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Zombie Panic in Wonderland direct screen video.
The game looks great! Well, except for these concerns:
- I hope your character moves forward after several enemy swarms to see more of the level.
- As with Zombie BBQ, I hear the same sound effects too often; every enemy, from the zombies to demons, has the same death sound effect.
- Timed stages? Not sure how that will work out.
- The game could look too cluttered with two players.
I love everything else, though — the music, stage designs, and weird enemies (especially the cherry blossom trees). Expect this to release for WiiWare and PC this December.
Buy: Little Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ ($17.99)
See also: Zombie Panic offscreen footage, Tiny Q&A: Zombie BBQ’s Gammick and EnjoyUp
tags / zombie panic in wonderland / akaoni / wiiware / pc / ideame / ecKung Fu 2 trailer (retro remake, not Spartan X2).
KNPMaster completed and released his update of Irem’s beat’em-up, which adds new graphics, areas, mechanics, and more. I could do without the blinking combo text and fireballs, but the revamped look is very nice!
Is that boss in the wifebeater supposed to be rapper Rick Ross? It would be fantastic if he made his entrance with, “I’m the second boss that you’ve seen thus far.”
See also: Kung Fu Remaster, “Amor Pixeleado”
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tags / kung fu 2 / irem / kung fu / remake / pc / knpmaster / ecLink vs Cloud, from Card Sagas Wars.
I wish this was an action title, like Konjak’s Legend of Princess, instead of a fanservice fighting game with a hojillion playable characters. That way, we might actually see a playable release this decade!
See also: Etna vs. Crono, Card Sagas Wars trailer
tags / link / final fantasy / cloud / card sagas wars / ahruoun / orkimedes / pc / mugen / ecTrailer for Illumine (PC), created by UM undergraduate Stephanie Frankiewicz for her senior thesis project.
While the game concept is interesting — collect orbs to see more of the stage, but avoid collecting too many or you’ll be blinded by light — I’m sharing this clip because you’ll see a familiar stage towards the end. I’ve never thought of that puzzler as a ruined city with collapsed buildings.
tags / illumine / pc / stephanie frankiewicz / tetris / ecTrailer for Feist, an indie platformer for PC/Mac.
This video is several months old, but I had a lot of fun with the beta (can’t find a download link for it anymore), and my interview with the game’s two developers just went up at Gamasutra. If you can find a copy of the beta hidden on some errant site, you should play it! The music and visual style are great. Be warned, though — even as just silhouettes, Feist’s enemies are terrifying.
See also: Trailers for indie games Snapshot, Osmos
tags / feist / interview / adrian stutz / florian faller / pc / indie / ecEtna vs. Crono, from Card Sagas Wars.
Ahruon and Orkimedes — the Spain-based duo behind the fanmade, M.U.G.E.N.-powered PC project — released this “test” clip two weeks ago. Says Ahruon, “Neither of them has AI, so they just [do] random stuff to each other.”
I have a feeling this game will never see a playable release.
See also: New Card Sagas Wars trailer, Etna vs. Soma! Master Chief vs. KOS-MOS
tags / etna / crono / card sagas wars / ahruon / orkimedes / pc / mugenTrailer for Mightier, a puzzle/action PC game best experienced with a printer and a webcam.
I really love Mightier’s concept, and could see this working on the DSi with its external camera (the printed sheets would be challenge, though). It also seems like there are a lot of great multiplayer opportunities for a title like this.
Here’s a recent Q&A I conducted with one of the game’s developers — I prodded him a bit on 5th Cell’s Drawn to Life, which has a similar draw-your-own-hero feature, so it’s not completely DS-unrelated!
tags / ratloop / mightier / igf / pc / ecTrailer for 24 Caret Games’ Retro/Grade.
It’s a PC shoot’em-up played in reverse! Players have to dodge rearward lasers while catching their own shots.
Retro/Grade also features rhythm game elements, in that the timing of the lasers is based on the music’s beats, and players can choose to play with a guitar controller and move their ship around the lanes by hitting fret buttons.
You can read a Q&A I conducted with one of the programmers behind the Independent Games Festival finalist over at Gamasutra.
See also: Snapshot trailer, Osmos trailer
tags / retrograde / 24 caret games / igf / pc / ecTrailer for indie PC game Snapshot, an interesting platformer with photography elements.
Obviously, the Yoshi’s Island look is intentional:
“We knew Snapshot should be a vibrant, picturesque environment almost out of a storybook. It was natural that we looked to Yoshi’s Island as a source of inspiration. It has always stood out in my mind as one of the most beautiful games across the board.”
You can read more about the game — an IGF finalist — and its development in this recent Gamasutra interview I conducted with creators Kyle Pulver and Peter Jones.
See also: Osmos from Hemisphere Games
tags / igf / gamasutra / snapshot / yoshis island / indie / pc / ecIGF finalist Osmos, from Hemisphere Games.
This PC title might look a lot like Nintendo and Skip’s Orbital/Orbient games (with Asteroids-like controls), but it has some unique features that you won’t find in the GBA/WiiWare releases — like matter-ejection propulsion, time-warping, and intelligent orbs with their own AI personalities, like the Scaredy.
You can read my interview with Osmos’s designer at Gamasutra or download a demo from Hemisphere’s site.
tags / eddy boxerman / osmos / hemisphere games / pc / igfThis was the hook for a press release that greeted me when, late in the night, as I was unable to sleep, I dug through my RSS. The game is Commander in Chief (PC), a political sim by IGS.
The above quote is not in the release itself; instead, it was written by the Games Press folks, so it’s just a blurb and it exists outside of direct context. Is it simple humor, or is there a tone of mild bitterness beneath? Was this single line written by someone who pined for John McCain? Am I just really odd and a little extreme at 3:00 in the morning? We’ll never know.
But what’s funnier is that the game will be released on inauguration day. Do we do this, cashing in on the presidential inauguration? Is this a thing we do? Hell, if election day was any indication, we’re all going to be too busy partying to buy some random game anyway.
Unless you’re like these people, I guess:
See also: Homebrew game brings Obama presidential campaign to DS
tags / commander in chief / lisha / pc / simulation / barack obamaKarateka Mania, a Japanese homebrew PC title inspired by Rhythm Tengoku’s Karate House minigame.
This is the best thing to happen in the martial arts scene since Bolo chided Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport, commenting on the latter’s death touch demonstration on a brick: “Very good … But brick not hit back.”
Ohhhhhhhhh snaaaaapppppppp!
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