Title: Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Puzzle Platformer
Players: 1 or 2 (local co-op)
Rating: E10+ (Mild Violence)
Launch Date: June 2015
Publisher/Developer: E-Line Media / Upper One Games
URL: http://neveralonegame.comOn over 50 “Best of 2014” lists, from Eurogamer to Kotaku, from the L.A. Times to the New Yorker. Nominated for awards from DICE, GDC, SXSW, BAFTA, Games for Change, IndieCade, and more. The whole world has discovered and fallen in love with Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) — the first game developed in collaboration with the Iñupiat, an Alaska Native people. Nearly 40 Alaska Native elders, storytellers and community members contributed to the development of the game. Play as a young Iñupiat girl and an arctic fox as they set out to find the source of the eternal blizzard which threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.
Guide both characters in single-player mode or play cooperatively with a friend or family member as you trek through frozen tundra, leap across treacherous ice floes, swim through underwater ice caverns, and face numerous enemies both strange and familiar in the journey to save the girl’s village.
In this atmospheric puzzle platformer, you will explore awe-inspiring environments, perform heroic deeds, and meet legendary characters from Iñupiaq stories — all narrated by a master storyteller in the spoken Iñupiaq language.
Key Features:
• Local co-op puzzle platforming with two characters (Nuna and Fox) that play in unique ways:
o Fox scrambles up (and jumps back from) sheer vertical walls, and reveals the world of Helping Spirits
o Nuna can move heavy objects, climb ladders, and throw her bola to solve puzzles
• Gameplay is narrated by an Iñupiat elder in the spoken Iñupiaq language
• Over 30 minutes of video interviews with elders, storytellers, and other members of the Alaska Native communityWii U specific features:
• All new Cultural Insights: In addition to the documentary-quality video interviews, the Wii U version features all new “Contextual Insights” — fascinating detail about the history, culture, and lives of the Iñupiaq people, presented on the Gamepad during the player’s journey
• Off-TV play for gameplay and Cultural Insights
• Over 40 unlockable stamps for Miiverse
Don’t Starve: Giant Edition is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic.
You play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of this strange land.
Wii U Specifics
• Platform: Nintendo eShop/Wii U
• Genre: Survival, Action Adventure
• Rating: Teen (Crude Humor, Fantasy Violence)
• Launch Date: Spring 2015
• Developer: Klei Entertainment
• WiiU Specific Features:
o Enjoy Off-TV Mode!
o Use companion map via the Wii U GamePad to navigate around the world
• “Reign of Giants” DLC available at launchUncompromising Survival Mode
• No instructions, no tutorials, no handholding
• Start with nothing and prove your mettle against a hostile world
• Permadeath keeps you on your toesDeep, Systems-based Gameplay
• Fight, farm, craft, scavenge – do anything you can in order to survive
• Experiment with and exploit seasons, propagation, hunger, sanity, monster AI, and more
• Unlock additional characters with strange new powers!Unrelentingly Hard Story Mode
• Discover the dark secrets of the Don’t Starve world
• You will die! Again and again and again! And you will like it!Randomly Generated Worlds
• Play a different game each time
• Includes an expansive over world with multiple biomes and dangerous, subterranean ruinsDark and Whimsical Visuals
• Meticulously animated 2D characters inhabiting a 3D world
• Thousands of lines of player-character descriptions add flavour to the world
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• Single Player Gameplay
Game title: Affordable Space Adventures
Publisher: KnapNok Games
Release date: April 9th, 2015
Platform: Wii U™ / Nintendo eShop
Players: 1-3 playersGame description:
Affordable Space Adventures is a 2.5D side scrolling spaceship simulator. You are using the Wii U™ GamePad as a “Heads Down Display” – spaceship cockpit, and you have to configure all the systems in order to fly around undetected on an alien planet. You can either pilot the Small Craft TM solo, or fly as a crew of 2 to 3 players, requiring a lot of communication between the players.Features
– Suspenseful stealth puzzling: How do you configure and control the system so you don’t get seen, heard or otherwise detected?
– Experience thrills, spookiness and beautiful areas of the world crafted and designed by Swedish indie game developer “Nifflas”.
– Two difficulty levels going from family friendly to extremely complex.
– Play with your friends and control the ship together or take on the challenge alone.
– A game that truly utilizes the potential of the Wii U hardware.History
Affordable Space Adventures is collaboration between Nicklas “Nifflas” Nygren (Knytt Underground, Nightsky) and KnapNok Games (Spin the Bottle: Bumpie’s Party). We are merging Nifflas’ passion for making atmospheric exploration and mind-bending puzzles with KnapNok Games’ dedication to work with weird new interfaces and an eye for what is happening in front of the TV.
We shared this as part of the Nintendo press release published today, but I figured it was worth a post of its own. There’s news about even more games for the Wii U eShop – notably Octodad and Shantae: Risky’s Revenge (also coming to 3DS). Affordable Space Adventures and Trine 1 also have release dates, which is something I know you guys have been interested in!
A new press release sent out by Nintendo today reveals new titles coming to the eShop, including one notable localization from the company itself.
BOXBOY!, a puzzle platformer released in conjunction with the latest Nintendo Direct, is coming to North America. The game is due out this spring.
New indie games for Wii U have been revealed, including Don’t Star: Giant Edition, Never Alone, and more.
Head past the break for today’s official announcement with plenty of additional information.
