RENEGADE KID DEBUT DS ADVENTURE RISE OF THE MUTANT MUDDS


Known best for the excellent tech driving their dual DS first person shooters — survival horror game Dementium: The Ward and sci-fi follow-up Moon — Austin indie studio Renegade Kid have given IGN the first work-in-progress video of their next proposed game, which eschews the perspective entirely.

6.30.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Though still heavily in development, and with its retail or DSiWare downloadable fate still undecided (and possibly, the studio told the site, a combination of the first with expansions via the latter — a first for the DS), Maximillian and the Rise of the Mutant Mudds would be the studio’s first third person adventure.

The game follows the titular Max as he uses Mario Sunshine-esque waterweapons for both extra platforming kick and, more often, to wash away the mutant mud — hopefully we’ll see more of the game soon as it evolves over the coming months.

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KINDLY OLD FOLLOW: NINTENDO’S PROFESSOR LAYTON JOINS TWITTER


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6.30.2009

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Now that updates from your other favorite twitter-enabled gentleperson have gone more sporadic, your best bet for daily courteousness: Professor Layton — star of Level 5’s cult favorite DS puzzle game The Curious Village — who’s giving followers a riddle a day to keep brains limber in anticipation of its sequel, The Diabolical Box, due out in August. [via Tom]

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LISTEN: 2PP SHOOTS IAYD’S FULL PULSEWAVE CHIPTUNE-HARDCORE SET


6.30.2009

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Ever-reliable Reformat the Planet directors 2 Player Productions have gone one step further than the usual bits and clips we’ve highlighted in the past, and uploaded the complete 40 minute set by Corpus Christi 8-bit hardcore chip-tuner IAYD, as seen in the previously mentioned latest monthly Pulsewave show. Click through for the second half of the set. [via ZenAlbatross]

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A TOAST TO THE QUEENS: NOONAT’S ‘DOMESTIC VIOLENCE’ GAME


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6.30.2009

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And speaking of domestic violence, making it the subject of Ludum Dare’s most recent two-day mini-competition should have been asking for very thin-ice type trouble, but out of it came noonat’s flixel-powered Queens, a short (and, in keeping with the theme, appropriately brutal) treatise on patriarchal indifference, and, as auntiepixelante aptly puts it, “the expendability of women”.

Certainly the best of the entries I’ve played thus far, though I haven’t found anyone yet to sit down with me for Don’t Look Back creator Terry Cavanagh’s The Best Years of my Life.

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ONE SHOT: A SHOT AGAINST THE DARK, THE PATH AS BEARS


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6.29.2009

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How do you inoculate against all the underlying domestic horror and tension in Tale of Tales’ coming-of-age game The Path? If you’re Sarah Lomba, you re-imagine all of its key players as adorable, un-corruptible little bears. There’s probably a fairy tale Red Riding Hood/Goldilocks pun in there somewhere, too, but I’ll leave it to your imagination. [via GameSetWatch]

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ONE SHOT: JUDE BUFFUM’S ‘WE ARE ERROR’


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6.29.2009

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Not to go Jude Buffum overload, but as long as he keeps making them, I’ll keep plugging them, as with this: cover art for We Are Error, an album from game music metal cover band Year 200X, a name which Buffum adds is a pun “only the nerdiest of gamers would understand,” but shouldn’t be too hard to suss out. [via the always reliable alinear]

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