Dutch gamesite previews Yokiyo
05.10.2009 - no comments

Orangepixel is een Nederlands bedrijfje dat zich richt op het maken van retrospelletjes, voornamelijk voor de Android Market. De nieuwste game heet Yokiyo en komt over 1 tot 2 weken uit. Deze platformgame bevat 40 levels in 4 werelden met animaties, geluidseffecten achtergrondmuziek en een spannende verhaallijn.

De prijs is nog niet helemaal zeker, maar gaat waarschijnlijk rond de €3,99 liggen. Net als bij de eerder uitgebrachte (en erg goed gewaardeerde) Android-game Mechanics Touch is er kans dat er in een latere fase nog een gratis extra wereld bij komt. Wat mij betreft ziet het er veelbelovend uit.

Source: www.androidplanet.nl

Thumb-it previewed by Pocketgamers
24.09.2006 - no comments

The concept of the one thumb mobile game has been much vaunted, with everything from Skipping Stone to Tower Bloxx touting their ability be played with just the crucial single digit of your hand.

Now there appears to be a move to create a spin-off genre – the ‘double thumb’ game – in the form of Thumb-It!

The work of the same guys who brought us Mechanics, Thumb-It! is a reaction-based affair. Inspired by rhythm dance games, it challenges the text generation (that’s us) to put their thumbs where their mouth is by pressing buttons in time to the on-screen prompt.

Aside from offering colourful on-screen rewards and boosting your gaming ego, the game also enables you to cross thumbs with other players in the RumbleX.com global rankings.

Indeed, Orange Pixel’s Pascal Bestebroer could well have been fresh from rejoicing his top score when he explained, “As with Mechanics we tried to create a new way of gaming for mobile phones. The game starts slow but eventually you really need those messaging-thumbs to do the work for you – combined with fast reflexes.”

We hope to take a closer look at Thumb-It in the near future. In the meantime you can give your number one digits a warm up via the demo (click ‘Try It!’), or else browse the pictures above.

Source: Pocketgamer

Pocketgamer previews Mechanics
28.07.2006 - no comments

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the creators of Lemmings should feel a boost to their self-esteem with the arrival of a new title called Mechanics from OrangePixel.

Still, as ‘inspiration’ goes you could do a lot worse than pick on the suicidal puzzler gem. And Mechanics does at least appear to tweak the formula.

Rather than a vast stream of suicidal rodents, you have just four mechanics (hardly enough for an oil change if our local garage’s labour charges are to be believed). These grease-monkeys happily roam around peril-packed levels, as oblivious to their fate as they would be to spot a basic timing belt problem in real-life, and it’s up to you to keep them safe and smooth their progress by operating a variety of tools within the levels.

Indeed, although you only need to keep one of the boiler-suited boys alive to complete a level, the fact that you start the subsequent stage with the same number you finished the last should engender a more protective attitude to your charges.

We’re certainly looking forward to taking care of a few mechanics ourselves when the game arrives in August. So stay tuned for a full Mechanics M.O.T. review in the next few weeks.

Source: Pocketgamer