Amadeus the Wizard, Pontius the Knight, and Zoya the Thief are joined together once again on a thrilling quest through fantastical fairytale landscapes teeming with danger. The Trine series returns to the magic of 2.5D with Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince! The three heroes of the best-selling adventure series are back, sent on a quest to retrieve the troubled young Prince Selius. Frozenbyte will continue to support and patch the game as they have with the other two Trine games, but it’s unfortunate (and a bit ironic) that an ambition to evolve may end up being the undoing of a quality indie series.About This Game Experience the most complete Trine ever created! Kinnunen goes on to say that the company currently has no plans to release any DLC and that the future of the series is now in doubt because of all the negative attention.
Yes, there should have been better planning on Frozenbyte’s part, but this looks like more of a case of inexperience rather than some fiendish scheme to try and pry more money out of gamers’ wallets. We initially had a much longer story written and more levels planned, but to create what we envisioned, it would have taken at least triple the money, probably up to 15 million USD, which we didn’t realize until too late, and which we didn’t have.”įor smaller developers, managing finances is a huge deal. We have squeezed everything we could into the game, there’s nothing left on the table. Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power has ended up costing nearly triple that of Trine 2 – over 5.4 million USD. We have always been ambitious and this time our ambition may have gotten the better of us. We took a big risk with the 3D gameplay implementation – it was to be a massive improvement over the previous games in several areas. “Back in late 2012, we set out to do Trine 3 in full 3D – bigger, badder, better.
In a post on the official Trine 3 Steam forum, he addressed a lot of the fan backlash.
Well according to Frozenbyte Vice President, Joel Kinnunen, Trine 3 cost the company more than they thought.
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