Game Arts already working on another downloadable game

by JC Fletcher on Jan 11th 2010 9:45PM

Game Arts has another downloadable title in mind after last week's release of its self-published WiiWare puzzle adventure The Magic Obelisk. Takahiro Nishi, producer of Obelisk, told Siliconera that "Our development team is now engaged in the next downloadable game." The experiment in smaller-scale downloadable software must have been a success, then, for the Grandia developer.

Nishi declined to name the platform for the new title, but in a previous Siliconera interview, he had nothing but kind words for WiiWare, praising its "easy to work with development environment" and an audience that is accepting of "unique and new concepts like ours."

We thought briefly that Nishi could have been referring to the new PS3 version of Thexder Neo, but Game Arts doesn't list either the PS3 or PSP versions of Thexder Neo on its website, indicating that another developer made the updated versions of the shmup classic.

The Magic Obelisk (WiiWare)

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Tags: game-arts, the-magic-obelisk, thexder-neo, wiiware

Reader Comments (1)

I picked up the Magic Obelisk, thinking it was cutesy enough that my kids could enjoy it. Little did I reckon with the demonic puzzler that this turned out to be, nor the "just one more try" hook it had, which all good puzzlers need to install in a player. The only frustrating thing about the game was the idiotic boy kept picking the oddest directions to wander off in and getting himself killed. Other than that, Magic Obelisk is a great puzzle game. I recommend it to ANY gamer who enjoys logical based puzzle action (action because sometimes you have to move quick from obelisk to obelisk, adding and removing shadows, to guide the little punk on his way). If they are working on another game, I will definitely be paying more attention than to this last one. Magic Obelisk was well worth the money spent (and I still haven't beaten the blasted thing...damn logic!).