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Mutant Mudds Deluxe gunks up Wii U eShop for $10
Renegade Kid's Jools Watsham has announced that Mutant Mudds Deluxe will launch on Wii U as a $10 download on the eShop next week, on Thursday, June 13. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is an improved version of Renegade Kid's original 3DS platformer, which has since been ported to Windows and iOS. Mutant Mudds Deluxe includes all the content found in the base game, with 20 Wii U-exclusive levels boasting new powerups. A sequel is in development for launch in 2014.
Mutant Mudds Deluxe hits Wii U eShop June 13
Indie developer Renegade Kid announced that its depth-hopping platformer, Mutant Mudds Deluxe, will launch in the Wii U eShop on June 13. Mutant Mudds Deluxe includes all content from the previously released 3DS and PC versions of Mutant Mudds, along with 20 Wii U-exclusive levels in which players must collect new-power ups in order to bust enemy ghosts. Judging from the gameplay footage above, there seems to be a new checkpointing system, which should help players progress through some of the lengthier levels. The post-game "Granny" levels (previously released as DLC for the 3DS and PC versions) also make a return, if you're up for a CGA-tinted challenge. Mutant Mudds Deluxe will include over 80 levels in all when it premieres next month.
Mutant Mudds Deluxe for Wii U almost ready to be submitted
Developer Jools Watsham has tweeted that Mutant Mudds Deluxe, which was set to come to the Wii U this spring, has reached the final stage of development. Watsham says the game is currently being polished, and that it should be submitted to Nintendo for release later on this week. The Deluxe version of the retro platformer will be playable directly on the Wii U's tablet controller, and will feature both the add-on content from the main game and new levels to play. If the game is submitted this week as planned, it should appear on the eShop soon after.
Renegade Kid takes 3DS to 'Cult County'
Renegade Kid is most recently known for the side-scroller Mutant Mudds, but initially came to prominence with Dementium and Moon, both first-person shooters for DS. The developer is returning to its handheld horror roots with Cult County, a new FPS for 3DS unveiled at PAX East.The developer posted some 3D images on its website, which you can see by going here with your 3DS browser, or using the QR code here. The page notes that these images are from an early "atmosphere" demo. The atmosphere is, it would appear, dusty.
Mutant Mudds dev Renegade Kid preparing 'Treasurenauts'
Stalwart DS/3DS development studio Renegade Kid is preparing to announce its next game: Treasurenauts. Renegade Kid confirmed an impending announcement after a trademark for the name surfaced at Siliconera.Renegade Kid's last effort was Mutant Mudds, a platformer that started out on the 3DS and eventually made its way over to Windows and iOS. A Wii U port is in the oven and the developer has said a sequel is also in progress.
Renegade Kid has original FPS hitting 3DS eShop this year
Renegade Kid, the team behind Mutant Mudds and this lost Crash Bandicoot demo, is working on an original FPS for the 3DS eShop, studio founder Jools Watsham tells Nintendo Force. Watsham confirms the news on Twitter, noting that this will be the first FPS on the 3DS eShop.The game is scheduled to launch this holiday season, it's an original IP and it will support the Circle Pad Pro, Watsham says. We should get more information on Renegade Kid's new game later this year.
Renegade Kid's lost Crash Bandicoot DS prototype revealed
Prolific DS/3DS developer Renegade Kid made a demo for a Crash Bandicoot DS game years ago. The test for Crash Landed was done in 2008 or 2009 for publisher Activision, according to Nintendo World Report's source, but the game was not picked up. Several Crash games were made for DS, but this was not one of them.Now, for the first time, video of the unfinished (barely started!) demo has surfaced on YouTube. Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham verified the existence of the demo, calling the video "a blast from the past" and revealing that the demo took two weeks to make.
Mutant Mudds 2 is in progress
It's official: Renegade Kid is working on Mutant Mudds 2. Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham tells Twitter he hasn't kept the sequel a secret, but this is certainly the first we've heard it confirmed.Mutant Mudds Deluxe, the Wii U version of Mutant Mudds, is coming to the Nintendo eShop in Q1 of this year, along with ATV Wild Ride 3D for 3DS. Mutant Mudds hit the 3DS eShop back in January, followed by a launch on PC in August and on iOS devices in November.
Mutant Mudds plops onto Wii U in Q1 2013, is 'even more unique'
Mutant Mudds on Wii U has a launch plan for Q1 2013, bringing unique content to the console, Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham tweets."Well, it's going to have even more unique content for a start! And, out Q1 2013," he says.Watsham outed something called Mutant Mudds Deluxe on Wii U in September, giving us a single screenshot and nothing else, the tease. Mutant Mudds is already available for the 3DS eShop and PC, with an iOS version due this week. This could be one to look out for after getting a Wii U "for your family" (it's for you; don't lie) for the holidays, since we found the 3DS version to be worthwhile and "really frustratingly/enjoyably hard in the Mega Man tradition."
Mutant Mudds cleaning up on iOS next week
Mutant Mudds is coming to iOS on December 6. All 60 levels of Mutant Mudds, including the recently added unlockable stages, will be released on the App Store for 99 cents. The game is already available on 3DS and PC, with a Wii U version coming later as well.We asked Renegade Kid creative director Jools Watsham about the controls – the biggest concern of any iOS port. "I am really pleased with how the virtual controls have worked out," he reassured us. "I had played a lot of platformers with virtual controls, and not enjoyed most of them due to the controls. I never want to look down at the controls and have found myself missing the buttons due to thumb drift."The simple solution, Watsham said, was to make the touch zones for the controls larger than the controls actually appear on screen. "This might sound like an overly simplified solution, but I have found that it helps tremendously with the inevitable sloppy thumb slapping that happens with virtual controls." In addition, the control positions are customizable. Renegade Kid also has plans to update the app to support external controllers like the 8-bitty."I have played through all 60 levels numerous times and found it to be a pleasurable experience," Watsham said. "If the controls did not work out as well as they did, we would not have released the game. Mutant Mudds means too much to me to send it out in a bad state."
Mutant Mudds Deluxe coming to Wii U
In the chaos of the Nintendo Direct press briefing today, Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham posted the above picture of Mutant Mudds Deluxe for Wii U to his blog.While Watsham recently revealed that Renegade Kid would be developing games for Wii U, we didn't know another incarnation of Mutant Mudds would be migrating to the upcoming Nintendo platform.
Mutant Mudds' extra PC content will come to 3DS for free, Renegade Kid an authorized Wii U dev
Mutant Mudds just came out on PC with new content, including extra difficult new levels. That content will be released on 3DS as a free update for the eShop release of that game, Renegade Kid director Jools Watsham revealed on his blog this week.In addition, he also let slip that Renegade Kid is a licensed Wii U developer. "As we're being perfectly – and frankly – honest here; I would like to put the majority of our future development efforts into the 3DS eShop and Wii U eShop titles (we're authorized Wii U developers now btw – excite!)," he said.Strangely, all of this information about Renegade Kid's primarily Nintendo-oriented plans comes from a post entreating fans to vote for the PC version of Mutant Mudds on Steam Greenlight. "Porting Mutant Mudds to the PC, and selling it on Steam, has the potential of bringing some much needed funds into Renegade Kid," Watsham notes, "which will go straight into the development of new games." And that's good for PC, 3DS, and Wii U owners.
PSA: Mutant Mudds on PC today
You don't have to wait for the collective to come to a decision on Steam Greenlight. You can get Renegade Kid's punishing, impressively 3D (even without stereoscopic effects) Mutant Mudds on PC today. It's up on GOG, Gamersgate, Desura, and will be available soon direct from Renegade Kid.Even if you made it all the way through the 3DS version, there's new content, including "CGA-Land" levels like the brutal one above.
Bringing Mutant Mudds to PCs and into 'CGA-Land'
Renegade Kid's Mutant Mudds, the pixelated action game first released on 3DS – and a much more difficult game than its kid hero and water gun weaponry would suggest – is headed to PC on August 30. A trailer released alongside that announcement hinted at new levels, whose look recalls CGA computer graphics, joining the Game Boy and Virtual Boy-style bonus levels found in the 3DS game.Renegade Kid director Jools Watsham wanted the new content to be "special," he told Joystiq. "When the thought of doing the classic PC look of the 80's crossed my mind, it was the obvious choice to go with." These new levels require the skills of unlockable character Grannie, who is only available after the completion of the main game.
Renegade Kid's Mutant Mudds coming to PC
Developer Renegade Kid's eShop downloadable action game, Mutant Mudds, will soon be making its way to PCs everywhere. While no specific dates have been given, Renegade Kid promises that it will "soon be available through numerous digital distribution partners." The PC version, known as the "Grannie Edition" will feature 20 brand new levels in addition to the original 40.We quite liked the 3DS version, notably the 3D mechanic used to switch between different planes. PC players, especially fans of difficult action games, should definitely take note.
Portabliss: Bomb Monkey (3DS eShop)
Renegade Kid's Bomb Monkey is a refreshingly simple falling-block puzzler. You line up blocks of the same color, and then drop a bomb to destroy all adjacent same-color blocks within the bomb's one-block blast radius. It's sort of like a simplified Puzzle Fighter, since there's no timer on the bombs and they aren't color-coded. There are added complexities, like locked blocks that require two bombs to clear and an optional mode that lets you rescue a monkey from a cage (by blowing it up), but the foundation is almost immediately understood.I'm totally not saying that as a bad thing, either. Maybe more than any puzzle game I've played, Bomb Monkey immediately gets you into the pleasurable business of making giant chain-reaction combos and watching everything on the screen vanish.%Gallery-159443%
Renegade Kid's Bomb Monkey on the 3DS eShop next week for $5
Bomb Monkey, the next project from Mutant Mudds developer Renegade Kid, will be landing on the 3DS eShop next Thursday in North America. Lest you haven't been following Bomb Monkey, it's a puzzle game about a monkey ... with bombs. Watch the trailer, it's pretty self explanatory.What's not quite as self-explanatory is Bomb Monkey's multiplayer mode, which allows two players to play simultaneously on a single 3DS. Holding the 3DS sideways (like a book), one player controls the actions on one screen with the D-pad, while the other player controls the opposite screen with the face buttons. Madness. Also madness: Bomb Monkey will cost $5.
Renegade Kid's next eShop game: Bomb Monkey
With Mutant Mudds now available on the 3DS eShop, developer Renegade Kid is already teasing its next project. Literally, all we have is a tease. Specifically, Renegade Kid has opened a website for a game called Bomb Monkey. The site includes the image above and a logo for the Nintendo eShop.Given the text and the image, it would appear Bomb Monkey is a puzzle game, possibly of the color-matching variety. Renegade Kid director Jools Watsham tweeted the website saying, "I hope it's not too puzzling if I DROP this here," implying that Bomb Monkey is indeed a traditional puzzler. For the moment, we'll just have to wait and see what monkey do.
Portabliss: Mutant Mudds (3DS eShop)
Did you know that you can download handheld games now? That's amazingly convenient! The only inconvenient part of it is finding the right games to buy -- and that's where we come in, with our Portabliss column. In each installment, we'll tell you about a downloadable game on the iPhone, iPad, Android device, DSi, 3DS, PSP, etc. Today: Mutant Mudds. I keep reading reports that Mutant Mudds isn't terribly long, with some players getting through it in 4 hours or so. I consider that unprovable hearsay, because there's no way I'll ever finish it. It's really frustratingly/enjoyably hard in the Mega Man tradition.%Gallery-145712%
Pet Zombies in 3D is a real game Majesco is releasing for 3DS
Majesco has revealed the identity of its first two potential hits on the 3DS platform -- surprisingly, neither belong to the trusted, lucrative [Gerund] Mama franchise. The first is Renegade Kid's Face Kart: Photo Finish, which lets players create a highly customizable racer or race track using the 3DS's cameras. The game will also use the handheld's gyroscopic capabilities to let players steer by tilting the system left and right. Sounds fairly promising! We enjoy Karts, and, moreso, our own faces. The second game is 1st Playable Productions' Pet Zombies in 3D, which sees players creating and caring for their own shambling, reanimated corpses. Their ghouls will participate in mini-games to earn currency to purchase certain customizations for their undead pets and their environments. We've got our fingers crossed that this title will represent the tipping point of oversaturation for the zombie craze, leading game developers, filmmakers and authors alike to realize that this, this is what their hands have wrought. Do you hear us, Max Brooks? Pet Zombies in 3D is all on you, man.
