Time Gentlemen, Please: Screenshots!

Is it time we started getting excited about Time Gentlemen, Please?

So things have gone ever so slightly awry on the TGP front, as you may well have noticed. What was very much supposed to be a teeny-tiny fun little follow-up to Ben There, Dan That! has somehow accidentally blossomed into a big crazy action-packed full-length adventure game. Whoopsie!

Time Gentlemen, Please! is suddenly somehow slightly longer than Ben There, Dan That! was. It also looks exponentially prettier, and I thought it’s about time I showed off some of the stuff that’s near-as-dammit ‘done’.

First thing, the Dan and Ben images have been smartened up, with shading and detail added. Don’t worry, their classic walkcycles remain very much in tact, they’re just a little easier on the eye:

After the jump, screenshots :)

Everything looks slightly crisper - it’s running at a higher resolution and with much more detail and care put into the locations, but still with that scatty BTDT look and feel:

What else? Oooh, there’s also the EmotionsEngine, which shows whether Dan and Ben are happy, grumpy or relatively indifferent to a scene.

Excitingly, I’ve somehow roped an oh-so clever chap called Nick in to work on some ‘particle effects’, which is the sort of futuristic thing games need these days if ‘the kids’ are going to talk about it in the playground. You can’t see any of these so-called ‘particles’ in these screenshots, but I assure you they do exist, helping the game look much more fluid and funky.

If you somehow haven’t played Ben There, Dan That! yet, maybe now’s the time to get in on the action.

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