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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 here at the indy mega booth again with a game that I'm going to call raves but i will have the developer actually tell me how it's actually called so it's a dutch game and we actually pronounce it a vote and we still allow you to say reuse them that helps me a lot because that pronunciation is difficult for me can you go over a brief overview of what this game is about yeah sure so it's a god game and you control several Giants you probably see them here in the background and these Giants shape nature and you save nature to create a utopia for mankind so mankind settles down they're not on your under your control but they do use all the resources on the planet and at some point they will one more than you can give them and they'll start attacking each other and it'll even start attacking your Giants so even though your goal is to develop humanity they're actually really impedance oh it's the goal to balance grief and growth it's a really interesting background narrative now these Giants are the different types yeah so there are four different types you control all of them at any time there's a rock giant was responsible for the mountains you've got a notion giant forest Giants and the swamp giant or just some more exotic things yeah and how would you balance those like how would you go about I know there's different ways but how would you go about creating your personal utopia for Humanity so there's several ways about it you start off with a clean planet or clean slate so you can do whatever you want but you Mandy will behave differently so that will give you different rewards so you'll have to definitely interact with that and then there's an RPG element to the Giants so and any in any session you can only pick a few abilities that you will level up high so that means you would either go for animal life or plant life or for many upgrades or lots of resources now going through this game what are some key events that a player would run into okay some key events it starts with dare escaping and then you've got like the first settlements and if you're good enough you will get more eventually because it will only happen if humanity grows too fast so war is actually a very important events because it stops you from developing humanity and makes you deal with problems instead and then there's a tragic moment that you're giantess attacks and might it might even die so losing a giant losing a big core element of the game how does that play in and how did you go about balancing that so it's a very hard to lose a giant you would really easily destroy a village or an army but because your goal is to develop you humanity you wouldn't really do that you try to avoid that so actually if the player is too greedy about that you just going to lose a giant only them and without one of the Giants you can never do anything in the game anymore so you just lose the game so really can you actually win this game you can but it's based animated game in which you try to create a utopia but every time your Giants go to sleep and wake up again like all these obvious gone planets barren again so you manatees screwed up so you would only win if you unlock every different development for Humanity you learn everything there is about humanity and you create the perfect utopia all the way in the end game and that's that's when you win actually it's really interesting spin on a god game because in most God games there might be rebellions but it's usually rebellions against a king that's in the game not the actual God that you control so it's interesting to see that they can actually attack you directly what is your personal favorite part about this game my personal favorite part like I'm in AI programmer of this game so I really like watching the tiny humans and they can talk about all kinds of different things and they'll do different things and he'll start asking for resources so my favorite part is watching those yeah thanks to you for checking out Reyes or how you're actually supposed to pronounce it if you want to see the rest of our indie mega booth content you want to see the rest of our packs content be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips