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The indie game Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 billed itself as a sequel to a fictitious franchise. Now Strange Scaffold has teamed up with newcomer Pedalboard Games to produce a sequel, kind of, which is positioned as a remastered version of the first game in the series, which never actually existed until now. It’s coming in September.
In Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 1: ReRaptored, you’ll play as Jack Briar, an ATF agent dispatched to the Louisiana bayou to investigate strange dinosaur happenings. The game looks very similar to the original CRDM3 that released in April, albeit with new protagonist. The original game was a story-based match-3 metroidvania, which meant you would explore different story avenues and play match-3 battles to progress. This looks similar, as Jack Briar will earn new traits by exploring and use those to unlock paths. CRDM3 was also a cheeky commentary on game development itself, so we can probably expect that to continue.
Strange Scaffold produced the first game, but new studio Pedalboard Games is developing ReRaptored. This marks the beginning of Strange Scaffold’s “Project Share” program, which allows new studios to access the original code and riff on their concepts. Strange Scaffold’s Xalavier Nelson Jr. explained the philosophy behind the move on BlueSky.
“Video games is the only medium outside of music that can take the exact same component pieces and by modifying them and switching around their context, end up creating a new, valid, exciting artistic expression,” he said. “And you can see this in the modding world, but not in traditional commercial video game development.”
So Strange Scaffold sent the tools to Pedalboard Games under the care of original co-lead Colin McInerney, letting that team quickly iterate on the project and make a new game out of it.
“We don’t intend to do a Project Share very often at Strange Scaffold, but we hope that by doing it at all and being so open about it that it empowers and encourages other developers to investigate ways to, in radical methods that aren’t incentivized by capitalism, share resources with each other, and survive, and get games in players’ hands more quickly, and at a higher quality than would otherwise be possible, in a way that’s more sustainable, for all of our sakes.”
Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 is available now on Steam, and Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 1: ReRaptored is coming September 23.
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