goofy alien lazer show you'd see in pop culture back then. Could make a good movie, too, really weird that in half a century it was even attempted just once and never done.
Been one of my childhood books somehow, so i likely have unrealistically high expectations for this game.
It has a comic book adaptation as well, though in native Polish.
I find the story and concepts mildly interesting, but dated with the standard "slow reveal" being, by today's standards, lacking in 'punch'.
@@walterroche8192 Lem is not about "punches" after all. There are things to think about, not just mindlessly consume and forget.
@@walterroche8192 If punch is what you want, if you haven't, check Star Diaries or Cyberiad, also from Lem. There's something to think about in them also, but they also work as pure comedy.
@@BuranStrannikLem's was some of the earliest scifi I read as a little kid. He really did spin exciting stories even without war or combat. And made the latter seem silly when he did.
They shouldn't have been so obvious with the name at least.
They basically stole the name, the premise, the plot, and the style, and to those who read a book it's quite obvious what happened there in the game.
I love that nothing has happened and no music (and splatts goofy talking) but it feels so creepy.
i love splattercats pauses in speech as he lets the npc's talk
I like the 60's hard sci fi look. The robot, the vector graphics detector, the tents.
The tents look like a temp camp, the sort they set up when they're going to stay at a site and decide if they want to raise a permanent structure.
This game looks great. Its got style and mystery. If I could play this in VR that would be even better!
You read my mind
it's a bad sign when the only sane person has amnesia, the problem with the others is probably that they remember
I absolutely love when studios commit to a style and land it. Looks amazing.
This game makes me feel like I escaped Fallout Earth before the big war and I'm now on a research mission, maybe not knowing there's almost nothing to go home to. Two thumbs up!
This is what it was meant to feel like. The novel this game is based on was written during the bleak and gloomy era of the communist occupation of Poland, behind the Iron Curtain and under the constant danger of a nuclear war.
The overall feel reminds me, pleasantly, of The Dig combined with the otherworldly and loneliness aesthetic of Planet Crafter. This game absolutely intrigues me!
It's a shame the hardware requirements are so stout, or I'd be purchasing it right at release. Perhaps it will undergo some optimization in the future.
Spot on with the Dig!! have been hoping for the last 20 years Lucas art to make a movie
I think the hardware req issue is a side-effect of how far computer tech has come.. now, programmer's barely even need to worry about memory or performance to anywhere _near_ what devs used to have to do. Kinda annoying, but there are worse problems to have, I suppose 🤷♂
Jeah, I got an eye too when I saw the HW requirements.. but well.. you can't render stunning 4K Graphics on 6502 ..
@@idontwantahandlethough I really feel like there might be something to it. I feel like games nowadays often don't really look much better than what we had a couple of years ago, yet the requirements keep on climbing.
This reminds me that I should really play The Dig. It has been on my pile of shame for nearly 3 decades (the box is on my shelves).
Oh my god I've had this on my wishlist for like.... a year.. also super early for splatty video 🥳
Same. I'm jelly as well lol
I get your "Laser to the forehead" fear. Ever since seeing Ghost Ship I have a deep seated fear of metal Wires under intense stress cutting me in half. Guitar strings snapping make me want to curl up in a ball..
Both that and the RE part he mentioned were disturbing to me when I was younger. I hadn't watched a lot of horror or gore movies, so getting straight into that was gross.
My greatest fear was small robots that look cute, thanks to Gundam...
Having read the book I can more or less see what happened there in the demo mission, but devs gave us a different protagonist and it feels the same, but looks novel enough - as if we are one of the other Invincible crewmembers doing the survey and research in parallel.
P.S.: Splat is right - the air is breathable, if only for a limited time. That's why survivors might have their helmets off or rebreathers detached.
@@stupich5868 Yes and no. This is a different person supposedly from the same crew. Which is fine by me. Hope we'll get to meet book characters as well.
@@SergMuller Im not so sure about same ship - based on the description at the beginning of that demo you aren't from Invincible, which was a military cruiser if I remember correctly, but from a research ship called Dragonfly... In the book the Invincible was doing sort of a search&rescue operation on the planet where another ship disappeared, buuut... Quick google search tells me it was Condor, not Dragonfly. Dunno, maybe they switched the name, maybe they diverged further from the source material or maybe the Dragonfly is suppose to be a smaller shuttle craft from Invincible? If I remember correctly it was a pretty big spaceship in the book, capable of fielding quite an army.
@@notyetidentified9720 perhaps military search and recuse will come later in the game and increase the tension and danger somehow (I never read the book so I’m just spitballing)
A movie in this style would be crazy, just a single-shot first-person experience like this.
you mean like the blair witch project lol
@@raidermaxx2324 Except good.
I'll be honest for me I haven't found an exploration game that has excited me since I played subnautica. Even though it was short, that game covered all the basis, storyline, graphics, exploration, engineering. There were areas that were beautiful and amazing to explore and then there were areas that was dark creepy and scary. At times I found my heart beating fast as I traveled with my mini sub in huge underwater caverns.
This _screamed_ Stanislav Lem to me right from the quote on the title screen. Same with the old school sci fi aesthetics, the slavic names, and sure enough, a lil googling showed me a story by the old man that I either forgot or never read. Guess its name.
Lem is one of the Great Old Ones, right along and surpassing Verne, Heinlein, Lovecraft. If there are guest appearances in this title, they will be called Klapaucius and Trurl.
I was quite surprised to find this suggested to me by RUclips, and my mind immediately jumped to the book too. I read it in high school as part of a book exchange program(... and forgot to hand it back, which I feel a little guilty for because I'm probably never going to meet that person again), though in German, but seeing that thumbnail and the title... couldn't have been much else.
Speaks to the impression that book left when I just read it once, but remember specific details from it well enough to instantly recognize something based off it many years later.
Or a semi-competent Pilot named Pirx, but only if the ending is grim and brutal because *someone* did something stupid. Pirx, destroyer of worlds (because he forgot he was supposed to radio command).
You really should read The Invincible.
I like the first person view, with the mic and borders of the helmet, but giving the player a bit more peripheral vision would not reduce immersion, au contraire.
Seen a trailer for this one, love the art style of the game 50's sci-fi never gets old. Looking forward to it. Awesome vid, as usual, pal!
Ya man, retro art is just superior, never gets old.
Loving the aesthetics and mood, very early-Soviet sci-fi film feeling. Makes me think of Solaris (1972). Also the title makes me think of the novel by Stanislaw Lem, which has the common element of stupefied crew members scattered about following a big event. Very cool, will definitely be wish listing. Thanks for the preview!
It is based on Stanislaw Lem's "Niezwyciężony" which translates to "The Invincible".
Strong Stanisław Lem vibes. Can't wait for the Soviet industrial spaceship.
I was expecting something like The Outer Worlds...
I love thematic games such as this. The atmosphere seems wonderful and it's moments like this I wish I retained full hearing just so I could have all that auditory context too.I think I will have to try and support this game.
Dollars to donuts, that's pork flavored tooth paste.
I’ve always loved the retro sci fi aesthetic, been looking forward to this release for years!
I'm not going to yell at you Splattercat, I still fondly remember your let's play of FireWatch. Which is why I still follow your channel, and pop in from time to time so see what you are up to.
I was and am quite curious when it comes to this game. 'The Invincible' from 1964 by polish author Stanislav Lem, although not many people not growing up in the Eastern Bloc knowing it, is one of the huge classics of eastern european sci-fi or 'phantastic literature', as it was called in our climes. It is one of the books that introduced me to this genre and which turned me into the massive sci-fi nerd I am today. So far the demo does not really tell if the game's story lives up to the story told by the book, which is not only quite grim, but was also faaar ahead of anything written with this topic by western authors (won't give any spoilers, but seriously, the first western sci-fi novels with this theme that come to mind were written in, I don't know, the 1990's) - but the 60s eastern sci-fi movie aesthtetics look great indeed.
I am under the impression, though, that the devs seem to take the book merely as an inspiration, without being too close to its story. So far, I have seen nothing that actually reminds me of the story of the book, including the characters.
@@justvid366 Lem is way more down to earth :)
@@justvid366 I think Lem is different, in that he covered different themes. Ones that the west wouldn't really touch till much later. Plus, most of his books have a melancholy vibe that, while not unique - is very distinct. It's more a wonder at the futile struggle against an uncaring, incomprehensible, universe; than a race to the stars.
His characters deal with cold tedium of bureaucracy and space work. If you ever seen a run down spaceship, hauling cargo, bump into an existential terror - that's a Lem influence. His spacers are working class, not naval heroes.
Not all books though, sometimes it's about wordplay and world building. He really is underrated.
PS. I suspect that it's going to be a similar relation to Stalker (game) - Stalker (Tarkovski movie) - A Roadside Picnic (short story)
I'm kind of okay with that
@@justvid366 Yes, what about them? It is interesting that you think I would try to 'diminish' anyone - this wilful assumption says more about you than about me really.
All I did was to praise Lem for writing about a topic as early as in 1964 that was not a thing in any western novels I know about and which, and I have no problems with being corrected, western authors and even scientists (around the world) truly had on the radar _much_ later.
SPOILER AHEAD
The topics of 'The Invincible' are machinary evolution, about how it actually might follow principles that are also true for biological life and how it might influence said biological life and _its_ evolution. Also, what Lem describes as outcome of this machinary evolution is actually swarm intelligence, something that even scientist have discovered as an actual field of research and speculation in the last two, three at best, decades.
Please feel free to name any western sci-fi author who writes about this, even more so at this depths and with coming to conclusions that scientists deem possible _now,_ as soon as 1964.
Feel free to elaborate why I should not be allowed to 'particularly praise' an author. I praise Shakespeare, for instance, for his incredible use of the english language, uuuh, how can I?
And please feel also free to enlighten me how praising an author for showing an exceptional degree of foresight equals 'diminishing the western sci-fi mastodons'.
I hold authors like Clarke and Asimov in highest regard, I love their work dearly and I appreciate them for, waaait for it... _their_ foresight as well. Asimov's ideas about social engineering, about using mathemathics in order to predict human behaviour and the course of societies and about finding regularity in the perpetual raise and fall of civilisations in his 'Foundation' cycle are groundbreaking and visionary - now would you say I try to drag other authors down by saying that?
It is actually quite interesting, of all the ways you could have interpreted my comment, you decided to take the route of reading the least favourable and most infamous intention into it.
Not too sure Invincible isn't well known outside the East -- Stanislav Lem is a Giant of Giants in classical sci-fi. The term "fantastic" is not specific to the East, by the way. It was used internationally as a response to criticism that scifi and horror were grouped together with sword & sorcery and adventure novels as "fantasy" in the 70s. It faded from use in the late 90s. Already in the 70s Lem was the most read sci-fi author in the world. Over 50 languages, dozens of millions of sales -- dozens of adaptations for radio, theater, tv and cinema. The Invincible is right up there with millions of copies sold.
if i hear a man making zoo noises, i'd just assume he is Jim Carrey
Splattercat with the unexpected Geology lesson. Nice.
this was set before Star Wars... Arti A-1.... all the way to... Arti D-2
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Stanisław Lem and Andrzej Sapkowski are my favorite Polish writers. Their books are truly iconic and timeless.
It's definitely one to watch. I got that aww, it finished already feeling that's the sign of the best demo's.
I glad that they decided to stick with technology, how it was described in the book, especially considering the year it was written. What I like even more, they seems to build story exactly how it was built in the book (just with different characters). Original was very slow burn, with the question of WTF happened here being central for quite some time. And since Lem was writing significantly closer to scientific fiction than more popular sci-fy - in the end, there are still question, but mystery is partially solved (no magic/occult bullshit). I hope in this game it will happen too.
I was the type to mess with TVs and VCRs back in the '80s because I watched MacGyer and so I also jerry-rigged things. Needless to say, I got shocked once or twice by the tube in the TV even though the power cord was disconnected. You learn by doing and by failing.
I watched some lady do that once, it flung her across the room and almost killed her. 28 inch arcades were no joke.
finally a cinematic adventure game. Like finally from walking simulator to interactive film experience gameplay.
"Every now and again, I get foggy vision. It's like... Somebody breathed on my visor or something..."
Like maybe the person in the helmet who's walking/running, jumping and climbing in desert heat?
"I don't seem to have a headlamp, or tactical flashlight, or anything."
Like the one that was right beside the metal detector you left in the camp! Oh wait, probably not important.
I remember the trailer for this one and loved the premise and artstyle. It looks promising.
Dick Brown of Epson decided techs could replace CRTs under warranty. When I brought up the fact that a lethal discharge could happen and it wasn't worth the risk to me he said "you'll just get zapped across the room." I don't think I worked on Epson CRT monitors after that.
We used to repair CRTs all the time. You just have to know what you are doing. No different than TV techs back in the day.
Had my eye on this for a while. Looks so good! Thanks for the preview ❤
The story has ME hooked!
ALSO the landscape TOTALLY ROCKS!!!
atompunk genre, this is getting popular
I'm realy excited for this game.
This isn't my type of game. Feels slow and uninteresting over all, but I thank you for covering it and I can appreciate your excitement about it's full release. Good job as usual.
This game looks interesting, well presented with a story.
Those Seegson robots are creepy and are eventually deadly, best leave the AI things switched off.
Wishlisted. This looks and sounds incredible!
Im really waiting for this one, mostly because its based on a sci-fi novel by Stanislaw Lem, The Invincible, ant it's actually one of my favourite books. It was written in... Uh, 60s I think, so that's why they went with a retro-futuristic aesthetic. Curious how they adapted it, based on the character's origin it seems they might have diverged from the novel - nothing wrong about it, just interested in what they did with the source material.
Stanislaw Lem got the Dr. h.c. from my university when i was studying there in 2003. Just read "The Invincible" a few weeks ago. Looking forward to this.
17:00 - yes and some of the CRT tubes also contained carcinogens (such as radioactive isotopes).
This looks cool. On a side note, beans + space suit... No wonder people went nuts
One of the narrators sounds like Sargon of Akkad. I'm half expecting him to bust out into a rant about something going on in Europe.
I was looking forward to see this game "in action". Afterall, it is not easy to convert Lem's literature to games. But, well, it looks pretty nice.
this is the most obnoxious box opening animation where the contents of the box stay just out of sight during the entire opening process
Nice little tip, Count all capacitors as deadly until you have personally discharged it in a safe manor. Life tip, not game tip.
i remember adding the game long ago. glad to know it actually good.
deliver us the moon vibes
0:25:15 Dropped cleanly off a cliff's edge, metaphorically! This title looks amazing! #DyingInside
I like the style of this game. Can't wait to see how it develops.
These layers drawings, we had the same test in one of my anthropology classes. I did pretty well, but I missed one
I see that there is a market for games based on Polish authors. First Witcher by Sapkowski, here is The Invincible by Lem, I'm telling you next will be... Pan Tadeusz.
Wow Congrats on getting the early access to this game! Been keeping my eye on this one for years! Can't Wait to dive in soon :D
Yeah, Androbot reminds me of the original Lost in Space robot. 😊
Cuts out right after finding Marit..., nooo!! Continue please. 👍🏻 Looks great.
I’m seriously excited about this one, it’s right up my alley.
Love this so far, the metal detector aesthetics were great, reminded me of old Vectrex graphics.
The game is pretty, but above all, it sounds amazing.
so splat what studio is one where you see its name on a game you are instantly worried?
for me its Team 17 they have some interesting game concepts however it feels they often also often just drop a 1.0 patch and abandon the game in what feels an unfinished state (the two biggest ones are genisis alpha one and the other is hammerting)
I'm loving the science commenting haha
all the little trivia things
Liked the retro scifi of mid-century Americana films. It's like magic based games the need for higher artistic values are almost requirement. I did find it constraining that linear actions of the storyline when it came to objects. I should have been able to pickup the radio relays, metal detector and all the other things the moment I noticed them. The program should have compensated that you now had them in hand continue the story with them. Since, it is a demo I'll forgive it. I have added to my wishlist with a release date of 2023. Ty for showing us the game.
Thanks for showcasing! ^^
we used to tear apart those apart crt tvs to build mini welders and yes very very dangerous.
yeah i also got a bit traumatized by the resident evil laser grid, the effects on that part really had me queasing.
I'm very excited for this game, sitting on my list for years now
Great video as always.
LOL. It's Dr. Raspberries.
Pull my finger Dr Raspberries.
21:33 this is amazing. it been soooooooooooooo long since i saw something that is hand crafted and it actually look like concept depiction of an environment. As much as people think a lot of new games look good. most of them maybe even all. use some sort of procedural generation tool. what make the environment look so generic and uninteresting.
I just realized the maps are large foldable phones, pretty neat.
this is gorgeous!
Interestingly, not the only Krauta that's making squirrely noises this week...
You know how everyone wants to pet the cat or dog in games, for good reason? That's me and retro robots like ARTi, I just want to be their friend and it's sad that I have no doubt they'll start attacking you real soon.
One of my favorite novels from back when. Watching this project with big hopes.
There was a lamp in the box with the metal detector.
The game looks great, stunning visuals and very creepy.
Yes, but 'lamp' and 'can supply light when you are out in the alien environment' aren't necessarily the same thing, and based on the design of that lamp in the storage container, it wouldn't be of much use for the latter.
This game will be amazing. I can already see it. I mean even if they just repeat the first 30mins you played over and over itll be good. But man im a sucker for a good wtf is going on story.
It's so pretty, I really dig this games aesthetic
My old tube tv almost killed me when I was 15. Touch a capacitor w back of hand and I've never felt a pain like that since. Scared the hell out of me..
Invicible reminds me of a Solus project so much
Positronic Brain? Androbot? Old soviet cosmonaut aesthetic? This game is like an old Asimov book from the 60s
The scifi subgenre is called “atompunk”, always with the subtext of cold war red vs blue
That rock formation looks...familiar in an LV-426 kinda way
I love that art style
Yay! A game that isn't 2d or pixel art!
The reason for people losing their minds is rather interesting, and really fucked up.
Yeah... about the CRT's, we learned that in electronics in high school. To drive home how hazardous capacitors were, our teachers even went so far as to get a huge one (not as big as a CRT capacitor) and intentionally powered it on with the polarities reversed. It sounded like someone let off an M80. For as stupid as my class could be (like passing a 30 volt battery around, and licking one finger to press against one of the polarity posts, and the putting their tongues against the other end because it was funny that it hurt, or, melting an entire spool of solder into a ball, and then chewing that lead based ball of solder like bubble gum...) at least they weren't THAT far gone. Although, admittedly, we were pretty dumb in some less lethal ways, like the time I volunteered for them to crack open an 8 track cassette so we could figure out how much tape those bastards have which was... enough to totally mummy wrap me and still wrap around the electronics lab 2 or 3 times. No, I was not stoned or drunk, just bored; yes, most of the rest of the class was at least drunk and possibly stoned too; yes that was common for them; as a result, we both learned a lot about electronics that are no longer relevant except to antiques dealers, and didn't learn a thing because of the constant intoxication factor they kept in.... we did learn the most important thing !For Science! applies to non-sexual stuff too. Like the time that a local softball team gave us their ball launcher to try and fix... my Air Force recruiter was in the class helping me do the paperwork... I heard my classmates plotting as the ball launcher was running after the repair to test to make sure it was good to go.... the next moment an anonymous shoe went zipping by my recruiter's head from the ball launcher (unintentional; my classmates just suck that much at aiming cannon like devices) and a cloud of chalk exploded from the chalkboard at the front of the class... or the time that the largest and tallest in our class (around 6'5" or a bit under 2 meters for you guys in ... the rest of the world) was too drunk for his own good, and, we'd all decided to play hide from the senile electronics teacher... and no one could find him; the teacher left again to notify the principle that we'd "skipped class", we were going to go back to our seats and get back to work, when all of a sudden we heard a meek whimper of "Help me", and... after much effort, realized that he was flexible enough to curl up and fold his body into a very small corner at the back of a bolted down lab desk... but was too fragging big to get himself out of that predicament... it was like watching a tiger that still looked like a tiger in body, but had the eyes of a helpless kitten that was stuck in a tree.
As a result, for that year and that year alone, electronics was graded on a Bell Curve...
At any rate, this game looks pretty interesting. I hope it capitalizes on open world exploration. Sure, Open World is a bit overdone in a lot of ways, but, I think that this game would be a perfect fit. Especially since the only other first person "open world xenoplanet exploration" game was developed by a douchebag of a developer called Fenix Fyre Games, and is titled Osiris: New Dawn.
ThankYouSirSpla77!
Sharp tools with inflatable housing....hmmm.... hopefully they brought lots of spares.
Love the voice acting
11 bit are one of the greatest.
please stream this when it comes out.
Man Yasna got the cake 😅
11:38 Most true thing I've heard in a while