Don’t get me wrong, I love mobile development as much as the next person, but I can’t help but nod in agreement with Edmund McMillen, co-creator of Super Meat Boy, when he claims that “the core of what is wrong with the mobile platform is the lack of respect for players”.
The creators of PC and Xbox 360 hit Super Meat Boy have aborted the game’s WiiWare release, saying they’re unable to fit a quality version of the game under the size limit Nintendo imposes on titles for the download service.
After covering the 2009 Game Developers Conference, BlinkWorks Media decided they wanted to create a documentary film that studies independent game developers as a way to understand the medium and the theory behind video games.
Edmund McMillen, creator of indie games such as Gish and the recently profiled Super Meat Boy!, passes along an image that subtly hints at a release of his meat-based platformer on Xbox Live Arcade sometime this year.
Edmund McMillen, co-creator of the popular independent PC game Gish, dropped us a line to let us know that he was making the jump to WiiWare with his latest, Super Meat Boy.
This is Twin Hobo Rocket, a pretty great downloadable game by Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl, creators of Tri-achnid. You control two bums. In space. As they pop balloons and pester aliens for spare change. It’s only 5MB, and has some wonderful toe-tappin hobo music, so go on, have a go. Freeware Game Pick: Twin Hobo Rocket [IndieGames]