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Dust is like Odin Sphere for furries photo

Elysian Tail: Dust is an XNA-developed game by Dean Dodrill that is currently in its Pre-Alpha phase. There are two very interesting things about this particular title. First of all, it looks absolutely stunning, and even in its early stages, appears to look better than anything that has ever gone before on XNA. Second of all, it's sort of a furry game.

Dean Dodrill is notable enough to appear on a Furry Wiki, where he is credited as an animator for the Jazz Jackrabbit series. Dust appears to be based on a film that he has been working on for quite some time. Despite the fact that furries will be all over this thing, it doesn't look like Dodrill himself subscribes to the Yiff lifestyle, so I think his game wll be safe for human consumption. 

That's a good thing, too, because it looks absolutely gorgeous and the gameplay appears to be incredibly promising. Check out a video after the jump and try to tell me that if this was released on the Community Games Channel, you wouldn't consider buying it. You'd be a liar.


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sleepingagain's Avatar
sleepingagain at 05/21/2009 08:06
this looks kinda cool, too bad it has furrys tho...
Kieger's Avatar
Kieger at 05/21/2009 08:08
Looks pretty amazing.
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Galenmereth at 05/21/2009 08:08
This looks really promising. A shame you mentioned furries in the heading; it almost had me auto-skip it. I'm glad I didn't!
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GameraTheGreat at 05/21/2009 08:10
Damn....I will get this! Reminds me of Gaurdian Heroes (movement and scrolling) minus the three other on-screen characters.
Neonie's Avatar
Neonie at 05/21/2009 08:16
Psh, total skip. I'd never play it because of an arbitrary graphical that doesn't matter in any gameplay sense what so ever.
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flabzilla at 05/21/2009 08:17
Holy crap, the animation is awesome.
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ChronosWing at 05/21/2009 08:18
This looks amazing...
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SuitcoatAvenger at 05/21/2009 08:20
I'd love to play this game; the combat looks beautiful. And my sexual attraction to foxes is just icing on the cake!
Cowboy TTop's Avatar
Cowboy TTop at 05/21/2009 08:28
Nice. Wish all XNA games looked this good. I'll check out the demo when it drops.

Just goes to show, if you are creating an XNA game, helps to have a good artist to give a game that much needed x factor.
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themizarkshow at 05/21/2009 08:37
That looks tight as hell... wow. Maybe the XNA won't be completely useless after all. Hopefully titles like this and Dishwasher will help set the standards really high for games that make it through the approval process.
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Arttemis at 05/21/2009 08:40
Good lord, this looks amazing! As long as its priced no more than 800 points, I'll be getting this immediately - which was my same stance for Dishwasher.
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welkstar at 05/21/2009 09:00
Wow, the animation is beautiful!
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KaL YoshiKa at 05/21/2009 09:03
That looks positively gorgeous. But don't worry Jim the furry community will surely make this not fit for consumption as soon as they get their hands on the characters.
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Mr Gilder at 05/21/2009 09:26
Odin Sphere was Odin Sphere for furries. Doesn't anyone remember the little bunny/puppy people?
megaStryke's Avatar
megaStryke at 05/21/2009 09:34
Oh snap.
Kraid's Avatar
Kraid at 05/21/2009 09:38
Holy goddamn shit-a goddamn!

This is an alpha build O_O ??!
NostalGeek's Avatar
NostalGeek at 05/21/2009 09:47
Wow this and Murasama. It's going to be a good year :)
Gimic300's Avatar
Gimic300 at 05/21/2009 09:52
Muramasa? Furrymasa?!?

There needs to be more games with anthropic animal characters. I'm no furry, I'm just sick of Space Marines.
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CocoJambo at 05/21/2009 09:57
Looks incredibly smooth.
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Josh Tolentino at 05/21/2009 10:01
Furries or not, that's some great 2D, right there.
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ShawnKelfonne at 05/21/2009 10:13
Not only does it look better than most XNA games, but it's a PRE-ALPHA that looks better than most XNA games. Can't wait to see how awesome this is when it's actually finished.
Shin Oni's Avatar
Shin Oni at 05/21/2009 10:16
this looks rather awesome. I pretty much said "auto-get" after 3 seconds in. Game is beautiful for an XNA game for sure.
Chronic Logic's Avatar
Chronic Logic at 05/21/2009 10:28
Very nice fluid animations. But furries?
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Kvb at 05/21/2009 10:31
The graphics are amazing. Too bad the gameplay doesn't look very interesting so far...
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CapnCrunk at 05/21/2009 10:35
If it's as challenging as Odin Sphere it'll be worth checking out. There shouldn't be any slowdown, either.
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manasteel88 at 05/21/2009 10:46
I'm not gonna get my hopes up just yet...I'll have to see the pricing structure/total content included...now that that is out of the way...this looks good...really good
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Shadowiii at 05/21/2009 10:48
Wow that looks fantastic. And I thought Dishwasher was kick ass.
BulletTrain's Avatar
BulletTrain at 05/21/2009 10:58
I'd buy it, but no way could I take it's story seriously.
Solgrim's Avatar
Solgrim at 05/21/2009 11:02
Wow, can't wait.


And yes, I would.
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Janledroxa at 05/21/2009 11:05
*drools* 2D graphics FTW!
Nessie's Avatar
Nessie at 05/21/2009 11:13
Wow, beautiful~
Naim Master's Avatar
Naim Master at 05/21/2009 11:18
That's pretty ironic for a Sonic fan , eh Jim?
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Android8675 at 05/21/2009 11:19
OMG!? Forget XNA, someone throw this guy some cash to publish this sucker!

XBLA at the least!? God damn I wish I could animate characters like that.
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Magnalon at 05/21/2009 11:44
I'll buy it: I'll just pretend the main character wasn't created for furries.
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aerofan11 at 05/21/2009 11:59
I don't understand why people would be attracted to foxes etc.
The game looks brilliant though, especially for a XNA game.
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Wedge at 05/21/2009 12:29
That's pre-alpha? Wow. I guess it's an artist so that's the more polished part, but damn...

Also anyone saying OMGWAT FURRIES? is being retarded. Why does anything with anthropomorphic characters need to be immediately associated with that crap now? Last I checked there's a relatively huge catalog of fucking awesome video game characters that would classify under that, but nobody was complaining back then...
Nitex's Avatar
Nitex at 05/21/2009 12:37
Holy shit the animation is so fluid and smooth and very impressive for a community game. This really should be bumped up into a full Arcade game.
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Stahlbrand at 05/21/2009 12:41
Wow, that looks pretty amazing. Consider me interested.

Also, I'm with Wedge here, I've liked a lot of anthropomorphic videogame characters quite apart from the baggage that some freaky individuals have loaded them with on the internet in reccent years. This game is dripping style, maybe this guy should be working at a higher level than XNA.
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Jinky Williams at 05/21/2009 12:47
The profile pic of the cloaked cat/whatever gives off a VG Cats vibe.

This is amazing for a pre-alpha. And I can't believe that people are saying that it won't be worth more than $10. A trip your standard movie theater is around $10 just for the ticket, not including any food or drinks--and that's a one-time thing.

$10 is also enough to get you *two* grande Starbucks drinks (and change).

I think we can afford to maybe not be so stingy with the cash monies.
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DV2FOX at 05/21/2009 12:50
Please make it also PS3!!
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Necros at 05/21/2009 13:04
Holy FUCK, that is beautiful! I'd consider buying that, even with the knowledge that some people would yiff to it.
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ShawnKelfonne at 05/21/2009 13:07
@DV2FOX: It'd be tough, seeing as how it's being developed with XNA.
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Batthink at 05/21/2009 16:04
That does look really cool. Keep me updated on this game, Jim. :O)
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MellowBunny at 05/21/2009 18:31
Looks amazing...I'll be getting it.
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ninjikiran at 05/21/2009 19:09
you guys seem to undermine the power of XNA. XNA just provides you with specific libraries that aid in developing the game. It is very possible to build a AAA quality game using XNA studio. It enables those basement developers to make a game in this life time since it gives them some libraries which enable them to skip months maybe years of development.

Much like how microsoft gives you a ton of built in classes to do some things like connect to databases in their .net framework which removes some of the grunt work and does it for you.
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JynxShot at 05/21/2009 23:37
I'd buy it for that sprite quality alone.
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CallMeRotten at 05/22/2009 03:26
Pretty impressive, I'd love to see more games in the style of Odin Sphere. Hell, IGA should make a Castlevania like this.
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Rosseh at 05/22/2009 04:49
Why furries? Why?
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flabzilla at 05/22/2009 09:44
@ ninjikiran

Well seeing that most of the games are complete garbage (clocks, body massagers?) I don't really blame people for underestimatiing it.
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Interstate78 at 05/23/2009 10:26
I'll be damned if this doesn't get picked up by a publisher instead of XNA
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