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Terraria 2.0?

[UPDATE: Tiyuri contacted us after having waded through the fans to ask us to shift the focus away from a Terraria sequel completely. Although we made this clear in the post - it seems a lot of people only read headlines to base their assumptions. Who knew? We obliged Tiyuri's request and have altered the headline ever so slightly.]

One of the masked bandits behind Terraria, Tiyuri, has revealed the first screenshots and information regarding his upcoming game. Terraria fans, rejoice!

Terraria needs no introduction to anyone. Arguably, it’s second only to Minecraft in the size of its community in the indie game sphere. It’s hard to imagine how it could get any better, but it seems that might just be happening in the coming future with the eventual reveal of the next project from the developer.

The screenshot that acts as a header is the latest reveal, teasing fans to ask prying questions and begging for more information. The developer’s focus with that latest screenshot was to showcase the development of the lighting and real-time shadows. You may be looking at it from a different angle, sizing up your first impressions and probably concluding that it looks like more Terraria, albeit with a few differences.

There was a much more exciting shot released a couple of weeks back though, one that many people missed and this one is certain to fizzle like sherbet on your tongue.

Behold!

Arctic

Take a few minutes to scan from corner to corner, soaking every little detail in. Exciting, isn’t it? Penguin kings, the Aurora Borealis, jellyfish-brains and cyborgs are just a couple of things we spotted.

“It’s a mix of diablo, metroid, castlevania, terraria, pokemon + some new stuff no one has ever done before”, said Tiyuri to an eager fan, whetting their appetite. We had a quick chat with Tiyuri who then added “maybe borderlands too”.

One thing is for certain though; although this upcoming game may bear some resemblances with Terraria, as Tiyuri himself said to us, “It’s going to be a considerably different game to Terraria“.

Further vouching for that is some more assets that we found relating to the game, this one showcases some of the characters and their animations. While this one seems to showcase bipedal mechs to jump in and hopefully cause chaos with.

Is your head spinning frantically with ideas, hopes and excitement now? Good. We’ll keep you stewing in your own juices for now then.

More information on this as of yet untitled game will arrive later in the year. All we can confirm for now is that the game will be available for Windows and Mac. Look out for more small tid bits by following Tiyuri on Twitter!

UPDATE: More screenshots have been discovered, though they are older ones once again.

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  • Anonymous

    It looks horrible D:

  • Hwood

    If by horrible you mean extremely awesome ya I would have to agree.

  • Bleh

    Looks like a huge step down from the charm that Terraria offered. Looks like amateur flash art. It is uninspired and boring. Reminds me of something Zynga would pass off as a game and has that “Churned this out for a quick buck” feel about it. Do not like.

  • Anon

    If there are penguins there, it’s probably aurora australis, not borealis.

  • Jack

    I think it looks fine. I mean, I love the whole oldie feel of Terraria, but this is far from something Zynga would offer. A few screenshots shouldn’t ruin a game for anyone. It might have the quality of Terraria plus a nice looking graphical upgrade. Or it could be shit. I think it’s too early to be critiquing it like this.

  • Blue

    @Bleh – this is dev art and doesn’t represent the final version.

    For reference this is what Braid looked like before it got spruced up.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Braid-art-1.jpg

  • http://twitter.com/JRocSupreme Nathan

    Looks basically like a Terraria 2.0, although from the images, the graphics make it look like Terraria 0.5. However, Tiyuri could just be going for a new art style for this game, and either way I will probably purchase it because I love Terraria. :)

  • Eugene

    Don’t know what you guy are smoking. This art looks *lightyears* better than Terraria’s.

  • will

    You guys have to remember that this is a SNEAK PEEK. Probably a very early build of the game, and they are probably using the same engine as terraria.

  • Jonathan

    This is extremely disappointing. It looks like flavorless art produced by a 3rd party who couldn’t care less about the final product.

  • Anon

    If there’s penguins, it has to be Aurora Australis, as there are no penguins in the arctic.

  • Wesley

    Geez people, this is obviously not just dev art, get real. Also this art style is brilliant in my opinion. I think it has a lot of personality and charm from what I can see. Anyone saying that this looks worse than Terraria is an idiot, god. Terraria is pretty much as generic and simple as it can get graphically, whereas this actually looks unique.

  • http://ProjectStormos.com RobStorm

    Gives me a bit of a Scribblenauts feel actually

  • http://twitter.com/JRocSupreme Nathan

    Ah! New screenshots? I’ve never seen them before anyway. The more I see of this game, the more excited I get.

  • Sir Poosan

    I see an L and R in the upper right corner of the snow picture, do I hear controller support/not only releasing on computers?

  • http://a Alerek

    the L & R refer to the left & right mouse buttons~

  • Sir Poosan

    Well then this is embarrassing…..

  • cj

    well i think the artwork is amazing. it’ll call for much better sprite characters and better detail. plus they obviously aren’t done with the game lol :) take my money

  • Shif

    Characters look like shit, everything else looks great, fix that and it will be good

  • Khan

    I’m loving the new graphics, also looks like he revamped the menu, looking much slicker.
    I hope he also spruced up the gameplay a bit, couldn’t get the different souls ect to drop post Wall of Flesh.

  • Mushie

    It looks old school and amatourish, and that is epic :3

    And you got space armour, and if there is penguins it gotta be a good game, right?

  • Derp

    Wtf are you guys talking about? Your saying this looks like amateurish flash, yet you’ve havent even played, much less seen a video.

  • http://www.angrymeteor.com Nerdbot

    Lol@Ragaholics bashing the game after a few REALLY early screens.
    Looks promising, some screens look meh, some screens look beautiful.
    And the sprites are pretty neat:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/PlayBoxCube/npcexamples-2.gif

    They’re doing their best to create a fun game. And looking at Terraria I’d say: Relax and wait for it.
    In the end, chances are high that we’re ALL going to play the shit out of it.

  • anon

    lots of morons in these comments
    this is awesome and an instant buy!

  • Hadomf

    Ugly as fuck.

  • lighty

    Looks funny. I’d like to try it out!

  • Anonylulz

    now now, that’s no way to boost your self esteem!

  • Jawsh Kennel

    this looks like fucking polly pocket

  • Jawsh Kennell

    there’s 2 L’s dipshit

  • N/A

    OMG! I WANT A TRAILER!

  • Fucktard

    WOW I FEEL LIKE ON CRACK

  • http://twitter.com/kallisti5 Alex

    If it runs on linux… take my money.  TAKE IT.

  • Theroombaguy

    I WANT U!
    GAME

  • Theroombaguy

    NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jek-Zaitcev/100003277828296 Jek Zaitcev

    download?!?!

  • Boudenshwerk

    It’s not terraria, It’s spacebound -.-

  • ClerkofChaos

    it looks good dont really like the look of the people..  and a inventory like terarria would be much more pleasurable then that bulky inventory.

  • Theonielsen

    how do i get it

  • Guest

    One pixel eyes? Why?
    This is 2012!

  • Assmunch

    GAEM NEED BETTAR GARPHICS OR I NOT PLAY ANETHING BUT CALL OF DOODY!

  • Syviery

    well it looks ok but hwen you mentioned that it might be like borderlands i cringed i LOVE borderlands but dont compare a game like that to the awesomness of borderlands.

  • AudioStrike

    The fuck are you guys talking about? This looks wicked.

  • Jay Forest

    Guys, the game is supposed to look pixelated. Have you ever seen Terraria? This game looks about x1000 better than it. Games don’t always have to look so amazing.

  • Ilovethisgame

    this geam is good