“Vessel” is the inaugural release of Seattle-based Indie developer, Strange Loop Games. As stated on Strange Loop’s website, their goal in independent game development is to use the overwhelming power of modern PC hardware for more than just shiny graphics – instead the folks at Strange Loop want hardware to power gameplay. This is a completely honorable position to take, and only realistic for an Indie developer, as Big Gaming is far too invested in selling realism to the mainstream. Anymore it seems like the only reason anyone ever buys (or needs to buy) new PC hardware is for games that are too graphically intense to run on older machines. Could “Vessel” successfully challenge this status quo?
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“Vessel” is built in a custom game engine that utiliz... |
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