PixelJunk èdèn – encore expansion released

[u_nick]

I mean an exact date.

[Shin-Ra]

Haha. Fat chance. When do we ever get solid dates that far in advance.

SOCOM's the only one I can think of right now but I'd love to be wrong.

[u_nick]

haha, true. a man can dream, cant he?

[Shin-Ra]

SCEA Judges Day: How do you play PixelJunk Eden?

Clearest video demonstration yet.

Once you've beaten all the levels, I think the title screen 'level' will look something like this first-ever-shot we got of the game:

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/pixeljunk3.jpg

You can tell there will be plenty of visual variety.

[Shin-Ra]

Originally Posted by Dylan Cuthbert // PixelJunk E-mail Newsletter

Hi there,

This week a couple of bits of news have come in - 1, an interesting interview(?) piece with Erik Wolpaw (writer on Portal), Jonathan Mak (Everyday Shooter) 1up's own Mark MacDonald, and myself all having dinner together and being films just went up on 1up.com - http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19110

It's quite long but there is some talk of Eden at about the 30 minute mark. This dinner was on the first day of GDC in February and I had just flown over from Japan, caught a really bad sore throat on the plane and from looking at the video it was really swollen! It gave me a kind of husky voice though. :-)

And 2, over on the Playstation blog Deborah Mars, the senior Producer for PixelJunk at Santa Monica Studios is giving away 10 of our prized Monsters T-Shirts! http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/...us-your-story/

We are busy trying to set dates for the Euro and Japanese release of the Monsters soundtrack so be patient, it will come! For the US residents on this newsletter, go to your PSN store and buy it now, for just 2.99! ;-)

Regards

Dylan Cuthbert
Q-Games Ltd.

28:50 in the eden stuff kicks in.

[Shin-Ra]

A few new details and screenshots from Impress GAME Watch.

The game not only supports Remote Play and Trophies, but also Video Capture and YouTube upload. eden contains more than 100 minutes of original music from Japanese artist Baiyon.

GURINPUSUUU!



























I am loving the blue-on-grey stage.

[u_nick]

NICE

Love hearing that the Youtube upload feature will be there. Hopefully more take advantage of this.

[Shin-Ra]

Good news spreads.. slowly! But at least it does.

[DezNutz]

Supposedly a demo is being released in July

Q-Games' head Dylan Cuthbert has emailed us this morning to let us know that a playable demo is planned for PixelJunk Eden this July, presumably around E3 time. He tells us he "simply wants everyone to experience it ASAP so we are trying to get the demo out before the release of the game" which is cool.

Even cooler though is confirmation that Eden will also feature the now famous Youtube video uploading feature. He tells us you simply select 'record video' from the pause menu and then play the game for 10 minutes (and you can pause/restart with R3) before uploading the video directly from your PS3 to your YouTube account.

Finally, he also wanted to say that he's wanting to do a small, free patch for Monsters, so if anyone has any ideas on what they want to see in the patch, let him know. For more on Eden check out our What Is It? feature.


http://www.thesixthaxis.com/eden_to_..._1159_tsa.aspx

Also nice to see a patch for Monsters, I want trophies to be added to Monsters, please!!! everyone e-mail him for trphy support in Monsters!

[Shin-Ra]

Here's Dylan's exact (silly ) words:

Originally Posted by Dylan Cuthbert // PixelJunk E-mail Newsletter

Hello everybody,

It's been a month or so since Encore and the sales of both the original Monsters and Encore are still steady and strong. Thanks to everyone who has helped support PixelJunk - it is still very much a grassroots kind of thing.

We're busy finishing up Eden, just a couple more weeks or so of debugging and tuning. I hate to say this myself, but anyway, the game isn't just good, it's *freaking* awesome! (I'm British but I felt the need to switch to American slang for that)... I've never been so excited about a game before and I just keep playing it even though we should be sick of it by now - everything has gone really well and the game is packed full of cool ideas. (my favourite being the stage where gravity switches about on you)

We should have a video and hopefully a playable demo up online in July - in fact, I have to eat my own hat because until now I have tried to delay demos for a few weeks until after the release of the full game, but this time I simply want everyone to experience it ASAP so we are trying to get the demo out *before* the release of the game. Watch this space for more info!

There is a really cool new ps3 feature enabled in Eden, and that is the Youtube video upload feature. It's pretty cool, you can simply select "record video" from the pause menu and then play the game for ten minutes (you can pause the recording freely using R3) and then you will be asked for a Youtube account to upload to, and after you've uploaded it you can use Youtube's editing features to create some pretty cool compilations. We needed this in Monsters for all those strategy videos eh?

Btw, talking of Monsters, we are thinking of supplying a small free patch once Eden is out of the way - bear in mind this is a free patch so we can't spend much time on it, but if you have any ideas for something you desperately need included that doesn't seem as if it would take more than a few days of development time then let us know at pixeljunk@q-games.com!

Regards

Dylan Cuthbert
PS. If you haven't got Encore and the PixelJunk soundtrack yet, then go get it! (Hopefully we should be seeing the soundtrack on the EU and Japan store "very soon now(tm)")
PS2. We are aiming for a simultaneous worldwide release (fingers crossed) of Eden and news about the date should start leaking out soon!

Simultaneous release sounds good to me. I couldn't bear reading about others playing this a week or two before Euro release..

[blu-dave]

will recording in game lower the framrate such as PC programs such as FRAPS??

[Shin-Ra]

Depends on the game and what you're doing in the game I guess, recording a clip in Mainichi Issyo didn't seem to slow or drop frames.

[Shin-Ra]

An incomplete list of trophies from an incomplete build of the game used to generate the list in this video.

01 All Seeds - Open all seeds to garden 01.
02 All Seeds - Open all seeds to garden 02.
03 All Seeds - Open all seeds to garden 03.
04 All Seeds - Open all seeds to garden 04.
05 All Seeds - Open all seeds to garden 05.
06 All Seeds - Open all seeds to garden 06.
07 All Seeds - Open all seeds to garden 07.
08 All Seeds - Open all seeds to garden 08.
09 All Seeds - Open all seeds to garden 09.
10 All Seeds - Open all seeds to garden 10.
All Gardens Clear - Get a Spectra in each garden.
All Spectra Found - Get all the Spectra in all gardens.
Combo Ten - Pollen ?????? combo a 10.
Combo Fifteen
The Hundred Thousander
500 Dead Pollen Prowlers
Ten Minute Grimp
Fifteen Crystals

There are more below this that you can't see.

[EvanX]

What are the odds that this *demo* will be out this week? Pretty low?

[DezNutz]

Is anyone else kinda mistafied about how you are suppose to play this game still? I mean I have seen a ton of pics, and understand the basic concept, but wtf?

[Shin-Ra]

Originally Posted by DezNutz

Is anyone else kinda mistafied about how you are suppose to play this game still? I mean I have seen a ton of pics, and understand the basic concept, but wtf?

Did you watch this video?

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/...ixeljunk-eden/

[Shin-Ra]

Three gameplay videos:

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19739
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19740
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19744

and 1UP's preview:

We play through the first four stylish gardens of the third PixelJunk PSN title

[dylan_cuthbert]

hey there,

I'm an occasional lurker of this board so I thought I'd pop up my head and say hello and thanks for all the support we get here for Racers, Monsters and Eden.

Eden has shaped up nicely and we are only a few more weeks away from putting it in your hands!!

[Shin-Ra]

Thanks for all the hard work you're putting into these PSN titles and components of the PS3 OS.

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by dylan_cuthbert

hey there,

I'm an occasional lurker of this board so I thought I'd pop up my head and say hello and thanks for all the support we get here for Racers, Monsters and Eden.

Eden has shaped up nicely and we are only a few more weeks away from putting it in your hands!!

Whoah, the man himself?

We love your games, Dylan! Please keep making them, and we will keep buying them!