When I met with OneBigGame charity co-founder Martin de Ronde, formerly of Guerrilla Games, the last project I expected him to announce was an adventure game based on Minesweeper.
Yes, Minesweeper, the point 'n click freeware game bundled with your copy of Windows.
Minesweeper is currently in development at Revolution Software by adventure mastermind Charles Cecil, who previously developed the Broken Sword series and collaborated with Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons on Beneath A Steel Sky (recently released on iPhone).
"He's [Cecil] come up with a back story for as to why the mines are there, he's come up with characters," laughed de Ronde. "It's turning out to be a really, really cool game in terms of mechanics and also in terms of the setting and the universe..."
Who knows how this will turn out, but the concept alone is insane enough for me to sign up.
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e_r
Have you not seen this? Due for release under Blitz's publishing label shortly...
http://www.molecontrolgame.c om
http://www.blitzarcade.com/n ews/
GaToL0c0
Ok now.......who here is going to the midnight release party??
Phewsie
I did something similar for my Ph.D. on emotionally adaptive computer games!
Have a look...
http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=j3RtCDi3sXs
twoshoeeddie
Better be called Minesweeper II and not Minesweeper: The Revenge or The Return or Redux or Minesweeper: Night of the Revenge of the Return Redux. Actually I like that one.
qulqu_nick
wow, this is just about as convoluted an idea as katamari was. so what we are in a mine disposal company or something? it reminds me of that one advert i say in a movie about a minesweeper movie,
Insipidus7
Minesweeper the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
Priceless.
SonicSpeed10X
Are you serious
TheTrueGh243894
Someone call Satan, tell him to fix the heater
whitey112491
i don;t know whether to be psyched or be scared
darkpheonixcreations
that is all that is awesome!
SWATMASTER66
WOW
Ryker7
I'm just waiting to see the big ol' yellow smiley face sporting the awesome black shades when I beat the game.
drenalous
wait, wut?
Spybreak
Well jewel matching worked for Puzzle Quest so I could see how this might work out.
z26mb4027
about time.... I've been waiting for this game!
collinE
this is terrible, I was planning on doing a minesweeper adventure game for the iphone. There goes my originality.
Johnbegood
I would only play it if I was bored and had nothing better to play... Just like regular minesweeper.
blindsideofthesun
Wonder if they got their idea from that fake "trailer" that came out for "Minesweeper: the Movie". Could have a pretty jacked up/dramatic real life setting thogh, like war torn areas of the world where thousands of mines are left lying around for children and commoners to be crippled by, and it's up to an intrepid team of brave souls to clear out field after field before the "freedom fighters" come through again to kill/recruit anyone who happens to be standing around. There, I called it...
DefShieldDwn
epic win i cant wait :3
RedRingsOfDeath
Will the cheat code "xyzzy" still work in figuring out where the mines are? lol
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