Check Out The Animation In Jenny LeClue’s Pitch Video
By John Walker on July 28th, 2014 at 9:00 am.
If there’s one genre that isn’t struggling for female lead characters, it’s the adventure game. A billion grimy murder mysteries with a tough female cop have come out over the last decade (almost all of them dreadful). In complete contrast to those grim, glum affairs is the potential of Jenny LeClue, a bright, animated and distinctive Kickstarter pitch from animator Joe Russ. Promising to explore themes such as family, loss, and identity, and already showing off some seriously excellent animation, it too is a murder mystery. Just without the grime.
Peeking Mandatory: Splitscreen Shooter Screencheat
By Alice O'Connor on July 28th, 2014 at 10:00 am.
I would quite like to see more cheating soon. Not that nasty awful cheating, the one that ruins multiplayer games for everyone but the cheater, but the idea of cheating. Double Fine’s Hack ‘n’ Slash is built around cheating with a memory editor, and now Screencheat demands players peek at each other’s screens in splitscreen.
Screencheat’s a competitive multiplayer first-person shooter with splitscreen for up to four players. Except. All players are invisible, so you’ll need to look at everyone else’s portion of the screen and analyse their view to figure out where they are. (So you can shoot them dead, obv.)
Take My Etc: Firefly Online Reunites TV Cast
By Alice O'Connor on July 28th, 2014 at 2:00 pm.
Firefly Online is clearly counting on the cancelled sci-fi show’s fanbase to carry it, and has revealed it’s hoping to lure them in by reuniting the core cast to voice virtual versions of their characters. Which will probably work. But it’s a tricky balance to strike: this will make more fans interested, but also raises development costs of a game based on a show that wasn’t popular enough to avoid cancellation. The game beneath the nostalgia will need to be good enough.
A few snaps of gameplay are in a new trailer. Come see.
Rock It, Raccoon: Zen Pinball 2 Guardians Of The Galaxy
By Adam Smith on July 28th, 2014 at 4:00 pm.
Zen Pinball 2 isn’t my digital pinball flavour of choice. I prefer the recreation of actual tables, even if sometimes imperfect, to the shiny Marvel and Star Wars licensed fare of Zen Studios. I still dabble in the lightshow occasionally though and a new Guardians of the Galaxy table seems like a good excuse to shake off the ball rust. Judging by the trailer (below), the new table will fall in the Zen tradition of ramp-heavy high-scoring theme park tables. Lots of bang for your buck (actually $2.99), but not necessarily a whole lot of skills and processes to learn.
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