Hey! We’re giving away some Magiko Gaming games for XBox 360.

Lucky winners will get a pack of four games containing:

• Platformance: Castle Pain
• Platformance: Temple Death
• Bunker Buster
• Who is God

To enter:

- Go and Like the Platformines page on Facebook

- Leave a happy comment on the latest video on the wall

That’s it, we’ll pick some winners for Christmas and New Year ‘s Eve.

Happy holidays!

Hello. Lots of new additions have been put in the game lately.

First we have a home base. This is the place where you start the game, and where you’ll keep coming back to sell/buy stuff, save the game and teleport further down the mines. The teleporters are pretty cool. You can change their position from a computer mini map and teleport to wherever you have been before. So as you go down and explore you move the portal further and further, this way you are always close to your base. If you decide that you want to explore another part of the map, you simply go back to your base, and move the teleporter to where you want to go next.

Home base

The NPCs are a bit smarter now, they can ‘air-jump’ and go across different platforms.

There is plenty of new weapons to see as well. There is revolvers, shotguns and rocket-launchers made of different combinations of the metals you can find in the mines. (more on this later)

Walking in front of an object displays an info windows with commands on what you can do.

We have started to implement traps also, and so there is some pushing blocks that can squish you, and some rotating cave diggers that do damage on contact. More diverse traps will added in the game later, but right now we know it works well with just a few traps already.

HD video here:

There still a lot to be done, but we are happy with the progress. Next: inventory, shopping, actually grabbing objects, weapons with different behaviors, complex traps…

What's next ??!!

As usual, don’t hesitate to comment, as we would like to know what you like, don’t like, or would like to see in the game.

The game will be available on PC and XBox.

That’s right Platformance: Temple Death for Windows Phone 7 is featured on the Games Marketplace in France. That’s pretty neat. Thanks to Geoffrey Mohaer who spotted it first! If you see it on your country’s phone too let us know.

Hoping all these new Nokia Lumia phone selling like hot cakes will get their Platformance groove on

Platformance: Temple Death for Windows Phone 7

Platformance: Temple Death featured on the WP7 Marketplace

Howdy. We have characters that shoot to show you this time. The following video displays NPCs from our character generator that can create 128625 (!) combinations right now. It also shows shooting (You can shoot in all 4 directions) with handguns and some temporary AI . Keep in mind that this is all very basic but it is coming along nicely and we’re starting to have a game that’s fun to play.

A bunch of randomly generated characters for Platformines (click for the big picture)

Click full screen on the video below to see some action in full HD glory!

That’s it for now, stay tuned right here or on the facebook platformines pages for more info. Now we must get back to work on getting fat loot from quests in Skyrim… oops I mean getting back to work on our indie game

Time for another short development update. This time around we figured a short video would be better than anything else.

A short platformines prototype video that shows exploration and fog of war. No npc or traps yet… Hit FullScreen button !

Right now we have a huge world that you can explore by double jumping around. The hero’s light shows what’s around and a pretty animated fog of war hides where you haven’t been yet. It’s pretty handy when you want to come back on your footsteps. Also the light radius decreases as your energy drops down adding pressure.  Since this is Platformance territory the much beloved Zoom feature is back (more on this later…)

Hello, here is quick update with a little screenshot showing some progress on graphics; more lighting details and some ruins themed blocks. Lots of work has been done code wise but it’s ‘under the hood’ type of stuff so you won’t see anything yet…

We have a Facebook page now, called : Platformines. So if you want to get your Facebook news about the game, you can go and ‘like’ it, and share the love with your friends

The prototype is coming along nicely. On this screenshot you can see a world generated with blocks, a hero jumping around and exploring through some fog of war, pretty glowing gems…

What will be in this part of the mines ? A chest containing a badass new weapon and deadly traps all around...

Here is a little run down of what we are -planning- for “Platformines”:

The game revolves around exploring a huge platform world populated with traps, baddies and treasures.

Some details about the features include:

• Enemies (humanoids wielding weaponry and alien/animal/whatever)
• Weapons (firearms and close combat)
• Traps, deadly traps, platforms, and more traps Platformance style
• Items to collect
• Quests to help you visit the world
• A place to sell treasures and buy things
• The hero appearance will be customizable
• Crafting your own weapons from the things you collected
• The hero must get better equipment to be able to go further down the world
• You will be able to randomly generate the world (using a seed)

There is more to it and this will come later. Since the feature list is pretty big for a two men team, everything might not make it to the first release. We would like to have feedback from players on what they like the most and see how we update things. So we may do a first release with a solid base of the game to get that feedback (a sort of beta but with a game that’s already fun and balanced). What do you think ?

Hello, it is a good time to give you a few details about the next game we are working on.

Codenamed “Platformines” the game is based on the Platformance engine. It features a huge platform world; while you had a single screen to go through in a Platformance game, this one will have a few thousand screens to explore!

While there is some mechanics from the Platformance games, it introduces lots of other fun ideas we’ve had and some big surprises.

We are at a prototyping stage right now and there is lots of exciting stuff being tested. Expect more details right here on this blog on a regular basis as development progresses.

This is one of the many ways your hero could look... (This time around you will be able to use your weapon!)

In the mean time feel free to voice your opinion/questions in the comments section as we are very interested in listening to your feedback.

Cosmic Jumper, the Windows Phone 7 version of our Xbox Live Indie Game “Who is God” is now available on the phone markeplace. It’s pretty much the same game without the online scoreboard (yeah… cant do that on phone yet…), but with added accelerometer input option, screenshot you can take in game, and a “tweet this score” button to tease your friends.

Grab it for your WP7 here:

Or watch a gameplay video here if you’re not convinced already :

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While you wait for Mango or a shiny Nokia device to come out of the woods why not enjoy some serious platforming beating with PLATFORMANCE: Temple Death on WP7 in the meantime?!

Watch out for that waterfall !

PLATFORMANCE: Temple Death is now available on the Windows Phone marketplace. Get to avoid tons of evil traps, jungle baddies, and more evilness to satisfy your thirst of platforming challenges.

Here is the feature list for this version:

• - over 40 challenges to overcome
• - zoom in on the action or zoom out to see the whole level
• - 3 difficulty modes with their own traps configuration
• - take screenshots to send to your friends or brag over the internet
• - Local scoreboards
• - Rewards
• - Flopwards!
• - chiptune music
• - once at the end, experience the game backward

Deliver famous actress Grace Belly and bring her back from the depths of the temple

Try the game on your Windows Phone by following this link:

So take a break from your “Angry Birds”, and other “Doodle Jump” to play some challenging adventure in a place where only the fools can survive!

This mine isn't from Minecraft or Terraria but it's still dangerous and full of surprises!