Cletus Clay - Clay Animation Platformer XBLA

[Family Fry]

This game looks really cool.

http://www.cletusclay.com/

Out 2009 on XBLA and PC.

Tis A side scrolling platform brawler entirely in clay animation




Quote from developer blog.

"If you're looking for the kind of game where you get to throw a pig at a flying saucer, then this is exactly that sort of game."

Im in

[EvilBoris]

That'll look lovely in HD!

No-one has done anything like that since Clayfighter and The Neverhood

[rmoxon]

That looks awesome.

It looks like Metal Slug, but in claymation, and with extra farm animals.....

[randombs]

Looks fantastic! Next stop, HD digitised Mortal Kombat (we can all dream)

[toythatkills]

I really want to see a video of this. That single screenshot that's doing the rounds really disappoints me, it just looks like CGI made to look like clay, if that's not what it actually is.

Need to see it moving for the full awesome to kick in.

[Matt]

Yeah I agree. Looks CG'd up, which would surely be missing the point? Hopefully that's just an odd screen that doesn't capture the feel correctly. It could be the lighting making it all look flat.

[Family Fry]

The picture above is a mock up, the press release file name says screenshot_mockup.png.
Been such a long time since something like this has been done on a game, cant help but hope it's gonna be good, the developer is doing a good job so far.
An in game video would be nice to see though totally agree with that, fluid animation is going to be what sells it more, seeing it in action would only hype it some more.

[spagmasterswift]

Don't you open that Trap Door, cos there's something down there...

[ChrisF]

CLUCK YOU!!! NO MSG!!!

That looks great

[Matt]

Don't you open that Trap Door, cos there's something down there...

Yeah, how DARE a company release a mock-up not using real in game assets!

[EvilBoris]

Apart from they blatantly are clay models

[Matt]

In what sense? They're a CG representation of the final product right? Or are they the real clay models put on to a CG background??

[EvilBoris]

It is all Clay photoshopped into one image

[Matt]

Fair enough, though that background doesn't look "real". It's very flat, that may well be how it was modeled.

Do you know for sure it's all clay in that mock-up??

[Dogg Thang]

They look clay to me. I think the problem is that it's not modelled to scale so it just doesn't quite sit right. The backgrounds in reality I reckon are much smaller compared with the characters. As a result, it removes the natural feel that it would have if it were one clay diorama just photographed.

That said, I like it.