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Chaotic 2D shooter Gunslugs hits PlayStation Vita this month
Pascal Bestebroer, also known as indie developer Orangepixel, is bringing Gunslugs to the PS Vita later this month. Abstraction Games will help out with the Vita port. Gunslugs is a chaotic 2D shooter with randomly generated levels. Bestebroer says difficulty is emphasized in Gunslugs and other games from his indie outfit. "Not brutal, and always fair," Bestebroer wrote on the PlayStation Blog, "but they are really hard." There are six worlds, not counting the bonus worlds, to explore in Gunslugs. Each world is broken into two levels, along with a boss fight at the end. Mission objectives and leaderboards round out the content. We interviewed Bestebroer early last year when he was working on the first version of Gunslugs. He described the game as "that game you played when you were a kid, pretending that your toy figurines were fighting a big war against evil, blowing everything up with a huge amount of fun." [Image: Orangepixel]
Heroes of Loot is a new dungeon crawler from Gunslugs dev
Orangepixel, the indie team behind the mobile run-and-gun hit Gunslugs, defies science and nature by melding the shoot-'em-up and roguelike genres in this week's release of Heroes of Loot for iOS and Android platforms. A Java-based port for Mac, Windows, and Linux is up for purchase here. Heroes of Loot combines the gameplay mechanics of a twin-stick shooter with the trappings of a loot-heavy dungeon crawler. Choosing one of four character classes borrowed from the arcade classic Gauntlet, players scour randomly generated dungeons for quest items and fat stacks of cash. Death can come swiftly as the difficulty ramps up after each completed floor, but power-ups and equipment upgrades help to even the odds. Heroes of Loot is also available for the Ouya and the upcoming GameStick microconsole.
Gunslugs rampages through Ouya, gets caught on film
OrangePixel's Pascal Bestebroer developed Gunslugs with the Ouya in mind, adding a deep co-op experience that he thought would shine on a cheap, open, Android-based console. In the above video, Bestebroer and a buddy give Gunslugs a go on an Ouya developer model, in two-player co-op mode. The Ouya cetainly looks and sounds like a home conosle in this video, and Gunslugs lives up to its promise of "over-the-top action, very much like the old action movies of the 80s," as Bestebroer describes in his recent Indie Pitch."The Ouya is mostly a very interesting development," Bestebroer says. "I have no idea if it will succeed in its first version, but the fact that their Kickstarter was such a huge success shows that people want this cheaper, and more open, console experience."
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Gunslugs
Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, Pascal Bestebroer of OrangePixel talks mobile development as a career and the draw of Ouya with Android and iOS action game Gunslugs. What's your game called and what's it about?The game is called Gunslugs, and it's all about over-the-top action, very much like the old action movies of the 80s. One man or woman taking down a complete army.Gunslugs has a unique co-op system. Describe that and how important it was to have in the game.The co-op is really like the good old days when you both grabbed a joystick and played together on a single computer. Or even worse, shared a keyboard in an uncomfortable way.I also designed and added it to the game knowing the Ouya, an Android-based console, was coming. I figured it would be awesome to have Gunslugs on that console, playing it on your TV together with a friend. And since I'm a big supporter of another gadget, the iOS Game Dock, I made sure the iOS version of Gunslugs has the same two-player mode built in.
