Driven Out - 2D 16bit beautifully animated side-scroller | Update: Releasing October 18th on PS4, PC and XB1

Klyka · May 1, 2019

Features

Deliberate combat. Read the enemy and act accordingly.

Beautiful 16 bit retro art style with fluid animations.

Seamless world without any in-game load screens.

Checkpoints can be placed anywhere.

Destructible checkpoint, if left unprotected the enemies can choose to attack the checkpoints instead of the player.

Skill based combat. No character progression and no loot.

Homepage: https://www.nopestproductions.com/driven-out
Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054710/Driven_Out/
You can also join the discord for free demo: https://discord.gg/ZzpFcEh

Game is being made jahasaja who can probably give a lot of info and answer questions.
Seems to be a game to keep an eye on!

Dancrane212 · May 1, 2019

I've been playing the demo and really dig the cadence of combat.

_Rob_ · May 1, 2019

Definitely worth keeping on your watch list, everything about it is really shaping up to be something special!

RedOnePunch · May 1, 2019

The player character's animations remind me of the original Prince of Persia.

Klyka · May 1, 2019

RedOnePunch said:
The player character's animations remind me of the original Prince of Persia.

Exactly what I thought when I saw it and what made me pay attention to it.

mikehaggar · May 1, 2019

The logo and boxart make me wonder if there is some kind of futuristic/sci-fi slant to this...? Looks great by the way! :)

Bojanglez · May 1, 2019

Evokes memories of many Amiga games for me. This is a very good thing.

SixelAlexiS · May 1, 2019

mmm... honestly the animations are really rough, especially the player one, which have a really weird pose and movements.

DiipuSurotu · May 1, 2019

SixelAlexiS said:
mmm... honestly the animations are really rough, especially the player one, which have a really weird pose and movements.

Sure it could always be improved, but it already looks good to me. It's not a deal breaker at any rate.

Dancrane212 · May 1, 2019

mikehaggar said:
The logo and boxart make me wonder if there is some kind of futuristic/sci-fi slant to this...? Looks great by the way! :)

There is. The checkpoint system is a 3D hologram printer...thing.

Swenhir · May 1, 2019

RedOnePunch said:
The player character's animations remind me of the original Prince of Persia.

Same thought, it has that same slowness and fluidity.

jahasaja · May 1, 2019

Thanks for making the thread Klyka !

Please if anybody have question please let me know.

The similarities to Prince of Persia is probably because we used the same way to make some of the animations : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0cpppGuow (but I do not have a brother so I had to use myself)

SixelAlexiS Oh, sorry you feel that they are weird. Since the main character is just a farmer and the sword is supposed to be heavy I tried to make it look like she was struggling wielding it.

TheMan · May 1, 2019

SixelAlexiS said:
mmm... honestly the animations are really rough, especially the player one, which have a really weird pose and movements.

agree on the animations. That said I'm still intrigued by the gameplay, I'll be watching this to see where it goes.

jahasaja · May 1, 2019

Bojanglez said:
Evokes memories of many Amiga games for me. This is a very good thing.

That makes me very happy! Moonstone was like magic for me growing up. I only had one floopy disk working so I had to replay the beginning over and over again..

Roarer · May 5, 2019

This looks really cool. Agree about the Amiga and PoP influences. I've always wanted someone to try and make a game where the protagonist isn't all that skilled with weapons. Could make for some interesting gameplay (at the risk of creating tedium). Will grab this when it is released.

DiipuSurotu · May 5, 2019

The way the protagonist's animations are much smoother than the enemies' is a bit jarring (in PoP everyone was rotoscopped). But then again the enemies being less smooth makes reading their moves easier I guess.

HellBlazer · May 5, 2019

Looks interesting. The enemy animations are pretty good, but the main character's walk cycle looks really goofy...

Deleted member 5621 · May 5, 2019

Destructible checkpoint, if left unprotected the enemies can choose to attack the checkpoints instead of the player.

Skill based combat. No character progression and no loot.

Why yes I'm very interested, thank you.

sir_crocodile · May 5, 2019

BG reminds me a bit of Shadow of the Beast lol, maybe it's all that delicious amigaish parallax.

Don't use steam, but if this ever gets to gog/console, I'm in

AnimeJesus · May 5, 2019

Looks cool...immediately though of Another World when I saw the animation. Also what an odd name.

sir_crocodile · May 5, 2019

EricOfSeattle said:
Looks cool...immediately though of Another World when I saw the animation. Also what an odd name.

What's weird about the name?

AnimeJesus · May 5, 2019

sir_crocodile said:
What's weird about the name?

Doesn't fit the atmosphere\look of the game...I thought it was a racing game before clicking on the thread. That's just me though.

Deleted member 5621 · May 5, 2019

Gonna repost here some of the praise I given the demo on the Discord:

- Love how the enemies bodies just stay there, Golden Axe style. Also impressive how they blend on the background without affecting the readability of the screen and combat, good job! - Goat's animations are so good. Same for the protagonist's hair and clothing. And her recoil animations after blocking.

- Love the background art, it's beautiful. The fishes in the swamp, the houses on the hills, the clouds, details are great. Also, how many colors are in use? I'm impressed by how much brown I'm seeing without the game looking drab or muted.

- The knight with the loooong sword getting it stuck in the ground after getting parried is perfect, great animation!

Wishlisting it and looking forward to the full release. As long enemy variety/level design are there to shake things up, it's going to be a fun ride.

jahasaja · May 6, 2019

HellBlazer said:
Looks interesting. The enemy animations are pretty good, but the main character's walk cycle looks really goofy...

Yeah I got this remark before so maybe I have to think about that. It just felt natural for me that an untrained person holding a heavy sword would walk like that if they had an enemy in front of them.

sir_crocodile said:
BG reminds me a bit of Shadow of the Beast lol, maybe it's all that delicious amigaish parallax.

Don't use steam, but if this ever gets to gog/console, I'm in

PS4 and Xboxone as well.

EricOfSeattle said:
Doesn't fit the atmosphere\look of the game...I thought it was a racing game before clicking on the thread. That's just me though.

At least it is better than the name of my last game :-P

Deleted member 5621 · May 6, 2019

Honestly, the walk animation looked off to me too when watching the trailer, but when playing the game it's totally fine.

jpbonadio · May 6, 2019

Loved the art style. The backgrounds looks so good.

Looking foward to it when it comes to the PS4.

Black Chamber · May 6, 2019

This looks like Sekiro and Prince of Persia had a child - which isn't a bad thing.

Kunka Kid · May 6, 2019

EricOfSeattle said:
Doesn't fit the atmosphere\look of the game...I thought it was a racing game before clicking on the thread. That's just me though.

Also assumed it was a racing game.

HellBlazer · May 6, 2019

jahasaja said:
Yeah I got this remark before so maybe I have to think about that. It just felt natural for me that an untrained person holding a heavy sword would walk like that if they had an enemy in front of them.

Yeah, I see what you're going for, but still, I feel she leans backward too much and looks very unsteady on her feet. Untrained is one thing, but I think her posture should still look like she can block one of those attacks without falling on her ass. But sure, I can imagine it's pretty difficult to make it look like she's inexperienced but still possibly competent enough to win the fight.

jahasaja · May 6, 2019

Black Chamber said:
This looks like Sekiro and Prince of Persia had a child - which isn't a bad thing.

Can I put this on the box :-)

Black Chamber · May 6, 2019

jahasaja said:
Can I put this on the box :-)

Absolutely🤘🏻

Kapryov · May 6, 2019

It looks beautiful, and possibly super difficult - going by the trailer gameplay.
I grew up playing Moonstone on the Amiga (I have fond memories of being the only one that could beat the dragon) so I'll keep an eye on this.

Deleted member 5621 · May 6, 2019

Kapryov said:
It looks beautiful, and possibly super difficult - going by the trailer gameplay.

Demo's difficulty is surprisingly chill, though I certainly expect higher challenges for some crazier enemies in the full game.

jahasaja · May 9, 2019

Kapryov said:
It looks beautiful, and possibly super difficult - going by the trailer gameplay.
I grew up playing Moonstone on the Amiga (I have fond memories of being the only one that could beat the dragon) so I'll keep an eye on this.

So happy that so many mentions Moonstone!

I hope it will not be too difficult but the curve in the beginning might be a bit steep since it has a unique control scheme.

zombiejames · May 9, 2019

2019 is the year of parrying.

Xeontech · May 9, 2019

This looks awesome

Arkhanor · May 9, 2019

This game looks awesome and reminds me of the good old PC games (mainly Prince of Persia, as was already pointed out).

Deleted member 5621 · May 13, 2019

Demo available directly in Steam now

jahasaja · May 14, 2019

zombiejames said:
2019 is the year of parrying.

In my defence, the development was started long before Sekiro was announced :-).

spineduke · May 14, 2019

jahasaja said:
The similarities to Prince of Persia is probably because we used the same way to make some of the animations : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0cpppGuow (but I do not have a brother so I had to use myself)

very cool! i thought the same, i get bits of flashback and prince of persia in how the character moves and animates.

jahasaja · May 16, 2019

spineduke said:
very cool! i thought the same, i get bits of flashback and prince of persia in how the character moves and animates.

Happy that you mentioned Flashback! I never though about it as an inspiration but it was my first game for the SNES so obviously I am influenced by it.

Dancrane212 · Oct 1, 2019

Game is out on October 18th:

Xbox preorder:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/driven-out/9nsd4pd0pd1j?activetab=pivot:overviewtab&atc=true

Steam:

PS4 page TBA:

jahasaja · Oct 2, 2019

I also wrote 2 articles that might be of interest for Era.

One about difficulty on the Playstation blog: https://blog.eu.playstation.com/201...v-talks-difficulty-player-chosen-checkpoints/

One about the focus on enemies variation on Xbox Wire: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/10/01/driven-out-preview/

Would be really interesting to hear your thoughts on the articles.

Deleted member 1627 · Oct 2, 2019

Game looks awesome! I remember seeing it in a Game Maker/Game Jam thread (?!) on Era and being really impressed by it. Well done jahasaja you should be very proud.

jahasaja · Oct 2, 2019

McBradders said:
Game looks awesome! I remember seeing it in a Game Maker/Game Jam thread (?!) on Era and being really impressed by it. Well done jahasaja you should be very proud.

Thanks that means a lot! (I need the confidence boost after reading the comments on the Driven Out Trailer on Playstations Youtube page :-P)

Deleted member 1627 · Oct 2, 2019

jahasaja said:
Thanks that means a lot! (I need the confidence boost after reading the comments on the Driven Out Trailer on Playstations Youtube page :-P)

I know it's hard but try not to a) read it (and if you do) b) don't take it to heart.

Shion · Oct 2, 2019

Everything about this looks Amiga as hell.

It's like Moonstone, Lionheart and Another World had a baby.

sOba · Oct 2, 2019

jahasaja said:
Thanks that means a lot! (I need the confidence boost after reading the comments on the Driven Out Trailer on Playstations Youtube page :-P)

Don't bother with that stuff, I think it looks great. No clue on how it plays though, is it prince of persia-like ?

Sander VF · Oct 2, 2019

jahasaja said:
Thanks that means a lot! (I need the confidence boost after reading the comments on the Driven Out Trailer on Playstations Youtube page :-P)

...are they insane?

Game looks fucking awesome.

Dancrane212 · Oct 2, 2019

jahasaja said:
One about the focus on enemies variation on Xbox Wire: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/10/01/driven-out-preview/

The bit about enemy variation is interesting. I would have figured with the "learning" experience of fighting those specific types they would be surfaced a lot more.

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