Holy awesome! Splosion Man was nominated by IGN for FIVE "Best of E3" awards:
- Best Overall Platforming Game
- Best Overall Downloadable Game
- Best Xbox 360 Platforming Game
- Best Xbox 360 Downloadable Game
- Best Xbox 360 Artistic Design
Josh Bear and Michael Wilford fly out to LA today to record a segment for X-Play. They will be showing off Splosion Man for anyone who missed it at E3. The episode will air on Monday, June 15th at 6:30pm and 8:00pm.
Check out the show to see some exclusive gameplay footage from the game. The game is chock full of so much hilarity that we're not sure you can handle it!
Splosion Man will be playable at the Microsoft booth at E3. CEO Michael Wilford will be there too, so come say hello. This is the first time the public has gotten a real good look at the game so we're really looking forward to seeing everyone's reactions to this off the wall mayhem!
Microsoft announced today that Splosion Man will be a part of their lineup of premiere Summer of Arcade titles! That means we're almost done! =)
It's time. Time to pull back the curtain a little and show what Splosion Man will look like. Here's the first teaser trailer showing actual gameplay.
Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress and the game will ultimately look much better than this.
Check out the teaser trailer in small or
large, and screenshots below.
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Today, Wednesday, April 29th, The Maw sees the release of his final piece of downloadable content called Speeder Lane. It features a new
vehicle that Frank can tear around and blow stuff up with. As always, Maw scurries along by Frank's side, gobbling his way into mischief.
Fight a new boss battle and earn 20 achievement points! Download it now on
Xbox 360,
Steam,
Greenhouse, or
Direct2Drive for just $1.25.
Download the hi-def trailer here.
In the spirit of April Fool's Day, we made a tongue-in-cheek announcement yesterday for our next title called Splosion Man. Today,
we are proud to announce that we weren't kidding. Splosion Man, a lab experiement gone wrong and made out of pure splosion, is real.
The game will be a 2.5D action/platformer based around the simple concept of splosions and the ridiculousness that ensues, including
up to 4 player co-op (local and online), a single-player story mode chock full of hilarious cinemas seamlessly integrated into gameplay,
epic boss battles, and it's coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade.
Download the April Fool's press release.
Download the April 2nd press release.
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Today, Wednesday, March 11th, Frank is blocked by a raging river and must use Maw's various powers to
solve the intricate puzzle in the second of three DLC levels called "Brute Force". You can
download it now on your Xbox 360 for just 100 MS points, complete with a new 15 point achievement.
There's one more level coming after this!
Download the hi-def trailer here.
As of today you can play The Maw on PC via the following awesome partners:
Steam
Greenhouse
Direct2Drive
You can also find our DLC on these sites. Steam and Greenhouse just added support for DLC and
The Maw is the first game to try it out.
Today, Wednesday, February 18th, The Maw faces off against the new Brute Bounty Hunter
Soldiers in the first of three DLC levels called "Brute Force". You can
download it now on your Xbox 360 for just 100 MS points, complete with a new 15 point
achievement. We're working on two more levels, so stay tuned!
Download the hi-def trailer here.
To celebrate, we made a before-and-after picture of what the Brute Force level looked
like early in its creation versus in the final version. It's amazing what some shaders
and lighting can do to spruce up a scene.
Check us out on X-Play this Friday! Josh Bear and Michael Wilford will demo level 3 "Chaindown" of
The Maw for Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb. It airs this Friday, January 16th at 8pm Eastern time.
Last year, X-Play ran a special on all the PAX 10 finalists and they sent a producer to our studio.
It was fun. This time we're flying out to LA to make fools of ourselves.
Wish us luck!
At long last, The Maw has its release date and price point. Next Wednesday, January 21st, you
will be able to buy the game for only 800 MS Points, or $10 in USD. We worked very hard to
make the best game we could for 800 points and 150 megabytes.
We started development on October 1 2007, so this is a long time coming for us. We can only hope
that it does well enough that we get to keep making more games for you! After you try it, please
email us to let us know what you think we
could do better next time!
Read the press release here (PDF)
It was announced this morning that The Maw is one of the finalists in the Independent Game Summit (IGF)!
We don't know what to say... this is totally MAWESOME!
Happy Mawlidays everyone! The site has been temporarily redecorated for the occasion.
Check out the cards we sent out this year - Brian Crecente at Kotaku got one and
posted it here.
Last year we had Bruce Willis on the back. Often times our families find our sense
of humor confusing, but to us it makes perfect sense. Die Hard is the ultimate Christmas movie!
...oh and we promise, The Maw is coming to XBLA soon! =)
As of November 1, we are fully operational in our new home studio in Austin, Texas. Every single employee made the move with us, so we're still going strong... stronger, even, because one of the main reasons for the move was to find a bigger talent pool we could draw from. Twisted Pixel is growing to handle a new round of projects, so if you've got skills and would like to work with a tight-knit squad of experienced developers making award-winning titles, drop us a line at Jobs@TwistedPixelGames.com!
During PAX we held a raffle where the winner would take home an extremely limited edition
(only 20 were made) "Mawquette" statue. Well, the winner let us know that she is very happy
with her new Maw pal to look over things from the mantle place.
Get a closer look here.
Seattle, Wash., September 22, 2008 - The votes are in! The organizers of The PAX 10 today
announced Twisted Pixel's The Maw as winner of the 2008 Audience Choice award. The PAX 10,
a showcase of ten independently developed games, were selected by a panel of 50 industry
experts out of over 80 submissions as the best in terms of gameplay and "fun factor."
Official Press Release (PDF)
Kotaku Story
As part of a special episode that covered all of the PAX 10 games, G4 TV came out to
visit us at our studio in Indiana. We went nuts and gave them a lot of wacky footage
that they put to good use.
Check out our segment here.
MADISON, IN - July 9, 2008 - Twisted Pixel's first original game, The Maw for Xbox Live Arcade,
has been selected as one of the official PAX 10 entries at this year's Penny Arcade Expo!
Check out the trailer at The Maw website here.
Download The Maw trailer here (27MB .wmv)
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MADISON, IN - June 24, 2008 - Twisted Pixel Games has announced today that The Maw, the
company's first Xbox LIVE® Arcade game, will feature an all-original, interactive
soundtrack by Interactive Achievement Award-winning composer Winifred Phillips.
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MADISON, IN - June 11, 2008 - Twisted Pixel Games, an independent studio focused on producing top flight
original titles for digital distribution on consoles, announced today that their first original title,
The Maw, is in development for Xbox LIVE® Arcade.
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MADISON, IN - Twisted Pixel Games, LLC announced today that it has several original IP projects under development for console digital distribution. Dedicated to raising consumers' expectations from downloadable game content, Twisted Pixel is choosing its technology and content partners carefully in order to maximize both the quality and quantity of its content for current digital distribution platforms. Read more here (PDF)
Check out the official website here.
Twisted Pixel is proud to be a part of the engineering team that brought this exciting title to the
Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Midway Games has announced that they are working
on the next installment of the BLITZ franchise.
Check it out here.
There isn't much that can be said about the game right now, but Twisted Pixel is proud
to be part of the engineering team on this exciting title.