ONE SHOT: MARIO KART MEGA-COLLABORATION
Over forty artists have collaborated for the longest magic mile stretch of re-imagined Mario Kart riders that will ever be produced. Above is a scrap of a detail: see the original via The Autumn Society to get the full scope.
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OFFWORLD GALLERY: WHEN INDIES INVADE AUSTIN
Now basically fully recovered from the week of Indie Insanity that took place during and after this year’s debut GDC Austin Indie Games Summit, I present (below the fold) a longer look inside the Summit with photos courtesy official Offworld photographer Rebekah Saltsman.
As I somewhat made mention of during this year’s main GDC, the Indie Summit is quickly becoming an essential part of the convention, perhaps less so for the material covered (which is still nearly always incisive and inspiring), but for the opportunity to meet the people behind the games, and to experience the deep sense of community that’s taken root and strengthened over the past several years.
In any industry, even outside games, it’s hard to find a quarter so uncompetitive, so supportive, and so bound by a sense of collective creative drive under the quite literal strains of basic survival without otherwise gainful employment, and it’s hard to come away without feeling like it’s something that the world could use more of.
So, all that said, behind the fold you’ll find photos of the people behind nearly all the Indie Summit talks, with more available directly from Saltsman’s official Flickr stream — though none un/fortunately, from our Saturday trip to Austin’s Eagle Peak firing range, where Cortex Command creator Dan Tabar led an expedition to give what must have looked like the motliest of indoor-kid crews their first-ish non-digital/simulated rounds on a variety of handguns and assault rifles. Maybe we’ll save that one for another day. (more…)
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ONE SHOT: SOLID SNAKE’S DOG IS JUST A BOX
Morning chores by uber-prolific illustrator Jessica Bradley (aka Squid Bits), whose Haunted DS was also recently featured on ilikecharacters.
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THE HORROR: SEAKITTEN MASHES CLOVERFIELD AND, WELL, PRETTY MUCH EVERY GAME
LittleBigRevenge creators Seakitten Collective return with an epic 20 minute movie mashing Left 4 Dead, Mario, Silent Hill, F-Zero, and like just about everything else you can imagine into one low-budget/high-concept live-action Cloverfield horror. Part two below the fold. [via James Kochalka]
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LOUIS V. LAA-LAA: THE LEFT 4 TELETUBBIES MOD
The true face of horror, available to download and play yourself here.
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ONE SHOT: MEET SPACESICK’S GAME BUDDY
Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley shows off the Game Buddy, the hand-stamped order box that accompanies any purchase of $20 or more at the just-opened Attract Mode shop, awesomely designed by friend of Offworld Spacesick.
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ONE SHOT: ANNATHERED’S NON-EDIBLE GAME #3 GOLDEN WHALE
And you thought food was her only medium: bento-box master AnnaTheRed celebrates The Behemoth artist Dan Paladin’s birthday with this hand-stuffed golden whale from the developer’s latest Game #3, to accompany her version of the game’s easily-moved-to-tears cube-head mascot.
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- Cooking with Anna the Red: Mario mushrooms from regular radishes …
- Kill it with crowbars: Anna the Red's head-crab bento
- Bitey bat bit: Anna the Red's Castle Crashers bento
- Katasushi Damacy in a Bento Box
- Soul junk: Behemoth officially detail their Game #3
- Precious stones: the cutie chaos of Behemoth's Game #3
- Even more Behemoth: new videos of The Behemoth's chaotic cutie …
- More details on Castle Crashers dev's cutely chaotic Game #3 …
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NINTENDO’S HOLIDAY/2010 WII/DS LINEUP: THE OFFWORLD VIEW
Following the last roundup of Nintendo’s first and third party lineup earlier this year, the company has sent out a list of its Wii/DS retail and downloadable games coming through the rest of 2009 and well into next year: here’s the Offworld view of where you should be focused.
Wii:
In addition to long-followed favorites like A Boy and His Blob and New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Nintendo’s console will see its own ports of big-buddget upcoming Activision releases, and its own sequel version of Drawn to Life: the original “draw your own platformer” from Scribblenauts developer 5th Cell.
Activision – DJ Hero – Oct. 27
Activision – Tony Hawk: RIDE – Nov. 17
Electronic Arts – Spore Hero – Oct. 6
LucasArts – LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues – Fall
Majesco – A Boy and His Blob – Oct. 13
Nintendo – Wii Fit Plus – Oct. 4
Nintendo – New Super Mario Bros. Wii – Holiday
THQ – Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter – Oct. 27
Warner Bros. – LEGO Rock Band – Holiday
Previously:
- Tony Hawk's would-be Skate-killer, Ride
- EA details Spore's 2009 PC, Wii, DS expansions
- 'Final' boy and his blob trailer highlights mech-fighting, cloning …
- E309: the 5 things you need to know about Nintendo's press …
- E309: New Super Mario Bros Wii, the trailer
- Fake plastic rock: first gameplay footage of Lego Rock Band
WiiWare:
The downloadable front should look fairly familiar to long-time readers: only a WiiWare version of Castlevania, Archon: Classic (a port of the iPhone version), and the entirely unknown Eco Shooter are surprise additions — that is, if you don’t count the announcement that three more games in the Bit.Trip series are due before Spring of 2010.
Aksys – BIT.TRIP VOID – Q3
Aksys – BIT.TRIP series (3 additional titles) – Q4, Q1
Broken Rules – And Yet It Moves – Q4
Frontier – LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias – Q4
Konami – Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth – Q3
Nicalis – Cave Story – Q3
Nicalis – Night Game – Q1
Nicalis – La Mulana – Q1
Nintendo – You, Me, and the Cubes – Q3
Nintendo – Eco Shooter: Plant 530 – Q4
Nintendo – Pokémon Rumble – Q4
Press Play – Max & the Magic Marker – Q4
React Games – Archon: Classic – Q1
Team Meat – Super Meat Boy – Q1
Previously:
- Into the Void: Bit.Trip creators unveil their latest WiiWare entry …
- Turning point: Broken Rules debuts And Yet It Moves WiiWare …
- Seasonal effective: debut video of Frontier's LostWinds: Winter of …
- E309: the latest look at Nicalis's Cave Story WiiWare remake …
- Night Game, Cave Story devs bringing cult freeware game La Mulana …
- E309: Bedtime story gaming with Nicalis's own WiiWare Night Game …
- E309: the gorgeous intergalactic emptiness of WiiWare puzzler You …
- PAX: Nintendo announce 4-player action battler Pokemon Rumble …
- PressPlay debut physicsy/scribbley WiiWare platformer Max and the …
- Rare treat: the first video footage of Team Meat’s WiiWare Super Meat Boy
Nintendo DSi:
Few surprises here either, but good news for Space Invaders Extreme fans, and those long-awaiting Platinum Games’ space opera epic Infinite Space (formerly Infinite Line).
Electronic Arts – Spore Hero Arena – Oct. 6
Konami – WireWay – November
LucasArts – LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues – Fall
Nintendo – The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks – Dec. 7
PopCap – Bookworm – Dec. 1
SEGA – Infinite Space – Spring
Square Enix – Space Invaders Extreme 2 – Oct. 20
THQ – Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter – Oct. 27
Warner Bros. – Scribblenauts – Sept. 15
Warner Bros. – LEGO Rock Band – Holiday
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Nintendo DSiWare:
It’s DSiWare that gets the most surprises with a port of GBA art games series ‘bit Generations’ DigiDrive (above) — one of the best overall puzzle games of the series, from PixelJunk creators Q-games. Also, Nintendo’s confirmed that it’ll be bringing the entirety of Toshio Iwai’s Electroplankton to the West as individual downloads (as it just did in Japan), Subatomic brings its iPhone (and PSP) tower defense game Fieldrunners to the handheld, and Boy and his Blob re-makers WayForward announce a new game in the Shantae series, the cult hit platformer that debuted on Game Boy Color and promptly fell off the map entirely.
Nintendo – Art Style: DIGIDRIVE – Q4
Nintendo – Electroplankton (10 titles total) – Q4
Subatomic – Fieldrunners – Q4
WayForward – Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Q4
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ONE SHOT: THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON TETRIS
Artist Rihards Rozans shows us the debilitating cranio-facial effects of playing too much Tetris. [via .Tiff]
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ONE SHOT: MR. BUBBLES MEETS MARY BLAIR
Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik gives BioShock 2 a retro-children’s flourish, available now for all your wallpaper needs.
Previously:
- Leaving Rapture: Nine minutes of BioShock 2
- PAX: BioShock 2's multiplayer deathmatch in motion
- One shot: the evolution of BioShock 2's Big Sisters
- LittleBigDaddy: supman098's custom BioShock 2 Big Daddy doll …
- The Sinclair Solution: BioShock 2's first multiplayer details …
- Sisters of Rapture: first look at BioShock 2's Big Sisters
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