Adam Ryland Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that I'll be releasing a new game, Comic Book Universe, later this year. The new game will have a similar flavour to Comic Book Hero but is not going to be a direct sequel. CBH was built around the idea of being a 'career sim' where you took control of a single character, but I felt that that concept was a little too limiting. The new game, CBU, will instead widen the scope and have the player taking control of all the heroic characters. I think this expansion makes for more varied gameplay, better replayability, and allows me to focus more on building a more interesting game world....or in this case, game universe. I'm not going to go into very much detail now as my intention is to do my usual Developer's Journal a little later in the year; that will be where I'll be going through the various features and concepts and explaining what you can expect. The game development is already at quite an advanced stage, with it being fully playable and about to go into the beta stage in the next couple of weeks. I'm not going to give an exact release date yet as I want to see how testing progresses, but I can say that I'm working towards having it come out in the late summer of this year. You can expect regular updates over the coming weeks as we build toward release, and a dedicated CBU forum will be opening in the near future. If you have any questions or comments in the meantime, feel free to use this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Ryland Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that I'll be releasing a new game, Comic Book Universe, later this year. The new game will have a similar flavour to Comic Book Hero but is not going to be a direct sequel. CBH was built around the idea of being a 'career sim' where you took control of a single character, but I felt that that concept was a little too limiting. The new game, CBU, will instead widen the scope and have the player taking control of all the heroic characters. I think this expansion makes for more varied gameplay, better replayability, and allows me to focus more on building a more interesting game world....or in this case, game universe. I'm not going to go into very much detail now as my intention is to do my usual Developer's Journal a little later in the year; that will be where I'll be going through the various features and concepts and explaining what you can expect. The game development is already at quite an advanced stage, with it being fully playable and about to go into the beta stage in the next couple of weeks. I'm not going to give an exact release date yet as I want to see how testing progresses, but I can say that I'm working towards having it come out in the late summer of this year. You can expect regular updates over the coming weeks as we build toward release, and a dedicated CBU forum will be opening in the near future. If you have any questions or comments in the meantime, feel free to use this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek DiBenedetto Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Awesome, can't wait to see what you come up with! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cappyboy Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Very welcome news. CBH was a terrific game even with its limits and I may look into re-acquiring it when the busy season I'm in at the moment. Will be interesting to see how you build on an already strong universe and what new wrinkles await in the upcoming game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death Croc Jr Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Now this was some unexpected news. I enjoyed CBH, and still play it once and a while. Looking forward to the development diary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landxx Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Nice finnally waited thisf or long time and i can announce i will definetly make same mod like on CBH:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabrielnodoubt Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that I'll be releasing a new game, Comic Book Universe, later this year. The new game will have a similar flavour to Comic Book Hero but is not going to be a direct sequel. CBH was built around the idea of being a 'career sim' where you took control of a single character, but I felt that that concept was a little too limiting. The new game, CBU, will instead widen the scope and have the player taking control of all the heroic characters. I think this expansion makes for more varied gameplay, better replayability, and allows me to focus more on building a more interesting game world....or in this case, game universe. I'm not going to go into very much detail now as my intention is to do my usual Developer's Journal a little later in the year; that will be where I'll be going through the various features and concepts and explaining what you can expect. The game development is already at quite an advanced stage, with it being fully playable and about to go into the beta stage in the next couple of weeks. I'm not going to give an exact release date yet as I want to see how testing progresses, but I can say that I'm working towards having it come out in the late summer of this year. You can expect regular updates over the coming weeks as we build toward release, and a dedicated CBU forum will be opening in the near future. If you have any questions or comments in the meantime, feel free to use this thread. Whew! Amazing news! I like the concept, can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamFedora Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Hey, new here. Was looking for TEW mods originally. I came across this post and looked at the previous Comic Book game. The concept sounds awesome! I'm excited to try this new one once it's out. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarity Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Well well.. colour me intriqued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackman Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 I never really played CBH much (too much WMMA) but though i'm far from a comic book nut I will always have interest in this, especially if it can match the complexity of TEW20. Good that you're taking your time with the universe building. I think that's crucial for this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike b Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Yessssss I New It Som Told Me This Year Will Be A New Comic Book Game. Im Sold Im Hyped I Want It Nowwwwww:d:d:d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngz999 Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that I'll be releasing a new game, Comic Book Universe, later this year. The new game will have a similar flavour to Comic Book Hero but is not going to be a direct sequel. CBH was built around the idea of being a 'career sim' where you took control of a single character, but I felt that that concept was a little too limiting. The new game, CBU, will instead widen the scope and have the player taking control of all the heroic characters. I think this expansion makes for more varied gameplay, better replayability, and allows me to focus more on building a more interesting game world....or in this case, game universe. I'm not going to go into very much detail now as my intention is to do my usual Developer's Journal a little later in the year; that will be where I'll be going through the various features and concepts and explaining what you can expect. The game development is already at quite an advanced stage, with it being fully playable and about to go into the beta stage in the next couple of weeks. I'm not going to give an exact release date yet as I want to see how testing progresses, but I can say that I'm working towards having it come out in the late summer of this year. You can expect regular updates over the coming weeks as we build toward release, and a dedicated CBU forum will be opening in the near future. If you have any questions or comments in the meantime, feel free to use this thread. You asked for questions. I have one. What do we do in this upcoming game? I liked the characters from Comic Book Hero but the fights were repetitive and the world never changed. The goal was just to increase arbitrary numbers by doing the same thing over and over. The best thing about TEW and WMMA is how the rich game world changes over time - very dynamically, either influenced by the player or by itself. Often I'll sim games without even playing, or tinker with the editor and see how it unfolds. Manually pressing "punch" and "kick" to battle in a text based game wasn't interesting for me, so I hope it's more of a managerial sim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattyc Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 This is a very welcome and exciting announcement. I always felt that CBH was a great foundation. It's a game that I still revisit and have fun with from time to time. I've always hoped that Adam would return to the comic book genre to build upon the potential possibilities that CBH opened the doors for. I look forward to hearing further details! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike b Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 It would be great like was mentioned in another post if this game had a evolving universe like in tew. Heros turning into villains and vice a versa would be fun or maybe switching teams or maybe forming there own would make the game so much fun. Even maybe choices that we make that effect how the world views us would make the game so much more fun i believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Looking forward to this!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eayragt Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Good luck - I liked the concept of the first one, and if you can turn it into something as Organic as the Cornellverse the stories that come out could be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Cobra Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 I loved my time with CBH, though I'll admit the actual gameplay loop got repetitive eventually so I more really enjoyed taking comic, game, anime and other franchises and putting them in one massive universe and watching everything crossover. Still I always said it was a strong base and much like the TEW series could really be something special with a sequel or two, so I'm glad we're sort of getting that here. I will be watching with great interest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azaquaz Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Awesome news! My biggest wish for a follow-up to CBH is for steam workshop support for player-created content. I think CBH's modding scene seriously suffers from dead links - people put a lot of work into making big sets of characters only for their file hosts to go down, making it very difficult to get ahold of older mods. Steam Workshop would solve this pretty handily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTFail Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 While news of this new game is very exciting, I find myself feeling nervous by the lack of promised regular updates. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Ryland Posted September 23, 2022 Author Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 hour ago, DTFail said: While news of this new game is very exciting, I find myself feeling nervous by the lack of promised regular updates. Eh? There have been regular updates and the last one was only a few days ago..? They're in the thread immediately below this. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FellaLibby Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 I've just found out about this and I'm now SUPER excited about this! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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