The Indie Scene | Issue 3: Zen Studios

The advantage here in Europe is that at least Metroid Prime Pinball has not been released. And as for the US and Japan (must be going to the States, surely - but don't know about Japan), MPP has been out for AGES now...so the market's clear for them!

Great work Mike...I look forward to seeing how the game does in the UK Charts!

Good article. Flipper Critters sounds interesting. I'll try to pick it up if I have the spare cash.

And Mason, I think you should watch celisphere a bit. Right now there's hardly anything to cover, but on their site they said they'll be updating it more and that they've been working on their game Dark Reflections: Chronicles almost exclusively since their last update (around Christmas). I want to say it's either coming out for GBA or DS, but that's only from memory (the site only says TBA). Cerulean Dreams, one of their other projects, is supposed to be coming out to DS if nothing changes.

celisphere.com

Flipper critters sounds like a real spin to a pinball game and nice article Mason, you really do a good job of putting words together.

i am interested in flipper criters an di hope it does well. i may pick it up. its good to know that an indie dev has the ability to develop top ds engines and i hope they look to licence these to help support themselves. from the sounds of it a shooter is on the way and i for one look forward to more news on that front.

nice article too. cant wait for the next indie scene article.

Excellent article Mike, I'm liking Flipper Critters, it looks like a really fun way of playing - I loved the visuals when I first laid eyes on that video that circled net.

Good stuff

Thanks for your comments - it's been a long time coming, this one, so I'm sorry I had to keep you waiting. Information is a bit scarce and I've had trouble keeping in touch with the developers at times due to all the rushing about of E3 earlier this year, as well as the fact they were coming up to the end of the development cycle. Still, all seems to have worked out in the end, and in time for the release as well.

TAG, thanks very much for the link and info, I'll definitely have a look into them for a future issue.

Be sure to check out the movie on their web site:

http://www.flippercritters.com/media.html

If it isn't released in the United States I'm going to order it from Amazon UK.

( Edited on 16.08.2006 03:44 by Sancroff )

Seen that movie, it looks great! Loving the style and presentation

Yeah, I've had the movie on my hard drive for months, love it.

( Edited on 16.08.2006 13:31 by Mason )

They really seem to have revolutionised the pinball genre with these different sections in the pinball maps, making the playing field wider and adding, as you said, a bit of tactics in the game.
One thing that worries me though is the fact that in the footage on the official site there seems to be going on too much on two screens at the same time; for example, you hit the ball in the lower screen and it's locked in some sort of thingy, then some animation plays on the upper screen, text appears but before you're able to finish reading it, the ball is released from the lock on the lower screen.

It does look a bit confusing in parts, I agree, but I'm hoping that it's something that you just have to play that feels alright once you get your hands on it.

It certainly looks a bit more interesting than that Mario Pinball game on the GBA.

I dunno how I've never heard of them before. That Flipper Critters game looks pretty damn good. Should definately be getting a purchase if I have the money

( Edited on 17.08.2006 13:34 by Megadanxzero )

By the way, for those that don't know...it's been confirmed for a US release as well. Gamespot was recently sent the updated US boxart

Glad I seem to have alerted a few people to its presence and gained them a few extra potential sales...