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BeautiFun Weekly: News and Discoveries Ep.11
Nihilumbra for Wii U official presentation in Madrid.
via @BeautiFunGames
Last Thursday Nintendo flew us to their Showroom in Madrid to present the upcoming version of Nihilumbra for Wii U. Kevin and Aniol introduced the game to many of journalists who were curious about the new features of this release and also the story of our studio. Aside of the technical improvements we added to the PC version, the game for Wii U will have two main new features:
- An asymmetric 2-players cooperative mode.
- Improved controls: The hybrid control mode (analog dpad with buttons and touchscreen). The Wii U GamePad makes this version the most complete to date.
Another World: Rotoscoping & Interview Eric Chahi
via @JesusFabreIn this feature documentary Eric Chahi brings us back in time to the early 90's, when he created the classic Another World (one of the titles that inspired Nihilumbra). The piece is totally worth to see, especially if you are curious about the technical intricacies behind and the cultural influences present in the game.
The huge phenomenon behind Twitch plays Pokemon.
via @truguers
Around the 12th of February an anonymous Twitch user managed to stream the first generation Pokemon game on his Twitch TV channel. But for everyone's surprise, he wasn't the only one who could control the game, since he binded the controls to the stream common chat so anyone attending the stream could participate. Now is when things go crazy up to the point of having around 120.000 users playing the game at a given time (and at least 738.000 have played in total for now). The owner of the stream is moderating the game to avoid trolls, but in general it seems everything goes quite smooth and the community is very cooperative.
The game already generated several memes, like the Helix Fossil one. Due to having so many people trying to control the game, there was an specific item that was constantly kept vainly selected, the so called Helix Fossil. This constant action of consulting that precise item created a wide range of stories and jokes among the community, treating it like it was a holy deity, which the player uses for guidance. The community jokes that the true goal in the game switched to accomplish the usage of that Helix Fossil item in the proper place, that is to revive ancient fossil Pokemon Omanyte, once you get to Cinnabar Island.
Hunting Anubis is a single/multiplayer combat flight sim focusing on near future drone warfare. Currently in a free, open Beta period. Dogfight enemies fully autonomous or remotely manned in the endless fight for the skies of the 21st century.
Here you can download the beta for Windows, Mac or Linxu.
Here you can download the beta for Windows, Mac or Linxu.
Orihaus :: Design, Code, Modeling, Graphics, Enviroments.
Lhasa Mencur :: Music, Audio.
Aliceffekt :: Additional Modeling and Map Design.
Henk Boom and Renaud Bédard :: Waiting For Horus base Code.
A video with every NES game start screen in alphabetical order.
via @JesusFabre
Aside of the logical nostalgic feelings this video will arouse in many old-school gamers, I find really interesting to see how the games were presented twenty to thirty years ago: the music, the aesthetics (logo, colors, shapes, etc).
Here you can check out our previous issue of BeautiFun Weekly: News and Discoveries.
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BeautiFun Weekly: News and Discoveries Ep.7
Nihilumbra available at Gaming For Good.
Now you can get Nihilumbra (and also the great Spanish indie Unepic) at Gaming For Good An Athene's initiative where all the money from sold games goes directly to the NGO Save the Children!
Vía @BeautiFunGames
Back in December I had the chance to play Daniel Benmergui's Storyteller, a game where your goal is to freely craft your own stories, only limited by having a certain set of characters and objects that you should handle in order to reach a conclusion. Definitely Storytelling has a lot of potential, it's quite innovative, but also very complex from the development side. Daniel is working really hard create a streamlined experience through the different situations that player has to face. Recently Daniel announced on Storyteller's webpage:
"It happened that recently I decided to take a week to make a small game and thus "Ernesto RPG" was born. After releasing it into the wild, I realized that there might be upsides to turning it into a tiny commercial game:
It will take my designer mind off of Storyteller for a while, allowing me to go back to it from a different perspective.
Releasing commercially means Ernesto will have to go through the same releasing pipeline that Storyteller will have to go through; by then, I will be more experienced. Ernesto reminded me how I felt when I started with Storyteller.
I have been in a very good mood since I started it."
Ernesto is Daniel's side project, a free pixelated click-based RPG where you guide the destiny of an explorer through dungeons filled with unexpected dangers, but also with power-ups to help you to survive. The game is pretty addictive, and Daniel is improving it up to the point he said it will be released commercially. Give it a chance if you have some free time, is really addicting!
Vía @JesusFabre
Pokemon Evoas. A promising fan-made Pokémon Game.
From now and then we see some fan-made games based on very well known franchises. Today we have Pokémon Evoas, as the author, th3sharkk says:
"Evoas makes a lot of changes to the standard pokemon gameplay formula, with a focus on making battles more strategic and exciting."
The game is not only using the trademark Pokémon, it also takes art and sound assets from it. So that means Nintendo may take down the project any time... let's see. Meanwhile you can give it a try here.
Vía @truguers
If you haven't heard about Watermelon Games, maybe if I tell you about Pier Solar it would be more familiar to you. The Canadian studio is now about to release their next title for the Sega Mega Drive, under the name Project Y there are lots of passion from developers and also many fans, who invested and helped to shape the game into its present form. The gameplay is a mixture between a Beat'em all with RPG elements (what they call an RPB). Recently has been some controversy since some people accused them of getting too much inspiration from Streets of Rage, but they quickly denied such suppositions. They said the influences on Project Y were very diverse and they aren't going after cloning any classic title.
Here is the game context, taken from the game's site:
"ProjectY takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, set in an Asian high-tech metropolis. The last survivors of the nuclear war are divided into several classes, where the most powerful have the others by the balls. This has divided the governing bodies into several fractions, where ethnic mafias and a corrupt corporation are just a few of them! As you can see, this story is filled with many possible scenarios. It will demand lots of exploring and several playthroughs to get everything out of it."
Vía @BeautiFunGames
Impressive concept arts released after WARHAMMER: Age of Reckoning gets closed.
Sadly Warhammer Online servers were shutdown last December 18th, slightly more than five years left many gamers with a deep feeling of losing. As a tribute, Youtube user warhammerbp has created this amazing video, where you can contemplate its huge worlds, majestic creatures, and massive battles.
Also, one of the game artists called daaken, who worked on the title since 2007, posted many of the artworks he did for the game on his website, you can find them here:
Via @desgastada
Random stuff of the week:
Take it as a reward for reaching to the end of the post.
Vía @AniolAlcaraz
Here you can check out our previous issue of BeautiFun Weekly: News and Discoveries.
Here you can check out our previous issue of BeautiFun Weekly: News and Discoveries.
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