• Onwards and Upwards with Comic Jumper [PAX]

    Twisted Pixel is something of an indie success story – and that might be putting it mildly. While there are around twenty employees now, with more being considered as I type, the company was originally started with just a few. The team jumped up to six or seven folks for The Maw’s development and moved [...]

  • Yeyifications!… Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale [Review]

    Next time you’re off galavanting around a massive RPG world, slaying monsters and fulfilling your destiny, spare a thought for the shopkeeper in the last town who sold you all your gear. Without them, you’d be a nobody – you’d have no sword, no armor, no healing products. Confined to a live of standing behind [...]

  • Buckets of Blood Means Nothing in The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile [PAX]

    While roaming around the halls of PAX10, we were lucky enough to stumble upon Ska Studios, the guys who made both the original Dishwasher and I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1. And, since we’re super best friends with them, we were able to sit down with both James (the founder) and the their new game [...]

  • Bursting with Innuendo: Fowl Space [PAX]

    Pixelante Games, the Vancouver-based group of independent developers, want to make you laugh at all the dick jokes in their new game Fowl Space, or at least it shows that they cracked themselves up while creating the title. And I think there’s something to be said for developers who enjoyeds creating the product they release, [...]

  • Creating a World in Bastion [PAX]

    I covered Bastion a small bit a few days ago in our run up to PAX. Back then I knew little about just what the game was and what it was going to offer beyond some small details given by developers Supergiant Games. Luckily for you (and me) I’ve just returned from my first play [...]

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    • Why I Need an iPod Touch: Sword & Sworcery EP

    March 14, 2010

    by Peter Rambo


    Sword & Sworcery EP OK, so there are plenty of reasons to want an iPod Touch. A music player that browses the Web and has access to the App Store without paying an absurd monthly fee for a phone and data plan? What’s not to like. But as far as games go, nothing really drew me in.

    I felt the same way about the PS3. It would be great to have one, sure, but I was happy enough living without one. Then a game came out that seemed to be made just for me. On the PS3, that game was Demon’s Souls. On the PSP, that game was Half-Minute Hero. On the iPod Touch, that game is Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP.

    It’s not the first game to catch my eye. Once mine arrives, I’ll definitely pick up Hook Champ, Plants vs. Zombies and Canabalt. But they didn’t sway me like the videos for s:s&s ep.

    Namely the second, vertical video, which shows the “sword” half of the game. It’s like it was pulled directly from Quest for Glory. If the game were just wonderful pixel art and a passing resemblance to a favorite game of my youth, I’d probably still be on the fence. But with part of the development in the hands of Capybara games, well, I guess Amazon is going to have a package for me soon.

    Here are the two videos.

    [via TIGSource]

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