Let's play the new Monster Boy (2017) demo!
Dear Monster Boy fans and friends,
what an exciting time! We're currently at Gamescom in Cologne, showing our latest demo of Monster Boy on the Nintendo Switch! If you're in Germany and read this post until August 26, please visit us at the Nintendo booth in hall 9.1. We're truly humbled and overwhelmed by the awesome feedback from gamers who played the demo so far. Thank you so much to everyone!
It's a relief to hear you're all enjoying this game which is in production for almost 4 years now. We'll keep pouring all our love into this official sequel to the Wonder Boy in Monster World series as we want to make the best game possible for all of you.
If you can't attend Gamescom or read this post a little late, we've got a treat for you. Our friend BanjoGuyOllie who's also a big fan of the series, got his hands on the demo and recorded his session on video. Please check it out here:
In the video you'll get to see the full length beach section, a short piece of sewers, the village, a whole frog character based section in a segment we call Aztec World AND BanjoGuyOllie as an NPC in the game who even has a quest for players: Find his music sheets!
Some of you may wonder how he got into the game - this goes back to the very first announcement of the game in 2015! He played a wonderful banjo tune based on the Wonder Boy series and got the excitement for Monster Boy started. We didn't have any proper ingame material to show at this time so he was of great help to send out a warm message to the fans. We couldn't think of a better way to announce a new game based on this epic game series. Thank you Ollie, thank you fans and friends! <3
what an exciting time! We're currently at Gamescom in Cologne, showing our latest demo of Monster Boy on the Nintendo Switch! If you're in Germany and read this post until August 26, please visit us at the Nintendo booth in hall 9.1. We're truly humbled and overwhelmed by the awesome feedback from gamers who played the demo so far. Thank you so much to everyone!
It's a relief to hear you're all enjoying this game which is in production for almost 4 years now. We'll keep pouring all our love into this official sequel to the Wonder Boy in Monster World series as we want to make the best game possible for all of you.
If you can't attend Gamescom or read this post a little late, we've got a treat for you. Our friend BanjoGuyOllie who's also a big fan of the series, got his hands on the demo and recorded his session on video. Please check it out here:
In the video you'll get to see the full length beach section, a short piece of sewers, the village, a whole frog character based section in a segment we call Aztec World AND BanjoGuyOllie as an NPC in the game who even has a quest for players: Find his music sheets!
Some of you may wonder how he got into the game - this goes back to the very first announcement of the game in 2015! He played a wonderful banjo tune based on the Wonder Boy series and got the excitement for Monster Boy started. We didn't have any proper ingame material to show at this time so he was of great help to send out a warm message to the fans. We couldn't think of a better way to announce a new game based on this epic game series. Thank you Ollie, thank you fans and friends! <3
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Joey on :
Eagerly looking forward to a release date!!
Joey
Spidey981 on :
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Fabien - Game Atelier on :
Merci beaucoup pour ces commentaires enjoués! Toute l'équipe est vraiment ravie de lire que le travail accompli en valait la peine.
Pour la PGW on vous tiendra au courant dès que possible mais on a hâte de pouvoir vous présenter cette nouvelle version de la démo sur cet énorme salon parisien.
A très bientôt,
Fabien et l'équipe Game Atelier
Alfredo Rodriguez on :
FDG,Thomas on :
Mark Clotworthy on :
I will stopped it after 5 minutes because I don't want to spoil it for me! I cannot WAIT for this game, looks amazing, similar to Wonderboy 3: The Dragon's Trap which is my favorite platform games of all time.
Just one thing I am concerned about.. the saving. I saw some check points in the demo, does that mean that we will not be able to save the game when we want to?
If we can't save when we want to, it's not a game breaker; it will just force me to play more carefully hehe
Mark Clotworthy on :
DVD Rom is the slowest hardware to use now. It takes so long to install; and if there are multiple disks you need to keep waiting and changing discs over and over.
Guys we are living in the digital age now. Cmon, get with the program lol.
FDG,Thomas on :
FDG,Thomas on :
Alfredo Rodriguez on :
Mark Clotworthy on :
I was once like you; I much preferred physical copies; it felt great to have something in your hand.
But I have moved on. And I have experienced some painful installation processes with DVD; especially when some discs have been corrupted lol.
And Blu Ray is slower than DVD anyway...
But at least with Blu Ray it all fits on one disc, and you can start the install, and come back later to find it done.
But nowadays we have fibre, and if that is the case for someone, they can easily download and install a 50GB+ game much quicker than installing from Blu Ray.
Aidan Clarke on :
Since when is blue ray slower than dvd?
cd @ 1x speed = 0.15 megabytes per second
dvd @ 1x speed = 1.32 megabytes per second
blue ray @ 1x speed = 4.29 megabytes per second
ps4 blue rays do 27megabytes per second
fastest dvd drives on market are 24 speed for pc = same megabytes per second (basically) as the ps4 blue ray
fastest blue ray drives on pc however is 12 speed drives, double the transfer speed of the fastest dvd's
yes digital is faster than all this if you have a good setup, but not by much (at least to download) once you have it on our hdd however a lot of SSD's can move it from one drive to another very very quickly (800MB/sec +)
Alfredo Rodriguez on :
Fred on :
Bien sympathique cette nouvelle mise à jour du jeu, on voit bien le travail accompli et la multitude de détails ajoutés dans les stages, les décors etc... Notemment dans celui du village avec ses nombreux Parallax Scrolling superbe !
Merci à tous pour les questions et réponses qui nous font attendre patiemment la sortie du jeu
Fabien - Game Atelier on :
Merci beaucoup pour le commentaire, on est vraiment ravis de lire que cette nouvelle version vous plaît.
Et merci pour votre patience car notre équipe met le paquet pour que tout le jeu soit à la hauteur de vos espérances.
A très bientôt !
alemurillo on :
pd. What is the name of the jpop song and the artist?
FDG,Thomas on :
alemurillo on :
Spidey981 on :
FDG,Thomas on :
MONSTER BOY OP
"Wake Up Mind"
Lyrics: Haruka Shimotsuki
Work arranging: Sakuraba
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Beyond the horizon far beyond
What kind of road is going on?
In a corner of a wide world
I embrace an endless dream
Friendly knowing my limit
To give up is a thing that a weak adult does
Wake Up! Let's go on a trip
If there is a strong feeling
We can be anything
Even if you can not get over the high wall in front of you
It may be easy to break down
I am waiting for a colorful future
Grab the glow with the heart you believe
Spidey981 on :
matthew barrett on :
mdr on :
Ptdr le j'aurais 100 ans avant que le jeu sort !!!!!
Charlie Ward on :
Matthew Barrett on :
Azur on :
Je voudrais streamer Monster Boy sur Twitch day one.
Il y a une version presse/Twitch prévue ?
Merci pour tout le travail accompli !
James on :
I'm so excited to finally play this! It's been a long wait but I know it will be worth it
The Switch does seem a decent choice, they have many more light hearted games, but personally I would definitely wait for a PS4 port.
FDG, Thomas on :
Spidey981 on :
Fan
Game Atelier recherche un programmeur pour les aider à finir ce petit bijou. Si l'un de vous est intéressé merci de les contacter. Annonce très sérieuse.
http://emploi.afjv.com/emploi-jeux-video/EDEV1031-12285
Andrew Dewilev on :
ALFREDO on :
Max Team on :
first of all, congratulations for the work done so far.
I have one suggestion since you want to pay a tribute to the classic series of Wonder Boy games.
During the demo it is possibl to see a sort of church which windows have drawing of the heroes from the original series: Tom-Tom (form the original Wonder Boy), Bock Lee Temjin (with his outfit from "The Dradong's Trap Artwork), Shion (from "Wonder Boy in Monster World) and Asha (from "Monster World IV").
What about Leo from Monster's Lair? He is an official part of "Wonder Boy" lore and he should be placed between Bock Lee Temjin and Shion (in order to follow the chronological order of the events told in the game). Monster's Lair hav its own continuity with Monster's Land and the Drag0ns Trap since the final boss was a monster posing as Bock Lee Temjin. It has continuity even with Wonder Boy in Monster WOrd since some enemies "born" with this game where reused again in the following chapters (like the penguins).
I believe you siply forgot: if you can ou should add him along with the others!!!
Then somebody can argue another prolem about Tom-Tom and Bock Lee Temjin being the same character. THis is debatable since the sources are vague or contradoctory and the american version of the games manual addes so much confusion (as it happened in old days). By the way, even if they are the same character or not I agree into portraying him in both his incarnations since they where so different.
I can't wait to play the game!
FDG,Thomas on :
matthew barrett on :
the thing is a LOT of people wont want to and shouldnt have to wait that long it was meant to be released this year thats what was meant to happen. i now feel like i have wasted one year of my life waiting for this game. it really should not be taking this long and if developers say a year they need to stick to it. its not fair waiting year after year after year they obviously have forgotten how long year is it feels like several years, on top of that FDG promised us all that would be posting a lot more frequently like every month and its nearly the end of
September an there has been nothing. it almost feels like there pissing us all off on purpose im sick of this when is it out TBD 2017/2018
FDG,Thomas on :
matthew barrett on :
Spidey981 on :
Je sais que vous travaillez tous d'arrache pied pour finir ce petit joyaux. Je peu encore attendre la date de sortie mais en ce qui me concerne quatre semaines sans news ça fais long. Pouvez-vous poster des nouvelles captures d'écran comparatives, un trailer, une info sur la PGW ou tout autre chose. Mais s'il vous plaît un petit truc à se mettre sous la dent. Il me faut ma dose d'info sur la progression
Fabien - Game Atelier on :
En effet on travaille vraiment dur pour finir Monster Boy et on comprend combien l'attente peut s'avérer longue pour les fans de la série. Du coup pour optimiser notre temps de travail et se concentrer à 100% au développement du jeu, on préfère mettre de côté les posts sur ce blog et nous ne serons malheureusement pas de la partie pendant la PGW. Ce temps et cette énergie seront certainement mieux utilisés pour vous livrer le "joyau" que vous attendez tant, plutôt qu'une poignée de screenshots ou une énième démo qui seront très vite obsolètes.
Bref merci de votre patience et à bientôt dès qu'on aura des jolies choses à vous montrer.
Spidey981 on :
Spidey981 on :
Fin août j'avais demandé s'il été possible d'avoir les paroles de la jpop interprétée par Haruka Shimotsuki. Thomas de chez FDG m'avais gentiment répondu en me disant que le blog ne supporte pas les caractères japonais et avais traduit par Google traduction. Évidemment ça reste très approximatif. J'aimerai savoir si il est possible d'avoir un lien avec les lyrics en japonais, l'un de mes anciens collègues le parle couramment et il pourrait me rendre ce service. Je siffle cette musique tout les jours et j'ai vraiment envie de savoir de quoi elle parle. Un grand merci
Fabien - Game Atelier on :
Les paroles de l'intro de Monster Boy en version originale sont disponibles ici:
https://justpaste.it/1bzoi
A bientôt,
Fabien
matthew barrett on :
FDG,Thomas on :
we definitely plan to release the game in 2018. There's currently over 20 people working on Monster Boy and the project would become too expensive if we need more time than that. We don't want to run out of money :p so fingers crossed we finish it soon! Please stay tuned until we can say a definite release window.
all the best
Thomas
FDG
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Jon on :
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MENTD on :
I've been following this since the beginning.
What are the chances that the public might get a demo?
It has been soooooo long! Please throw us a bone!