[SinglePic not found]The great guys over at 2DBoy, who delivered what is arguably 2008′s finest Indie Game achievement World of Goo, have released the soundtrack to their seminal game for free on their website. In support of their efforts–and because we just love helping send a few folks to help bring down servers giving away free goodies–here’s the link to get this fine soundtrack all for your own enjoyment. If you haven’t heard it yet, World of Goo’s soundtrack is phenomenal–haunting yet simple, elegant and beautiful. It’s a truly amazing complement to a truly amazing game.
The web is semi abuzz with the news that Indie Studio Binary Tweed has announced an ambitious new XNA Community Games Project: Clover. The game is described as being laced with political themes, which sounds like it could make for an interesting bit of storytelling. The art is all done in a watercolor style and looks nice overall, though to be honest I feel like there should be some depth or perspective or something, I’m not quite sure. Work in progress, though, and a screenshot often fails to convey a game’s look in motion.
What’s most important, though, is that Binary Tweed appears to be taking the development of small Indie Games quite seriously, which I think is going to be a very wise move as Community Developed content moves forward in importance. To date, most of the XBLC games I’ve seen have been interesting from a “share and examine” point of view, but there are very few I’d feel good about paying money for (It’s quite unfortunate that Microsoft doesn’t allow indies to release games on the service for free). However, from the early looks and description of Clover I hope that I’ll be pleasantly surprised when it finally releases this quarter.
Good luck, Binary Tweed, we’re rooting for you!
I know, I know, we JUST changed the look. It’s a bit soon to be making the change, but we felt that the new look, while a pretty good improvement over the old one, just wasn’t quite popping for us. Consequently we’ve moved onward, upward, forward, and here we stand. Whaddya think?
As reported over at mega-blog Kotaku, Analyst Colin Sebastian joins always-ready-with-a-prediction Michael Pachter in stating that he expects Nintendo to ship a brand new Zelda title in time for Holiday 2009. Now, at the risk of sounding all naysayerish, duh. I mean seriously, Holiday 2009 will mark 3 years since the last console Zelda title shipped, that title has obviously worn off some of its polish–and let’s face it, it wasn’t really a native Wii game anyway, it was a ported Gamecube game. A nice launch title, to be sure, but let’s not pretend it was something other than what it is, OK? I hate that shit.
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