The Indie Scene | Issue 4: EnjoyUp [news]

Nice article Mike

I've always been a bit weary of games that were originally for one platform and then got moved...Scurge...most early DS games (from GBA)...even Star Fox Adventures and Kameo, but I know they can turn out to be good. Hopefully Chronos Twin is.

At first my addled brain thought this was a new Chrono game for some reason Oh well.

Still good one Mikey boy! I do like the article's C3 does Makes it seem much more professional.

But where has the Hound been recently?

( Edited on 14.10.2006 21:02 by Tin Can Man )

Excellent article Mike! Always good to see how its goiing with indie devs.

But where has the Hound been recently?

In uni with limited PC access

DAMN YOU EDUCATION!

Wow, controlling 2 characters at once.

In japan they should call this game "brain training-train your multitasking skills in minutes a day" and it will sell millions.

Sounds pretty darn nice.

Controlling two charecters at the same time is Mario & Lugias: SuperStarSaga as well though
(and worked fantastic in that, I might add).

This game adds the twist of putting a charecter in a different timezone AND multitasking, which I guess is pretty new.

Still, I want someone to invent a truely 4D game that lets me move in time as if it was another direction on the controll pad.
(guess that woul be a 3D game if it was 2D...errr....)

I love this section!! It's really interesting hearing about smaller developers.

Not sure how its an 'indie scene' if they have a publisher supporting them, but nevermind.

The game sounds decent enough really. I have heard a bit about this from IGN, so I don't think that the game wouldn't be a success with word already out about it.

I use to think that the game was a DS version of the old PS2 game of a similar name which scored badly(about 5/10 by GI) but it seems that it isn't. I'd be interested to see how the final game comes along.

Not sure how its an 'indie scene' if they have a publisher supporting them, but nevermind.

Independent developer, so it qualifies. Also, the publisher is a fairly small starting out independent publisher, so that doubles it. They don't necessarily have to be without publishers when they're covered as long as the developer itself is one that doesn't have ties to any other company and doesn't have a substantial history.

Good point about Mario & Luigi Darkflame, slipped my mind - cheers for reminding me. Still, gotta agree it's a bit different to anything we've seen before!

There was quite a bit of coverage on this back in 2004 when it was a GBA title, but then it got moved onto DS and there's been rather little since. Cheers for the comments guys!

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Wow... I must say it certainly sounds interesting. My only problem with it is that it seems like it's gonna be impossible to fight two bosses at the same time, but I'm sure they will have taken that into consideration. They'll probably have similar attack patterns or something

Beginning of next year eh? Hmm... Looks like another DS game that wants to steal my money ;_;

EDIT: You people and your bold tags...

( Edited on 15.10.2006 11:09 by Megadanxzero )

Mason said:
Independent developer, so it qualifies.

Mason said:
Also, the publisher is a fairly small starting out independent publisher, so that doubles it.

Mason said:
They dont necessarily have to be without publishers when theyre covered as long as the developer itself is one that doesnt have ties to any other company and doesnt have a substantial history.

( Edited on 16.10.2006 12:20 by Daniel Primed )

They're not a part of the publisher's company and are a standalone company at this point in time, so they're an independent developer. As far as I can tell, at this moment in time it's a one game deal. Do you have any developers you'd consider to be 'true' indies in your eyes that you think would be worthy of coverage?

It doesn't really have a regular time frame unfortunately, it was originally supposed to be monthly but I've either had problems waiting for information from developers for a while or I've had computer issues which've delayed it a couple of times now. I'm hoping to get it regular at some point...

Independant developer is a very ambiguous term, but this is Indie enough for me.

I like the sound of this, but I take it those graphics are inhereted from the GBA version and will be replaced eventualy, because that's a MegaDrive's colour pallete I'm seeing...

Mason said:
Theyre not a part of the publishers company and are a standalone company at this point in time, so theyre an independent developer.

Mason said:
Do you have any developers youd consider to be true indies in your eyes that you think would be worthy of coverage?

Although I am a regular at a local indie forum(ironic that, but these guys are different). So I would probably say 'yes'. The forum is based just around my small state in Australia. Now if there is that much talent in just my state(which is considered to be one of the worst in Australia, unfortunately) then I'm sure that there are plenty of projects to dig up that would be worthy of a feature. But they'd be tricky to dig up.

If you want I can do some talking and see what I can do?

Mason said:
It doesnt really have a regular time frame unfortunately, it was originally supposed to be monthly but Ive either had problems waiting for information from developers for a while or Ive had computer issues whichve delayed it a couple of times now. Im hoping to get it regular at some point...

Grumbler said:
I like the sound of this, but I take it those graphics are inhereted from the GBA version and will be replaced eventualy, because thats a MegaDrives colour pallete Im seeing...

Yeah, they do look like the GBA version's graphics. I think this is it in the form that it'll retain to final version, it's due out reasonably soon (next 4 - 6 months I believe).

Daniel, that'd be great if you think you could find anybody worthy or could give any links to indie communities so I could have a look myself. I'm always on the look out, so feel free to PM me if you dig anything up.

I think at the very least it seems to be pretty well animated...

You can't expect an indie developer to be perfect ^^;

(And it is just me that sees this entire page as bold'D? >.>)

Tin Can Man said:
But where has the Hound been recently

He was going to be back last night but I started swearing at my new Apple MacBook a lot and before I knew it the clock read 2am and I needed sleep. I might do it tonight instead, got some good topics cooked up, so stay tuned.

Nice little issue Mike, really enjoyed reading it