EA Whips Up Trio of New Indie Projects
Warp is being developed by Trapdoor, a studio located in Montreal, and is billed as a "unique stealth action game." Details about the game are scarce, but a press release says Warp features "a top-down sci-fi world with a distinctive art style, addicting levels, hazardous traps and challenging puzzles." It's not a lot to go by, but is at least enough to make me want to see what the hell the game is. Warp is scheduled for release in Summer 2011 on XBLA, PSN, and the PC.
2D Boy's Ron Carmel recently said [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105157-2D-Boy-Gaming-Hasnt-Seen-a-True-Masterpiece] that he wants big publishers to set aside funds for riskier, more "indie" projects that fall outside of the mainstream. The initiative by EA Partners to seek out strong independent developers and attempt to bring their titles to a broad audience isn't quite what he was talking about, but it's close. Deathspank and Shank were pretty cool games, so I think we should all look forward to the possibility of these three new projects being pretty cool too.
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Warp is being developed by Trapdoor, a studio located in Montreal, and is billed as a "unique stealth action game." Details about the game are scarce, but a press release says Warp features "a top-down sci-fi world with a distinctive art style, addicting levels, hazardous traps and challenging puzzles." It's not a lot to go by, but is at least enough to make me want to see what the hell the game is. Warp is scheduled for release in Summer 2011 on XBLA, PSN, and the PC.
2D Boy's Ron Carmel recently said [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105157-2D-Boy-Gaming-Hasnt-Seen-a-True-Masterpiece] that he wants big publishers to set aside funds for riskier, more "indie" projects that fall outside of the mainstream. The initiative by EA Partners to seek out strong independent developers and attempt to bring their titles to a broad audience isn't quite what he was talking about, but it's close. Deathspank and Shank were pretty cool games, so I think we should all look forward to the possibility of these three new projects being pretty cool too.
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Good to see publishers embracing indie titles for XBLA and PSN!
