| Erik Johnson |
Nearing a year of development time, Super Meat Boy is agonizingly close to its launch–and subsequent global takeover. I was delighted to find a playable demo on the floor of E3 that I could get my sweaty mitts all over, and downright giddy to have half of Tommy Refenes of Team Meat right there to guide me through.
| Erik Johnson |
Earlier this evening, the finalists for the Main Competition were announced for the fast approaching Independent Games Festival 2010.
Notables include Joe Danger which is up for both the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Technical Excellence, Super Meat Boy is also up for the Grand Prize along with Excellence in Audio, and AAAAA! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity is up for Excellence in Design.
Check out the full list below, and take a closer look at all the finalists on IGF’s site, congrats to those chosen!
| Kevin Roberson |
Some of you might have played a flash game on Newgrounds called Meat Boy. For those who haven’t, it’s about a glob of meat whose girlfriend is kidnapped by an evil fetus with a PhD. The fetus’s only defenses against Meat Boy are his ability to teleport and his henchmen, the evil level designers.
| Chris Benson |
Edmund McMillen recently allowed his mother and sister to play a top-secret beta version of Super Meat Boy. Footage of the event was smuggled out of a high-security facility, and made public at 11:43 pm today.
In the following video, Mr. McMillen’s mother can be heard claiming that, to play the game, “you have to press the button on your left side; you gotta press the button on your right side. Then, you jump, jump jump.”
We can only hope this is an exaggeration, as Super Meat Boy’s sales would surely be damaged by such an unintuitive and challenging control scheme.
| Chris Benson |
If you’re in need of some classic Edmund McMillen to tide you over until Super Meat Boy arrives, check out his latest frustratingly awesome browser game, Spewer. In it, you play a little pink thing that vomits.
Intrigued? Disgusted?
| Chris Benson |
If I didn’t already know how great Super Meat Boy was likely to be, I’d probably still be excited for it on the strength of the ad campaign alone. To see the ad in all its offensive glory, hit the jump, fella.
| Chris Benson |
Yeah, it’s a teaser, not a trailer, so no actual game footage yet, but James Id did a great job complimenting the retro feel of SMB with this spot on homage to early 90’s MTV. Read more »
| Chris Benson |
Another tidbit from ol’ Edmund McMillen. Check out the bottom right of the official Super Meat Boy site for a hidden announcement. That’s right, SMB is coming out for the Wii, baby.
| Chris Benson |
You may have read my recent interactions with Edmund, where he cruelly withheld details about his upcoming games, presumably with the intention of making me cry. Well, now we can pretend that never happened; Edmund just let me in on one of his big secrets.
