If you've hit a plateau with your game-making inspiration in WarioWare: DIY for DS, Nintendo's next series of downloadable minigames might put the spark back into your ideas.
A string of WiiWare developers will be bringing their ideas to life in the coming weeks, kicking off on Friday with a game from Max and the Magic Marker developers Press Play. After that, Fabian Akker of Swords and Soldiers gets in on the action with the game 'Om Nom Noms!' that sees you filling the mighty warrior Redbeard with meat.
Two Tribes release a Toki Tori minigame on December 3rd, followed by Manfred Linzner of Shin'en on December 10th, whose game will feature Jett from Jett Rocket. After that it's the turn of Felix Bohatsch, the man behind And Yet It Moves, with the promise of a "fast and simple" minigame.
The minigames will continue on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve with two games from the same developer, though Nintendo isn't saying who. Gaijin Games, Frontier, Nicalis – whose microgame would you like to play most?
[source officialnintendomagazine.co.uk]
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Silicon Knights should make some microgames.
Great! They haven't released a Big Name game for ages - especially in Europe where we didn't have those nintendo show hosts to make us any to play.
Weren't Nintendolife going to do a feature where you showcase some of our games? (Comment 16)(I originally got the wrong end of the stick, thinking you, the admins would be making some games to show off) - If so, I might break out the camcorder and record some of mine!
The best developer-made microgames so far (IMHO) have been Fly Home and the one from Pixel. The PIxel one is astonishingly clever, artistic and well-made. The rest - from Gaijin dude, SuperMeatBoy dude, World of Goo dude, and Metroid dude - were just rubbish.
About bloody time.
Great! Haven't seen many in a long time!
Glad to see more big name games. I had thought that they gave up on DIY.
I hope the last two are from wayforward.
Forgot I even had D.I.Y! Better get downloading 'cos I haven't got the willpower to make any more of my own (anyone with my FC played Dodgem Dodge? Yeah, it's awesome. And you can play it endlessly, too.)
Ooh, but my DS Wi-fi is broke
Sweet!
Cool! Looking forward to trying them!
Hope you like my Toki Tori one
Man, WarioWare DIY has been on my video game waiting lists along with Dragon Quest IX due to too many other games that interest me. As someone who loves dabbling in various art forms I'd love to dive in and start going microgame crazy.
Unfortunately Spirit Tracks is on a waiting list too, so no telling when I'll get around to any of these titles.
@Golgo (4)- Couldn't agree with you more. Pixel's had amazing graphics & music and the Fly Home game was quite clever with its 4 different endings. Everything else was pretty meh, especially the games made by Treehouse. Gawd those were horrible!
I wonder how the Jett Rocket microgame will be.
Glad to see Big Name Games return though.
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