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Stealth sim Tangiers is back on track thanks to horror short ParatopicA tang in the air
A tang in the air
The whole story is briefly rehashed on the developer’sKickstarter page, with the main issues for the delay including “Health / homelessness / misfortune / trauma / inexperience lock-in spirals out, send project astray and continually hindering recovery. Few false (re)starts, little in the way of meaningful movement.”
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Tangiers Snippet
Tangiers is now an Arbitrary Metric game (Harvey previously worked under the studio name Andalusian), and they’ve been quietly working to completely rebuild it. The literary immersive sim has never been an easy game to summarise: a broken world, wandering cassette-head NPCs, word bubbles as weapons… All that may or may not still be part of the game. But even with the staccato development it always had my attention. And now it has a whole new lease of life, with systems that the developer claims mirror Arkane’s excellentDishonored 2.
“At the heart of things, the Universal Architecture, enabling complex interactions and object behavioural logic akin to what can be seen inDishonored 2. Toolsets and workflows reappraised to empower us and make shipping a game far, far more feasible.”
The current aim is for regular updates on the state of the game, with the next one due in mid-January in the far-flung future of 2021. If that happens, I think I’ll allow myself to get excited again.
