EarthNight is an upcoming platformer by developer Cleaversoft. It’s in the vein of endless runners, but Cleaversoft claims it is ?the deepest runner game you will ever play.? We managed to spend a good chunk of time playing the game while at Sony?s PlayStation Experience 2017 expo, and it manages to live up to its billing.
Dragons Rule the Land
So what?s going on in EarthNight" Well, the world has been taken over by dragons. Humanity has been reduced to small clusters of refugees floating in space, and it?s up to high-schooler Sydney and freelance photographer Stanley to skydive their way to EarthNight, which is what the planet is called now.
One of EarthNight?s most striking features is its artwork. Everything is hand-painted, with impressive attention to detail on, well, anything that appears on-screen. Levels take place in six different layers above the planet, on the backs of massive dragons. Each dragon is actually procedurally generated, but not in a completely random way. Levels consist of three sections: beginning, middle, and end. Each section has at least five hand-designed variations, and it?s these variations which spawn procedurally with each playthrough of the game. This means that each time you play, you?ll be treated to a unique playthrough. This was evident even with our short hands-on time. While the representative spoke with us, although he had never seen the particular level we were playing, there were clear signs when levels were transitioni...