Runaway: Dream of the Turtle, a cel-shaded French adventure game that is part of a big hit series in Europe (adventure game? hit? Wow.) is being ported to the DS by French developer Cyanide. In order to get the game onto the DS in an unedited format, they've managed to compress down all the art to a DS-capable size. But rather than shrinking everything down to fit on two 256x192 screens, they decided to keep it larger, allowing players to view the game in a more shrunken-down display, and zoom in to more detailed visuals at any point.
The video contains some information on the difficulty involved in porting a PC game requiring half a gig of RAM to the DS. It also shows off some of the DS footage, which really doesn't look bad, especially for a fully 3D game like this. But to be honest, we're happy to have a little bit of compression obscuring our view of that character art.
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10-16-2007 @ 9:25PM
leangus said...
Just to precise, this is not a french game but a spanish one, but yeah it's in europe who cares;-)
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10-16-2007 @ 10:48PM
Marcelo said...
This is the style of game I like. Do you remember monkey island? That was a game!! hehe
Marcelo
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10-16-2007 @ 10:49PM
JC Fletcher said...
Sorry leangus, the French video and French porting team totally threw me. I couldn't actually find any information about where the original game was produced (during my very quick research).
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10-17-2007 @ 2:42AM
jesus_bon_jovi said...
Sacrebleu!
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10-17-2007 @ 7:07AM
Ben said...
Having played the first one on my PC, it will be great to have the second one in my pocket !
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10-18-2007 @ 12:20AM
Foodie_Monster said...
Point & Click adventure games are always FTFW. I hope this one gets an English release (or at least Spanish one)
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10-18-2007 @ 9:20AM
phanboy_iv said...
Looks very broken-swordy.
I'll buy it if it isn't done poorly.
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