Halfbrick revealed as the developer behind four new PSP Mini games
Four games you would pay $0.99 for on the app store...
Published: August 21, 2009
I have to say, Sony's announcement of PSP Mini games has sort of left me underwhelmed. I suppose as an iPhone owner, I am a little worried that this is just a shameless attempt to cash in on that fad, and I am even more worried that they are NOT going to adopt the iPhone pricing structure. But, here I am talking out of my ass, becuase honestly I don't know yet how these things are going to be priced. And I am definitely a proponent of bite-sized games that you can play on the go. So I suppose I should hold off on judging them until we can start playing 'em.
Some of the first announced games are the following 4 form Halfbrick studios, who have been hard at work developing games for the XBLA Indie Games store. They have taken two of those and ported them over to PSP (with some changes) and they are hard at work on developing two more across multiple platforms. Let's see what they've got...
Halfbrick Blast Off – a physics-based sci-fi arcade game in which players must collect lost astronauts and safely navigate around the gravitational pull of nearby planets.
Halfbrick Echoes – an action puzzle game in which players collect crystals within many surreal, artistic worlds. As each crystal is collected, an enemy called an Echo will spawn. Echoes are translucent versions of the player’s hat icon, and they will walk the exact same path the hat walked between collecting crystals.
Halfbrick Zombies – an arcade action game where players must survive the onslaught of zombie waves by using a full arsenal of different weapons to dispatch the braindead foes.
Halfbrick Rocket Racing - a racing game with a top-down viewpoint and a vertical twist. Players control the racing craft via left and right pressure-sensitive triggers, which operate thrusts on each respective side. Hold both to move forward and alternate power on different sides to turn. Gravity will also affect the speed of racers going up or down different parts of each course.
Let's hope Halfbrick isn't Half-Assed!
Some of the first announced games are the following 4 form Halfbrick studios, who have been hard at work developing games for the XBLA Indie Games store. They have taken two of those and ported them over to PSP (with some changes) and they are hard at work on developing two more across multiple platforms. Let's see what they've got...
Halfbrick Blast Off – a physics-based sci-fi arcade game in which players must collect lost astronauts and safely navigate around the gravitational pull of nearby planets.
Halfbrick Echoes – an action puzzle game in which players collect crystals within many surreal, artistic worlds. As each crystal is collected, an enemy called an Echo will spawn. Echoes are translucent versions of the player’s hat icon, and they will walk the exact same path the hat walked between collecting crystals.
Halfbrick Zombies – an arcade action game where players must survive the onslaught of zombie waves by using a full arsenal of different weapons to dispatch the braindead foes.
Halfbrick Rocket Racing - a racing game with a top-down viewpoint and a vertical twist. Players control the racing craft via left and right pressure-sensitive triggers, which operate thrusts on each respective side. Hold both to move forward and alternate power on different sides to turn. Gravity will also affect the speed of racers going up or down different parts of each course.
Let's hope Halfbrick isn't Half-Assed!
