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Posted: May 27th 2008 5:22PM (Unverified) said

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two words...just wierd!

Posted: May 27th 2008 5:28PM Macroy said

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I wonder how many blocks this will take up. Answer: ALL OF THEM.

Posted: May 27th 2008 5:41PM velocitystrike said

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In a way I wish they'd expand the features a bit and shove it on a disc. I can't see how they'd stick to 43mb with all of those tracks and that crazily complicated character model. Okay, the last part was sarcasm. But seriously, are the songs mono or something?

Posted: May 27th 2008 6:03PM (Unverified) said

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isnt there a game for 360 called helix? that will confuse people for sure

Posted: May 27th 2008 6:14PM chuckrich81 said

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I think you're thinking of Hexic.
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Posted: May 27th 2008 6:43PM (Unverified) said

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yesss thats the name of it,my bad
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Posted: May 27th 2008 5:58PM krunkster said

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Played a beta today at their offices and it was pretty fun. Got the same feeling playing this that I did when playing DDR for the first time. Only this game is easy to get into.
I think it's a bargain for a WiiWare casual title.

Posted: May 27th 2008 6:07PM (Unverified) said

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Looks choreographed to me. The skeleton guy is showing the moves to make about a second before they meet up with the indicator.

Which to me seems like it would throw me off, but how else would you know what to do and be able to react to it fast enough to do it in time?

Posted: May 27th 2008 10:24PM (Unverified) said

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Hi all,

I'm one of the game designers from Ghostfire. Glad to see some discussion regarding the game. :)

Now time to answer some questions...

We're not at a final size, but we're hovering right around 40megs for the size of the game. The reason we're able to fit so many songs into the game is because we've encoded them into the .ogg format. When it comes time to make another Helix game, we'll be looking at our original sales and how well we think the market would handle a disc-based version of Helix.

The name Helix was chosen before I came on board, but I believe we'll be able to carry the brand into the future in spite of the 360 title.

Lastly, the moves are choreographed. For future versions of Helix, we're thinking about having a preview move box for easy mode. Think something like the preview box in Tetris.

Thank you all for your comments. Tell your friends about the game!

Posted: May 27th 2008 11:44PM SisypheanLife said

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Thanks for coming and answering some questions. Any rough estimate on the price of this Wiiware game? Or a release date? Using two Wiimotes is a great idea. I'd love to see a game that made use of two pointers. Having the preview box for Easy mode would be a great way to ease people into the flow of the game.
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Posted: May 27th 2008 11:56PM (Unverified) said

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I can't give a 100% answer on the price as Nintendo has the final say on pricing, but we are expecting the price point to be at $10 USD. Our release date also depends on Nintendo. We're wrapping up development over the weekend and we'll be shipping a final build off to the big N for approval. Hopefully their QA department doesn't find any bugs we could have missed. Once we're through that, then Nintendo will give us a WiiWare slot. Given all this information and assuming all goes well, Helix should be available for download before the end of June.

Once we're given the green light and a date by Nintendo, we'll let EVERYONE know. :)

Posted: May 28th 2008 12:38AM SisypheanLife said

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Great to know. I'm always looking for new ways to make myself look stupid playing a game and have fun doing it. I usually excel more at the former than the latter.
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Posted: May 28th 2008 1:19AM (Unverified) said

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This is why I love Wiiware already, quirky and interesting games, and small developers who don't mind responding to the little guys! Looks fun, I'll have to try it. BTW, there are some instructions on control on Ghostfire's website.

Posted: May 29th 2008 8:41PM (Unverified) said

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Looks pretty cool, but the songs didn't do it for me.

Posted: May 29th 2008 6:18PM (Unverified) said

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I pretty sure this game was in the arcade along time ago and even had a home version on the ps2. It was called para para paradise only im betting that it work as well as the home version of that.

Posted: Jun 12th 2008 6:53PM (Unverified) said

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The visuals and music look and sound super-boring, but it doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. I would love to try it out. Not sure if it's on my top 5 list of wiiware games to-get, though.

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