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GarageGamer Newsletter - June 1, 2007
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IN THIS NEWSLETTER
FIVE NEW GAMES
GAME STORE NEWS: 50 GAMES
GAME SPOTLIGHT: MANIC SPACE
IN THE NEXT GAMER NEWSLETTER
FIVE NEW GAMES
This month's newsletter brings you a high quality educational tool, enough space destruction bring a galaxy to its knees, and crazy future fightin' action. With such a wide selection of games, I dare you not to find one you will love.
Toribash
Toribash is a turn-based fighting game where the player has full control over every muscle in the fighter's body. Create your own martial arts movies in single player sandbox mode, or join the competition in the multiplayer modes. Focus is
on tactics rather than reaction and button mashing. The game features advanced physics, full dismemberment, decapitation, and comic style blood.
The tactical-style fighting in Toribash allows players to plan each move to a minute detail. A ghosted preview of how your changes will affect your fighter's movements is given seamlessly as you contract and contort muscles in an attempt
to become the ultimate Toribash champion.
Toribash features:
Full multi player access, including registered only servers with 'buddies' system, protected nicks and head skins
Join the competition in the online top 250 ranking system.
Real-time Belt grading system. Get yourself a Toribash Black Belt
Custom mods, such as the official sumo mod
Alter the rules of Single player and hosted Multi player games
Host your own TCP or LAN server
Export screenshots and animations to POV-Ray
Manic Space
Work your way to the top of the galactic food chain in a universe where zombies, ninja, cyborgs and pirates all are at odds. Put your skills to work in trading, bounty hunting, piracy, space battling, or whatever it takes to restore order
before Starmageddon! Upgrade your ship with powerful weapons like Vulcan Miniguns and Particle Beams. Barrel roll in agile convertibles, like
the Phantom Nexus, or command fear and respect from mighty space galleons.
Manic Space provides wide-open sandbox gameplay, letting the player decide whether they want to make their living through honest hard work, or by seedier means. Space transportation channeling the spirit of classic cars meet stylized
lighting and particle effects in a cell shaded environment, combining to create one wild space setting. So choose your ride and join the Manic Space universe!
Manic Space features:
Over a dozen regular ships
6 Capital ships
Open-ended gameplay
Customize your ship layout with Lasers, Miniguns, and Rocket Launchers
Devastating weapons for your gunner, like the Shotgun and the Neutron Charge Launcher
Trade, hunt, battle--the choice is yours!
Global Defense Network
Global Defense Network is a combination of fast paced shooter and rhythm action game with an intriguing sci-fi plot spread evenly throughout.
The Global Defense Network has released its proprietary training simulator to the public. Charged with defending against aggressive extra terrestrial activity, the GDN has begun to seek out gifted individuals to assist in its efforts.
Effective immediately, the formerly classified simulator used to train GDN Agents has been released to the public.
The GDN training simulator measures a variety of ability scores, ranging from general aptitude to aggression levels. The GDN administration staff has already begun an international recruitment effort and if you meet their rigid standards,
you will be contacted directly. Get the game, test your skills, and see if you are good enough to be a GDN Agent.
Global Defense Network features:
Easy to learn, difficult to master, and playable by most ages
Original game play combining the action of a shooter with the heart of a rhythm game
Nearly one and a half hours of music from some of the best MOD composers on the web
Realistic physics and colorful 3D graphics
Five upgradeable weapons and five unique attachments (22 combinations)
Over fifty unique levels and over seventy interactive object types
Kungfu Master
Start the game with one simple aspiration: become a Kungfu Master. As you progress through battles all over China you will move from the most basic of fighting techniques, to the most powerful attacks and techniques. From the power to
teleport to the power to bring down Buddha's palm from heaven to crush your enemies.
As you grow stronger. your enemies will become more difficult. They will surround you and throw knives and fireballs at you. In t he end you will be challenged in the Final War. Will you be victorious and be honored as a Kungfu Master?
Kungfu Master features:
16 hero skills or "kungfus"
8 different enemies, each one with specific attack and behavior
13 intense quests
3 difficulty levels
8 bonus items to help in your mission
Experience points to customize your warrior
3D Language Spain
3D Language Spain is a virtual Spanish town for learning and practicing Spanish. A robust speech recognition engine combined with a fully 3d environment makes for a compelling interactive experience. The developers went so far as to live
in Spain to make sure they got it right!
Virtual Spaniards inhabit the town and wait for you to interact with them. The conversations are the heart of the program and take place in an interface called the VoiceBox. The VoiceBox makes learning easy! It contains both sides of the
dialog in Spanish, a phonetic pronunciation guide, and English.
3D Language Spain features:
Hear entire sentences before speaking them
Bring up help and definitions for each word
Pause or rewind the conversation to practice specific sentences
Receive ratings on how accurately you spoke the sentences
State of the art Speech Recognition puts you in the conversation
Hone your Spanish skills with classroom word practice
GAME STORE NEWS: 50 GAMES
With the release of
Kungfu Master the GarageGames
Game Store now has 50 titles in its library for you to choose from. We have been steadily releasing games, and have no plans to stop with some really amazing titles coming down the pipe very soon. The game store is home to so many
great games. Classics such as
Marble Blast Gold,
ThinkTanks and
TubeTwist, as well as new and exciting titles like
Rack 'Em Up Road Trip,
The Pirate Tales, and
Determinance, not to mention all of the great titles listed in this month's newsletter.
In other game store news,
Toribash now has both Mac and Linux builds. Now everyone can get in on the crazy online battle arena action.
GAME SPOTLIGHT: MANIC SPACE
One of the games we are super excited to bring into the game store this month is
Manic Space. You can read about the game above, but we thought it would be cool to let you hear about the creation process from the developer, James E Silva (AKA SKA Software), himself.
I am really happy with Manic Space. It is quite possibly the brightest, cleanest, happiest,
most fluid, and possibly most manic game I've ever created. As a kid, I was always a big fan of the space privateering genre, so it seems natural that I should revisit it at some point in my game-making crusade. The only problem was that
in having built a fan base on a series of macabre, zombie-infested games, I couldn't easily transition to a straightforward space game without bugging someone, which is how it always goes, I guess. At any rate, my ill-conceived solution
was to bring my zombies, pirates, and ninjas with me into outer space, where they could all grow up a bit.
It didn't work. The zombie-infestation crowd wanted a zombie apocalypse game, and the space adventure crowd was turned off by the presence of zombies, ninjas and convertibles in a space privateering game. Nonetheless, I'm fully convinced
that Manic Space is the best game I've ever created, and am positive that we may someday live in a society where space games with zombies and ninjas are accepted as equals. If you're a fan of classic space adventure and are a firm
believer that space games need a fresh infusion of kittens and pterodactyls, Manic Space is more than likely a game for you.
IN THE NEXT NEWSLETTER
More Games from the Game Store
GGE Promotional Giveaway
and more...
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