#Wii u trine 2 update free#

How have you found this experience, and would you want to return to working with a publisher for future titles?Īctually we have always been self-publishing on Steam so this is not that new to us. George Reith: The director’s cut of Trine 2 is meant to be the first title Frozenbyte have distributed themselves. Still, other forms of art have had a huge effect on the Trine franchise, from the Tolkien books to all high-fantasy in general.

#Wii u trine 2 update free#

What made Trine quite unique compared to a lot of previous platformers was the free physics aspect in puzzle solving. Almost everything else can be attributed to a variety of games from the past and there are so many that it would not make sense to mention one or two in particular. We always get the “Lost Vikings” reference, but funny enough not primarily from the original designer of Trine. I believe there has been a lot of influence in each stage of development of the original Trine, meaning from the days when it was a one man project to the time when it was completed by a 20 man team. For the genres the clear directions come from puzzle and platforming. Are there any games or game genres in particular that you think have vastly influenced Trine and Trine 2? George Reith: The Trine games seem to take influence from a variety of genres. Maybe some were looking for a larger leap in terms of pure power, but in the end I believe most developers will be quite comfortable with the system. The whole architecture is running very well and we were able to ramp the T2 art to a higher degree than with the other consoles. So for porting no issues at all and there is a nice base for future original development too. Did you have any trouble porting Trine 2 to Wii U because of this? George Reith: Some developers have been critical of the Wii U’s slow CPU. This being our first launch title we guessed there would’ve been a lot more problems, but everything went quite well in the end. Not much can be said yet for the future of the indie scene on the Wii U, but according to our experience so far, it is the console to beat. Hopefully other indies gets similar vibes and next holiday season we will have a thriving community of the small guys on the Nintendo side. Did you find this in your experience of distributing through the Wii U eShop?

George Reith: Nintendo are apparently going out of their way to treat indie developers well through eShop distribution. We will be moving on to other IP as we feel this is the best way for us to grow as a company. 2013 will be quite a year for us and we aim to please with some cool announcements.Īs for the Trine franchise, it is clearly our most succesful so far making a third installment a no brainer. Having said that, we don’t want it to feel like Trine 2.5, but rather a large leap and something even more awe insipiring. So that might take a while. George Reith: Is there likely to be a Trine 3 in the future, or will Frozenbyte be moving onto another intellectual property or perhaps a next generation game? We would really like to bring more DLC and maybe the Magic Mayhem later on, but currently we are contemplating if it would be better to put in another long development cycle to get out high quality DLC or if we should just turn our focus over to a third Trine game. Goblin Menace took about a year to create, so quite a massive DLC in todays standards. Any word on other DLC campaigns for Trine 2? George Reith: The Goblin Menace DLC was a great expansion. In the end we had a lot of work with bringing the DLC up to the level of quality that we intended, so scrapping the Magic Mayhem for the launch window made sense. The idea was to have small mini games that would really make use of the Wii U Gamepad. Magic Mayhem was something we intended to do and still is a possibility, but not a likelyhood.

George Reith: What happened to the Magic Mayhem party mode mentioned for the Director’s Cut of Trine 2, and can we expect it in a future update? We recently got in touch with the developers of Trine 2 and had a long chat about the development of the game on the Wii U, their experience on working on different platforms and more. Trine 2 is one of those rare games that has been published on almost every major platform out there and have managed to deliver uncompromising quality.