Everything in the game revolves around the idea that you are constantly under this 30-second time limit’s pressure. It’s a key aspect of Aeon Drive’s design. For example, we knew we wanted a ground dash similar to the one in their series.Ĭould you tell us more about the 30-second time loop mechanic? Mirror’s Edge and its fast parkour style gameplay also was a significant source of inspiration. Platformers such as Celeste, Super Meat Boy, and The Messenger were some of the games we looked to while designing Aeon Drive. Of course, we also took inspiration from other games. Through several prototypes and playtesting with focus groups we came up with the time manipulation mechanic you now see in Aeon Drive. We got a grant from the Creative Industries Fund NL (the Dutch cultural fund for architecture, design and digital culture) to study new forms of approaching player death in video games. There were even early prototypes that didn’t feature Jackelyne at all! Our initial prototypes, for example, didn’t even feature the signature teleportation ability.
Thank you so much for comparing Aeon Drive to such cool games! However, Aeon Drive came from other inspirations, and most importantly it grew from prototyping and our community’s feedback. Did you get in the mood by playing a lot of these games? Or did Aeon Drive come from another place entirely? We got some Strider, Katana Zero, and even some Bionic Commando vibes from Aeon Drive’s trailers. Why throw all that away when we can build on it? It seemed to be the obvious choice. We already had a space opera universe, with dimensional and time travel, several interesting alien races and locations, and our beloved protagonist.
But, at the same time, we wanted to continue the story of Jackelyne and VERA while expanding the game universe we created with Dimension Drive. So we made the teleportation dagger ability and the time manipulation mechanic. With Aeon Drive, we wanted to do something new again and create a platformer that was built with speedrunning in mind. We did that with Dimension Drive, creating a dual screen shoot ’em up that allowed players to switch from one game screen to the other at will. One of the core principles at 2Awesome Studio is that we want to make games with innovative mechanics. We don’t want to restrict ourselves to a single genre or style of game. This is something we planned from the beginning of the series.
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It’s unusual to find a series that leapfrogs into a completely different genre, with Dimension Drive being a shoot ’em up and Aeon Drive being an action-platformer. Jackelyne and VERA crashland in Neo Barcelona and that’s the start of their new adventure. Aeon Drive starts a few years after the events of Dimension Drive - Jackelyne is no longer a teenager but a grown woman that has been through a lot. Without getting into many spoilers, let’s say that Dimension Drive had an unexpected ending for Jackelyne. How does Aeon Drive continue Jackelyne’s story? However, players that have experienced Dimension Drive will, of course, have extra bits and pieces of information that enhance the story of Aeon Drive. So, we made sure Aeon Drive was a self-contained story. It’s the first game we ever made! Having said that, we are aware that people may come to Aeon Drive without any previous knowledge of the series. Well, of course, we recommend Dimension Drive. Would you recommend that people play Dimension Drive first? Players might not be aware, but this is the second in the ‘Drive’ series, after Dimension Drive. Aeon Drive is a fast-paced platformer with a speedrunning twist! Imagine that you are watching a really impressive, exciting speedrun on YouTube or Twitch… But it’s you who does the speedrunning! Our game is all about making you feel fast and efficient - you must complete each level within 30 seconds, and the teleportation ability allows you to perform really creative tricks to make it to the end of the level as quickly as possible.
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