Spelunky Coming To XBLA
The developers behind Indie darling Spelunky have revealed with their new website that the game will be coming to the Xbox Live Arcade.
The game will not be a direct port however, it will contain new graphics and audio alongside other new features. Whether it will keep its very low resolution style is currently unknown.
Spelunky is a 2D sidescrolling platformer taking place inside caverns with procedurally created levels. It's known for being quite difficult, so it'll be interesting to see if they change the game to be a little easier, or have check points.
Check out this video of the PC version. It's great to finally see developer Derek Yu make it to console distribution after games like I'm O.K. and Aquaria staying in the world of PC games.
Spelunky is set to be on XBLA in 2010.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
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