Announcing Retro/grade, the first game from 24 Caret!
Matt posted in Games, My Work on November 5th, 2008

24 Caret Games is proud to announce Retro/grade, our first game from our brand new company. You can check out the official website for more information: http://www.retrogradegame.com

It’s already shaping up to be a very fun and unique fusion of the rhythm and shmup genres. As well, I think we may be the world’s first game that is played entirely in reverse. I have played a lot of games, and I can’t think of any where you not only go backwards in time but can control your ship. Doing the entire game in reverse has presented a lot of interesting challenges. Most games that play back in reverse (for example, Full Auto, Braid, etc) are just recording what happened and playing it backwards. We have to instead create all the motion backwards and make it look convincing. I wasn’t sure we did a good job until I was working on our trailer and reversed our video and audio. If you watch the trailer, the first part is actually just our game reversed. The only difference is I muted the music and added the music track later in order to have one consistent music track play throughout the trailer. So, our game really does behave like a shooter in reverse.

Anyway, take a look at the teaser and let me know what you think.

You can also download it at various resolutions:1280×720 640×360 320×180