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Everyday Shooter Hits PSN On Thursday

Posted by Zonk on from the one-guy-one-garage-for-the-win dept.

The title Everyday Shooter isn't just special because it's a pretty good game, blending Geometry Wars-like gameplay with great music. It's also the winner of numerous accolades from last year's Independent Games Festival, and as of this week it will be headlining on the PlayStation Store. "The $10 game may be coming into a market clogged with dual-analog shooters, but I don't think it will have a hard time fitting in. 'Some days I would spend all day tweaking a level, sleep for a few hours, and then go back and tweak some more,' Mak told me at E3. 'The challenges I faced in this game were creative, not technical.' The sense that someone slaved over this across many, many sleepless nights comes through pretty clearly. This is one to watch, and keep the name Jonathan Mak in your head. I doubt this will be the last thing we see from him." For more on the background of this unique title Gamasutra interviewed Mak, the game's sole creator, prior to the IGF last year.

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  1. Gate 88 by 10Neon · · Score: 5, Informative

    While not everyone has the PS3 needed to play Everyday Shooter, Mr. Mak's last game, Gate 88 can be downloaded for a few different OSs. http://www.queasygames.com/gate88/

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  2. Congratulations to Sony... by Shaterri · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...for all the egregious mistakes they've made in marketing the PS3, they're doing one thing that neither Nintendo nor Microsoft (XNA aside) has really managed: luring fantastic independent and artistic game developers onto the platform. Titles like Everyday Shooter, Jenova Chen's flOw, and even stuff like Calling All Cars are really making a PS3 a temptation, as absurd as it seems to spend $400 on a system to play $5 games on. Microsoft took some good initial steps with games like Eets and Alien Hominid, but they've slipped dramatically since then; more and more it's looking like the PS3 will be the primary platform for fans of the indie scene.

    1. Re:Congratulations to Sony... by ivan256 · · Score: 3, Informative

      It does feel silly, but I have not purchased a single disc title for my PS3. Yet I've had as many hours enjoyment with it as I have my Wii, so I have no regrets...

      Admittedly, I'd likely not have purchased the system (yet, anyway) if I didn't have an HDTV, if it didn't play BluRay movies, if there weren't any announced exclusives that I wanted, and if it didn't upscale PS2 content. However I think that Nintendo is really missing the boat. Platform specific content can be downloadable. There's no reason to make us schlep to the store and pay over $30 for what are pretty basic games. Now if only Sony can stop shooting themselves in the foot for long enough that people actually get a chance to notice the system's positives...

    2. Re:Congratulations to Sony... by powerlord · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Actually, it may be silly, but it makes sense, even from the point of view of the consumer.

      If there is a large and diverse catalogue of on-loine games to keep me interested, along with a few disk-only titles, then the lower cost of the on-line titles means I'll either:

      a) spend the same exact amount of money on more games

      b) spend less money overall on games (since the on-line titles are "cheaper", in the bargain-bin range usually)

      Heck, for the consumer, if they end up following choice "b", they might even spend LESS over the life of the system despite the initial greater cost for the unit (not saying thats going to happen, just pointing it out as a possibility).

      As for "hotel" coming to the PS3 ... wouldn't surprise me. Sony certainly seems open to innovative game design ideas for PSN games.

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  3. Will there be a demo? by Khuffie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I may be inclined to test it out, and if I like it, buy it, but as is I'm not going to plonck down ten bucks on a game I can't try out.

  4. If you want to play this game by UnlimitedAccess · · Score: 2, Informative

    Any people from Melbourne, Australia who want to try this game out can go to the ACMI Cetre (free Video Game Art Gallery) at Federation Square where Everyday Shooter is currently on display for anyone to play (along with many other indy titles [Go Aquaria Woo!]. Its very good, a cross between Rez and Smash TV but instead of Techno its Acoustic Guitars.