Note Tim's trusty bottle of "Back in Time" potion.Super Meat Boy is a game that seems to come prepackaged with a near-lethal quantity of indie cred. It began its life as a Flash game on Newgrounds.com, the same website where Alien Hominid was born, which is not-so-coincidentally also run by Tom Fulp, one of the cofounders of The Behemoth. The hero is an animate cube of meat with a girlfriend named Band-Aid Girl and a nemesis named Dr. Fetus. It's not much of a stretch to imagine Spike Jonze doing a stop-motion movie based on Super Meat Boy featuring Zooey Deschanel with a soundtrack by Animal Collective it's so goddamn indie.
As if that weren't enough, yesterday it was revealed that Tim, that diabolical "protagonist" from Braid, would be an unlockable character in Super Meat Boy. Jonathan Blow might not want to do a sequel for Braid, but apparently he's not above loaning out his characters for cameos in other games. I wonder how long until Tim shows up in a Smash Bros. game...
Note Tim's trusty bottle of "Back in Time" potion.Super Meat Boy is a game that seems to come prepackaged with a near-lethal quantity of indie cred. It began its life as a Flash game on Newgrounds.com, the same website where Alien Hominid was born, which is not-so-coincidentally also run by Tom Fulp, one of the cofounders of The Behemoth. The hero is an animate cube of meat with a girlfriend named Band-Aid Girl and a nemesis named Dr. Fetus. It's not much of a stretch to imagine Spike Jonze doing a stop-motion movie based on Super Meat Boy featuring Zooey Deschanel with a soundtrack by Animal Collective it's so goddamn indie.
As if that weren't enough, yesterday it was revealed that Tim, that diabolical "protagonist" from Braid, would be an unlockable character in Super Meat Boy. Jonathan Blow might not want to do a sequel for Braid, but apparently he's not above loaning out his characters for cameos in other games. I wonder how long until Tim shows up in a Smash Bros. game...
Why's this filed under off topic? It's still a video game, even if it's on the Wii. Since it's the first time you post about the game, why not include that first screenshot and some more information about the gameplay, its flash prequel people can play right now, the awesome cow ad, the promise of a dozen indie game characters doing cameos for some kind of multi player mode, etc? And yes, Tim was designed by the artist of this game. Also, zoom in to the invisible bottom left here for a "surprise" related to this (animation test for Super Meat Boy as discussed here).
The market hasn't changed that much and it probably was enough of a success seeing it was (is?) getting a sequel. But yeah, I guess a PSN/XBLA/WiiWare release would certainly bring him some welcome additional income. People can still buy it for PC if they want.
A lot of articles seem to be filed under Off Topic lately for some reason. Looking back through the pages, there's Red Steel 2, Lost Planet 2, Max Payne on Xbox Originals, Ghostbusters, the Burnout Paradise update, and more. Ryan's not selective about which news articles go into Off-Topic; he does it with all of them. It's caused me to miss some articles, and I find I have to go to the news page to find them; which defeats the purpose of posting them on the forums in the first place.
I'm pretty sure the staff can move articles all over the forum though, remember some news article not to long being in off topic first and then was transferred to the game page. Wonder why it still is in off topic.
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