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DigiPen Ball-Stars has a lot of DigiPen in it.

DigiPen Institute of Technology students Corey Kay, Curtis McCoy, Jason Meisel, and Sean Reilly have banded together to release Barry's Magical Escape: DigiPen Ball-Stars Edition, a freeware indie crossover title for PC inspired by Mario Party's Bumper Balls minigame. (Unfortunately, Luigi isn't a playable character here, so you can't win by doing nothing.)

Barry's Magical Escape offers a motley collection of characters and backdrops from many DigiPen standouts, including the survival racer Nitronic Rush, stealth-action game Deity and Portal's predecessor, Narbacular Drop. As in Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. series, random items drop throughout each battle, and each successful strike increases an enemy's bounce recoil, leading to some wildly chaotic possibilities. Be prepared to lose friendships over this one.

Barry's Magical Escape supports up to eight simultaneous players in local and online multiplayer matches.

Gallery: Barry's Magical Escape - DigiPen Ball-Stars Edition

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>barrys-magical-escapedeityDigiPendigipen-ball-starsnarbacular-dropnitronic-rushpcWed, 24 Apr 2013 19:15:00 EST<![CDATA[This year's PAX 10: JS Joust, Offspring Fling!, Puzzlejuice and more]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/13/this-years-pax-10-js-joust-offspring-fling-puzzlejuice-and/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/13/this-years-pax-10-js-joust-offspring-fling-puzzlejuice-and/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/13/this-years-pax-10-js-joust-offspring-fling-puzzlejuice-and/#comments This year's PAX 10 include JS Joust, Offspring Fling!, Puzzlejuice and moreThe PAX 10, an illustrious group of indie games chosen annually to be spotlighted during PAX Prime in Seattle, have been selected. This year's rarified group include the likes of Johann Sebastian Joust, Offspring Fling! - a game we highlighted in length on the Super Joystiq Podcast - and hypnotic iOS darling Puzzlejuice.

Other lesser-known titles include the latest from Cipher Prime, the studio behind Auditorium and Fractal, a Steam title called Splice, and puzzle games Containment: The Zombie Puzzler and The Bridge. Puzzle-platformer The Swapper is also represented, along with DigiPen's stealth-action game Deity and Catch-22. Turtle Sandbox's action-strategy hybrid Cannon Brawl rounds out the list of ten.

All PAX 10 titles will be featured in their own special area at this year's PAX Prime, which goes down August 31 through September 2 in downtown Seattle, WA.

JoystiqThis year's PAX 10: JS Joust, Offspring Fling!, Puzzlejuice and more originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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