Platypus Review. If you're a fan of the side-scrolling shoot-'em-ups that were popular in arcades and on video game consoles throughout the '80s and '90s, Platypus will be a real treat.
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This article talks about the Platypus game. For other uses,see Platypus(disambiguation)
Platypus is the name of a horizontal scrolling shooter game createdby Anthony Flack (aka Squashy Software). You play as an antiquatedspacecraft (the last of the F-27 Platypus fleet) attempting todefend planet Mungola from Colossatropolis (which has become soovercrowded that its inhabitants are taking over Mungola for spaceand resources). It goes by a Level-Area structure, with 5 Areas inone Level. You get scores depending on the percent of primarytargets and transport carriers you kill.
The music in both Platypus and Platypus 2 on all platformsexcept iPhone consists of various remixes of Commodore 64 gametunes by various Commodore 64 composers, and performed by variousremixers of Commodore 64 music. They originally appeared on CDsfrom the C64Audio.com label, and were licenced to Idigicon Ltd. byHigh Technology Publishing Ltd., the current publishers for allcomposers whose music appeared in the game except Jonathan Dunn whois represented by Bucks Music Publishing Ltd. (and who at the timewas unpublished). Where possible, full credits appeared in thedistributions, albeit in text file form.
Claymation
All the artwork for the game is created using a process calledClaymation. Anthony Flack has stated thatdue to limited availability of Plasticine in his home country of NewZealand at the time the game was created, he re-used the same lumpof gray plasticine to create all the models, photographed them witha digital camera, and added color to the digital images on AdobePhotoshop.
PSPRelease
On March 26, 2009, Platypus saw a re-release for Sony's PlayStation Portable console,available for download on the Playstation Network.[1] Thegame functions the same as its full PC downloadable version, butwith minor changes for the PSP version, like the new screensize.
Xboxrelease
On November 24, 2009, Platypus was released on Xbox Live IndieGames.
See also
- Clayanimation (Claymation)
References
- ^'Platypus :: PSP GameReview'. Kidzworld. http://www.kidzworld.com/article/16918-platypus-psp-game-review. Retrieved2009-04-01.
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Externallinks
- Gamespot Review
- Anthony Flack's follow up to Platypus, Cletus Clay, is now in development with Tuna