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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Composer Austin Wintory has always wanted to adapt his score for PSN game flOw for live performance by an orchestra.
Earlier today, flOw creator Jenova Chen accused Aquatica iPhone developer Ketera Software of either improperly sourcing his game as inspiration or flat-out ripping off flOw’s source code.
“Everything is intense the first time you experience it,” says Jenova Chen, the 27-year-old creative director at Santa Monica-based studio ThatGameCompany.
Flower, the poetic new PlayStation Network titles from the creators of PSN favourite flOw has sprouted a release date, popping out of the ground in early February.
European PSP owners are going to get a few former PlayStation Network only titles in cold, hard physical media format, as SCEE is planning on releasing two collections of PSN titles on UMD. The PlayStation Network Collection releases, unearthed by Siliconera, consist of one Power Pack, containing flOw, Syphon Filter: Combat Ops and Beats, and the Puzzle Pack, featuring Lemmings, Go! Puzzle and Go! Sudoku.
Handy, even if one of those is a very odd mix of genres, but we thought we’d be seeing less UMDs, not more. No pricing yet, so try not to get too excited about the big big savings.
PSP PSN downloadable games get UMD collections [Siliconera]
Into the Pixel is a juried art exhibition that selects sixteen works of video game art to be displayed both digitally and in actual exhibits, like the one currently at E3. The exhibit is an opportunity for video and computer game artists to showcase their work and receive critical feedback from both digital and fine art experts; it also showcases the actual visual art of games in creative and unique ways. The pieces range from playful to serious, and utilise a variety of visual styles to convey their subjects. Now in its fifth year, the selected entries are usually quite impressive, and this year was no exception.
flOw is one of those interesting little games that keeps on kicking (it’s certainly made the rounds at this point) — it’s spawned a lot of interest and discussion since its first appearance. Brandon Sheffield sat down with Jenova Chen (flOw designer and co-founder of thatgamecompany) at this year’s GDC to talk about Sony’s strengths, game design, and why making traditional games is ‘too easy’:
Yes, flOw‘s coming to the PSP. No, it’s not coming in January. In case you hadn’t put that one together yourself. Instead, Sony have announced today that the game’s due on March 6, and will be available for download through the PC/PSP PlayStation Store. Developers SuperVillian say they’ve been able to “reconstruct and faithfully preserve the unique experience of flOw on Sony’s premier handheld device”, but whether that means this is a direct port of the PS3 version or something new, I don’t know, since they both look the same to me.
Coming to PSP: Go with the flOw [PlayStation Blog]
A listing for a PSP version of the PlayStation 3 game flOw from thatgamecompany has appeared on the UK-centric version of PlayStation.com, indicating that it will appear in January via the PC version of the PlayStation Store. The listing was unearthed by a member of the developer’s official forums and elicited a response from team member John Edwards that read “thatgamecompany does not comment on rumor and speculation” followed by one of those little smiley faces that makes the previous sentence ironically informative.
flOw for PSP already has ratings of E from the ESRB and 3+ from PEGI, but the title hasn’t been officially announced yet. We’ve contacted SCEA for more information and will update when we have more.
flOw [PlayStation.com via thatgamecompany forums and NeoGAF]
