Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Strange Bedfellows Bring Fancy Pants Flash Game To Consoles

Sometimes, large corporations and indie gift obtain along only fine.

Brad Borne credits Electronic Arts with assisting spin his Flash diversion in to a bone-fide downloadable console game, that EA will let go on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this spring.

"It's a joining of two philosophies," Borne told Wired.com in a phone interview. "I'm perplexing to make improved games and EA is perplexing to make more attainable games."

, that Borne initial proposed conceptualizing during college, is a simple, attractive platformer with a unmatched art type that Borne says "resonates with people unequivocally well." The diversion has garnered over 10 million plays on assorted Flash sites and spawned a few sequels . The console chronicle will be formed on the arriving third iteration of the game.

Ironically, EA's take on the Flash diversion came about since a big-budget blockbuster.

"EA contacted me and mentioned they were big fans of ," Borne said. "They mentioned they were carrying out and longed for a [Flash] diversion to go with it."

A few e-mails later, Borne was working on , that he written on the engine. When he ended the game, Borne kept in hold with EA executives, updating them with what he was conceptualizing next. Eventually, they motionless to collaborate.

Borne created prototypes and sent them to Brazil-based diversion growth college of music Over the Top, where a group built the console chronicle of from the belligerent up.

"I did have a ton of control," Borne mentioned of the conspiring process. "At the finish of the day, EA let us make the diversion you longed for to make."

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