Games for Windows + Arsecast

Posted by cactus on April 8, 2007, 7:03 p.m.

Clean Asia! was in another gaming magazine. This time an american one, called "Games for Windows" and I managed to pirate a copy :D

I was also recently featured on Arsecast, a nice and quite famous little podcast about independent games. The host used his witty humour to make fun of most of the games he mentioned, one of the few exception was CA! which he seemed to like a lot. This was quite pleasant and unexpected.

You can listen to it on http://www.arsecast.com/, they start mentioning the Shmup-Dev games at around 11:00 and get to Clean Asia! around 12:45. For those who don't want to download the huge file (which I definitely think is worth both the listen and download), I transcribed some of the good bits:

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Considering this is a bit of a bullet hell game, and that the graphics are abstract neon lines, I'm surprised at just how much I'm enjoying it. I mean I'm not any good at it by any means, I've only just beaten the first level, but I've been enjoying banging my head against the difficulty level because the game feeds back to you so well. The only real faults are that sometimes enemy bullets are obscured by your own pyrotechnics but is not a deal breaker by any means because of how great the rest of the package is.

This is one of those rare games that are so addictive that you're actually annoyed about how long it takes to say "Game Over", because you just want to start a new game as soon as possible, I can't recommend it enough.

I'm really glad about all of this, but I kinda feel it's putting more pressure on me… Hopefully, that is a good thing :P

(Clean Asia! download available on my site: http://www.cactus-soft.co.nr/)

Comments

FireflyX 17 years, 8 months ago

a bit of pressure can be healthy

Polystyrene Man 17 years, 8 months ago

Heh, what kind of controlled substances are you on?

I'd say the magazine had a good description.

cactus 17 years, 8 months ago

Yeah, the description is pretty funny, but they don't even explain of what genre the game is, nor do they link to my site or mention who made it,

But, I'm not complaining… Oh, and I don't do drugs ;)

FredFredrickson 17 years, 8 months ago

Hehe, I just got GFW in the mail, and I saw this in there! Nice work man, hope you can keep it up, hehe. [:D]

Polystyrene Man 17 years, 8 months ago

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nor do they link to my site or mention who made it,
Huh? What kind of review is that?

cactus 17 years, 8 months ago

Thanks, Fred! I sure hope so too :S

Yeah, well, they did say that you could download the game on filefront.com, but their download might be outdated. Either way, I don't really care. The download on their server has only gotten about 22 hits or so, so I guess that either the article didn't attract any of the readers, or they just googled "Clean Asia!" instead.

Rez 17 years, 8 months ago

Congrats man. Its pretty amazing to be noticed like that.

IdiotProof 17 years, 8 months ago

Nice! I wish one of my games would get into a magazine.

E-Magination 17 years, 8 months ago

Vector graphics? Yeah, sure.

shawn 17 years, 8 months ago

You're just jealous >_>