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High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle After my chat with LEGO’s Mark Hanson the other day about the upcoming LEGO Universe MMO, I was promised some concept art. Well the big day has arrived and I awoke this morning to find two nice little images in my mailbox. The email described them as being related to one of the first zones that players will encounter upon starting the game. Not much more info than that but there you have it. Make the jump to check out another shot!
Late Thursday night I rolled in to Jillian’s at the Metreon Center spent and exhausted. A week of running around GDC was beginning to take it’s toll, but I was told I had to come check out a special surprise dealing with Texas Instrument’s DLP technology. Being a DLP owner myself I decided I’d check out what all the hub-bub was. Turns out it was really quite interesting.
Oh, Jonathan Blow. You’re so painfully pretentious it would almost be cute if you didn’t go zinging so far over the line almost every time you open your mouth publicly. The maker of the forthcoming XBLA title Braid is back with another discussion of his views on the industry, this one really launching off on a new – wait, no, it’s the same old, same old. I’m really curious to see the end product of his game, but I could do without the pretentious attitude that reminds me of hipster indie music people. It was fine the first few go rounds, but someone needs a new schtick, pronto:
President and CEO of Double Fusion, Jonathan Epstein put all the other GDC rock gods to shame this week at IBM’s Guitar Hero Competition. Epstein won the $US 1,500 grand prize with his face melting rendition of Eric Johnson’s White Cliffs of Dover. According tho the short press release, you can challenge Epstein to an epic battle of the bands by going to Double Fusion’s website. I went there myself and didn’t really see a place to sign up per se, but I suppose an email will do nicely. Just don’t count on wrestling that $US 1,500 from him. I think the title will be the best you can hope for.
As I logged into my school email account this past week, only to be greeted with the news that some libraries are way too protective over their microfilm (damn you, Yale!), a little item on the news section of our login page caught my eye. Microsoft is giving away several full-fledged programs to college students, hoping to lure them away from Adobe-powered and open source software; in addition to Visual Studio Professional Edition and Expression Studio, they’re also handing out XNA Game Studio 2.0, including a 12 month trial subscription to XNA Creators Club (plus some other stuff). Under the initiative titled ‘DreamSpark,’ they’re hoping to rope in people early on, with the hopes of reaping the financial benefits later.
For the last part of my three part coverage of the Lucas Arts presentation, we’ll talk a little about LEGO Indiana Jones. The portion we saw dealt with the iconic scenes from the beginning of the first movie: running from giant boulders, stealing golden idol heads and the like. We were also introduced to some of the game mechanics. Indy will of course make much use of his whip to destroy things, grab objects and swing his way through his adventures.
Patapon releases next week and having had the privilege of checking it out over the last couple of days, I can tell you it’s a really great game. The art style alone is enough to send an artsy guy like me into the stratosphere. If you haven’t yet checked out any of the media surrounding this games, be sure to check out this trailer to see what you’ve been missing. Loco-Roco fans will take to this like a second coming. Great stuff.
