Mommy's Best Games Announces Explosionade

Mommy's Best Games has announced Explosionade, a side-scrolling shooter with a focus on explosions and mechs that cause them.

Explosionade is the game which founder Nathan Fouts mentioned when the company shelved Grapple Buggy earlier this month. Rather than ask for funds in the form of donations, the company is releasing this title to further support the company and its efforts to bring Grapple Buggy to XBLA in the future.

In Explosionade, players control a prototype mech and venture into Horronym Fortress to destroy the infiltrating alien forces. The game has a number of challenge rooms with dynamic cameras, allowing players to see part or all of the action at once. Furthermore, the game can be played with one or two players at once, making this explosionade more potent, indeed.

There will be an online leaderboard system, this time around, and the press release states that the environments will be destructible thanks to the devastating weapons mounted on the mechs. As for how destructible, that is still unknown.

Explosionade is aiming for a release late this month on Xbox Live Indie Games.

Mommy's Best Games was founded in 2007 by Nathan Fouts, an ex-developer at Insomniac Games. The company has since developed two titles, Weapon of Choice and Shoot1UP, both available for Xbox Live Indie Games. Currently, Weapon of Choice is on its way to PC thanks to Blitz1up, and Shoot1UP is on its way to Windows Phone 7. Grapple Buggy, once it launches, will be the company's first XBLA title.

SOURCE: MBG's Blog

Grapple Buggy Paused. New Game Coming Soon

In his blog, Mommy's Best Games head Nathan Fouts stated that its upcoming XBLA title Grapple Buggy would be put on hold until more necessary funding is provided, and by that he meant a new game release coming soon.

Nathan Fouts, creator and lead programmer, director, artist, and so on of Mommy's Best Games claimed that Grapple Buggy, the company's third release, is moving along development-wise. However, prospective publishers have not stepped forward on monetary support, citing continued concerns over the industry and economy for their cold feet.

After looking at the MBG coffers, we decided we needed to take a break and work on something more immediate as way to raise money for continued development of Grapple Buggy.

In order to raise funds for the continued development, Mommy's Best Games will be releasing another game! Although there are no details at this time, it appears that it will be developed fairly quickly and is already moving onto testing phases in its early state for particular code checks.

While no release date has been provided, the official announcement will most likely provide a concrete time for its release. The game will most likely be a title set for Xbox Live Indie Games.

Mommy's Best Games was founded in 2007 but Nathan Fouts, an ex-developer at Insomniac Games. The company has since developed two titles, both for Xbox Live Indie Games. The first is Weapon of Choice, a Contra-like shooter with multiple characters and insane alien creatures to face, complete with an open-ended storyline to mix things up even more. The company's second, smaller release is Shoot1up, a shoot-em-up in which every life is displayed at the same time rather than one at a time, and at a 80 MS price point, it is not asking much for what it provides. Via Blitz1UP, Weapon of Choice is heading to PC.

SOURCE: Mommy's Best Games' Dev log