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Though there's no announced platforms for the project - the demo at PAX was being played on PCs with wired Xbox 360 controllers - Kasavin says that with a release window roughly a year away, Supergiant is happy to sit back and see how the changing landscape plays out.

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Unique in the larger landscape of independent game development, Bastion was released for a panoply of platforms, beginning with Xbox Live Arcade and eventually making its way the full PC triumvirate of Windows, Mac OS X and Linux as well as iOS, OnLive and even Google Chrome. We're showing this thing for the first time and letting people play it Bastion was our approach for doing fantasy we wanted to see if we could do something in the science fiction genre. But for right now, we felt that we wanted to explore in these other areas and try something different. 'We love the world of Bastion, and I don't know what the future holds. There are enough sequels out there now, we think.'īut that doesn't mean Kasavin and company are averse to revisiting Bastion again. 'We're very, very aware of the unique situation that we're in where we can afford to do something new,' Kasavin said.

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But we feel as though it's at a point that people can take a stab at it and get a sense of what we're going for with it.'Īnother benefit of being self-funded is that Supergiant is free to create an entirely new intellectual property right after finding success with Bastion. We know it's still early and it's going to keep getting better. 'We're showing this thing for the first time and letting people play it,' Kasavin said. That financial independence means Supergiant is free to promote its game how it sees fit and, despite a vague but notably distant 'early 2014' release window, the game is at PAX. But even with that expansion, Transistor, like Bastion, remains self-funded. After the success of that title, the seven-person team relocated from a house-cum-office in San Jose to a 'more proper' office in San Francisco and brought on three additional developers to help them realize their latest project. While Bastion was completely self-funded, it required a publisher to make the journey to Xbox Live Arcade, per Microsoft's policies. Later enemies required stacked commands - using a dash ability to get behind the enemy before attacking him - hinting at a strategic complexity absent in the studio's earlier game.

Move in front of a row of enemies, hold B to line up an attack and press RT to execute the string of commands. Pressing right trigger pauses the action, allowing you to map out a sequence of moves for Red to make. Unlike Bastion, the combat in Transistor takes a more turn-based, strategic approach. He calls to her and, once picked up, becomes her weapon and companion, narrating much of the action (this should be familiar to those of you who played Bastion). She stumbles upon a sword embedded in the body of a dead man the man's consciousness seemingly inhabits the sword. This newest point finds its heroine - Red, named for her shock of hair - awake in a mysterious place after being attacked by assassins. 'And people had one data point around us with Bastion and now they have another one.'

'We understand that it takes two points to form a line,' Supergiant Games creative director Greg Kasavin told Polygon. This weekend, a roughly 20-minute demo of Transistor is playable at PAX East in Boston, giving gamers a chance to see what Supergiant's been working on since finishing Bastion. It featured beautiful, painterly graphics, original music, and an abstracted, isometric world in other words, it looked a lot like the independent developer's previous game, Bastion. Three days ago, Supergiant Games announced its next game with a trailer.

Supergiant Games' creative director discusses the studio's newest game, why it's not a sequel to their previous game, the reason they haven't chosen a target platform yet, and why they were never worried about making a female lead character.

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