My identify is Patrick, and I’m the Artwork Director for Zockrates Laboratories, the indie studio at present creating Ruffy and the Riverside. Along with our writer, Phiphen Video games, we’re proud to announce that Ruffy and the Riverside will likely be launched on PlayStation 5 on June 26, 2025. We’re completely happy to contribute to Ps`s custom of representing progressive and distinctive gameplay.
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A platformer journey with distinctive gameplay
Ruffy and the Riverside is a platformer journey with actually distinctive gameplay. When Ruffy isn‘t leaping, operating, skating, or gliding, he’s utilizing his distinctive Swap skill. With the Swap, you may copy and paste textures to alter the sport world, remedy puzzles, beat enemies, and finally save the world. Simply seize a texture and throw it someplace else, and the world will change!
It’s as simple because it sounds and has big impacts: Remodel water into ice to cross an ocean. Throw a climbing vine onto a waterfall, and you may climb up. With the Swap, you may trade supplies, symbols, the solar for the moon, and all colours. In case you coloration birds the identical coloration, they could find yourself as a pair. Apples are extra yummy when they’re pink, and some bushes will drop cash if they’ve a golden look.
After all, the Swap will help in fight, too. Why not freeze an enemy or catch him in flight by turning him into stone? The weather are on your facet in case you swap them correctly. Use your creativeness and make it occur. It actually feels magic to swap issues.
An journey filled with quests and challenges
Ruffy and the Riverside is a residing cartoon with many facet quests, particular person characters, and a ton of collectibles. So wherever you go, you may discuss to townspeople and animals, decide up facet quests, and search for treasures.
On his quest to carry again the six golden letters, Ruffy will journey to faraway areas, every with its personal challenges. Ruffy has to unravel age-old mysteries, compete in skating contests, and summon sunken islands to the sea’s floor. Wherever you go, you’ll find new grounds to discover. You may even leap into partitions and remedy puzzles in 2D ranges. And no worries, you gained’t get misplaced, as a result of you’ll by no means stroll alone. Pip, the sassy bee, is at all times on your facet and can carry you thru the air. Sir Eddler, the adventurous mole, is aware of all the methods, and Sily, the smart turtle, offers recommendation everytime you want it.
A hand-drawn world
Ruffy and the Riverside has a novel artwork fashion. The truth is, every thing was drawn by hand: all characters, all textures, even the UI and the map. Ruffy alone has over 600 particular person drawings. Why so many? Effectively, he was drawn from eight sides for every thing he does. No surprise it took seven years to create this world. The result’s a vibrant, colourful world, and we hope you`ll have enjoyable exploring it.
How the Swap was born
Swapping textures and altering the world feels magic. Now we have usually been requested how we obtained the thought of the Swap, and it’s a joke we need to share right here.
Once we began to work on Ruffy and the Riverside, we did numerous drawings for the degree design. In the future, I went by these drawings, and I discovered this black-and-white drawing of a waterfall. One thing about this drawing made it exhausting to inform if it was a waterfall or a stream of lava. As I questioned what it was, I noticed how wonderful it might be if it simply could possibly be each. What in case you may actually Swap the textures of the sport and rework the surroundings? The Swap was born.
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PlayStation reminiscences and PlayStation goals
Now we have put a lot ardour into Ruffy and the Riverside, and bringing it to PlayStation seems like a dream to us. All of us grew up with classics like Crash Bandicoot and Ratchet & Clank, and you may actually really feel these vibes in Ruffy and the Riverside. Seeing Ruffy run on PlayStation 5 now actually offers us the identical pleasure because it used to after we had been youngsters. I hope it offers you all the identical feeling when the sport releases on June 26.
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