GDC 2015: Redux Ark is all about interstellar survival

Hey guys this is Simon sage from I more we are at GDC 2015 with TJ from hyper games and he's showing off redux art has gone TJ it's good how you pretty good you guys have a really nice-looking survival kind of a game here what's going on well the premise of the game is the bays died on earth and as a consequence of the beasts dying the plants died and the plant or animal life that relied on the plants also died so earth is dying but we found a sister planet gemini that has about the same ecosystem so we've gone to this planet to find plants and animals to bring back to earth to revive it problem is when we

Landed we crashed no so there's two things you need to do the main objectives are to find the missing space ship parts and together plants and animals so you run around in this survival mode in a fairly hostile environment trying to find plants and animals to bring back and you have a whole ecosystem want to build so you can bring it back to earth and have a viable ecosystem so you need to gather enough plants that herbivores can live off it and enough herbivores the carnivores can live off it so the whole idea is how well you do is how well you make your

Ecosystem interesting bit of an ecology lesson here too for younger players and fair and we haven't decided one hundred percent yet but that is definitely option so how long have you guys been working on this just on the three months and we're a small team where we've been four and a half five people working on it for three months the graphics look really nice here you guys have a very kind of signature style here they were trying to differentiate ourselves from there's a lot of games out there and there's a lot of games to look fairly similar so we're trying to make

Something different so we've got this water colored kind of low poly look I'm hoping that will appeal to people really yeah I we bumped into any particularly hostile masters yet here well there's usually a t-rex up here so you just saw some t-rex eggs Oh lying about I notice that there were three classes there at the beginning to do they have different abilities like what yes there's a fighter and there's a pathfinder and there's a scientist the soldier is obviously better at fighting the pathfinder there's a little energy bar here you have a spacesuit that uses

Energy you can communicate with your spaceship and it has a lot at night and it also runs a good little mini map if you run out of power which you're doing now you will start losing your minimum and lights and communications by recharging you can go back to the spaceship or you can run a rare or find battery packs lying about and here you see like an ecosystem tree that you this is a simple version of it okay so we should really try and find a plant so you start filling this out and trying to make a viable ecosystem so you you beat the level after you fill up

That wall tree or as many as possible the level is actually you have to pick up all the space ship parts you don't have to pick any plants or anything if you don't want to okay but if you don't then you're going to have less likelihood of making a viable legal system when you go back Sheriff so don't always know there's no order in working when you pick this carnivore this plant or whatever and you can pick as many as you want but if you pick say a hundred wolves and you pick ten rabbits then it's necessary not necessarily going to be viable when you go back to right yeah

So you guys have all been working on this for short time it's already looking great I can you tell us anything at all about when you hope to release this how much it might cost price were not decided on at all release is 2016 maybe late 2016 that kind of depends yeah sure well it's looking fantastic so far TJ thanks a lot and that's a redox park at GDC 2015 you