Red Dwarf adventure game

[International Debris]

Seen on Bluesky… https://bsky.app/profile/supernorn.bsky.social/post/3mnetl2i5ak2n

A while back we had the wonderful opportunity to pitch a Red Dwarf adventure game directly to Doug Naylor himself. While the project didn’t end up going ahead, we’re now free to share some of the work we produced for the pitch!

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[Dave]

Oh, that looks great. Feels very Full Throttle.

[Warbodog]

Looks nice. Not enough information to tell if it would have been enjoyable as a game, since I didn’t stick with many adventure games past the early screens.

Seems like they’re big fans, but not well-versed enough in modern Red Dwarf reality to have realised this didn’t have a chance of happening.

[Unrumble]

[Jenuall]

Barely a nostril in sight on that Rimmer sprite. Can see why Doug passed.

Joking aside though this is a real shame, alongside novels this kind of thing feels like it could be one of the better and more achievable ways of keeping the show alive

[Moonlight]

I would play the fuck out of this.

[Rushy]

Would it have been like Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis? I would have adored that

[Warbodog]

Maybe similar in having a semi-linear narrative based around interacting with props and characters with some flexibility for which order you do things / go to places in.

The format’s a good fit for Red Dwarf, more than a generic platformer or shoot-em-up or something, but it’d need a story that was engaging and funny enough to be worthy of the name, and even Red Dwarf’s creators can’t always pull that off.

[Dax101]

I guess we can’t have nice things.

[Technopeasant]

The format’s a good fit for Red Dwarf, more than a generic platformer or shoot-em-up or something

As opposed to say Farscape, which I still think is a crying shame to never have gotten the Elite Force/Jedi Outcast treatment on the Quake III engine back in the early 2000s.

And well, there’s always these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jLYTTN0oZY

[Technopeasant]

Another person in the thread posted their own mockup:

A pixel version of X does do my head in…

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