Shuggy, Magic: The Gathering on XBLA this week
Almost four years after it was a finalist in the inaugural Dream Build Play contest, The Adventures of Shuggy launches on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow. More Magic: The Gathering duelling planeswalkers also arrive this week.
Way back in 2007, Microsoft launched the inaugural Dream Build Play contest for games built with its XNA tools. This week, one of that year's finalists, The Adventures of Shuggy, finally arrives on Xbox Live Arcade.
Shuggy's a gem-collecting platformer with numerous bonus mechanics in certain levels, including rotating the screen, teleporation, and time travel. Over 100 levels are included for your platforming pleasure, plus an online head-to-head mode, a turn-based two-player challenge mode, and two-player co-op levels.
This week is also bringing collectible card game sequel Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 to XBLA. It boasts new decks, challenges, and a multiplayer mode over the original. Magic's also out on PC and PlayStation 3 this week.
Both Shuggy and Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 will cost 800 Microsoft Points ($10) apiece.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Shuggy, Magic: The Gathering on XBLA this week.
Almost four years after it was a finalist in the inaugural Dream Build Play contest, The Adventures of Shuggy launches on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow. More Magic: The Gathering duelling planeswalkers also arrive this week.-
Nice! Looking forward to more M:tG planeswalkers!
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I enjoyed the original Duels of the Planeswalkers too. It was just enough Magic to scratch that itch without going too far. Proper deck-building would be fun but once you're honing virtual decks, you can't be far from returning to cardboard. Dangerous.
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It is dangerous. My wife and I had a "cardboard crack" habit.... it was pretty bad. We now only buy the premium or duel decks. Our habit, documented: http://tinyurl.com/6b639fc
We were ona total hiatus for a while, but my wife just broke down all our old decks yesterday to do a campaign-style M:tG thing we came up with. We talk about that here: http://tinyurl.com/4y6fhh2
But Duels of the Planeswalkers... much safer. As long as we avoid any and all boosters, i think we're good. It's the boosters that really get you. -
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Load times. It was such a hassle changing out cards in your deck when it took 60 seconds to load up the deck editing.
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The higher resolution of the PC version makes it MUCH better for me. This is a game where you read a lot of small text and it's kind of a pain on the console.
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I am probably going to try getting into standard again when the new block comes out. I just back into it the beginning of this year and didn't feel like buying a deck and so instead have been accumulating packs from sealed deck tournaments, which should give me a base from when the new block cycles out Zendikar.
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I'm buying MtG 2012 for Steam. Dahanese and I played it at PAX East and it was a ton of fun. The PC version is very pretty too!
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Yep, and a free mouse pad if you won! (or was it the other way around?) Which we did! They said about 1/3 of the people were winning at the show.
We got lucky though because the monster deck we were fighting got manafucked hardcore
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Whoa. How did I miss this?
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Yay, Shuggy is finally coming out! I remember playing that game when we had it in test years ago and being bummed that we didn't release it before the Activision merger. It's a really fun game.
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