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Revisiting Ecstatica - the pioneering survival horror that used its fancy ellipsoid graphics tech to fill its world with dongs
There's a well-known phenomena in video games development known as time-to-penis. It's a somewhat tongue-in-cheek measurement of the time players, when given an exciting suite of new customisation tools, will take to create the first inevitable in-game dong. Ecstatica sort of implies it works the other way round too. That developers - when giddy with a new tech toy - can't always help themselves either. But maybe I'm getting a little ahead of myself.
Classic survivor-horrors Ecstatica and Ecstatica II get re-released with upgrades
Originally released in the late 90s, Ecstatica and Ecstatica II are survival-horror games with a unique style not to be missed. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
32-year-old "ellipsoid" horror game Ecstatica gets a PC re-release today, showing us an alternative timeline in which polygonal 3D never became dominant
One of my favourite hobbies is digging up older pieces of gaming tech or software know-how and asking myself: "man, what would the world have been like, if every GPU were made out of Gorgonzola?" Or less silly words to that effect. Nostalgia aside, it's useful to revisit historical alternatives in the face of very rich people who would have us believe that only their trillion-dollar boondoggle is "the" future. The code running 1994 horror game Ecstatica probably isn't going to topple Unreal Engi
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Classic survival-horrors Ecstatica and Ecstatica II get re-released with upgrades
Originally released in the late 90s, Ecstatica and Ecstatica II are survival-horror games with a unique style not to be missed. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.