Pac-Man reimagined with Kinect and Unity3D

YouTube user buptkangbo used the Unity3D game engine to develop a sort of 3D version of Pac-Man -- or, at least, a game roughly equivalent to what someone who has never seen Pac-Man would imagine if you had just described it to them. A yellow sphere walks around through a grassy field, collecting mushrooms and throwing them at ghost monsters. That's cool; the "official" Pac-Man platformers took lots of liberties, too.

What makes this particular version unique is that it's controlled with Kinect, played dolphin-style -- by which we mean the player leans into the camera as if swimming underwater. See for yourself after the break. If the demo actually becomes available for download and you then decide to try it, we suggest having plenty of snack foods handy for the full Pac-Man... (Continue Reading...)

Disaster Report creator working on new IP for Vita and PS3

The creator of Disaster Report 4, Kazuma Kujo, may have suffered a small setback when his game was canceled following the earthquake in Japan last year due to an abnormally slow production process. But that little hitch hasn't turned him off of game development for good: he reports via Twitter that his new studio at developer Granzella is hard at work on a new title for both the PS3 and the PS Vita.

Kujo says that the game will be downloadable, though the PSP isn't planned for support at this time. It's a completely original IP, he says, but when asked by Twitter followers what genre it will be, he only replied (in Japanese, of course) that "it's a secret."

Granzella is working on at least two titles for the PS3 and the Vita, and this is presumably one of them. Kujo also says he'd also like to make... (Continue Reading...)


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