Eurogamer - Recoil Games' Rochard was a critical success, but a financial failure. Now the developer has released some pre-production footage of its sequel, which is currently on hold.
This week, Rochard is up for grabs in the Humble Weekly Sale, along with a few digital bonuses. In a break from tradition, the entire bundle is available for any price, as opposed to having a beet the average bonus.
Recently, Recoil Games posted a rather spiffy video showing off some pre-production gameplay for the Rochard: Part 2, the possible sequel to last year’s sleeper gem Rochard.
Shortly after the original title dropped on the Playstation Network (following last year’s PSN Play promotion) the team at Recoil began work on Rochard’s next interstellar adventure. Sadly, a series of financial drawbacks put the brakes on the game’s development. As stated by Recoil, their woes began when the PSN Store got hacked, soon after that Rochard’s release date was postponed until late September; making layoffs inevitable. Luckily a small group went on to polish up and port the title further for its Steam and Mac App Store releases.
Rochard was a very good game... i hope they get the funding to continue Rochard 2. There is always kickstarter.