What happens at the Dutch Consulate, stays at the Dutch Consulate.

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• “Beatnes7 (Theme to The Portable Podcast)” by The Eternal – Download on iTunes here:
• “Nanocarp” by The Eternal
• Selected tracks from Super Stickman Golf 2 by Whitaker Trebella

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Slayin

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Released: 2013-04-04 :: Category: Games

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The Other Brothers

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Released: 2013-04-04 :: Category: Games

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Fingle

iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
Released: 2012-01-12 :: Category: Games

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Le Vamp

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2013-03-14 :: Category: Games

Football Heroes, Kickstarted a year ago, is coming to fruition. Michael Marzola, one of the game’s developers, showed off an early build of the game with non-final art, but this title already shows promise. It’s inspired by classic arcade football games such as Tecmo Bowl, with a dash of the brutality of NFL Blitz, and World of Warcraft. Wait, what? That’s because the players on a team can be endlessly customized, with skill trees to help make them play better and avoid more tackles. The game has a long way to go still, but expect to play this one during NFL season.

Bravado Waffle has a new game in the works, inspired by old-school tank battlers like Battlezone. zTanks pits players in an arena with both bots and other players via online multiplayer with the objective to be the last tank standing. Players can fire from their tanks, but have a heat meter that fills up over time. They can jump to dodge shots, though. The game is being built in Unity and could at some point boast cross-platform online multiplayer, though the iOS version does not support that yet.

Another game the studio has in early work is called Blobsters, which is designed to be a 2D physics platformer take on a turn-based racing title like Disc Drivin’. This one is still in early alpha form, and plenty of changes are still in store, but the idea alone shows promise. Both this and zTanks should be releasing later this year for iOS.

Madfinger Games has more and more zombies to kill, as they’ve demoed Dead Trigger 2 at GDC 2013. The gameplay is largely similar to the original, where players take on new types of zombies in a variety of new environments, like a sandy city, dank sewer, and a ruined city. The city really shows off the improvements to the graphics that Madfinger appears to be going for as a giant zombie that can be attacked with one of the new fixed turrets can be fought.

With the rumors of an official Apple controller, it’s a good guess that Dead Trigger 2 to support it, as multiple Android controllers are supported by both this and the original Dead Trigger, with the sequel playable on Nvidia’s Project Shield Android device with a gamepad, despite their desire to keep much of the game secret when we met with them. Dead Trigger 2 should be available later this year, and will launch as a free-to-play title.

Celsius Game Studios, headed by Colin Walsh, is hard at work on the space trading simulator Drifter. Last seen at GDC 2012, the game has since seen a Kickstarter for a PC and Mac version that also sees plenty of benefits for the iOS version. There’s more detailed graphics, and a soundtrack by Danny Baranowsky. There’s over 20,000 planets to explore across the game’s vast, vast universe, which can take up to an hour to travel across a star system in real time, though it’s possible to slipstream at five times the speed to a system.

Right now, the game is in beta testing for Kickstarter backers, and the sandbox mode is the focus, though a story mode is definitely in the works. If all goes as planned, a mid-to-late-summer launch is planned. Those looking to play the game on PC or Mac will be glad to know that technically, save games are compatible with each other between the different versions, though Celsius Game Studios – no longer just Colin Walsh – is looking into a cloud save solution.

Heavily edited for your enjoyment.

On This Episode:

• Carter talks to NoodleCake Games and musician Whitaker Trebella about their work on Super Stickman Golf 2, including the musician asking the programmers about elements of the game, and the programmers learning something about how the music for their game was created.
• Carter and John Dunbar talk about his new game Plasma Sky, along with discussing how this side effort fits in with his day job at Runic Games, known for Torchlight.

Episode Cast:

• Host: Carter Dotson
• Guests: Jordan Schidlowsky, Ty Bader, and Ryan Holowaty, NoodleCake Games
• Guest: Whitaker Trebella, independent developer and musician
• Guest: John Dunbar, Spike Pit Games

Music:

• “Beatnes7 (Theme to The Portable Podcast)” by The Eternal – Download on iTunes here:
• “Nanocarp” by The Eternal
• Selected tracks from Super Stickman Golf 2 by Whitaker Trebella

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Super Stickman Golf 2

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Plasma Sky - a rad retro arcade space shooter

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Released: 2013-03-18 :: Category: Games

Sonic Bust!

On This Episode:

Episode Cast:

Music:

• “Beatnes7 (Theme to The Portable Podcast)” by The Eternal – Download on iTunes here:
• “Nanocarp” by The Eternal

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Jones On Fire

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Released: 2013-03-07 :: Category: Games

FREE!

Sonic Dash

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2013-03-07 :: Category: Games

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Polyroll

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2012-10-08 :: Category: Games

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Major Magnet

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2013-02-21 :: Category: Games