After multiple awards and more than 100 000 copies sold on PC and mobile, we’re very happy to bring the first game of Accidental Queens, A Normal Lost Phone, on Nintendo Switch!

 

You have just found a phone, now find out the truth: A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.

The game takes the shape of a narrative investigation: you have to search the phone’s text messages, pictures and applications, in order to learn about its former owner. Through this phone, you uncover Sam’s life, friends, family and relationships, until the evening when they turn 18 and mysteriously disappear.

The Nintendo Switch version developed by Seaven Studio adds portrait mode with touch screen and HD Rumble support, making sure the immersive and intuitive way of delivering the game’s narrative through a fake smartphone interface is kept intact. The game is also playable in landscape on handled, tabletop and TV mode.

 

After many troubles, The Next Penelope releases exclusively on Nintendo Switch on December 21st for 12.99€ !

Entirely developed by Aurélien REGARD on Steam and acclaimed by Destructoid (9/10, “A hallmark of excellence”), “The Next Penelope” is a fast paced action racing game with loud colors, an original story and a challenging risk-reward system. Weapons can be mixed and used at any time, but all these abilities cost vital energy, so the player is very powerful and close to death at the same time!

Nintendo Switch version developed by Seaven Studio put the finishing touches by polishing the original gameplay and fixes remaining issues from PC version. With local multiplayer up to 4 players and HD Rumble support, the Nintendo Switch version is the greatest one to play this indie gem!

If you’re interested by the technical side of the project, making the first Construct2 game to release on Nintendo Switch, you can read about it here.

Hello,

We’ve had many questions about bringing The Next Penelope to Nintendo Switch so here’s what we’ve done!

Games made in Construct 2 can be exported to Javascript/HTML5/Canvas/WebGL. They work fine on PC where Webkit/Chromium is used to run the game. However it’s hard and not optimal to run the games in a browser on consoles. As we have the source to the complete Javascript/HTML5 Construct player, the best solution seemed to port it to C++ and our homemade engine.

Basically Construct 2 player is data-driven : in the main javascript file, we can find the player code and a giant JSON array with the entire game logic, events and references to assets. Sound FXs and PNG textures are stored in folders aside the JS file.

Only the functions specific to the Next Penelope game have been ported, but it represents more than 70% of the original player code. A big part of it is platform independant but we had to adapt the input, sound, save system and rendering modules so that they use our own engine.
The game uses around 20 shaders for special effects (warp, radial blur, tint, glow, etc…), they had to be ported from WebGL/GLSL format to HLSL (that our engine uses).
The player conversion development was first done for PC for speed then we could easily target other platforms given that our engine is multiplatform.

After some optimization, the game was running entirely at 60 FPS on the undocked Switch console in the “High quality” graphic settings preset.

All specific console changes (localization for other languages, Switch multiplayer logic, etc..) and bug fixes were made directly in the ported player code afterwards without reexporting the Construct project once.

When the game starts, everything is loaded in memory just as in original game. Packing and compressing the files for final release reduced the loading time to 8 seconds.

Rumble HD support was added in the game specifically on Switch. The vibrations are linked to the audio events. When a specific sound such as laser or explosion is played, the specific vibration sample of the sound is played on the gamecontroller/joycons at the same time.

Voilà ! Let us know in the comment section if you have any extra questions. Looking forward to you guys playing the game when it releases on 21st December 🙂

Transcripted is releasing on Nintendo Switch on 23rd November ! It’s available now for pre-orders in NOA countries, NOE ones and even in Japan

To celebrate Xbox One X release, Transcripted is getting an update to enjoy your 4K screen to its best! Enjoy the game in 4K native starting today.

Assassin’s Creed and Forza have a new friend.

Soon ! We’re very happy to release Alkemi‘s first game, in partnership with Plug In Digital, on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One starting September 13th!

For $7.99 discover the illegitimate son of Zuma and Geometry Wars – an unique mix of twin stick shooter and match-3.

You can already pre order on Xbox One.

And then before Christmas…

We’re very happy to partner with Stuart Maxwell and Plug In Digital to release Shape of the World to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2018 !

To know more, look at the PlayStation Blog post or Steam page !

As announced last September, we’re happy to let you know that Momonga Pinball is now available on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

If you want to make a flying squirrel bounce through pinball levels, it’s for you! A good little adventure to play together in family for $5.99.

But wait, isn’t that a game from Paladin Studio? From Netherlands? Well yes it is ! We’re teaming up with them and Plug In Digital to release Momonga Pinball on PC & Mac today and later this year on PS4 & Xbox One!

Creating your own game is cool but really exhausting so helping out friends between two productions is great!

So… What is Momonga Pinball?

Momonga is a unique pinball game, where you bounce a flying squirrel through different levels. Enemies, boss fights, exploration – it has all the ingredients of good old action-adventure games, but with flippers!

Available September 16th at 4.99 €/$ for launch week, then 5.99.

After releasing Inside My Radio on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and WiiU, it’s time for us to go back to our first love with Ethan: Meteor Hunter! Back then we had this little indie dream of releasing on Xbox Live Arcade on Xbox 360 but it’s wasn’t possible… Now this is partially fixed with your favorite rat releasing on Xbox One this Friday, July 1st!

Don’t remember what is Ethan: Meteor Hunter about? Your name is Ethan, a rat that got touched by meteorites giving him the power of telekinesis: freezing time and moving objects around him.

Freeze time and manipulate the world with endless possibilities: build the solution YOU want where nothing is scripted and levels can be solved in multiple ways.

Game features 50 levels within 3 different worlds, time attack, secret objects to find to unlock secret levels, real time physics with nothing scripted, tons of challenges… Be part of the 1% by finishing it completely!

Ethan: Meteor Hunter releases Friday 1st July on Xbox One for $9.99 / 9.99€ with a 10% discount only for Gold members.