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Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
So this year's PAX 10 games have been announced!
After sifting through over 100 submissions from a gaggle of gameplay types and a plethora of platforms, a panel of game industry experts have selected the ten best submissions to be recognized as this year's The PAX 10. In alphabetical order, they are:
A Flipping Good Time
Developed by: Digipen Institute of Technology
Platform: PC
Genre: Action Platformer
Website: http://www.aflippinggoodtime.com/
Description: A Flipping Good Time is a fast-paced free-flowing 2D platformer. Flip and fly through an expansive underground world using the fluid nature of gravity to avoid the hazardous terrain. With challenging obstacles, exhilarating mine cart rides, an immersive environment, rewarding collectibles, and entertaining levels with unlockable bonus levels, A Flipping Good Time is just that: A Flipping Good Time.
Antichamber
Developed by: Alexander Bruce
Platform: PC
Genre: Exploration / Puzzle
Website: http://www.antichamber-game.com/
Description: Antichamber is a game about discovery, set inside a vibrant, minimalistic, Escher-like world, where geometry and space follow unfamiliar rules, and many obstacles are a matter of perception. Journey through the depths within a non-Euclidean labyrinth, as you create, destroy and manipulate matter, and uncover new ways to overcome your surroundings in this mind-bending psychological exploration game.
Atom Zombie Smasher
Developed by: Blendo Games
Platform: PC, Mac, Linux
Genre: Strategy
Website: http://blendogames.com
Description: Take strategic command of your mercenary forces in Atom Zombie Smasher. The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead.
Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more. Experience the tactical richness of fully-destructible environments and procedurally-generated campaigns. Good luck, commander!
Fez
Developed by: Polytron
Platform: XBLA
Genre: Platformer
Website: http://www.polytroncorporation.com
Description: Gomez is a 2D creature on a voyage of discovery into the mysterious 3rd dimension. Change your perspective and look at the world in a different way.
Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony
Developed by: Final Form Games
Platform: PC
Genre: Cooperative Top-Down Shooter
Website: http://www.jamestowngame.com
Description: Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
Unlike most top-down shooters, which give multiple players a shared pool of lives or continues, Jamestown does something different. So long as any player survives, the team can be brought back from death. By giving every player the power to rescue their team from the jaws of destruction, Jamestown creates an exhilarating cooperative experience where everyone’s contribution truly matters. Win or lose, your team will do it together.
Snapshot
Developed by: Retro Affect
Platform: PC
Genre: Puzzle-platformer
Website: http://www.retroaffect.com
Description: Take control of Pic, the robot camera built for a single purpose: capture and collect a mysterious energy scattered throughout a beautiful but dangerous land...
What if a camera captured more than just an image? In "Snapshot", that's exactly what Pic's camera does. It actually absorbs objects into photographs, removing them from existence! Paste one of your pictures back into the world and see all of your captured objects come tumbling out.
Capture even the most unusual objects: doors, light, even copies of yourself! Travel through five unique worlds, collect beautiful and elusive objects, and overcome the most challenging puzzles. With tons of objects to be photographed, there's never just one solution.
Boasting a new physics engine, objects now caught in motion, continue in motion once they're pasted. Can't quite reach that button on the ceiling? Capture a falling rock and paste the photo upside down, sending the rock hurtling upwards!
As you'll soon find out, sometimes a picture is worth so much more than just 1,000 words.
Solar 2
Developed by: Murudai
Platform: PC
Genre: ???
Website: http://www.murudai.com
Description: In most games you see stars in the background, you shoot asteroids or you live on planets. But in Solar 2 you ARE these objects! Enter a universe where you must prove yourself to the resident god-like figure by doing its many bizarre and varied tasks. Or just ignore it and see how big you can grow! Solar 2 is an open-world, sandbox game set in an infinite abstract universe. Play constructively: grow your system, nurture life on your planets and attack enemy life in huge space battles. Play destructively: crash into other objects and cause chaos, use your orbiting objects like wrecking balls, steal planets from other systems.
Splatters
Developed by: SpikySnail
Platform: PC
Genre: Puzzle Action
Website: http://www.spikysnail.com
Description: Splatters (formerly known as Confetti Carnival) is a completely original physics-based, action-packed, gameplay experience. In the game, you play a group of semi-suicidal, liquid filled Splatters, that you slam against walls making their liquid burst out and ignite colorful confetti bombs.
But it's not just about clearing out the bombs - Splatters get their kicks by blowing up with STYLE!
Splatters are masters of acrobatic maneuvers and aren't shy about showing it! You crash into spikes, ride the slides, Air-Strike into bombs or do just any stunt-combo you can think of. And with every new maneuver you learn - your show becomes more spectacular and intense.
Splatters is the best show in town - It's a one-of-a-kind game, fully-packed with fun, challenges and surprises.
http://prime.paxsite.com/img/pax10_vanessa.jpg
Developed by: Bad Pilcrow
Platform: PC
Genre: Action / Puzzle
Website: http://badpilcrow.com
Description: Vanessa Saint-Pierre Delacroix & Her Nightmare is a 2D platform game mapped to a 3D cube. Players control Vanessa, a young girl with a penchant for puzzles. One day, while exploring her father's antique shop, she discovers a mysterious, mechanical box. The device magically sucks Vanessa and her world inside. Now, Vanessa must use her considerable puzzle-solving skills to twist and turn her way to freedom, in this award-winning game from independent developer Bad Pilcrow.
Across more than three dozen levels, players must guide Vanessa from her starting position to an exit. Standing between Vanessa and freedom are a number of classic platforming mechanics, including spikes to avoid, blocks to move, and enemies to dodge. The twist? Her two-dimensional world lies on the surface of a three-dimensional cube, and players must rotate each face to find clever solutions to a wide variety of problems.
Word Fighter
Developed by: Feel Every Yummy
Platform: iOS & Android
Genre: Word Game
Website: http://www.feeleveryyummy.com
Description: Enough with the kicking and punching. It's time to fight with words.
Word Fighter is a one-on-one word battling game that mixes rules from popular word games like Boggle and Scrabble and wraps them around a competitive fighting environment. Think "Street Fighter" meets "Words with Friends", or word games mashed together with "Super Puzzle Fighter".
Word Fighter will feature 6 playable characters at launch, each with their own set of unique powers. Game modes include local & online real-time multiplayer battles, as well as asynchronous turn-based word matches. Most importantly, the game will feature cross-platform gameplay -- iOS vs. Android.
Word Fighter is scheduled to release on iPad, iPhone, & iPod Touch devices later in 2011 and on Android devices soon after.
After sifting through over 100 submissions from a gaggle of gameplay types and a plethora of platforms, a panel of game industry experts have selected the ten best submissions to be recognized as this year's The PAX 10. In alphabetical order, they are:
A Flipping Good Time
Developed by: Digipen Institute of Technology
Platform: PC
Genre: Action Platformer
Website: http://www.aflippinggoodtime.com/
Description: A Flipping Good Time is a fast-paced free-flowing 2D platformer. Flip and fly through an expansive underground world using the fluid nature of gravity to avoid the hazardous terrain. With challenging obstacles, exhilarating mine cart rides, an immersive environment, rewarding collectibles, and entertaining levels with unlockable bonus levels, A Flipping Good Time is just that: A Flipping Good Time.
Antichamber
Developed by: Alexander Bruce
Platform: PC
Genre: Exploration / Puzzle
Website: http://www.antichamber-game.com/
Description: Antichamber is a game about discovery, set inside a vibrant, minimalistic, Escher-like world, where geometry and space follow unfamiliar rules, and many obstacles are a matter of perception. Journey through the depths within a non-Euclidean labyrinth, as you create, destroy and manipulate matter, and uncover new ways to overcome your surroundings in this mind-bending psychological exploration game.
Atom Zombie Smasher
Developed by: Blendo Games
Platform: PC, Mac, Linux
Genre: Strategy
Website: http://blendogames.com
Description: Take strategic command of your mercenary forces in Atom Zombie Smasher. The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead.
Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more. Experience the tactical richness of fully-destructible environments and procedurally-generated campaigns. Good luck, commander!
Fez
Developed by: Polytron
Platform: XBLA
Genre: Platformer
Website: http://www.polytroncorporation.com
Description: Gomez is a 2D creature on a voyage of discovery into the mysterious 3rd dimension. Change your perspective and look at the world in a different way.
Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony
Developed by: Final Form Games
Platform: PC
Genre: Cooperative Top-Down Shooter
Website: http://www.jamestowngame.com
Description: Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
Unlike most top-down shooters, which give multiple players a shared pool of lives or continues, Jamestown does something different. So long as any player survives, the team can be brought back from death. By giving every player the power to rescue their team from the jaws of destruction, Jamestown creates an exhilarating cooperative experience where everyone’s contribution truly matters. Win or lose, your team will do it together.
Snapshot
Developed by: Retro Affect
Platform: PC
Genre: Puzzle-platformer
Website: http://www.retroaffect.com
Description: Take control of Pic, the robot camera built for a single purpose: capture and collect a mysterious energy scattered throughout a beautiful but dangerous land...
What if a camera captured more than just an image? In "Snapshot", that's exactly what Pic's camera does. It actually absorbs objects into photographs, removing them from existence! Paste one of your pictures back into the world and see all of your captured objects come tumbling out.
Capture even the most unusual objects: doors, light, even copies of yourself! Travel through five unique worlds, collect beautiful and elusive objects, and overcome the most challenging puzzles. With tons of objects to be photographed, there's never just one solution.
Boasting a new physics engine, objects now caught in motion, continue in motion once they're pasted. Can't quite reach that button on the ceiling? Capture a falling rock and paste the photo upside down, sending the rock hurtling upwards!
As you'll soon find out, sometimes a picture is worth so much more than just 1,000 words.
Solar 2
Developed by: Murudai
Platform: PC
Genre: ???
Website: http://www.murudai.com
Description: In most games you see stars in the background, you shoot asteroids or you live on planets. But in Solar 2 you ARE these objects! Enter a universe where you must prove yourself to the resident god-like figure by doing its many bizarre and varied tasks. Or just ignore it and see how big you can grow! Solar 2 is an open-world, sandbox game set in an infinite abstract universe. Play constructively: grow your system, nurture life on your planets and attack enemy life in huge space battles. Play destructively: crash into other objects and cause chaos, use your orbiting objects like wrecking balls, steal planets from other systems.
Splatters
Developed by: SpikySnail
Platform: PC
Genre: Puzzle Action
Website: http://www.spikysnail.com
Description: Splatters (formerly known as Confetti Carnival) is a completely original physics-based, action-packed, gameplay experience. In the game, you play a group of semi-suicidal, liquid filled Splatters, that you slam against walls making their liquid burst out and ignite colorful confetti bombs.
But it's not just about clearing out the bombs - Splatters get their kicks by blowing up with STYLE!
Splatters are masters of acrobatic maneuvers and aren't shy about showing it! You crash into spikes, ride the slides, Air-Strike into bombs or do just any stunt-combo you can think of. And with every new maneuver you learn - your show becomes more spectacular and intense.
Splatters is the best show in town - It's a one-of-a-kind game, fully-packed with fun, challenges and surprises.
http://prime.paxsite.com/img/pax10_vanessa.jpg
Developed by: Bad Pilcrow
Platform: PC
Genre: Action / Puzzle
Website: http://badpilcrow.com
Description: Vanessa Saint-Pierre Delacroix & Her Nightmare is a 2D platform game mapped to a 3D cube. Players control Vanessa, a young girl with a penchant for puzzles. One day, while exploring her father's antique shop, she discovers a mysterious, mechanical box. The device magically sucks Vanessa and her world inside. Now, Vanessa must use her considerable puzzle-solving skills to twist and turn her way to freedom, in this award-winning game from independent developer Bad Pilcrow.
Across more than three dozen levels, players must guide Vanessa from her starting position to an exit. Standing between Vanessa and freedom are a number of classic platforming mechanics, including spikes to avoid, blocks to move, and enemies to dodge. The twist? Her two-dimensional world lies on the surface of a three-dimensional cube, and players must rotate each face to find clever solutions to a wide variety of problems.
Word Fighter
Developed by: Feel Every Yummy
Platform: iOS & Android
Genre: Word Game
Website: http://www.feeleveryyummy.com
Description: Enough with the kicking and punching. It's time to fight with words.
Word Fighter is a one-on-one word battling game that mixes rules from popular word games like Boggle and Scrabble and wraps them around a competitive fighting environment. Think "Street Fighter" meets "Words with Friends", or word games mashed together with "Super Puzzle Fighter".
Word Fighter will feature 6 playable characters at launch, each with their own set of unique powers. Game modes include local & online real-time multiplayer battles, as well as asynchronous turn-based word matches. Most importantly, the game will feature cross-platform gameplay -- iOS vs. Android.
Word Fighter is scheduled to release on iPad, iPhone, & iPod Touch devices later in 2011 and on Android devices soon after.
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It was basically made by a sophomore at my school, with a little art help and stuff from a couple students I know, and music by another student
but the level design in it is so ridiculously clever
I've also been meaning to give Atom Zombie Smasher a look, mostly as I know nothing about it but I hear good word of mouth.
Never.
I'm convinced of this.
I was going to make a DNF joke, but then I remembered it actually came out.
SteamID: Baroque And Roll
that gameplay trailer looks incredible and I can't wait to buy it on XBLA
Like, the idea that I have the money to fly to the other side of the continent to look at videogames is anathema to my brain.
So...I guess I better look into these!
Playing aggressively seems to be just for kicks; the amount of matter it takes to kick the crap out of some other system sees you ending up with a lot less than you started with. (I'm probably doing it wrong)
Gonna get it so hard.
Secret Satan
sky island! there was also a 3DS game like this, as well.
its free, go download it. It's a pretty great little game.