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Majesco New Platformer - Flip's Twisted World - (Wii) [Developer Seemingly Closed]
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Wishing Julian good luck with this one. Tommy gave Frozen North a quick shout out the last time Video Games Live hit Kitchener-Waterloo.
For those wanting to know what else they've worked on, I remember they had a math-based MMO in the works a few years back. Details in this Shacknews article . Thankfully that got scrapped.
For those wanting to know what else they've worked on, I remember they had a math-based MMO in the works a few years back. Details in this Shacknews article . Thankfully that got scrapped.
Eteric Rice
Member
Ranger X said:
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
crops55 said:I don't know, it's going to be awfully tough to follow this masterpiece.
... which was not developed by the same company at all?
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Looks promising. Definitely SMG-esque, and that's a great thing. I hope this turns out well.
Questionable character/enemy design and lackluster animation aside, this actually looks pretty interesting. And yes, it is certainly reminiscent of Fez, SMG and Crush (more similar to Fez than the other two, really). The idea is definitely neat, and what little gameplay the trailer shows looks promising. Another 6 months or so of dev time can only improve things.
Hero of Legend
Member
Finally we have new footage in the form of a developer video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNcj-DcXgk
Looks better than it did at first, Flip moves much smoother and it looks more like a proper game than some low-budget rip-off you know? I like how it's coming along!
A personal note, one of my closest cousins actually knows Julian Spillane, the founder of Frozen North, I just told my cousin when I saw him around Christmas to say hello and to wish him good luck for me, I doubt I'll ever get to meet him, but it's nice to actually have a family member be close to a developer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNcj-DcXgk
Looks better than it did at first, Flip moves much smoother and it looks more like a proper game than some low-budget rip-off you know? I like how it's coming along!
A personal note, one of my closest cousins actually knows Julian Spillane, the founder of Frozen North, I just told my cousin when I saw him around Christmas to say hello and to wish him good luck for me, I doubt I'll ever get to meet him, but it's nice to actually have a family member be close to a developer.
Glass Soldier
Banned
Hero of Legend said:Looks better than it did at first, Flip moves much smoother and it looks more like a proper game than some low-budget rip-off you know? I like how it's coming along!
It certainly looks better but they still have to work on the animations. I don't know, maybe I'm too spoiled by Galaxy but Flip's movement seems a bit off and too "heavy" and his attacks just look weird.
abstract alien
Member
Hmmm, never heard of this, but im interested...
Luckydude23
Member
jrricky said:More Platformers please.
THIS. The Wii needs more platformers so the more the merrier I guess. Can't wait!
Metaphoreus
This is semantics, and nothing more
bridegur said:
Yeah, an interview style would have been better. That is, they shouldn't have pre-written all of their comments. It was painful to listen to.
Hero of Legend said:Finally we have new footage in the form of a developer video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNcj-DcXgk
Looks better than it did at first, Flip moves much smoother and it looks more like a proper game than some low-budget rip-off you know? I like how it's coming along!
Good graphics. We're finally getting to see games on the Wii with better than Gamecube level graphics.
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TSAGoodness
Member
nightez said:
Yeah this game looks awesome, amazon is showing an april release date now, I guess it got pushed back?
I would't say it's better than GC but it's up there. And it's from a "nobody" startup studio... Hurray for the big boys of the industry :lolnightez said:
I just hope they don't release this anywhere NEAR Super Mario Galaxy 2's release date/hype campaign :lol
Oh and let's not judge things like frame rate from flash videos eh? The engine certainly has good lighting and whatever it is that gives areas that smooth, shiny look similar to Galaxy, and other pretty effects.
thestopsign
Member
I looks like it has a lot of promise. It might not have the greatest effects going on, but the art direction is a lot better suited for the Wii compared to what most developers are putting out on the system, which makes it look a lot better.
Saint10118
Member
Some Additional Info via Majesco's site:
Also Amazon is currently listing this for an April 13th release date from its original date which was supposed to be this month.
Also Amazon is currently listing this for an April 13th release date from its original date which was supposed to be this month.
comedy bomb
Banned
lol @ reading from a cue card
Hero of Legend
Member
This is what came to mind when I saw Flip:
Their faces kinda look similar, plus they're blue (the Monster looks more purple here than he's supposed to).
Their faces kinda look similar, plus they're blue (the Monster looks more purple here than he's supposed to).
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
It always worries me when I see footage of a platformer and the jumping mechanic looks off. I'm down with low key platforming titles, but screw up the jump and the whole thing falls apart. In the video it looks like the sort of stiff little hop that can easily lead to chronically falling short of the mark. Oddly their solution seems to be pushing all the platforms super close together rather than tweaking the animation/physics to be a little more intuitive. It reminds me of a dozen 32/64 bit era games that fell victim to the similar control deficiencies.
YourMaster
Member
They'll clone the wrong Mario game. Somebody has got to tell them that NSMBW is the fun one!
Still has potential, but didn't really like much of the new stuff shown. They should just put out a gameplay trailer, I was bothered by the devs talking, but the audio being out of sync. They said the team is only 12 people (6 when it was a flash game and then doubled?), that's impressive.
nincompoop
Banned
Not to mention that the audio was out of sync, which made it look like the video was overdubbed from a different language. Game looks really good though.comedy bomb said:
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Hero of Legend said:
o_o
*added to radar*
12 people? WHAT? You're seriously telling me 12 start up nobodies have almost matched Super Mario Galaxy's overall visuals, sans the Nintendo-art-direction® and some extra polish obviously, yet we have all those giants of the industry unable to come anywhere near that level with efforts they supposedly expected to set the charts on fire (if it wasn't for Nintendo-evil-ways®) because they were oh so hardcore and awesome? :lol
Cow Mengde
Banned
Give these guys a break, man. The obviously couldn't hire a PR guy to help them get the video together. They're only 12 guys and probably working with a tiny ass budget too.
The game looks very interesting. Looks even better than the first video.
The game looks very interesting. Looks even better than the first video.
Agnates said:
It's slated for Spring 2010, so that's probably not an issue.
GrotesqueBeauty said:
I'm also a little concerned by early impressions that things like the twisting mechanism were a little wonky. But those were many, many months ago now... things may have improved. I'll check it out, give it a shot.
crazy monkey
Banned
Ya the game is looking good. I hope it sells.