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Sound Shapes

22 July 2012

Whatever Beck touches automatically transforms into gold (mostly), ask Gainsbourg’s daughter if not, but his latest experiment isn’t composing an album for for another artist but for a well-known gaming brand.

Mr Hansen has teamed up with the one-man project Queasy Games (aka Jonathan Mak) who’s been preparing his upcoming project Sound Shapes for the Sony gaming platform and that was already demoed at 2011’s E3. A lot has rained since and many well-known musicians and other designers have helped Jonathan with the much anticipated PS game.

Sound Shapes screenshot
Sound Shapes screenshot

Beck is the last in a loooong list of sound designers who’d make the buzz for any other indie game..   Deadmau5, Jim Guthrie, I Am Robot and Proud… and now Beck, who contributes with 3 tracks: Cities, Touch the People and Spiral Staircase. The usual hypnotic style from the incombustible B. David will be accompanied by Pyramid Attack‘s level design, who happen to be Jonathon Mak’s friends…

Everything stays @ home for the Canadian-based project that will be released August the 7th…. $14.99 for some challenging levels… and the best of musics. Best of luck Mr Mak, more videos & info this way.

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Escape Plan demo

30 December 2011

With recent news pointing out a sharp decline in PS Vita sales numbers in Japan in recent weeks …. and even if it’s too early to judge (take into account is not even available worldwide until late Feb) Sony’s new portable gaming & killing machine needs less shooters or uncharted and more “casual” puzzle & indie adventures to win the casual gamer market, something Nintendo understood many years ago.

Escape Plan” (developed by funbits) was unveiled last summer as a puzzle adventure taking advantage of Vita’s multitouch display, rear touch panel and gestural swipe interfaces adding a dark Limbo look&feel. And even if we’ve already seen a few demos on Youtube, Brian Crecente from Kotaku makes it look realistically fun… even for those of us who are crap with touch-based controls.

Basicallly you’ll have to guide Lil and Laarg to survive a perilous labyrinth of puzzles and booby traps… not only with the screen and rear touch pad but also by blowing into the microphone … and a few other tricks. No idea if Escape Plan will be available for other platforms (apparently not), so maybe you’ll never get to play it… unless buying an expensive Vita of course.

Escape Plan game still
Escape Plan game still
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NGP

30 January 2011

Someone commented the other day @engadget… “Nintendo always comes up with things we don’t expect, Sony brings to the market what we always wanted”… and the PSP2 (or Next Generation Portable as they call it now) seems to be a bull machine with endless possibilities…

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