But we found it so engaging and time-consuming of an idea that it quickly swallowed up almost the entire runtime. In our original plan for the teaser, this panning shot was much shorter and was only to be used as the finale to a much more typical indie game trailer. The result is this long panning shot across different areas, with Névoa (the player character) showing up repeatedly, engaging in several different actions that players will take part in as they explore. We thought very hard about the best way to show off that central element. But reading the word isn't really the same as seeing the free-roaming, dynamically-loading map in action. When we did the original Vibe Reveal for Earthblade we made sure to mention the game's 'seamless' world.

We're also planning a livestream on Twitch for Monday- we're taking questions ahead-of-time for that on social media, and it'll be a fun hang out with the team where we answer questions and talk about the trailer with y'all. Please share your thoughts with us on Twitter or Mastodon, on our Discord or in the video comments on YouTube 🙂 we genuinely love reading feedback and reactions to our work. We're nervous and excited to see the reception it gets! We've been talking to Geoff Keighley of the Game Awards about doing a reveal at the event for a while now, and this year the planets aligned for it to finally happen! Thank you Geoff and TGA team for giving us this opportunity to introduce Earthblade to a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't hear about it. What it will feel like (by which I do not mean 'I know it's vibe from watching a cut scene').Happy Earthblade Reveal Trailer day!! (And also Game Awards day, for those who celebrate) If you haven't seen it yet, watch the trailer before you read this newsletter! The entire team is SO excited to share it and so proud of what we've made. But even that's just a nod and move on.Īt the end of a trailer I want to know what your game is. Best it gets is a note of whether it's thematically interesting.

I don't think I've ever seen a trailer of this ilk that has actually got me excited. And if it's not there all you've done is wasted my time. So I'm skipping through the filler to see your game. I'm completely over 'gameplay' trailers or sequences framed in such strange ways you struggle to tell it apart from in engine cinematics. I've no patience in more than a few seconds of cinematics.

I was left with an impression of something I was excited about and might actually want to play (even if I probably won't because of the combat element and the difficulty of Celeste).Įven the shortest trailers for most games get skimmed through for me. Even without being a single uncut gameplay sequence this showed souch more what the actual game is than most trailers. Lovely pan through a level/world (whether it's one of many, a stitch of many or whatever) showing glimpses of gameplay. I thought this was by far one of the best trailers in the show. I'm already dreading how hard it's inevitably going to be 🥲

I think that trailer is a bit underwhelming, really, but I've got a lot of faith that this will be great if Celeste is anything to go by.

Earthblade trailer