by Lenna’s Inception Beta – Now Available
July 8, 2014 in Announcements by Tom
I’m delighted to announce that Chucklefish, the wonderful team behind Starbound, are publishing Lenna’s Inception!
This new website you’re looking at is a product of theirs. We’ve also added Lenna’s Inception to the Chucklefish forums – which will be a fantastic place to share your leaderboard scores and speed-running tips (as well as for discussing everything else relating to the game). Aside from that, they’ve been providing tons of support and advice. I’m really excited to work with them!
This new website will be the primary way to keep up to date with the latest news about Lenna’s Inception, but I’m still planning to mirror posts on the Bytten Studio website (and on IndieDB as well, although less frequently).
Beta
As of today, Lenna’s Inception has officially reached beta status!
As time goes by, I’ll be adding it to other stores, but initially it is only available on itch.io. When/if it gets onto Steam, you can rest assured that Steam keys will be given to everyone who has already purchased it on itch.io.
Features
- Huge procedurally generated world, different every time you play
- 7 permadeath challenges with an online leaderboard
- Pets that offer to fight alongside you with their own AI
- Beautiful Game Boy-style pixel art with occasional gory scenes
- Chiptune soundtrack composed by Warfreak2
Beta doesn’t mean I’ve finished adding features!
Besides finishing up the storyline, dialogue, and main quest, you can look forward to me adding these features coming in future updates:
- Potions with randomized effects
- A final boss
- More biomes and environments
- Pet evolutions that (for instance) turn your useless chicken into a ferocious phoenix of fiery doom
- More items, enemies, secrets and challenge modes!
Thanks for reading. I hope you’ll stick around on this new website and follow my progress with Lenna’s Inception!
-Tom
Awesome, published by Chucklefish as well!
Going to purchase right now,
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Will there be a Wii U port of the game?
No ports to consoles are planned at this time.
[…] Bien que très nettement inspiré par Zelda et arborant un pixelart aux couleurs plus nombreuses mais plus délavées qu’une Game Boy, Lenna’s Inception se caractérise par une ambiance anxiogène rappelant un peu Anodyne mais en franchement plus gore. Les différences ne s’arrêtent pas là puisque le monde dans lequel se déroule ce jeu d’action/aventure est généré aléatoirement et change donc à chaque partie. À cela s’ajoute un système de familiers qui devraient évoluer dans la version finale à la manière d’un Pokémon. Car le jeu de Tom Coxon (Bytten Studios), édité par Chucklefish également en charge de Heart Forth, Alicia, n’est pas terminé. Néanmoins, on peut déjà acquérir une bêta très avancée pour Windows, Mac OS X et Linux, au tarif de £2.99 minimum (un peu moins de 4 €) à partir de cette adresse. […]
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I really want to buy this. However, I recognize a HUGE amount of the assets used are clearly a rip from Nintendo series. As I am not a lawyer, I dont know if Nintendo owns the right to these sounds and graphics and if it will hinder the progress of the game at all. Ive been partial to a few games that had to halt production because of copyright issues that the game was based on.
Dont get me wrong, AWESOME idea. I just wouldnt want to get too attached. Which I know I would.
This game uses original graphics and sounds I’ve made from scratch in the style of a handful of Game Boy games. None of Nintendo’s IP is infringed upon.