No, seriously, Clover is coming soon

by Jason Dobson { Apr 19th 2009 at 11:00PM }

If you've been holding it in for fear of missing out on Clover's Community Game debut, do us all a favor and take a bathroom break. The artsy platformer's imminent debut was held back recently by what Binary Tweed's Daniel "Deejay" Jones describes as a pair of "performance bugs," one of which saw load times crawl along for nearly a minute and a half. Oy vey!

According to the managing director, the issues have since been fixed, and the team is currently making some "last-minute emergency sound fixes" in the road up to the game's "peer review" on Wednesday. Jones recently told Joystiq of his high hopes for the game, and assuming all goes well players will able to judge for themselves when Clover puzzles the marketplace this Friday.

Tags: binary-tweed, clover, community-games

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

orennaveda @ Apr 19th 2009 11:08PM

I rarely if ever buy XBLA games, especially Community Games, but this looks like it'll be an exception.

Demon G Sides @ Apr 20th 2009 12:07AM

This game looks like crap =\ What's the appeal?

Paul @ Apr 20th 2009 9:46AM

i actually agree with you. i don't see why this is even worth a story. and of course all of the tools on here just give you a thumbs down but don't say why or even why we should care about this game.

ittybittygirl @ Apr 20th 2009 10:33AM

Why should we care about any game? What is the appeal of Shooter A, RPG 3, Puzzlez, and Jumping ManGuySquirrel?

Furthermore, why the hell does Joystiq/Joystiq Xbox post about any game? They should just set up a massive web portal where every individual member can have the content they select streamed to their own personal page.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/13/a-poor-mans-braid-clover-on-xbox-live/

While every other XNA game takes existing games and repackages them in uglier derivative packages, Clover at least seems to be injecting some originality and personality into the mix. I think it's worth at least recognizing a small XNA developer actually trying something for once, instead of just publishing whatever shite Visual Studio spits out to take their share of the $2.50n pie.