Check out the first details about the new puzzle platform from designer Ron Gilbert

May 26, 2012 04:41 GMT  ·  By

Double Fine Productions and Sega have announced their latest partnership, in the form of The Cave, a 2D side-scrolling puzzle platformer in which players can explore various environments all located in an underground cave.

Double Fine impressed lots of gamers last month when it held the massively successful Kickstarter funding campaign for its next adventure game.

Now, the studio has revealed, in partnership with Sega, a new game called The Cave, masterminded by famous designer Ron Gilbert, who joined Double Fine a few years ago.

As you can imagine, the announcement was done in Double Fine’s trademark tongue-in-cheek style, saying that, “If you enjoy rappelling, spelunking and dark rocky caverns then be prepared to be disappointed! And then intrigued. And then amazed. And then disappointed again, but only for a minute. Then relieved, amused, bewildered, excited, and satisfied. In that order.”

In terms of actual gameplay, The Cave tasks players with exploring a massive cave filled with different environments, including an amusement park or a medieval castle.

"Your first clue that The Cave is a place like no other will come just after you assemble your team of three unlikely adventurers - each with their own unique personalities and skills - and stumble across a subterranean amusement park and a medieval castle, not to mention a fully armed and ready to launch nuclear-tipped ICBM."

Double Fine's Ron Gilbert said: "The concept of The Cave has been bouncing around in my head for many, many years, and then the little voices that tell me to do things said it was time to make the game. I'm thrilled to be working with amazingly talented folks at Double Fine and ecstatic that the team at Sega believes in adventure games and quirky ideas."

The Cave will be released as a digital download sometime in 2013, according to the two companies, so, until then, you can enjoy the first screenshots and an announcement trailer complete with gameplay footage below.

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