Edmund McMillen & friends strike again

January 7, 2010 7:46 PM

Friday windows-only fun: Cryptic Sea, developers of the hits Gish and Bridge Builder, are back with combat/economy/flight simulator game A New Zero (gameplay)

Humbly titled 'a simulation', the game is minimalist: 3d with no textures, team with no player names, and has one hell of a steep learning curve. Patient gamers are rewarded with a deep, demanding, and satisfying team combat game.

Trade goods to earn money, spend it on capturing bases, building stronger economies, or combat craft to destroy your opponents' infrastructure. Drive boats or, if you have the skill, fly aircraft with the mouse and keyboard. There are no official servers, so host your own. Good luck!

posted by anthill (8 comments total)

Sweet. This should be fun for my LAN party in a couple of weeks. Thanks.
posted by adamdschneider at 8:34 PM on January 7, 2010

This makes me want to play Carrier Command, but I know that Carrier Command isn't going to be as good as this.
posted by threeze at 9:36 PM on January 7, 2010

I am not sure this is supposed to be fun. It seems like a piece of art that some people mistaken thought was a game.
posted by TypographicalError at 10:14 PM on January 7, 2010

Huh, threeze... Carrier Command was exactly what I started thinking about. The four highly polygonal craft launching from what looked like a flat deck had me instantly back on the Amiga. But then I started thinking that CC just wouldn't make for a very good modern game... the exciting bits were the 3D and multiple points of view and ability to control several things at once, which are all common nowadays. The actual gameplay of CC wasn't all that great.
posted by Malor at 12:19 AM on January 8, 2010

It actually reminds me of BZFlag more than anything else. Lack of textures, big balls as bullets, best played on servers with >25 players.

I may have to dig out Crossover Games to try this.
posted by joshwa at 4:57 AM on January 8, 2010

Well, it's only 0.5MB, so it only needs to be 1/44800 as exciting as Bergesbanen.
posted by anthill at 6:10 AM on January 8, 2010

"Everything in A New Zero is procedurally generated at run-time, meaning the entire game fits in one 516 KB executable "

Wowsers.
posted by eurasian at 11:12 AM on January 8, 2010

Whether you liked it or not, the author would like your feedback here:
posted by anthill at 7:12 PM on January 8, 2010