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Posted May 30, 2012
A Big game for a Tiny price.

Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers, an indie platforming wonder, is available right now for pre-order with a 10% discount and a set of ready-for-download goodies for $8.99.

If you’re a fan of weird comic-styled platformers or physics-based puzzles, you’re in for a one-of-a-kind treat from Black Pants Studio. In Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers you are Tiny, a small guy with a powerful raycutter, a gripping-device, and a rocket, who’s trying to find the only heritage his grandpa left him: a nice pair of white, fine rib underpants. On his way through the desert he will run, jump, slice and drag stuff, fight his archnemesis Big, and probably use the services of one crazy robot taxi.

Tiny and Big offers completely destructible environments with better-than-life physics. To reach the unreachable places Tiny’s supposed to reach, he will use his laser to cut through everything, his grappling hook to pull, or rockets to push objects into place; that way, the sanbdox-style gameplay offers a unique variety of possibilities to solve puzzles. In addition to that, Tiny and Big offers wonderful 3D graphics: artistic and comic-like with hand-drawn textures produced with ink and pen.

Get Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers, a game that has been featured on Independent Games Festival, Indie DB, Fantastic Arcade Festival, and EuroGamer Expo, for only $8.99 during the pre-order period on GOG.com.
Posted May 30, 2012
Looks interesting. In fact, it kind of reminds me of Psychonauts. I'll have to make a note to try out a demo in the near future.
Posted May 30, 2012
I played an early build of this game last year and it was really impressive.

Pre-ordered.
Posted May 30, 2012
anyone else look at the screen shots for this and immediately proclaim: "now this is how Beyond Good & Evil 2 should look!"

(I too will partake of some demo-ing)
Posted May 31, 2012
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Bavarian: Really? It didn't hit my radar so far, and I visit German gaming sites almost every day. Maybe it has gained a lot of attention in indie affiliated circles, but definitly not in mainstream media. Looks promising though.
That's the funny thing - this game is incredibly sneaky. Even before anyone was really talking about it footage could already be found in montages of and trailers for several German events such as the Gamescom and the Quo Vadis, you could also find some footage on TV on reports about video games - it's like some people in the media already treated this game as the "Wunderwaffe" of the German games industry, something that would prove the creativity of German students and developers, long before it was clear whether the game would actually be good or a commercial success. And yeah, especially in indie and academic circles people were being told that this the ultimate something. It's really a weird story.
Posted May 31, 2012
Why the recommendation to play this damn interesting title with an x360 controller?
Is it one of those where you NEED to sit on your couch and enjoy a game like a proper human being?
Posted June 01, 2012
Ok, thinking about getting this game (thinking about getting it a lot), but I have one question that no where looks to give me a good answer on, what the difference is in the OST on the gog.com version and the OST on the Steam version.

Yes the Steam version costs more, but if it has the full OST, I might be more tempted to get that version.
Posted June 02, 2012
I would love to pre-order it through GOG, but then I will get the same thing as botanicula again. You pre-order/support a game, and all you get is the windows version.
If I would have known botanicula would have a linux version I wouldn't have pre-ordered it through GOG.

So GOG: please continue with this pre-order business, but please also make the other-platform versions available. Either by proxy and let us download it from the original developers, or have it as a special download, just like you do with OST's and such.
I'd rather always order through GOG, than order from here, there, and everywhere. At least I can trust GOG :-). Even when the Beta stopped, I trusted you!
Posted June 04, 2012
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amok: Has anybody pointed out the demo yet? It is downloadable from their website. I remember trying it about 6 months ago and found the experience quite entertaining.
I have tried the demo. That is to say I've tried to get the demo to run on my two months old dual core Win7 laptop (runs far cry 2 without a hitch). But after one and a half hour of trying different compatibility options and twelve subsequent crashes after reaching 100% loading I just gave up and deïnstalled. So I'm ever so slightly less thrilled with this game coming out...
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kodeen: Why would that be bad?
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ne_zavarj: Many people will choose Steam over GOG . :(
That's a matter of personal preference. I own a lot of games on Steam but if I have to choose where to purchase I prefer Gog.com. The drawback with Steam is the fact that you have to run their client in the background. This didn't use to be a big deal even when I installed games on several computers all I had to do was to log in. But nowadays every month or so I have to 're-register' my computers with Steam which I find really annoying. With games bought on Gog.com I never have to deal with this kind of annoyances.

I recently had a 'Botanulica' experience with a game bought from Steam. After reading a review on Gamespot I bought Superbrother Sword and Sworcery EP on Steam (even though it didn't have the fabled soundtrack) only to rebuy it two weeks later in an HIB (including the soundtrack). So even Steam isn't immune to this problem.
Post edited June 04, 2012 by ZwaanME
Posted June 04, 2012
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ZwaanME: I have tried the demo. That is to say I've tried to get the demo to run on my two months old dual core Win7 laptop (runs far cry 2 without a hitch). But after one and a half hour of trying different compatibility options and twelve subsequent crashes after reaching 100% loading I just gave up and deïnstalled. So I'm ever so slightly less thrilled with this game coming out...
hmm, I only use laptop and it and it works fine on mine. Also running W7, but I have a Intel Core i7 2720QM, though... Graphic maybe? I have a GeForce GT 555 M hybrid thing.
Posted June 04, 2012
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ZwaanME: But nowadays every month or so I have to 're-register' my computers with Steam which I find really annoying.
That is definitely non-standard behavior. I wonder what's causing it. Is there any type of system maintenance that you're performing in the same intervals (reinstall Windows, unplug some hardware to clean out some dust, etc...)?
Posted June 04, 2012
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ZwaanME: But nowadays every month or so I have to 're-register' my computers with Steam which I find really annoying.
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kodeen: That is definitely non-standard behavior. I wonder what's causing it. Is there any type of system maintenance that you're performing in the same intervals (reinstall Windows, unplug some hardware to clean out some dust, etc...)?
No, it's because I don't play games using Steam very often since I started playing games bought on Gog.com. And this happens if you don't login to Steam with a computer for 30 days or so. But it is still annoying.
Posted June 04, 2012
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kodeen: That is definitely non-standard behavior. I wonder what's causing it. Is there any type of system maintenance that you're performing in the same intervals (reinstall Windows, unplug some hardware to clean out some dust, etc...)?
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ZwaanME: No, it's because I don't play games using Steam very often since I started playing games bought on Gog.com. And this happens if you don't login to Steam with a computer for 30 days or so. But it is still annoying.
Interesting, I didn't even know it did that. Thanks for the new knowledge, though I agree that is very annoying.
Posted June 04, 2012
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Sogi-Ya: anyone else look at the screen shots for this and immediately proclaim: "now this is how Beyond Good & Evil 2 should look!"

(I too will partake of some demo-ing)
Not really, I hope it looks more like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-e4ewUeEI
It would be a good style for a game like Beneath a Steel Sky though.
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Hesusio: Looks interesting. In fact, it kind of reminds me of Psychonauts. I'll have to make a note to try out a demo in the near future.
Lets hope it is like Psychonauts but from looking at the trailers I'm afraid it's nowhere near that interestant and funny. The demo also doesn't bode well. It's a nice enough tech demo of the tools you get to use but the world looks empty with very little to do and their attempt at humor didn't manage to make me smile. Wearing undergarments on your head is só 1985 (Weird Science anyone). Perhaps they'll do a quicklook of the game on Giant Bomb which will change my mind but until then I'm gonna skip this one.
Post edited June 04, 2012 by ZwaanME
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