Blitz Arcade Announces Encleverment Experiment
Blitz Arcade announced today plans to launch its Xbox LIVE Arcade game Encleverment Experiment– a clever game for gamers who think they are clever – in the next few weeks. Blitz Arcade is working with Microsoft to finalize the exact launch date.
Encleverment Experiment invites players ages five and older to join brilliant and eccentric Professor Ivor Question in his funky lab. Gamers enjoy a variety of fun and fast-paced challenges testing memory, reflexes, and dexterity. Response time and accuracy are rewarded with Noodles, the in-game currency. The game's challenge is to accumulate Noodles, but out-braining your friends is fun, too.
The game features two main game styles: Take-a-Test Mode for single players and Game Show Mode for 1-4 players.
Take-a-Test Mode for Single Players
Players take the Professor's five-round tests in mathematics, pattern recognition, reactions, and…what was it?... ah yes, memory. Players can track their improvements over the previous 30 tests to see how much their brains have become "enclevered."
Game Show Mode for Single and Multiple (2-4) Players
Single players take on one of 15 AI opponents at a time, with each victory unlocking the next, more skilful contestant. Each game show features six rounds randomly selected from the 16 available mini-games, and each opponent specializes in one or more games. The final contestant is the Professor himself and he's an expert at everything!
Multiple players attempt to complete the Professor's challenges as quickly as possible, with top honors going to the first player to answer correctly. Players can challenge randomly generated quizzes or design their own "Home-made Games" with the easy-to-use Editor feature, which can create game shows up to 30 rounds long. The last round is always the "Score Stealer Game" – the first person to answer correctly gets to steal points from the fellow contestant of choice. Winners are rewarded with Noodles which are used to purchase up to 60 collectible Mascots to show off their gaming prowess.
16 Fun Mini-games and Puzzles
Encleverment Experiment offers 16 fun and mind-challenging mini-games and puzzles including:
* Griddled (find the only word in a word search-style grid);
* Copy Cat (remember the sequence of new eye colors every time the cat blinks);
* Semi-Vinyls (piece together broken records like a jigsaw puzzle);
* Stepping Tones (match sounds to colors); and
* Oddest One Out (identify which one of four patterns just doesn't "fit").
* Each mini-game offers four levels of difficulty to cater for gamers of all ages and ability.
Encleverment Experiment is rated "E" for Everyone by the Entertainment Software Review Board, and all in-game content is safe for children to enjoy. Players can buy Encleverment Experiment for 800 MS points when the game is launched.
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
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
