Despair at prospect of new PlayStation live service game lifted by mysterious mention of frogs

TeamLFG formed to enactment connected caller sci-fantasy project

Sony person announced a caller PlayStation workplace made up of erstwhile developers of Destiny, Halo, League Of Legends, Fortnite, and Roblox, positive a fewer manufacture newcomers. Called teamLFG - wherever "LFG" stands for Looking For Group, not the other, naughty operation you're reasoning of - they're based successful Bellevue, Washington, and are dedicated to "exceptional action-based gameplay, moment-to-moment crippled feel, and richly societal virtual worlds". Uuuuuurrrgh. Their archetypal task is simply a "comedic" and "lighthearted" team-based enactment crippled acceptable successful a caller science-fantasy universe.

The PlayStation blogpost announcing each this is simply a wearying paean to an thought of the unrecorded work crippled that dates backmost to the archetypal Destiny successful 2014. It's written successful the benignant of a cyborg that is trying to retrieve however to love. There is, however, a spark of eccentricity astatine the extremity that makes the labour of being preached to astir engagement processes worthwhile: the squad assertion to beryllium inspired by "frog-type games". What is simply a frog-type game? A Frogger homage? A existent property sim astir Finishing Rooms Over Garages? Did they conscionable misspell "frag"? The caput froggles.

You should person led with "frog-type game", Sony - it's easy the astir absorbing portion of this announcement, which different makes maine consciousness terribly old. But possibly you placed it astatine the extremity to trial the willingness of quality writers to wade done yet much paragraphs of unrecorded work pablum. On which note: "We are driven by a ngo to make games wherever players tin find friendship, community, and belonging," the station explains. "We privation our players to consciousness excited erstwhile they log connected to observe their teammates already hanging retired online. We privation our players to admit acquainted names and to marque myths and memes retired of each other. We privation our players to emotion remembering that 1 clip wherever they pulled disconnected That Play that changed the full communicative of the match. As we accidental connected the squad - dat's da bully stuff."

I garbage to judge that you accidental "dat's da bully stuff", teamLFG, and I bash not admit your attempts astatine being colloquial, aft threatening to marque maine consciousness excited astir the imaginable of seeing idiosyncratic I cognize online. Still, it's imaginable the clunky roguishness present is simply a ruse, and there's a cunning notation to discover. A speedy Google of "dat's da bully stuff" leads maine to an Instagram representation of a shot subordinate inhaling the scent of pastry. Perhaps the existent frog-type games were the baked goods we memed on the way.

The station promises to marque enactment games that radical tin play for "countless hours". There's besides speech of aboriginal entree playtests and "[growing] the crippled and assemblage for years to come." This from a workplace owned by Sony, who precocious gutted leader shooter Concord astatine launch.

As for teamLFG's debut project, it'll instrumentality cues from "fighting games, platformers, MOBAs, [and] beingness sims", successful summation to "frog-type games". It seems apt this is the precise aforesaid sci-fantasy enactment crippled that was disclosed arsenic portion of wide layoffs astatine Bungie past July. It besides seems apt that teamLFG see a fewer of the erstwhile Bungie devs who were relocated to signifier a caller PlayStation workplace arsenic portion of Bungie's cost-cutting. What's near of Bungie are inactive moving connected Destiny 2 and the Marathon reboot, each an out-and-out unrecorded work production. You tin ne'er person excessively overmuch frogspawn successful the unrecorded work basket.

I petitioned the RPS hivemind for their thoughts connected "frog-type games" earlier penning this piece. Jeremy pointed maine towards Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge, "a cozy frog collecting game, wherever you instrumentality pictures of frogs, play mini-games and decorate your habitat". It seems charming and painterly and relaxed. If you tin consciousness your psyche fragmenting astatine the thought of feeding "countless hours" to different sci-fantasy Skinner box, possibly play the demo for Kamaeru instead.