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In: Culture|Gaming News|Indie
25 Jul 2010A complete set of video presentations from No More Sweden 2010 held earlier this month are now available to watch online, featuring talks by developers like Crayon Physics creator Petri Purho, Bernhard Schulenberg (designer of Where is My Heart?), and Andreas Zecher (Understanding Games) among others. The list of recorded presentations that can be viewed [...]
A few months back, I mentioned Game Seeds, the card game created by Utrecht School of the Arts, Monobanda and Metagama to help game designers brainstorm both character design and entire games, by playfully combining their specific mechanics. The post quite happily got far more attention than I would’ve imagined, and (especially after I’d posted [...]
In: Gaming News|Nintendo
15 Jun 2010If you’re sick of your bland old M’s, try this other one. We have showfloor awesomeness for you to watch with a hands-on demo of Metroid: Other M. It’s hot, it’s sexy, it’s salty, it’s everything you could hope for and more. Yes, I am very tired and I’ve let my hyperbole gland completely take [...]
You’ve already seen an extensive breakdown of the concept art behind Double Fine‘s nü-cult-classic Brutal Legend right here on Boing Boing, but above, interface designer Joe ‘codeloss‘ Kowalski goes awesomely in-depth on work he put into the menu and title screen systems — a system brilliantly aping the wonderful yesteryear of gatefold sleeves and ballpoint-pen [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
1 Jun 2010Says Alex Varanese of his stop-motion animated shoot’em’up: I’d like to think I’m the first person to be inspired by Michel Gondry and R-Type on the same project. And I’ll be damned if it’s not dying for a collaboration with Crayon Physics creator Petri Purho. the art of alex varanese – my desk is 8-bit [...]
In: Gaming News
30 May 2010There really isn’t much we don’t already know about the Sith Warrior, right? He’s filled with pure evil and the second his master isn’t looking, he’ll probably plant a Lightsaber in his back. But the above video for Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s Sith Warrior — which was revealed to have two advanced classes, the [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
22 May 2010Simon Cottee (who we last saw creating something wonderful via Sleep is Death) has filmed a short documentary which delves into the world of pixels and pixel art. It features interviews with a number of indie developers, including SiD’s Jason Rohrer. The main argument is that while some developers try to give gamers a sense [...]
In: Gaming News|Indie|xbox
8 May 2010Caution: loud music. Here’s a preview clip of Super Meat Boy in action, showing bits and pieces of the new levels designed for Team Meat’s upcoming XBLA platformer (also for Windows, Mac and WiiWare). I’m guessing that the video was made to convince voters to pick their game for a GTTV feature, so we will [...]
In: Gaming News|xbox
30 Apr 2010Sometimes all you need is 74 seconds to convince the world that they’ll want your game, as Sweden’s Southend have just proved with their debut trailer for upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title ilomilo. Tick the checkboxes: tiny, innocent fantasy world, puzzling gameplay on the order of underappreciated original PlayStation game Kula World/Roll Away, and I’m [...]
In: Gaming News|Microsoft
29 Apr 2010Listen, we love atmosphere. Don’t get us wrong, if someone was making a list of websites that liked moody, atmospheric advertising, Joystiq would be right there at the top. With a bullet. We watched that Gears of War “Mad World” ad and thought “Hmm, not enough atmosphere and pensive reflection.” That said, the two-minute-and-thirty second [...]