Dejobaan looking to branch out to other platforms, strongly prototyping Musorqua

by Alexander Sliwinski on Feb 19th 2010 9:00PM

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity developer Dejobaan Games is looking to take a "derivative of Aaaaa" to other platforms. Studio founder Ichiro Lambe told us at DICE, "Over the course of 2010, we want to investigate branching out both to mobile, we're talking about iPhone and Android, and also Wii and Xbox development."

One of those titles taking the multiplatform walkabout would likely be Musorqua, which Lambe describes as a game the studio is "very strongly prototyping." He explained, "If that works, that's the direction we're going to take if people are excited, if the press is excited about it, if it excites us. If not, we're going to tweak that a bit." He also said that they'll "definitely" be showing it off at PAX East next month.

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Reader Comments (13)

Imagine calling Target, and ask "Hi, do you guys have any copies of Aaaaaa!!!- Reckless Disregard for Gravity. That would be a fascinating phone call.

I once had two Wal-Mart employees tell me that hey had "never heard of" Chrono Trigger (when I was looking for the DS version). Nowadays if I'm in a store that doesn't specifically deal in video games, I try to avoid the clerks.

Most unreadable headline of the year. *golfclaps*

The first link is brooooooooooooooooooooken!!!

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/28/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-coming-to-steam-on-sept-3/

It's very nice to see someone finally taking Android seriously.

However, also, this article is in the PlayStation section, yet they're only looking at Wii and 360 console development. I'll keep my fingers crossed for PSN. I have Aaaaa! on Steam and it is quite fun.

From what I've read it's pretty hard to develop for the PS3 as an indie dev. (Not talking about the cell) Sony is really picky about what projects they'll greenlight for the PSN, and even then the dev kit is apparently insanely expensive, and Sony doesn't do a lot of hand-holding unless you're a second party.

Still, hopefully Dejobaan can tear through those roadblocks. I think their style of game design would fit in nicely with some of the other niche games on the PSN.

Sorry but what the hell!? Q Games is an Indie developer and they said Sony gave them craploads of support, same with DoubleSix and Housemarque. Sony supports Indie Devs. Otherwise why would we have games like Noby Noby Boy

Right, but Q-Games is a rare example of a company Sony chose for their platform and ran with. Sony is still very picky about which games they will be accommodating towards and which ones they will outright deny. There are plenty of other developers (like the guy who made Braid) who didn't have such an easy time getting their game on the PSN.

He had a hard time getting it onto PSN becuase of Microsofts exclusevity deal. Its Microsoft that doesnt allow weird and wonderful games on their console. They turned away flOwer, Noby Noby Boy and loads of others.

I'm really looking forward to Dejobaan's next title. Aaaa! was great. It's fantastic that they're branching out into other platforms so that more people can enjoy their awesome games.