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'lilt line too!' steers itself to Kickstarter
Different Cloth, developer of the IGF award-winning rhythm game lilt line, has traced a neon path to Kickstarter to fund lilt line too!. lilt line too!'s Kickstarter campaign has collected £2,521 in donations at the time of this writing and is seeking £15,000 to develop for the iOS. Stretch goals include ports to Android, Vita and the Wii U. Although lilt line tasked players with guiding a line across a narrow pathway entirely from a top-down perspective, lilt line too! will utilize 3D environments and various camera angles. Players will pick between the 3D-oriented "fresh" and top-down "classic" game modes to switch between perspectives. The secondary task of tapping the screen to the beat of the soundtrack will also return in lilt line too!. Beyond "at least" 20 new levels, lilt line too!'s Kickstarter page describes competitive online and local multiplayer. The online mode will pit up to four players against each other in a race to keep up with the beat and compete for the highest score. The former will convert the task of tapping the screen into clapping or shouting into the microphone, assigning one player the task of steering while a second keeps time with the beat.
Introducing Derrick the Deathfin, PS3's first underwater papercraft action game
Derrick the Deathfin is an angsty teenage shark who suffers tragedy when his parents are tinned as sharkfin tuna. In response, Derrick begins a worldwide campaign of revenge, destroying every manmade structure he can find. Because he's a shark, he must continually eat fish along his path, and he must keep moving at all times to stay alive.He, like everything else in his world, is made of paper.That's the basic setup of Derrick the Deathfin, a new downloadable game coming to PS3 this summer. It's the work of developer Different Tuna, a collaboration between Lilt Line developer Different Cloth, Cletus Clay's Tuna, and artist Ronzo -- supported financially by Channel 4 and Screen Yorkshire.%Gallery-147232%
Different Cloth reveals disappointing Lilt Line sales
Despite winning an IGF Mobile Audio Achievement award in 2010, and despite being (in our opinion) awesome, Different Cloth's iOS/WiiWare music action game lilt line has not been a massive seller. Different Cloth's Gordon Midwood revealed approximate sales figures for both platforms on the company's blog. "Lilt Line's price has remained pretty steady at £1.79 / $2.99," Midwood said. With total iPhone sales of 3,815 units, and US WiiWare sales of just 3,756 copies, "you can probably work out by yourself that i am not a millionaire. Yet." Even worse, that figure comes in under the WiiWare sales threshold, meaning that if it doesn't sell about twice as many copies, neither Different Cloth nor publisher Gaijin Games get any payment for the Wii version. Which leads to one of the reasons Midwood noted these numbers: the WiiWare game is available in Europe today. If you like neon colors, and dubstep and tilting, you could hardly do better.
Lilt Line dubsteps onto WiiWare December 13, iPhone version free
There's no new Bit. Trip game on WiiWare in December (as far as we know!) but you'll still be able to give Gaijin Games a little money in exchange for some abstract, challenging, musically integrated WiiWare radness, in the form of Gaijin's port of Lilt Line. It'll be out in North America on December 13. A demo will also be released. In case you're not familiar with the iPhone version, involves tilting to control the angle of a line as it moves through a narrow path, occasionally tapping in time with the dubstep soundtrack. Also, if you're not familiar with it but have an iPhone, you can get that version for free right now. Consider it a preview of the WiiWare release! Or just consider it a free game! Or something!
Lilt Line preview: Stay between the lines
You know those Highlights magazines and coloring books you used to doodle in as a kid? Imagine your life depended on your ability to stay within the lines, only your arm had a mind of its own and the image you were coloring is constantly changing as you try to color it. Yeah, we had the same nightmare as kids ... and also, that's pretty much Lilt Line on Wii, the first game to be published – as opposed to developed – by Gaijin Games, the predominantly WiiWare dev studio behind the Bit.Trip series.
Look and listen: Lilt Line for WiiWare in motion
Gaijin Games (of Bit.Trip fame) announced during GDC that it is was bringing Different Cloth's award-winning inside music game, Lilt Line, to WiiWare. The first video of the port in action is out -- which looks and sounds just like the iPhone original (i.e, great.) Now all we need is a date!
Gaijin bringing iPhone's Lilt Line to WiiWare
Lilt Line, winner of a 2010 IGF Mobile award for Audio Achievement is a simple iPhone game, in which you tilt the phone to guide a line through winding tunnels, and tap the screen in response to on-screen cues, all in time to dubstep music by 16bit. Essentially, it's Irritating Stick without the irritation! Developer Different Cloth revealed in a tweet that Wii owners will get to experience Lilt Line as well, thanks to Bit.Trip creator Gaijin Games. All we know from the (necessarily brief) announcement is that Gaijin is bringing the game to the Wii. We can assume, both from the nature of the game and the fact that we don't think the three-person Gaijin Games team is going to start publishing packaged games, that it's WiiWare. We've asked Gaijin for more information. In the meantime, check out the iPhone version after the break.
