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After seven years, Spelunky creator’s retro compilation UFO 50 will release in the second half of 2024For real this time
For real this time
Image credit:Mossmouth
Image credit:Mossmouth
UFO 50 - Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
UFO 50 - Announcement Trailer
It was first announced back in 2017, with an initial release window set for the following year, but quickly sailed past it as the size and scale of the project grew. You can see glimpses of some of the games in both the announcement trailer above, and over on itsSteam page, which goes into a bit more detail about five games in particular - the “full blown JRPG” Grimstone, car shoot ‘em up Seaside Drive, pinball golf game Pingolf, sci-fi horse racer Quibble Race, and Campanella 2, the proc-gen platformer sequel to Campanella 1 (which is also another game within UFO 50).
With development nearing completion, Yu goes on to say in his Steam update that “polishing seems like it’s a bigger share of the remaining work than I thought. We’re having to clean up some prehistoric code and confront decisions we made for speed (?!) in the early days (in GameMaker Studio 1, no less). Thankfully, it’s been nothing too crazy and to be honest the housekeeping feels quite satisfying - it’s nice that we’re finally at the point where we can make it a priority.”
Just don’t ask him to pick his favourite game from UFO 50. “I love them all!” he professes.
Exciting times ahead, then, so please do excuse me while I go and pore over itsSteampage again while we wait.
