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Renegade Kid's Planet Crashers hits eShop 7/26»

In addition to self-published games Bomb Monkey and Mutant Mudds, developer Renegade Kid has also created Planet Crashers for the eShop, for Ignition Entertainment.

Planet Crashers is a sci-fi dungeon game in which you take your custom character, a new graduate from the Planet Crashers Academy, and explore/level up in dungeons in order to travel from planet to planet and stop a plot to put out your sun.

Renegade Kid has been on a damn roll lately – I totally recommend Bomb Monkey if you want a new falling block puzzle game – and I’m interested in seeing how this turns out.

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“Publishing games on 3DS is hard. I give up!”

[Jools Watsham from Renegade Kid (Mutant Mudds) offers some advice to publishers and developers who are giving up on 3DS games, in this reprinted piece.]

“Publishing games on the 3DS is hard. I give up!”

That’s basically what I am hearing from publishers these days. “Only first-party games are selling on the 3DS,” is what they tell me. Hm, I wonder why that would be?

It wouldn’t have anything to do with the quality of the first-party games compared to the third-party games, would it? I doubt it would have anything to do with the marketing and PR efforts put into the games either. No, it must be the fact that first-party games use known brands and have the word Nintendo on them; nothing more.

You can bet your bottom dollar that if Nintendo’s games were handled in the same manner as most third-party publishers handle their own games, they would be in the bargain bin in no time.

Bomb Monkey, another 3DS eShop game from Renegade Kid (Mutant Mudds, Dementium series). All we have is this teaser image, and a projected second quarter release.

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Tiny Review: Mutant Mudds

Dementium developer Renegade Kid releases its first self-published game this week, the 3DS eShop title Mutant Mudds. At first, it seems like a very simple game with a 3D gimmick: you can jump, shoot, and hover, and you can move to one of three different “planes” of action by jumping on certain blocks in the level, with the goal of collecting all the floating items in each.

However, it very quickly becomes obvious that Renegade Kid is not messing around, as the difficulty curve quickly jumps, and you find yourself dying multiple times just to learn the layout of each perilous world.

Mutant Mudds due next week for $9»

Nintendo posted its info page for Renegade Kid’s 3DS platformer Mutant Mudds, revealing a Jan. 26 release date and an $8.99 price point. The eShop streak of basically interesting releases continues (DSiWare will also get Flipper 2 in the U.S. next week)!

If you haven’t read it before, I recommend Renegade Kid founder Jools Watsham’s article on eShop/digital pricing, which he graciously allowed us to reprint.

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New Mutant Mudds footage. Let’s get our day started with a nice snippet of this eShop release’s wonderful music! Sure, it’s the same snippet from the last trailer, but my spirits are lifted anyway.

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[Via Nintendaan]

More plane-switching, rad chiptune music in this new Mutant Mudds trailer. I’m dreading that slippery ice stage — but the rest of this retro-inspired platformer looks tight. It’s coming to the 3DS’s eShop, which the developer of this game, Renegade Kid, wrote a bit about recently.

You can watch more new Mutant Mudds videos at the game’s recently redesigned official site.

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Breaking down eShop pricing (or why 3DS downloads aren’t as cheap as iPhone games)

[Though the eShop is fast becoming a great source for some of the best gaming on 3DS, many still take issue with its pricing — refusing to pay $7 for Pushmo because iOS puzzlers sell for $.99 or less, or passing up on VVVVVV because it’s not as cheap as the Steam version.

Renegade Kid’s Jools Watsham, who will soon release retro-style platformer Mutant Mudds to eShop, recently vented on App Store comparisons, game development costs, and attitudes toward download pricing — we’ve reprinted his thoughts here with his permission.]

It seems as though the price tag of video games has always been criticized as being too high. Now that we live in a world where iPhone Apps are available for $1 or even $FREE, a $40 video game seems outrageous in comparison to many people. Perhaps $40 for a 3DS game is outrageous, but what surprises me is when people scoff at the cost of $5 and $10 Nintendo eShop games. Really? Now even $5 or $10 is too much for a game?

Planet Crashers 3D by Renegade Kid. This is pretty weird — it’s a spinoff of UTV True Games’ browser-based MMO. The 3DS game has players create a character, a new graduate from the “Planet Crashers Academy,” who takes on a quest to defeat an “unknown evil” trying to destroy the sun.

I don’t know much about the gameplay, other than that it’s “quest-oriented” and has RPG combat. I would guess it’s a sort of dungeon crawler, with players accepting quests and then going off into a dungeon to complete them. Renegade Kid knows how to put a game together, so this will probably turn out to be interesting!

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New screenshots from Mutant Mudds, the retro-style platformer coming to the 3DS’s eShop. That cloud enemy in the last image is particularly cool, as he blows you from the background layer to the foreground (there’s a bit of plane-switching here, as covered in this gameplay clip).

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[Via Pure Nintendo]

Mutant Mudds, an original platformer coming soon to Nintendo 3DS’ eShop. I’ve been kind of sleeping on this, like everyone does with every Renegade Kid game, but this looks fun, in a “‘90s PC shareware platformer” kind of way.

And while we’ve seen the sidescrolling, plane-switching gimmick on DSiWare already with Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, it still seems like an engaging mechanic here, plus this title will be able to take advantage of the 3DS’s stereoscopic 3D to emphasize the different planes.

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[Via NeoGAF]

Dementium 2 boxart (click for larger version).

This reminds me of Drag Me to Hell’s scenes with weird throat and mouth stuff that had me cringing in my seat, holding my hand up to obstruct my view and prevent my eyes from transmitting the full disagreeable image to my brain. Seriously, dude, get that hand out of there.

Buy: Dementium: The Ward ($14.99)

[Via Shacknews]