Arkedo, the studio behind Big Bang Mini and Nervous Brickdown, have come out with a new game called JUMP! for the Xbox Indie Games Channel. It’s a retro style platformer where you have to battle enemy crabs and destroy bombs planted all over the levels. The best part of JUMP!, to me anyway, is the pixilated art style. It’s absolutely fantastic and great to look at. JUMP! available now on the Indie Channel for 240 Points.
It’s interesting that Arkedo has jumped from DS development to the Indie Games channel. They could easily do Xbox Arcade games, but it seems like Arkedo is trying a little experiment with the Indie Channel. A very small team is shooting to make one game a month. First there was JUMP!, which took them 35 days to complete. Their next game is called SWAP! and should be out before the end of the month. Plus they have three more games in the works so we should be seeing a total of five new Arkedo games within the next four months.
Arkedo sees a lot of potential in the Indie Channel and hopefully it pays off for them. Check out the trailer above and download the demo for JUMP!. Give it a go and let us know what you think of it.
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Looks neat! I'll have to try this out later when I go to my friend's house (my hard drive is currently over there thanks to 200+ Rock Band DLC songs being tied to my gamertag).
Opera sucks with the video browser, I either have to refresh or switch between HD and SD in order for the crappy Axe hair gel ad to play then I can watch.
Maybe it's OSX, I dunno.
On OSX, in both Safari and Firefox, I always get the RevRant video. I hit play and it IS the Rev-rant video, not the trailer.
Granted, that's a lot of humor and all, but it isn't working. :(
This game is pretty damn great. Didn't know it was done by the guys who did Big Bang Mini, but that makes a lot of sense. The only really annoying thing about it is that there is no way to quit back to the main menu during gameplay, though since you can't continue the "adventure mode" anyway (also annoying) so that *sort* of makes sense.
It's pretty damn fun. Also extremely polished for an XBLIG title.
Well, looks like those extra points I had to buy for Crash Course might come in handy after all :)
The art style is awesome, and the game play doesn't look too shabby either. The only thing is I could imagine myself get really upset at not getting bombs on time, but it looks great for just 240 points. I'll be picking this up.
I've bought a few $1 indie games (mostly cheapo platformers, Zombies in It and Avatar Drop) but this is the first game I actually paid $3 for in the indie games. This is way beyond an indie game and totally worth the price...
I'm very eager to play more of Arkedo's indies.
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I'll never read that work without hearing the weird kids shouting it at the start-up screen of Big Bang Mini.
Yes, it is.
Firefox, Windows XP. Did it on the other video too, by the way. That Max Payne thing I didn't care about.
Opera sucks with the video browser, I either have to refresh or switch between HD and SD in order for the crappy Axe hair gel ad to play then I can watch.
I use Google Chrome.
On OSX, in both Safari and Firefox, I always get the RevRant video. I hit play and it IS the Rev-rant video, not the trailer.
Granted, that's a lot of humor and all, but it isn't working. :(
It's pretty damn fun. Also extremely polished for an XBLIG title.
The art style is awesome, and the game play doesn't look too shabby either. The only thing is I could imagine myself get really upset at not getting bombs on time, but it looks great for just 240 points. I'll be picking this up.
I'm very eager to play more of Arkedo's indies.