"Unannounced: The Game", EA's monkey-killing platformer/puzzler for the DS

Elaballouballs

Originally saw this over from 1up and thought people here would go nuts over this
from one of the two Kyle's who founded the Experimental Gameplay Project

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3166364

and a video from the game:
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/17593

and some from early prototypes with commentary!
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/17593
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/17593

Gray discussed his current DS project, a 2D platformer that he called "Unannounced: The Game," showing Flash prototypes going by the name "Monkey Business" and talking about the game's evolution as it moved from a personal project to a fully funded game. While he didn't reveal how all of the game's mechanics will work, given its unannounced state, Gray showed prototypes based around the concept of killing monkeys in funny ways -- using melee combat, arrows, jetpacks, robot vehicles, etc. -- with puzzle-game elements on the touch screen designed to vary the platforming gameplay.

In the video below, you can see a montage of footage from the game running on DS. And yes, that is an opera singer (it's not all fighting monkeys).

GertBeef

What is going on in that video?

What is that red block!?

urahonky

Woah, looks sweet!

Elaballouballs

I think the red block is escaping the puzzle screen which then becomes an enemy up top or something?

if you watch the first prototype video the dude spastically talks about how the platformer and puzzle work together.

It looks like the music notes from the opera singer go down to the puzzle screen, and every time the little explorer guy kills something it goes down into the puzzle for some reason.

Axen

They should totally keep the title.