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Be a pretty unicorn in PixelJam's Retro Unicorn Attack: Challenge Edition

Jordan Mallory — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:45:00 EST

Figuring out new ways to make believe that we're a pretty, pretty unicorn takes up about 80 percent of our day, so we always appreciate it when someone else does the majority of the grunt work for us. Imagine then our appreciative, wistful sigh upon learning of PixelJam's new game with Adult Swim, Retro Unicorn Attack: Challenge Edition.

As retro and/or pixelated as its name and developer imply, Retro Unicorn Attack is an endless runner that tasks the player (a beautiful and majestic unicorn, obviously) with collecting fairies and dashing through vortexes, while avoiding obstacles and generally falling to a horrible death. The game is, besides being adorable and addictive, also quite difficult. Players can upload their best scores to a global leaderboard, hence the Challenge Edition subtitle.

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Potatoman Seeks the Troof, Pixeljam Octology finds its way to Linux

Jessica Conditt — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:00:00 EST

All of the games in Pixeljam's Octology - Potatoman Seeks the Troof, Bitku Beta, Dino Run SE, Marathon of Doom and Snowball - are now available on Linux, in addition to previous PC and Mac support, for $10. Not to say we're super trendy or anything, but we hear Linux is currently all the rage.

The Octology also includes the albums Platneteri, Pixeljams Vol. 1 and the Potatoman soundtrack. Potatoman Seeks the Troof is a platformer that tells the tale of a spud as he leaves the farm and seeks the meaning of life. No, it doesn't make much more sense once you play it, but it sure does make for a wonderful live-action trailer.

Potatoman is also on Steam Greenlight, if that's more your style. You fashionista.

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The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Potatoman Seeks the Troof

Jessica Conditt — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:45:00 EST

Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, Pixeljam co-founder Miles Tilmann discusses the philosophy behind Potatoman Seeks the Troof, which we learned about through this intense trailer.

What's your game called and what's it about?

The game is called Potatoman Seeks the Troof. It's about an anthropomorphized potato that decides to leave the comfort of his family farm in search of enlightenment. Although, for some reason, almost everything he meets along his journey is trying to kill or mislead him.

What inspired you to make Potatoman?

The Potatoman character himself. Rich (Pixeljam's lead artist) had created him as just an animated gif years ago, and it was hard to look at him and not want to give him his own game.

Also, in October we had just finished a very long series of games for other companies (Adult Swim, etc.), and were itching to release something of our own. We were working on multiple things at once - Glorkian Warrior, Gamma Bros iOS, Dino Run iOS - but none were anywhere close to completion, and at the time it seemed that we would run out of funds before any of the games could reach a state acceptable to us for release. So we tried something we had always talked about: pour our time and hearts into a very short game and get it done in about two weeks. Several months later, the game was done.

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Potatoman Seeks the Troof in the fields of a live-action farming trailer

Jessica Conditt — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:00:00 EST

Potatoman Seeks the Troof isn't a live-action agriculture roleplaying game as its trailer would lead us to believe (unfortunately), but it does look intriguing in its own right (fortunately). Potatoman comes from indie developer Pixeljam, and it's available for PC and Mac now, solo for $3, or in a variety of fresh Pixeljam bundles, spanning the Trilogy, Octology and Holiday Bonus.

The Trilogy costs $5 and includes Potatoman, Planeteri and the Bitku beta. The Octology doesn't include any squid-like sea creatures, but it does have all three games in the Trilogy, along with Snowball, Marathon of Doom, the Potatoman soundtrack, Pixeljams Volume 1 album and Dino Run SE. For $15, grab the Holiday Bonus, which includes all of the above goodies, along with the Dino Run text adventure and Beezlebuds alpha.

The above cinematic trailer for Potatoman Seeks the Troof, however, is completely free.

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Indie Royale launches The Summer Bundle with 8 games and some chiptunes

Jordan Mallory — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EST

The latest in a long line of Indie Royale bundles is now live, this time named after the hottest, most miserable season of the year: Summer! The Summer Bundle includes Harvest: Massive Encounter, The Journey Down: Chapter 1, Serious Sam 2, Gundemonium Recollection, GundeadliGne, Hitogata Gappa, Acceleration of Suguri X-Edition and Dino Run SE.

Patrons will also receive entrance into the AirMech Steam beta, as well as an Indie Royale in-game pet. Anyone who pays over $8.00 for the bundle will be gifted Pixeljams Volume 1, a chiptune collection of music from Pixeljam's catalogue of work. As with all previous Indie Royale bundles, the price you pay is based on the prices of the transactions that have come before you, so get in there and ruin the bell curve.

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Deadmau5 and Pixeljam make beautiful Sound Shapes together

JC Fletcher — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:59:00 EST

Sound Shapes' levels are presented in an "album" format, with each collection of levels having a distinct look and sound. This video features a demonstration of an "album" whose sounds are provided by Deadmau5, a musician respected enough to get away with having a number in his name, and whose shapes are designed by indie developer Pixeljam.

Check out the collaboration above, and start thinking of how you can use those visual and musical elements to make your own levels.

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We now understand why everyone loves Cream Wolf

Griffin McElroy — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST

Cream Wolf, the most recent release on the prestigious Adult Swim line of browser-based games, might just be the first surprise smash hit of 2010 so far. It's been sweeping through the gaming press, swooning everyone who comes in contact with it. After spending a half hour with the game, we completely understand why -- and we wager you will too. Seriously, go play it.

We're not going to spoil the game by going into too much detail about it, though we will say that you're a werewolf who sells ice cream to kids. That's a good enough jumping off point for your imagination, we think.

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