wraggster
May 17th, 2013, 00:04
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Deep Silver (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/deep-silver) will publish an upcoming gesture-based racing game for Kinect called Freefall Racers. The first breadcrumb in this trail comes from an Australian rating (http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?sid=ktuK3Q%252f2QcfYHeXPBc6J7Q%253d%253d&ncdctx=GsSXRyRdlMKxfsSXybcacyD%252f%2bfCoWxIAgqp83 IFWjn1qawLmVA0tWHsHBG9lWpXU) that has surfaced, outing Deep Silver as publisher.
The developer is Smoking Gun Interactive, whose most recent (http://www.smokingguninc.com/products/recent-releases/) work includes two Kinect experiences, Mars Rover Landing (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/17/get-your-kinect-to-mars/) and Home Run Stars, so a new Kinect project would make sense. The Vancouver-based studio at least partly funded Freefall Racers with help from the Canadian government, as evidenced by the $461,243 contributed through the Canada Media Fund (http://www.cmf-fmc.ca/documents/files/funded/2011-12/results/2011-12-q4-funding-results.pdf) (PDF) last year.
Our first glimpse of the game is courtesy of environmental artist Anthony Leonati, who published six screens from Freefall Racers on his personal website. [Update: The images have been pulled from Leonati's website.] In addition to the screens, he also pegs Freefall Racers for Xbox Live Arcade, though his LinkedIn profile indicates he has since moved on from Smoking Gun to become a senior environment artist at EA.
We've followed up with Deep Silver and Smoking Gun Interactive for comment and will update this post accordingly.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/16/rumor-freefall-racers-for-kinect-being-published-by-deep-silver/
Deep Silver (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/deep-silver) will publish an upcoming gesture-based racing game for Kinect called Freefall Racers. The first breadcrumb in this trail comes from an Australian rating (http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?sid=ktuK3Q%252f2QcfYHeXPBc6J7Q%253d%253d&ncdctx=GsSXRyRdlMKxfsSXybcacyD%252f%2bfCoWxIAgqp83 IFWjn1qawLmVA0tWHsHBG9lWpXU) that has surfaced, outing Deep Silver as publisher.
The developer is Smoking Gun Interactive, whose most recent (http://www.smokingguninc.com/products/recent-releases/) work includes two Kinect experiences, Mars Rover Landing (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/17/get-your-kinect-to-mars/) and Home Run Stars, so a new Kinect project would make sense. The Vancouver-based studio at least partly funded Freefall Racers with help from the Canadian government, as evidenced by the $461,243 contributed through the Canada Media Fund (http://www.cmf-fmc.ca/documents/files/funded/2011-12/results/2011-12-q4-funding-results.pdf) (PDF) last year.
Our first glimpse of the game is courtesy of environmental artist Anthony Leonati, who published six screens from Freefall Racers on his personal website. [Update: The images have been pulled from Leonati's website.] In addition to the screens, he also pegs Freefall Racers for Xbox Live Arcade, though his LinkedIn profile indicates he has since moved on from Smoking Gun to become a senior environment artist at EA.
We've followed up with Deep Silver and Smoking Gun Interactive for comment and will update this post accordingly.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/16/rumor-freefall-racers-for-kinect-being-published-by-deep-silver/