Ragnarawk Trailer

[VeritasUnae]

Are you still planning on making it compatible without the Guitar? Because otherwise I don't think I'll ever be able to play it...

[qiman2]

so its guitar hero RPG?

[Shigami0]

I played this at the 2008 EIF. Brilliant game. I even got to fight the secret boss and level up enough to unlock the extra guitar. Please make this into a full game. the other music styles (western, spanish etc) should be done too, especially seeing as you liked Guitaroo Man. Keep up the good work, you deserve to have people play this.

[homereatsdonuts]

Strange

In a good way

[DBLHNDR]

Could do with some better art. But pretty awesome nonetheless. Great concept, hope you pull it off. xD

[Tgc180]

wow this looks so stupid....

[k24601]

Yeah, I agree. It's sad they had such an interesting concept but it's probably going to look like this.

[eyeballbud]

So is anyone up to porting Ragnarawk to a console?

[PullusPardus]

when i first heard the name "Guitar Hero" i thought it would look like this game .. a hero with a magical badass guitar that defeats monsters

very well done, im sure you'll succeed =]

[rowanrockhopper]

they did- they won bafta ;)

[PullusPardus]

yea i meant when they release it :P

[DocileBomb]

This RAWKED. I played it about 5 times just to hear the Morgan music.

[kof98se]

I saw this at the SSoS event and thought it looked like it'd been built from bits of game carved from Guitaroo Man, Guitar Hero and a few generic JRPGs. I didn't really like it.

'course I didn't notice that it was for the Dare to be Digital event and had to be made to a strict timeframe, so I'm actually quite impressed.

[KidNinjaX]

how do u move?

[DocileBomb]

with guitar neck on the left, strum down to walk forward, strum up to walk back (hold the strum bar in the positions!), and red and green tio turn left and right. yellow is the Action button, used to talk etc.

[0ducttapeking0]

*drools* I....want...NOW....

[ccricers]

So this is what Blizzard and Activision would make together...

[cursedreject]

hah. i know right

[Nitesh201]

they only had 10 weeks to complete the game stop offending it they won the competition. great job guys.

[yougiedeggs]

Looks great, but what about the 360 guitar?

[yanksruledude]

i need a website were i can download this game

[girlflash]

props on the bafta recognition. <3

[AHylianWarrior]

This game is too much like Gitaroo Man...that game deserves more credit.

I might like to play this, maybe.

[Peeeky]

Great work :D

[yapperlittle]

looks great... congrats on the bafta

[BobbyJenkins]

Congrats on winning, guys!

[vagabondflow]

Looks pretty nifty. Do an Inca-themed level where you can blast those annoying Peruvian pan-pipers.

[kirstypwnzordz]

Congratulations on winning the BAFTA ladies and gentlemen :p

[PiePuncher]

huzzahs are in order

[Markusdragon]

Just read the BAFTA nominations, good going, guys! Hope you win.

[CraigTH]

I did try out this game but I didn't like it at all.

First off the controls are not the type that most people will get used to without playing for hours upon end.

Secondly, it gets boring after the first time you actually use the guitar.

Thirdly this game is also very easy and can be beaten

by a 5 year old, all I did was continuously had random notes and I was finished in a second.

Sorry to say this but your attempt at making a game has utterly failed.

[joebeard]

So that's why they've been nominated for a Bafta eh? Take a running jump into a wood chipper sausage mongler boy.

On an unrelated note, this game rocks bells! Grats guys and girls =)

[VoodooBoogy]

Actually a lot of people, young and old, picked the game up very quickly reguardless of wether they had even played Guitar Hero or any Rhythm game.

Like any sort of music game (Parappa, DDR, GH etc) some people get it, some people don't

As for the difficulty, due to time restraints we couldn't finish the harder difficulty notes on time.

[Industrion]

Faaaaag.

[Industrion]

Ooops! I didn't mean that! I meant to say 'faaag' in response to the comment by CraigTH. I think I've already posted saying how great the game is!

[Nitesh201]

they only had 10 weeks

[Elefef101]

Hey, I have afew questions about this game.

1. Do you need the Guitar Hero Controller?

2. Whenever I try to run this game, it comes up with an error. Any way to get past this?

[VoodooBoogy]

1. Unfortunatly at this time, you need a PS2 Controller with an Adapter that converts it to a USB connection. Otherwise the game won't work. You can technically use any USB Gamepad, but since you can't manually change the control settings, you may have a hard time playing it. We hope to fix this in the future

2. Without a controller plugged in the game crashes. Skillful programming eh? :/ We hope to fix this in the future too

[ChristopherIsaacs]

Aye man, cheers! good luck to you guys as well. The BAFTA's should be pretty sweet likes. No dowt we will have to abuse the comp'd free plonk ;P

See ya's in London if not before!

[JonaxC]

This game needs more cowbell.

Other than that, great job at Dare. :D

[Gcarr16]

Robotrocker = cock jockey

its a fuckin game lighten jesus christ the way ur goin on about it u'd think they are tryin to take over the world with the game .

if u dont like it then u dont like it so many whiney arse holes goin around. go out and get laid u need to stop being such an uptight little girl.

[Nomiwolf]

Thats the gayest thing I have ever seen. I mean - guitars saving the world? LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME

The originality pony is spinning in his grave!

I bet it sucks too ¬_¬ (Never mind that I've played it and it was one of the best demos and most fun demos I have ever played, that is irrelevent!)

You guys suck ¬_¬

:D <3

[Nomiwolf]

Sorry... sarcasm is evidently not my best quality >.>

I can vouch - the game is amazing :)

[irngiant]

looks so fab guys, i just hope i get a chance to play it. congratulations on this and future success!

[yellowlightman]

You guys did a fantastic job capturing the look, feel and graphical quality of such Playstation as Jersey Devil, Medevil and Croc.

[RobotRocker]

Brilliant. It amazes me that you got away with a pitch that most Uni courses would have instantly failed you for blatant plagarism. Entered it into a competition which was set up to encourage young developers with ORIGINAL CONCEPTS to begin developing. I hope to god you get to market and Harmonix sue you. I also hope you enjoy the dirty money you took from teams with original concepts because if there is justice, none of you will ever get a job in the industry.

[grantegoto]

lmao!"

[RobotRocker]

I saw this on the BBC Website and had to comment

You stole the concept of Ephemental Fantasia(Konami RPG that fused Guitar Playing and RPG in 2001). Wholesale ripped off a gameplay system that has been patented(Litteraly) by Red Octane and Harmonix and then decided to use an art style that completley rips off the signature looks of Jhonen Vasquez, Tim Burton and Jamie Hewlett and won £2,500 for it?

Continued above

[VoodooBoogy]

Oh here we go...

Firstly, Ephemeral Fantasia had turn based combat and was for all purposes a fairly generic RPG with a musical minigame, nothing more. The idea we stole anything from it is laughable, heck I've never even played it.

[VoodooBoogy]

Secondly, as has been said many times, the Japanese initially came up with the idea of Guitar Freaks (And Drum Mania, and even Band Mania) in 1998, so the gameplay system essentially belongs to Bemani along with DDR (Which, you may note, has also spawned gameplay-inspired games).

[VoodooBoogy]

The strangest complaint here is the art style... Particularly the one about Jamie Hewlett whos artstyle (think Gorillaz for those who don't know) couldn't be further from ours :o Frankly it seems you're not that much of an art critic and were just looking for some baseless arguments to gripe at our game.

[VoodooBoogy]

Also, an RPG with Rhythmic/Musical Combat? Hasn't been done. Unless there's some shareware/indie project going about. All games aren't 100% original: Take a look at any latest release or project and you'll see bits of past games in there - The best games take the best bits and combine them into something that works (God of War, for example, is identical to Devil May Cry in many, many ways). We took two complete different aspects of games and combined them.

[RobotRocker]

Thats not the point. Sure, shoehorn musical combat in, your orginalility shines through. But you lifted a patented by US Law game system in. Read up on Sega Vs EA regarding Crazy Taxi/Simpsons Road Rage. EA lost badly. Its okay to refrence games. Timesplitters as an example homages the goldeneye concept but never resorts to outright theft. Your simply plagraising a globaly recognised game system.

[Octamed]

GH's 'game' is a very old and very simple concept. Patented game idea's are quite mad I think.

[RobotRocker]

Rhythm gaming started with Parapa the rapper and bemani took elements of that. Not as original as you thought. Also, The difference between guitar freaks and Guitar Hero is massive. Guitar freaks uses 3 buttons and a tilt mechanism and depends on timing to score notes. Guitar Hero uses 5 buttons and a whammy and scores on notes hit and multiplier. Very diffrent systems. You cant copyright notes falling down a screen. But you can Copyright the system used to play them.

[kirstypwnzordz]

If you have problems with this demo, how the hell do you sleep at night knowing that every 10 minutes another generic FPS/football/adventure game is released and makes MILLIONS of pounds in the real industry?

[RobotRocker]

I can slep soundly because every FPS/Football/Adventure game thats decent is using its own settings, its own gameplay mechanics and own ideas and building off old ones instead of wholesale stealing. You can have multiple concepts from one idea ex. Football. You can be realistic(PES, FIFA), Arcade(Virtua Striker, Mario Strikers) or stat based(Football Manager). You can do diffrent games with a single concept.

[skynes]

Unlike yourself, I had the opportunity to play Ragnarawk multiple times. The similarity between them is the falling notes and nothing more. There are no ultrazap solos, bosses with demonic church organs or genie style deities in your guitar. To be quite frank this trailer does little to show the bits of the game that I enjoyed.

[skynes]

Furthermore you fail to realise the limitations of the competition. There was 9 weeks whereupon you had to create a game. Now if that was 90 weeks, I'm certain Voodoo Boogy could have greatly diverged the system from Guitar Hero. But being restricted to 9 weeks meant limiting on what could be developed. This was all to show what COULD be done.

[skynes]

But think of this another way - the purpose of the game from what I learnt of their marketing was to fill a void in the Guitar controller. It was aimed at those who knew how to play Guitar Hero and had the controller but had no other games to play, so having a similar system makes perfect sense, when you're aiming at guitar hero owners, don't reinvent the wheel.

[skynes]

Secondly in real life you'd get permission and pay royalties to guitar heroes authors for use of that system. So your whole argument of stealing ideas and bringing lawsuits into it doesn't work.

[DudeParallel]

Seriously, cry more you whiney bitch.

Games steal ideas all the damn time, businesses steals ideas from competing businesses ALL THE TIME.

Did you just climb out from a cave or something?

[blongden]

Very best of luck - Just read about this on BBC news, I'm blown away with what you have achieved in such a short period of time!

[nairnodrums]

well done on the work guys. very robust version, considering the time allowance you had for making it.

Cool licks (Nice one finlay) and good visuals.

Just a shame I'm no use at playing it. LOL

[BobbyJenkins]

Aw yus Malcolm! You make your neighbour proud!

[Zandromas]

Well wot can i say, played it now. So u better make it!!!! This game has gotta be made or their is summat wrong in the world!

[Gcarr16]

i played this in edinburgh well i played it like 5 times it was amazin i cant wait for a demo well done to the team for makin this a great game . G AKA petes little brother

[LarfinMan]

u guys are friggin geniuses, this is the most original game ive seen in so long and judging by the comments here, this game could be big

[cloudmx]

That looks AMAZING. I wanna play it!

[MercifullUK]

Congratulations on the win :D

[AcitadelIndigo]

On that note.. is there any chance of getting a copy of this demo? And good luck for thursday!

[AcitadelIndigo]

Really enjoyed playing this at Protoplay dudes, it was one of the best games there in my opinion. You just gave over this sense of character, and style that the other teams seemed to miss out on.

The music during the battles was a keypoint, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Rift rawks too. :P

[mattmozz]

shit hot cant wait to play it

[Zandromas]

Most definately excellent, if this is gonna get published where do i sign up for a copy!!

[VoodooBoogy]

We're still discussing that, there's a few issues that'd come with trying to market this, and we'd probably have to remake a good chunk of it, but I'd at least like to see the idea availiable to the public :)

And thanks again for all the positive comments! :)

[Markusdragon]

Ever likely to get published?

[Aypersonis]

Hope so!

[alisonsykora]

Grand job lad, Finntastic, will pass this out to all those who are born to rock!!!

[skynes]

I WANT to play your game. It's that simple. As soon as we get the chance to play each others stuff, I wanna play this first.

[ChristopherIsaacs]

Does look pretty damn sweet!

[Yazuka83]

Wow! This looks fantastic!

[jappythecunt]

looks pretty fucking fantastic, I would definately play it.

[jonnymilad]

proud o' you sonny... damn proud

[DudeParallel]

AWESOME!

Game looks even better since the last time i saw it!

I really hope you guys get some publisher interest for this game, i'd SO buy it!

[kirstypwnzordz]

Well done guys and gal, but the battle isn't over yet! World domination up next?

Congrats :)

[DiamondMX]

Awesome video, can't wait to get a shot of the prototype

[VoodooBoogy]

6 Teams get picked at Protoplay to do an additional pitch to some industry judges, from there 3 teams get picked to win the Dare Prizes (£2000+ for the team) and get nominated for a BAFTA (Well, BAVGA), of which one team will win.

Nervous! :)

[Aypersonis]

and by Fantstic, I mean Fantastic.

[Aypersonis]

Agreed. Fantstic job. What is it the winners get again?

[joebeard]

GAWDLIKE!