Archive for March 5th, 2010
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Gaijin Games’ latest addition to the Bit.Trip series, Runner, has a new video out and it looks amazing. The game appears to be a 2D side scrolling platformer with a rhythm element tied to its, super awesome, music. I get the sense that the game perpetually moves forward much in the way Canabalt does and that your main objective is navigating the obstacles. My favorite part, hands down, is the background art; however, my least favorite part is that it’s a WiiWare game. Unfortunately, with Mega Man 10 and now this looking so delicious, I have no choice but to hook the little white box back up.
source: Joystiq
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Today’s a pretty big day for Rock Band and for artists who’ve, late at night, longed to have the subtle intricacies of their work condensed into a five button rhythm game form factor. Long no more musician guy because the Rock Band Network is open for business.
To be honest, this is pretty huge. It’s what those stiffs in suits like to call a killer app, because it’s the kind of thing that is going to push mad units out the door. Though some of the works will cross over to multiple platforms, RBN is primarily focused on serving up beats to the Xbox user base. So the units being moved are likely to be of the Microsoft persuasion.
The great news for all the indie types out there is that RB’s professional tools are to be made available to create with. This will let you create music and the button mashing that goes along with it and serve it up on the RBN store for sale.
The review process looks as though it will be handled in much the same way the indie games are, in fact the same XNA Creators Club Membership($99/yr) and an Xbox Gold Membership will allow you to submit tracks and gets you access to testing tracks pre-release for peer review.
And here is a big ol’ list of songs now available on RBN.
