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Weekend, June 24-26, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Gamers win Xbox release
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Game developed by Londoners to premiere this August as Xbox Live indie title Resembles Atari Space Invaders, but with dragons KYLE REA
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Stratford native Justin Bieber attends the Justin Bieber fragrance launch at Macy’s Herald Square last Thursday in New York City. JAMIE MCCARTHY/GETTY IMAGES
Fan tizzy at fragrance launch New York police say a 47-year-old man was issued a summons for disorderly conduct at the launch. Police say the 17-year-old singer was not injured. They did not release the man’s name.
It’s something you wouldn’t think would pair well together in a video game: Dragons versus spaceships. How would they fight each other? And why? But that’s exactly what a group of London game developers did with their soon-to-be-released title, called — not surprisingly — Dragons vs. Spaceships. Players take on the role of the dragons of Dragonia as they try to repel an invasion by evil spaceships set on destroying their world. The game was developed by Game Production Studios: eight Forest City programmers and friends who get together to make games in their spare time. “We would like to make this a company that we can all quit our jobs and do full time. For now, we’re going to keep making games
until we can find that hit,” said Chris Brosseau. How did they come up with the concept for Dragons vs. Spaceships? Brosseau said it all started in 2008 when he and some friends were at Fanshawe College, studying to be programmer analysts. A project was coming up and they
needed an idea. They weren’t very good at doing character models and the only ones they could find were spaceship and dragon models. Last fall, they decided to revisit the game and make it better, in hopes someone would take notice. Earlier this month, Dragons vs. Spaceships was entered in the Dream, Build, Play contest sponsored by Microsoft World. The grand prize is $40,000, but even if the local lads don’t take home top spot, finishing in the top 20 could make their dreams come true. “There’s a chance that Microsoft would look at us, ask us to keep working on it and then release it as an arcade game.”
Digital dragons Developers plan to work on a game for the Windows 7 phone in the future.