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Mixed Messages on Euro DSi Shop News
DS News by Tom Bramwell
Two weeks after the first infusion, Nintendo has updated the DSi Shop with a new DSiWare game, Activision's Mixed Messages.
Available for 500 DSi Points (GBP 4.50), it's a multiplayer game for between two and 21 players, who takes turns drawing and writing on the screen and then passing the DS to the next player.
The idea is that the first player writes a short sentence, and the second player draws a picture that's supposed to represent it.
The third player, armed only with the second player's picture, then tries to work out what the original sentence was and write it down, before the fourth player uses the third's sentence to draw a picture. And on and on it goes.
The game's been developed by Vicarious Visions, and is the first third-party game on the DSi Shop. "What started out as a little tinkering and game design idea quickly turned into a huge time sink, as people started playing it all the time," VV's CEO Karthik Bala told IGN recently.
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Comments: 1-14 of 14 in total
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dubdivision
17/04/09 @ 08:17
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Sounds like a bargain - saves you paper and ink I suppose.
Maybe it's a game with "green" credentials (save the planet) |
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Agent_Llama
17/04/09 @ 08:19
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Yes, but some bits of paper and some pencils don't cost you £150...
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Ignatius_Cheese
17/04/09 @ 08:27
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It doesn't support online play!? Bollocks to that! What's the fun in playing Chinese Whispers with people next to you...
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GamesProgrammer
17/04/09 @ 08:29
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This really should be minimum 3 player surely.
Great idea for a party game, think ill pirate it with some pen and paper tho :P |
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Does anyone around here have experience with a US imported DSi (so using a US DSi within Europe)? Am planning to get one in the States next month but am wondering whether the US DSi store will work with European credit cards (don't really like buying those pre-paid cards. In fact I really, really hate those annoying point schemes but it seems like there's no escaping anymore :( ).
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GamesProgrammer
17/04/09 @ 10:37
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@les pretty sure DSI is region locked so i would imagine the payment systems are too.
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Ninja_Tino
17/04/09 @ 10:42
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Haha. Between 2 and 21? Let's just imagine how a 2 player game would play out. Yeah, it doesn't really work.
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Pac-man ate my wife
17/04/09 @ 11:22
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You only need one DSi, you pass it around.
And there's a great version online: http://www.brokenpicturetelephone.com |
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