wraggster
February 9th, 2014, 21:41
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/6c3b692f1f5de3a5151458c15f41b550/trestle.png (http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/09/tactical-2d-shooter-trestle-cartoon-aesthetic-with-strategy/)
Grid-based movement on a 3x3 grid can make moving around feel so ... simple. Right until you're dodging a storm of laser bullets, vertical beams of death and melee attacks, that is. Developer Sets and Settings is building Trestle upon this mechanic, placing the sense of victory in a high score.
Fans of the Mega Man Battle Network (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/mega-man-battle-network) series' battle grid may feel right at home with Trestle. While dodging incoming attacks, Trestle allows players to swap out their weapon - boxes appear on grid spaces at random, which contain weapons like a flamethrower that covers an entire horizontal row of the opposing side's grid. Crates that replenish health also appear, but in early gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo95qHyeHVk on SleepCycles' YouTube channel, they appear to spawn far less often than fresh types of ammunition.
Trestle's Tumblr page notes (http://trestlegame.tumblr.com/post/69885489033/time-for-an-update-so-back-when-i-first-started) that the "base game is done," but Sets and Settings is adding new content and planning on an early 2014 release for PC, Mac and Linux.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/09/tactical-2d-shooter-trestle-cartoon-aesthetic-with-strategy/
Grid-based movement on a 3x3 grid can make moving around feel so ... simple. Right until you're dodging a storm of laser bullets, vertical beams of death and melee attacks, that is. Developer Sets and Settings is building Trestle upon this mechanic, placing the sense of victory in a high score.
Fans of the Mega Man Battle Network (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/mega-man-battle-network) series' battle grid may feel right at home with Trestle. While dodging incoming attacks, Trestle allows players to swap out their weapon - boxes appear on grid spaces at random, which contain weapons like a flamethrower that covers an entire horizontal row of the opposing side's grid. Crates that replenish health also appear, but in early gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo95qHyeHVk on SleepCycles' YouTube channel, they appear to spawn far less often than fresh types of ammunition.
Trestle's Tumblr page notes (http://trestlegame.tumblr.com/post/69885489033/time-for-an-update-so-back-when-i-first-started) that the "base game is done," but Sets and Settings is adding new content and planning on an early 2014 release for PC, Mac and Linux.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/09/tactical-2d-shooter-trestle-cartoon-aesthetic-with-strategy/