Team17 has announced a partnership with Danish indie developer Adrian Lazar to bring Planet Alpha to Nintendo Switch in 2018.
Planet Alpha is an atmospheric side-scrolling platform adventure game which combines fast platforming, creative puzzles, stealth mechanics, and a visually striking art style. Waking up on a strange alien world that is home to many mysterious, exotic flora and fauna, you are tasked with exploring the world around you, uncovering the ability to rotate and control the planet as you do so.
Development on Planet Alpha initially began in 2013 with Lazar working on the game solo in his spare time. Since then, though, he has recruited a small international team to support development and now has the backing of Team17 to publish the game, too.
“Planet Alpha is the work of passion of a small but very ambitious team. We are building something special and we’re putting everything we have into it. Developing the game for over 4 years has been a roller coaster, so when we looked for a publisher we were very selective."
No precise release date has been announced for the game just yet, but we'll be keeping an eye out for this one when it arrives sometime later this year. Is this game going on your wishlist?
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This looks beautiful and is different from the 2 other games Team 17 have published on Switch.
Looks like it's cut from the same cloth as Inside, Limbo, etc... And I'm into it.
Looks interesting but its a bit jarring for the character to always be looking into the background like that... Not for me, but it does look pretty all the same.
The Background looks amazing, but also just looks like an automatic runner
Looks quite skimpy on the actual gameplay, to be honest.
"fast platforming, creative puzzles, stealth mechanics"
They should try putting one of those in the trailer, b/c all I saw was an endless runner like Bit Trip Runner 2 or 3. I can tell it isn't an endless runner, he slowed down once, but it looked like one based on the level design and the character always moving left to right. Reminded me of Trine with all the fun game play taken out.
Also reminded me a bit of Starchild on PSVR. Which I didn't like very much, I played the demo, but at least it had some interaction.
i have no idea what it looks to me tbh.
I loved the music. First party Nintendo games seem to have pretty crap music these days. To have this coming out of my Switch would be a welcome change.
Looking cool! I don't think I've actually come across this guy in the danish indie games environment, but I see he had the game with him for Indie Prize.
Congrats on getting picked up by Team 17!
So a Trine style game? Considering Trine isn't out for Switch yet, I guess this could be a good substitute for that.
Salvador Dali finally made a video game. I like.
Oh wow. I anxiously await a review!
Ok, this looks beautiful!
Everything is happening in the background. Wait and see - hopefully does not end up being a glorified runner.
Oh - I think it looks kinda boring. You don't even see real gameplay and jumping looks floaty. Graphically, it is not my style - something is off to me.
This is the 4th "coming soon" game I have read about on this site today that I plan on buying.... my wallet is crying right now
He's runnning, runnning, creeping, more running . . . .
Team 17 are producing and publishing some really interesting stuff these days. Fair play to them
Why the hell people think this is an endless runner, simply based upon a small trailer, is beyond me.
After all, what the game ACTUALLY is, is clearly described in the article accompanying the trailer:
"Planet Alpha is an atmospheric side-scrolling platform adventure game which combines fast platforming, creative puzzles, stealth mechanics, and a visually striking art style.
Waking up on a strange alien world that is home to many mysterious, exotic flora and fauna, you are tasked with exploring the world around you, uncovering the ability to rotate and control the planet as you do so."
That should do more than enough to put to rest any fears that this will be no more than a pretty looking endless runner, but no...
People... (shakes head)
Warrants following for atmosphere (i.e. music, color palette, environment, sense of scale) alone.
Beautiful but boring?
To echo an early comment it looks like Inside and Limbo in the gameplay department. And that’s definitely a good thing in my book
Looks good, I'm interested.
Looks amazing!
Wow....
Sounds like something special indeed. Glad this game is on my radar now, will be following it with great interest.
Looks good but the problem with visuals like this is that it’s easy to lose track of the main character. This looks to be no exception.
Kinda like a sci-fi exploration focused 2D platformer? This could prove very interesting.
Sign me up.
This is how I imagined the original Metroid and Super Metroid 2D games should have looked and should look by now. If only it didn't go into hibernation or have to live on slow tiny devices all the time. Still, I do love almost all the Metroid games and Metroid Prime did go down an immersive and beautiful path at times, so I can't complain too much.
Looks like a waking simulator so far
Oh, and I think this looks amazing and it clearly has much more going on than a typical runner, though I did wonder a couple times. Still, I enjoy a good runner, so it would be one of the most amazing looking runners ever, anyway.
@ThatNyteDaez Seems like the trailer is showing some of the big environment reveals and I like that the character cues the player that it's okay to look into the background. In other games you miss the whole thing because if you look away you'll fail. Seems natural and helpful to me.
Graphics are awesome, but it looks like a auto-runner. Also, its very hard to follow.
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