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Linus tech tips coverage of pax 2013 is brought to you by western digital Intel and steelseries hey guys I'm back at the Indy mega booth with Scott for the game called necro now can you tell me more about what this game is really about sure so necro is a game about playing an undead necromancer right so you basically summon a bunch of monsters and then go raid innocent villages and utterly destroy them so basically it's the best premise for a game ever i noticed i watched the trailer on the indie mega booth trailer that's kind of an interesting thing to say but that's exactly what I death right yeah yeah and what it reminded me a lot of was when I was a kid and played warcraft 3 I know it's kind of weird but I was getting played warcraft 3 when you turn as Arthas one of the first missions you have is you get this huge army and then you just wreck a town yeah that's really what this reminded me of is did you get where did you get inspiration from you just nailed it basically for warcraft 3 like I mean the whole undead faction I love the end of action like the little meat wagon like we have something arguing called the meat bag which is basically like this bag on your back full of limbs and you throw them at people like it just came straight from the meat wagon which is like a big corpse train it's amazing but our main inspirations were basically really like late 90s games Dungeon Keeper is my biggest one ever i love like just monsters and you know each monster game has its own personality its own AI patterns like it really acts different than every other monster so that adds a lot of the strategy of our game but it also makes every creature feel like it has you know its own identity and that's I think huge in a game like this where it's all based on monsters so I mean dungeon keeper was a massive influence for me just because of that alone and then I don't know if you heard of this one but myth the fallen lords bye Bunji before you know the other Bungie game yes oh my god but that was one my favorite games of all time and basically in that game anytime something was destroyed it like just turning all these little jibs and the battlefield like staying the blood and the blood never went away the whole entire time and all the jibs like you end up with a battle where you just had this massive amount of disgusting meat everywhere and I know that sounds absolutely terrible but like it was so cheesy and fun I just I loved it so I mean those are my main influences workout three you know Dungeon Keeper myth a lot of games from the late 90s I just absolutely loved that's awesome late 90s games nothing wrong with that now one more thing to ask is you are the bad character in this game but it's a bad character you can still be a protagonist what the antagonists in this game there is an evil king so I basically when I say evil is relative because everything in our game is evil right everything is dark the world is completely corrupt but you used to work for this evil king right and essentially a he was very arrogant and wanted to live forever so you were this you know badass alchemist you make him a vile that will make him live forever but in order to do so it has a curse that you have to first die so he hated that sentence uses death and basically he throws the vial on your dead corpse and brings you back to life so now the super corrupted king is out there and you're chopped in this world of not living and not dead so the only way to bring yourself to the land of the dead is to exact revenge on this super evil king so you go do horrible stuff two guys done horrible stuff to you so it's just like the super epic battle of revenge on both parts right that's cool now one more question what is your personal favorite part about this game I absolutely love just the creature interactions it is a action game it's a strategy game it's a tactical game like everything about it is its own identity and like I've just I've not played a game like it and I'm not just saying that because I'm developing it you know like it really has its its own feel and its own kind of style to it that not a lot of our games do and I love that about it so i think i think it's basically that it covers so much ground it the minions interact with you in a different way than in any other game and you're just able to do things in this game that you can't do in other games i love that that's great to hear we've noticed a trend and I know I've said this in other videos but we have definitely noticed a trend into indie mega booth that these guys are doing stuff that's new they're doing stuff that's innovative like you said he hasn't played a game like this before it's probably true he probably hasn't played a game like this before because all these guys are driving innovation and trying new things thank you for showing us your game if you like next row necro sorry if you liked packs be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips