It’s the 28th of the 8th of 2008, and it should not be surprising that, on so auspiciously numbered a date, destiny should draw events together to create a vortex of neato: Kenichi Nishi reports on his blog – following some anxious entries over the past couple of days – that at last, Newtonica is available for iPhone owners to buy, and what do you know, it just so happens that today is the release date for Captain Rainbow, the new and wonderful game from Skip, the company Nishi founded.
It’s not world peace, but one can’t help but feel that if God hasn’t smiled on indie gaming today, he has at least absent-mindedly flicked a booger at it.
And you know what else? I’m going to a YMCK show tonight! And one of the support acts is Sexy Synthesizer! And, I didn’t sleep at all last night, because I was busy making 2D sprites for a game. See how I lick your boogers, O Lord. They are rolling hills of candy to this unworthy mortal.
Holy obnoxious-fucking-smiley on a stick – it's a new episode of Rose and Camellia! And not just any episode! It's the goddamn penultimate instalment. That means that after this one, and the next one, and maybe an epilogue, there will be no more!
This was submitted by Eegra-friend Rebecca Clements, who writes:
“I was reading this magazine last night to see what lifestyle magazines were like these days. This one was PUN-tastic! Every single headline had to involve some buzzword, or some kind of pun. Or something they thought was a pun. It didn’t matter if it was clever or funny or not, just USE them because that’s what journalism is.”
That means news about Newtonica – get it? Pretty clever, right?
Pretty clever.
Newtonica, as you may remember, is the new game from Route 24, aka Kenichi Nishi, formerly of Skip and Lovedelic, and designer of Chibi-Robo, Archime-DS/LOL/Bakushow, and so on. Newtonica is made for the iPhone, and will be released worldwide very, very soon. Even Kenichi doesn’t know when, but the game went ‘gold’ recently, and has been submitted to Apple for approval, or whatever it is that you do, so it shouldn’t be long now.
I was going to interview Kenichi about the game, but a website called Core Gamers beat me to the punch with an interview of their own, which is fine by me because they asked all the questions I would have asked, and got better answers than I would have because my Japanese is so awful. Thanks, Core Gamers!
The interview reveals some interesting facts about Newtonica – for example, that the background music was composed by none other than Kenji Eno (Kenichi’s good friend), and the game itself was inspired by an iPhone wallpaper that Eno designed. So those of you waiting for Kenji Eno’s big comeback – well, maybe this little comeback will do for now.
I’ll be meeting with Kenichi sometime this week for a proper look at Newtonica, and I intend to get VIDEO FOOTAGE of the game in action, so stay tuned for that! (Also stay tuned for the second half of my months-old interview with Kenichi which I swear to christ I’m in the process of transcribing.)
This one here, I mean. Not only is the author a funny and insightful writer, he also likes to kicktheshit out of sub-standard games journalism — kindoflikewedo. As far as I'm concerned, that's enough to make us Official Internet Besties, and nothing he can say or do will change my mind.
Holy obnoxious-fucking-smiley on a stick – it's a new episode of 
