Do you ever think about what certain people had achieved at your age, or worse, much younger? It's a pretty sobering tangent to wander down as one desperately tries to sleep in a stuffy room — and there's definitely a mosquito in here. What? Anyway, 13-year-old Max Trest is developing a co-op action game exclusively for PS5.
Named Astrolander, the game is built to take full advantage of the DualSense controller and its features, including those less talked about. Even the characters themselves refer to the pad's bells and whistles; you play as Haptic, a little rocket guy, while your local co-op cohort controls Feedback, a little robot guy. In the above video, you can see gameplay in which you use the touch pad to raise water and block enemy fire. Another example shown is blowing into the microphone to thwart the rubber duck menace.
While it looks fairly simple, we must reiterate Astrolander is being made by one 13-year-old developer. Under the name Lost Cartridge Creations, it'll be coming to PS5 next year, and you can wishlist it on PS Store right now.
It certainly seems to have caught PlayStation's attention, as the official X account — as well as indie-loving exec Shuhei Yoshida — have shared the news, giving it a pretty big boost. It's a super impressive effort from Trest, and we're certainly curious to check the game out when it arrives.
What are your thoughts on Astrolander? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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That’s pretty impressive. I’m 36 and all I make is mistakes!
reads title only
First thoughts:
Could this be new info about ABANDONED?
I like the names of the characters. Haptic and Feedback. Pretty clever.
13 year old solo developing a game? Never doubt the ambitions of today’s youth.
Wow, nice job, kid.
I tried my hand at game development and couldn't even come close to this (also made me realize I'd rather play games than make them).
I hope this does well.
That's impressive. I'll buy a copy off the little guy.
Does make you wonder what yourself was doing at 13. Picking my nose while playing PS1 and getting lots of detentions and expelled from school
Incredibly impressive. There were loads of teenage devs during the 80s in the UK but between this and that teenager doing the Lego Spider-Verse animation, there’s clearly a lot of talented kids these days! And it’s incredibly horrifying to realise that they would have been born in 2009 or 2010. The first Doctor Who during their life would have been bloody Matt Smith!
It really puts those charlatans behind Abandoned even more to shame when a kid can come up with this.
God bless this kids. I can only wish victory to him!!
Are we going back to the 80s with schoolkids are making games again?
Wow! Good on him! Looks fun. His parents must be very proud; that’s quite the accomplishment. Kudos, lad!
Clearly got too much time on his hands. Now tidy your room.
The generation of developers who grew up with Nintendo isn't alone anymore, here comes the generation who is growing with a PS as their companion.
This just made me realize how incompetent and lazy I am 😅
@GymratAmarillo That generation happened a while ago. This kid was 3 when the PS4 came out. If someone was, say, 10 when the PS1 came out, they be 39 now. It seemed like a huge amount of time back then but the time between the NES and PS1 was only 11 years. So weird to think that the PS1 came out only 3 years after games like LttP and SMW. It came out before Chrono Trigger, strangely.
@Beerheadgamer82 Game development today is slightly easier than back in the ps1 era.
Wow, would you look at that…
goes back to watching anime at 36
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