The International House of Mojo

You know what, I think you're right. I guess Ronzo doesn't want pure adventurers to snub the game (how could we? it's a game from Ronzo!). I'm also pretty sure it's gonna have lots of riddles (not proper "puzzles") and strong narrative. Who cares what genre it is? That's just a label for marketing reasons. I'm excited.

How can you watch the trailer and think its not a puzzle platformer at all?

Is it played in a platformer perspective? Sure looks like it.

Are there puzzles? I hope so.

Pretty sure that counts as being a little bit of a puzzle platformer, no?

I think Ron just wants people to be aware that there will be an actual story line, and probably wont be level based. Other than that, I think its absolutely a puzzle platformer.

Yeah, I was thinking "The Lost Vikings" the second that it fired up, which... is actually pretty damn good. The world's been pining for a genuine spiritual successor to that game for the better part of fifteen years, and you this looks like it's half-past legit.

Edited the news post in deference to the creator's take on the genre. I was going off of what the preview authors were saying, since they've actually seen the game in action and I haven't. Maybe Ron could avoid this type of misunderstanding in the future by inviting Mojo out to these little press shindigs. ¬¬

As a lifelong Maniac Mansion fanatic, one of the few new details I learned about the game's conception from when Ron was making the rounds with that retrospective keynote was that he basically started designing the game (as a board game, apparently?) before he even knew what genre it was going to be. And then King's Quest made the light bulb go off, I guess. Kind of amazing, to me!

Yeah, that's how I saw it, He talked about Limbo a lot so one could assume he's too lot's of inspiration from that. King's Quest helped Ron to figure out Maniac Mansion's design, so maybe LIMBO had the same effect on him with The Cave?

Looks great. Reminds me a bit of "Another World".

Yeah, it looks like Trine + adventure game, which is an interesting combo. Or I guess another way you could look at it is Limbo + Multiple Characters? The The Cave website is really nice. Simple but evocative.

According to Ron's comment "Yes, The Cave is an adventure game. It is not a puzzle platformer." this won't be a puzzle platformer at all! SWEET.

Nifty. I like the "Trine" inspiration.