So red is boring and blue is too goody goody. Maybe you’re just the person that likes to maim/maul/blast/disembowel people with the cutest color possible. I don’t know, it’s not really my business. So who am I to impede your quest for a Pink or “Magenta” color crystal for your Star Wars: The Old Republic weapon of choice. Hop on past the jump to find yourself a full guide to nabbing your own. Keep reading
DLC Quest could be considered a moderate success, by XBLIG standards having sold nearly 20,000 copies at this point, but there’s more than one platform in the net, and we’ve seen time and again that though XBLIG a good entry level launch point, some games have gone on to even greater success on iOS or Steam.
So Ben Kane decided to not only work towards bringing his parody platformer to operating systems, but to log his progress every step of the way. While he’s only in day three, there’s already some interesting things to read from a technological standpoint, and this could possibly end up being a helpful guide to other devs looking to make the leap to iOS, Mac or Linux later on.
Read all about it on Ben Kane’s blog: The Great Porting Adventure
Brooks and I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Mike Wall and Dave Voyles of Armless Octopus and Nate Graves of Gear Fish, for a special GOTY edition of their Armless Octocast. Surprisingly a fair amount of consensus was reached on several games and in the end we all got to pick out our personal favorites.
Head on over to ArmlessOctopus now and have a listen as we struggle to keep Brooks Bishop out of the eggnog.
MagicalTimeBean’s latest XBLIG puzzler Escape Goat isn’t just a fantastic game. It’s a fantastic game with an equally amazing level editor built right in.
While I’m still slightly disappointed in the fact XBLIG as a platform has no easy way to share user generated content, this hurdle didn’t stop one player from making up a whole series of ingenious new levels. YouTuber ZDWario took to his stream with his creation so that we can at least experience the joy of new puzzles vicariously. Check out the video after the jump.
A while back I posted about Memories of Phantasm, a fan made animated retelling of the Touhou Project game Perfect Cherry Blossom. With Comiket 81 behind us this past week, one of the more awesome things to come out of the convention is a trailer for the next installment!
This time we’ll get to witness the events of Subterranean Animism, and all the nuclear-god-eating bullet hell fights that occur as our heroines venture beneath the earth to discover what’s driving things out of hell and to the surface.
Personally, I always thought this was one of the more interesting plots, as oddly enough, it deals with the threat of nuclear proliferation (much in the same way as Godzilla). I can’t wait for the whole video now, this initial taste is already so great.
I am of the opinion that Final Fantasy 6 is the greatest game as of yet made. Whether or not you agree with me, I think you’ll find that this medley of tunes from some of composer Nobuo Uematu’s finest work performed by Marc Papeghin is pretty much some of the best 13 minutes you’ll spend, ever. I know it did all kinds of wonderful things to my brain.
Watch the video below, and visit Marc’s page for more of his work. Keep reading
Although the Wii port of the exploration platformer La-Mulana has been out in Japan since June, the release to English speaking regions has been delayed numerous times. The latest post on the official website reports that despite the fact the game is complete, this may be more political than technical.
So while developer Nigoro have promised that the Wii version will in fact, come out some day, the more exciting news today is that they are taking the enhanced version release to PC! Perhaps Nigoro’s relationship with Nicalis (the company responsible for bringing us the updated versions of Cave Story) and the apparent modern success of Cave Story as a multi-platform game has spurred this change in tactic.
Read more for yourself at the official La-Mulana site.
Here’s hoping to seeing La-Mulana in my Steam account long before the Wii version releases. In other news… what to do with this Wii points card that’s been sitting on my desk waiting to be spent on La-Mulana?
The technical genius behind Polytron Corps. puzzle-platformer-cubefest FEZ, Renaud Bédard, gave a talk at the Montreal Independent Games Summit back in November, and posted the slides he used in his presentation.
It isn’t exactly a tech spec or design doc, but there’s still some really interesting information to be gleaned, about both the history of Fez and its technical implications.
Download the presentation file to have a look at The Instruction Limit.
XBLIG side scrolling brawler and sword building sim Brand by Nine Dots Studio finally went to peer review recently, only to fail the process on discovery of a bug. That’s what the system is for, after all.
But Nine Dots didn’t just fix the bug and wait out their week. Instead, they used the time to put even more polish on their already fantastic-looking game. Not only did they spruce up their menus and fix up a bunch of other minor issues, they also went ahead and implemented a feature for launch that would have had to wait for a later patch otherwise: Avatar support for the main character.
Read all about it at Nine Dots site.
If you wanted to experience the brick breaking joy of Wizorb but didn’t have an Xbox or are either too poor or too rich for Windows, you can finally play!
Find all the places you can get it at Pixeltao, and why not check out our interview with Justin Cyr of Tribute Games or our review while you’re at it.