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Art Style: Boxlife ending song and credits (from the Japanese release). This starts off like the theme I posted a year ago, but there’s a lot more to it! There are sections in this track where you’ll hear vocaloid dialogue, but I’m unsure if that’s actually in the song or from the person who ripped this video.

One of Tiny Cartridge’s biggest failures (and we have many of them) is we didn’t convince enough people to care about, much less buy this wonderful DSiWare puzzler. If you or any other DSi owner you know still hasn’t bought this amazing game, please put down 500 points and grab this shiz. Your system deserves to have something magical in its life.

Preorder: U.S. Nintendo DSi XL/LL (Burgundy and Bronze)

Buy: U.S. Nintendo DSi (White, Pink, Black and Blue)

See also: Tiny Preview: Art Style: BoxLife/HacoLife

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tags / hacolife / boxlife / art style / skip / dsiware / ec

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Best Worst Game: BoxLife →

UK gaming radio show One Life Left hosts a semi-regular segment in which the entertaining Mathew Kumar elects a “Best Worst Game”, inviting listeners to try out interesting but flawed titles, such as Skip’s Art Style: BoxLife:

“When I was a student, fresh in my first year, I decided to get a job in a factory rather than somewhere sensible like at a Carphone Warehouse. The hours were longer, but I knew it was going to pay more.

So, when I went for the interview, thanks to my university education, I was given a job in quality assurance. My job was to open the boxes the factory produced, check them, then reassemble them. And so I did this for 12 hours a night, every night, all summer.

I never had the feeling that what I did had any point or any idea that the boxes were going to do anything useful. And all the money that I made was just frittered away on the pointless improvements to my life. They were just pointless. …

[BoxLife] captures everything about that one summer I worked in a factory and its sublime education in futility for the uninitiated.”

My transcription likely isn’t 100% accurate, as I couldn’t pick out a few words from Kumar’s thick Scottish accent. You can listen to the segment yourself in this week’s episode of One Life Left, starting around the 46:45 mark.

Buy: U.S. Matte Black and Blue DSi

Import: Japanese Nintendo DSi (White, Black, Pink, Lime Green, Metallic Blue)

See also: Boxlife Cribs, Tiny Preview: Art Style: HacoLife (and DSiWare to an extent)

tags / boxlife / art style / hacolife / skip / mathew kumar / podcast / one life left / ec

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Boxlife Cribs: It’s like the Neverland Ranch up in this bitch.

As you can tell by the mansion, the pristine golf course, and the imported Javan tiger (thought to be extinct, but evidently not so), the box folding life has been kind to me.

Mock the minivan if you want, but don’t get angry with me when your girl’s jaw drops as I cruise by on 28-inch rims. Don’t complain to me when you can’t figure out how to describe your rage in 140 characters after seeing your soulmate and I share a bottle of Le Montrachet ‘78, right next to the very vehicle you’d teased earlier.

I’m just sayin’.

I know what you’re asking yourself — “What sort of job do I need to get an estate like that? Where did he find this car dealership that apparently sells droptop minivans? How can I be more like Eric and live my life like it’s golden?”

Well, if you picked up Art Style: Boxlife for DSiWare, you’d have the answer to all those questions.

Buy: U.S. Matte Black and Blue DSi

Import: Japanese Nintendo DSi (White, Black, Pink, Lime Green, Metallic Blue)

See also: Tiny Preview: Art Style: HacoLife (and DSiWare to an extent)

tags / art style / boxlife / hacolife / dsiware / dsi / ballin / ec

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Art Style: Boxlife on DSiWare

The biggest handheld gaming news this morning has nothing to do with GTA: Chinatown Wars migrating to PSP; it’s the North American release of Art Style: Boxlife (known as Hacolife in Japan) for DSiWare!

As I’ve previously proclaimed, I believe this addictive puzzler from Skip is the finest DSiWare experience you can purchase today (500 Points), even more so than PiCTOBiTS. Nintendo’s official product description:

“Climb the corporate ladder in the world of Boxlife using your wits and… paper? Use the Nintendo DSi stylus to cut and then manipulate the paper into a box shape. Be careful — if you’re not efficient with your cuts, you’ll waste paper and be penalized.

R&D mode teaches you new patterns and challenges you to complete various ranks, while Factory mode gives you the chance to earn money by making as many boxes as possible from an endless sheet of paper.

Success in each mode brings its own reward: Clear ranks to earn a promotion, change your character’s appearance, and use your earnings to acquire new items for your character’s miniature garden. With this game’s stylish graphics and catchy sounds, thinking inside the box isn’t such a bad thing.”

If you haven’t read it yet, here’s my enthusiastic preview of the game, in which I described Boxlife as “Japan’s interpretation of the American Dream”.

See also: “Hacolife Theme”

tags / art style / boxlife / hacolife / skip / dsiware / ec

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