This is one of those game concepts that gives me pleasant little chills down my spine just imagining it. 10tacle Studios today announces the development of TOTEMS for the PC and Xbox 360. Totems is described as a super-heroic platform game that inspired by the urban sport Le Parkour, which is like free running only instead of focusing on freedom of movement it instead strives for efficiency of movement. Kind of hard to explain, so check out this YouTube vid of the sport in action. Now imagine that in a game featuring an original super hero mythology and you can kinda see where my tingles are coming from. 10tacle uses a system called the Semantic Environment Sensing System to give your character, NPCs, enemies and even the camera an acute awareness of their surrounds, enabling never before seen non-scripted movement. This just sounds exquisite, and it doesn't look too shabby either. I'll wait to see TOTEMS in action before I start obsessing, but consider my interest highly piqued.
















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