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Ubisoft picks up Cloudberry Kingdom

David Hinkle — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:30:00 EST

Ubisoft will help distribute Cloudberry Kingdom, the co-op platformer with an endless parade of randomly generated levels. Having gone through years of gestation and a successful Kickstarter campaign, Cloudberry Kingdom will be released this summer (Ubisoft tells us, despite what the video above says) on Wii U, Xbox 360, PS Vita, PS3, Mac and PC.

In a new developer diary, game creators Jordan Fisher and TJ Lutz espouse on the many obstacles they've encountered in finalizing their vision and finding the right business partners.

Gallery: Cloudberry Kingdom

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Cloudberry Kingdom's journey to Wii U: Not as hard as it looks

Jessica Conditt — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:30:00 EST

Cloudberry Kingdom is a co-op platformer with an infinite supply of randomly generated stages designed by an AI system sent straight from the Insanely Difficult level of Hell. It features swirling death balls, disappearing platforms, strings of fire and jabbing spikes, all of which our hero must navigate with the utmost precision if he hopes to survive (and save the princess or something).

Cloudberry Kingdom offers five difficulty settings - Easy, Unpleasant, Abusive, Hardcore and Masochistic - and it's coming to PC, Mac, XBLA, PS3, Vita and finally, Wii U.

If indie developer Pwnee Studios had to describe working with Nintendo to become a Wii U launch title, it'd put the process solidly in the "Easy" category. An outsider, however, may see it as somewhere around "Hardcore."

Director of Business Development Michael Suswal used brute force to break down the barriers of Nintendo contacts, disregarding the suggested Wii U submission process entirely, because that's how he rolls.

"It is a personal mantra of mine to never follow the system," Suswal says. "So while I learned what the preferred submission process was, I decided to take a more punishing, masochistic route and chopped my way through the maze of transfers and voicemails. To be fair, Nintendo was one of the easiest companies to navigate, though it probably would have been easier to just fill out the form."

Perhaps the Pwnee Studios team has a different definition of the word "easy."

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Kevin Sorbo, Sam Sorbo, Martin Olson star in Cloudberry Kingdom

Jessica Conditt — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:30:00 EST

Kevin Sorbo, the actor best known for portraying the heroic man of myth in the mid-90s television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, is taking on a new role: Bob, the hero of Cloudberry Kingdom. Kevin is acting alongside his wife, Sam Sorbo, who played Serena in Hercules and has since appeared in Chicago Hope and Andromeda. Sam is the voice of Cloudberry Kingdom's princess.

Martin Olson, also known as the Lord of Evil in Adventure Time and renowned comedy writer, voices King Kobbler in Cloudberry Kingdom.

Developer Pwnee Studios snatched up these stars through a series of fortunate networking events, after working with Tigar Hare Studios on the animations in Cloudberry Kingdom. Read all about Cloudberry Kingdom's trip to stardom and the Wii U in a feature hitting Joystiq soon. We promise you won't be disappointed.

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Cloudberry Kingdom trailer warns Wii U owners

JC Fletcher — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:30:00 EST

Cloudberry Kingdom isn't just a crazy-looking platformer. It's also a Kickstarter-supported infinite platformer level generator, that allows you to make your own levels or specify a level of difficulty for an automatically generated stage. You can also design your own heroes, setting both appearance and physics.

It's also a Wii U launch window game. And none of this "sometime before March" business - according to Nintendo's release list, it's due in November. In other words, it won't be too long before we report on the first Wii U GamePad to be thrown into a television.

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