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Inversion was an impressive and ambitious third-person shooter that allowed players to control gravity. While the concept was over-the-top for its time, it wasn’t really appreciated. This is a short article that delves into the beta content and includes some concept art found online.

Concept Art:

Beta Content:

Point of Action

Different Shirt Colour

Different Davis Russell and Leo Delgado Model

Different Inversion Symbol

Early Inversion Tool Colour

Other differences:

• Assault Rifle has different SFX and recoil
• The energy rifle doesn’t burn enemies when you shoot them
• Leo and Davis’ grunts when shot are different
• Gravlink has a different look
• Early Inversion Bar (image TBC)

A short documentary containing information on the early story and what didn’t make it past the prototyping phase

The Lost Keys was an action-adventure game in development by 2Digital Productions in Dubai, and scheduled for release in 2003 for PC. The game took heavy influence from old-school platformers, including Crash Bandicoot. Unfortunately, the project was never released for unknown reasons. From one of the developer’s archived blogs, we can learn more about what the game was going to be about:

Sarman Khalid  (Software Engineer): The Lost Keys is a commercial 3D third-person action game for kids of ages 10-16. The game has 10 different levels with 3 playability styles. It was built with Tyfirty along with its level editing tool. The game was released in Dubai in June 2003. The game can be played with the joypad or the keyboard and it also enables the player to save and load his game.
The level editor of this game was also built in-house by me.

Technical Features:

• Geo mip mapping.
• Particle systems.
• OBB collision detection.
• Scene partitioning for optimization.
• Optimization by grouping duplicated objects.
• Game saving and loading.

My Role: Programming the game core and the level editing tool, graphics optimization supervising
Date: 2003
Client: 2 Digital Productions, Dubai

Images

Credit: Iyad Abbas