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A scanner sombre update#

The final update for Scanner Sombre will be the new virtual reality mode, demonstrated in the video above, before the team moves onto making something new - in addition to continued support for Prison Architect. In other words this can relatively comfortably be chalked up to experience. To continue to keep it going: that's the bread and butter, and it enables us to take risks and do more interesting work that gamers are ready for or are not ready for.' That would be the height of folly, to leave it now. But it does purport to be a horror game, and despite the absolutely incredible potential it has to horrify, it does very, very little of that. 'What the true stupidity would have been is if we'd stopped working on. Scanner Sombre probably didnвЂ™t mean to place my expectations where it did, because it has a very clear idea of what it is and the story it wants to tell. We would have been out again on our ear, we wouldn't have any money. 'But in the olden days it would have been. 'We took a punt, it didn't work out for us but it's not the end of the world,' added Mark Morris. Scanner Sombre is a relatively short experience, lasting 4-5 hours, and itвЂ™s reminiscent of story-driven games like EverybodyвЂ™s Gone to the Rapture or Firewatch, where much of the time you. 'There's something about the nature of the game itself, how it's very weird looking and very short and a one-time only thing, that made a lot of people pass on it,' he said. It's that fleeting sense of entertainment - a few hours next to Prison Architect's endless replayability - Delay believes might have put people off. We were fond of Scanner Sombre but did say it was 'insubstantial' in our review. Using the scanner produces rainbow-coloured light particles that form different areas of the cave, which eventually turns out to be an. The player wakes up in a dark cave, armed only with a scanner. Scanner Sombre was built much more quickly than Prison Architect, in around nine months, as a kind of creative palette-cleanser for Introversion. Scanner Sombre is an exploration video game developed and published by Introversion Software. 'It's not the best game we've ever made - we knew it wasn't - and we knew it was niche but we didn't think it was going to be that niche - crazy, crazy, nobody's-interested-in-this-game niche. 'I didn't think that was possible after ,' said Delay in a video chat with other Introversion boss, Mark Morris. It sold, Introversion said, around 6000 copies. But the two-million-plus-sales success of Prison Architect skewed expectations about what Scanner Sombre would sell. Scanner Sombre was released in April and was Introversion's first new game in years, Prison Architect having engulfed the small British studio since 2011. 'It's bombed in a big way,' said Introversion's head game maker, Chris Delay.

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Introversion Software also previously developed and published the BAFTA award winning Prison Architect.

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It is available on both PC and Macintosh computers, and features both controller and VR support, for the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. Eerie, colour-spraying exploration game Scanner Sombre has 'bombed'. Scanner Sombre is an exploration game both developed and published by Introversion Software.