Yuji Naka Making Games For Windows Phones

By Spencer . December 7, 2009 . 5:39pm

Yuji Naka Making Games For Windows Phones

We covered Naoto Ohshima. What about his fellow co-woker, Yuji Naka? After porting Let’s Tap to iPhones, Prope started working on a game for Windows phones.

 

His next game is called Ivy the Kiwi? and it’s sort of like Kirby: Canvas Curse. Players draw lines to create springy vines to guide a kiwi looking for her mother to a goal. See, you can’t directly control the kiwi, Ivy walks on her own. The storybook aesthetic is sharp and slingshotting the kiwi has potential for unique level design.

 

But, seriously Windows phones? Wouldn’t Ivy the Kiwi? be better positioned as a DSiWare download or an iPhone game?

 


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  • Mazen

    Windows phones have much much more users base now than Iphone.

  • http://doujingamer.blogspot.com/ doujingamer

    I wonder if there's any chance of these games being released as collections for the PC or on XBLA somewhere down the line since they are all on the same OS for the most part.

  • MadMirko

    At the very least one can actually buy Windows phone games outside Japan. That's something.

  • MadMirko

    360 is probably not in the cards, if Ivy the Kiwi is anything like Kirby:CC. Without a touchscreen you couldn't draw fast enough. Mouse could work, though.

  • Mazen

    Windows phones have much much more users base now than Iphone.

  • http://doujingamer.blogspot.com/ doujingamer

    I wonder if there's any chance of these games being released as collections for the PC or on XBLA somewhere down the line since they are all on the same OS for the most part.

  • MadMirko

    At the very least one can actually buy Windows phone games outside Japan. That's something.

  • MadMirko

    360 is probably not in the cards, if Ivy the Kiwi is anything like Kirby:CC. Without a touchscreen you couldn't draw fast enough. Mouse could work, though.

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