SiN multiplayer survey

By Tom Bramwell Published 30 August, 2005

Ritual launches vast poll.

Ritual has started polling gamers about what sort of multiplayer content they would like to see in SiN Episodes - as the first instalment, Emergence, closes in on another milestone ahead of its late autumn launch.

The multiplayer survey covers a large number of subjects - everything from your preferred platforms, games and game modes, right down to individual components like weapon and respawn rules, persistent data-tracking and even the kind of hot-key voice comms you prefer.

Ritual says it will use the data to help form SiN Episodes' multiplayer modes, although the game is primarily a single-player affair - the first episode will offer about 6-8 hours of standalone content, and should retail for less than $20 when it's launched through Steam.

Meanwhile, a new development blog has also appeared online. In the first entry, dated August 19th, Shawn Ketcherside says that all of the game's levels are meant to be "gameplay-complete" by the end of the month. That means, "the levels are playable - all the enemies, pick-ups, puzzles, and everything else are placed. It's sort of the first-draft of the game." The blog also talks about level-planning, the dangers of feature-creep, and difficulties the team had designing the end-of-episode boss character.

SiN Episodes, for those feeling a bit lost, is a follow-up to PC first-person shooter SiN. Developer Ritual plans to release a number of small, reasonably-priced downloadable episodes through Half-Life developer Valve's games-on-demand service Steam. The first, Emergence, is due out later this year, and you can find out lots more about it elsewhere on the site.

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