Aww what a cute couple
While walking the multiple floors of PAX, you’re bound to see something funny. Here are 5 photos I snapped and laughed at. Read On
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Aww what a cute couple
While walking the multiple floors of PAX, you’re bound to see something funny. Here are 5 photos I snapped and laughed at. Read On
When I stepped foot into my first Penny Arcade Expo, I didn’t expect to see much cosplaying. It was an expo about video games and not as much anime. There wasn’t even a cosplay contest. But after seeing all the great costumes, I think they should have one next year. Or atleast have a real life Team Fortress 2 arena.
We gamers play with our mouths open
PAX 2009 is officially done but our coverage isn’t over yet. Here are the photos I snapped around the show floor from the awesome booths, products, and the overall atmosphere. Enjoy!
For the past 2 days I’ve acquired a lot of swag from the PAX show floor. Now, keeping all of this stuff would be nice, but I’d rather give it to our readers. Soon, I’ll be announcing how we will give this stuff away. Stay tuned!
Indie games seem to be gaining notoriety these days. It’s not hard to figure out, really. Digital distribution is quickly picking up steam, making it easier to make games available without shipping or manufacturing cost.
My first day here at PAX, I saw a lot of fun and interesting things. But nothing stood out to me more than when I headed to the Microsoft XNA Booth (XNA is a set of tools that allows for a more streamlined system for game development) to check out the six finalists for their Dream.Build.Play, which challenges independent game developers to create new, innovative titles using XNA Game Studio. While the games I demoed were all rather fun and interesting to me, only one really stood out to me: Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Created by Dean Dodrill, Dust is a beautiful, sidescrolling action RPG. What I played didn’t delve too much into the story of the game, but for those of you wondering why exactly Dust stood out to me, it is quite simple: the visuals for the game were hand-animated and painted, not computer generated and it flowed quite nicely during gameplay. The combat itself was allowed for some combos and seemed fairly intuitive for the most part. The visuals strike a chord with that part of my inner-child that calls for childish fantasy.
Yes...those are actual gameplay graphics.
Again, while not delving too much into the story, the demo definitely showed that much work and passion had gone into development, and has used a world that he had established as part of an independent animated film as a backdrop for his vision. As a fantasy fiction writer (not a very good one, I’ll admit), crafting a fantastic and imaginative world is difficult and I applaud Dean Dodrill for doing such a good job.
Microsoft will be announcing the winner of the Dream.Build.Play contest on Sunday, the winner of which gets $40,000, plus the opportunity at winning an Xbox Live Arcade publisher’s contract. Whether Dust wins or not, I truly hope we see this on the Xbox Live Indie channel as a downloadable title, as each contestant has the opportunity to submit their works onto XBLA. It’s something I’d definitely pay to get my hands on.
For more info on Microsoft XNA and Dream.Build.Play, visit their site.
For more info on Dust: An Elysian Tail and Dodrill’s Elysian Tail universe, visit the official website.
Hello readers of PixelatedGeek! We will be covering a lot of things at this years Penny Arcade Expo (PAX). With the recent announcement that PAX is completely sold out, we want to help you get your questions answered if you don’t have a ticket or can’t go. Past the break, you’ll find a list of companies that we’ll be getting 1-on-1 time with. Of course we’ll be bringing our own questions to ask them, but we’d also like to bring yours! Because sometimes the press doesn’t give you the answer you want or ask the questions you want asked.
So step up to the mic and leave a comment below with the name of the company you want to ask a question to and the question you want asked. We’ll bring that question up with them and have them answer it.
Example comment:
TWISTEDPIXEL: Are your developers from hell? or are they just made of pure evil?
We are just 1 week away from walking the PAX 2009 show floor and holy carp. We’ve been busy getting appointments done. Here is a list of just some of the games and companies we’ll be covering and talking to.
<PHEW!> And while all that is happening, I (iSeven), will be live blogging my adventure while at PAX. So, stay tuned to our site and we’ll bring you everything you need to see and hear from PAX 2009.
