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MechAssault developer tells all

MechAssaultAs we've talked about before, MechAssault: Phantom War is DS bound. It looked great on paper when it was announced months ago and it now appears to be coming along very, very nicely right in the middle of its development cycle. How do we know it's coming along so well? Because the developer has just launched a 6-part development diary via IGN.

"I'll be filling you in on all of the fun, unusual and sometimes gory details of what it was like to make this game at good old Backbone Entertainment in Emeryville, California," says game producer Sara Guinness.

What's nice about this particular developer diary is that you can tell the producers wrote it versus some shill from marketing. In fact, the series seems to be less about the new MechAssault game and more about the difficulties and opportunities in developing a full 3D game on the Nintendo DS. It makes for fun, informative reading.

Check out entry #1 in the MechAssault DS Development Diary (say that a bunch of times real fast) at IGN.

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1. Nice, It does seem like a lot of work to fit games on the ds, but hopefully with the bigger cart size, you guys can optimize the game enough to stream effectively.

Posted at 4:20AM on Jun 19th 2006 by Pit

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