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Ouya Nabs Games From Airtight, Minority Media

The game from Kim Swift's studio will be an exclusive, as well.

For non-backers, the Ouya console will cost you $100, but the controller itself isn't cheap--it's a whole $50 on its own.
For non-backers, the Ouya console will cost you $100, but the controller itself isn't cheap--it's a whole $50 on its own.

With just a few weeks until backers receive hardware, Android gaming device Ouya has announced Kim Swift’s Airtight Games will produce an exclusive game for Ouya, and the next game from Papo & Yo developer Minority Media is coming, as well.

There are few details on either game, especially the one from Airtight Games.

“We truly feel that this platform will give us the freedom to fully realize the funky, unique game we have in mind,” said Swift in the announcement. “Though the title will definitely appeal to core gamers in terms of skill and difficulty, it really has a completely unexpected, imaginative slant that’s totally at home on this console.”

Minority Media’s game is described as an “adventure puzzler,” and is scheduled for this fall. The term “exclusive” wasn’t branded to Minority Media’s project, which I tried to clarity with the developer.

"We are super excited but there won't be any info on the game for a while,” said the company.

That doesn’t tell us much, but if it truly was exclusive, Minority Media would have said as much.

We’ve nearly reached critical mass of Android-based gaming devices raising money on crowdfunding services, but Ouya was one of the first and easily the biggest, which also means it’s becoming a reality much sooner. To aid in drumming up developer support, Ouya has enlisted former thatgamecompany co-founder and president Kellee Santiago as head of developer relations.

“I'm looking forward to continuing my work in tilting the industry scales towards indie developers and more variety in game content,” she said on Twitter.

Santiago also said her new position would not remove her from game development

Ouya hardware will begin shipping to backers on March 28, and arrives for general populous in June.

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An exclusive from the makers of Dark Void! That's..not going to get many people excited.

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@patman99 said:

Can someone explain to me the appeal of the Ouya? Is it because you really want to play android games on a HD television or is it the potential the device has for people to create games for it? I'm not really interested in the device because I don't really like phone games (some are good, but most are too shallow for me). Plus I really hate the way micro-transactions are handled now and the Ouya seems to be a platform that will have its fair share of those types of games.

Yeah, the appeal generally is the fact that it is an open but standardized platform, that'll be easy to develop for, like other Android platforms, but games will have the possibility to be deeper than your regular smartphone games, since games developed for the Ouya can be made with the assumption that the player will have access to an actual gamepad, with buttons and sticks, and not just a touch device. We can't say for sure it'll turn out great, there's certainly a risk that we'll just get ports of your typical phone games with some shoddy controller support and lots and lots of microtransactions, but there's a chance that we'll get to see some really interesting stuff on it. And emulators, lots of emulators.

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Cue a few months later when these studios dissolve and wonder what went wrong.

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That's one sexy little box. That's all I got to say.

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Can someone explain to me the appeal of the Ouya? Is it because you really want to play android games on a HD television or is it the potential the device has for people to create games for it? I'm not really interested in the device because I don't really like phone games (some are good, but most are too shallow for me). Plus I really hate the way micro-transactions are handled now and the Ouya seems to be a platform that will have its fair share of those types of games.

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150 for bunk games, aight. I'll see you on ebay in a few years.

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I still don't really get who this platform is for.

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Cool