Platypus on Xbox Indie Games

Time to show off some more cool stuff we've been working on the past few weeks...

It's Platypus! And it's almost done. Honestly, it's so close to finished I can taste it. And it tastes, well.. like plasticine actually. But never mind the taste, look at how beautiful it is!

I thought I'd include this screenshot because it shows two quite important things. Firstly, the more observant and multilingual among you will notice that it's in Italian. Yep, we're translating Platypus into 7 languages! Quite a feat and it's still not quite finished.

Secondly, as you should be able to tell I'm about to seriously buy the farm in this picture, but that demonstrates the cool pixel-perfect collision, now fully working.

Anyway, to backtrack a little, Platypus is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up, made by a very talented guy called Anthony Flack. He made it using Blitz Basic and a whole lot of plasticine, a few years ago now and the story of how he did it is really quite interesting. Escapist Games is bringing this little bundle of fun to Xbox Live Indie Games, converted directly from the original PC version. In the process we've upgraded it to HD widescreen, improved the audio and added various extra's, and it's going to be available very soon. We just need to finish these translations...

Anyone know what the German is for "Seriously cool multi-player fun"?

Avatar Fishing Party

Ok just a quick update this time, but with pictures! Yay!

Here's our next game: Avatar Fishing Party

This will be our first original game. It's 4-player simultaneous party fishing. Fun for all the family. At the moment I'm working on the party mode, as you can see in this little screenshot.

It's still early days. We hope to have it finished within a month or so but it really depends on how many features we want to have. If we go with the 'lite' version of the game then a month is very do-able. But if we decide to add 2 more levels and a career mode, which I really want to do, then I'm not sure when it will be out. Probably more like 2 months.

I'm really looking forward to showing you more of this. It's already really addictive, and definitely has that just-one-more-go factor.

I'll update this blog with the games progress. So you can see it all come together.