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Mizuguchi on Lumines 2 News

PSP News by Tom Bramwell

7 September, 2005

Q Entertainment has been trying out various ideas for a sequel to PSP puzzle game Lumines, according to creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi, who made the remarks during a live IRC chat this afternoon.

"We haven't announced about Lumines 2 yet," he said through a translator, "but we've been trying out many things for Lumines 2... Well... Sorry... I cannot tell you more than that at this point."

Mizuguchi had been addressing fans following the release of Lumines on PSP through European distributor Ubisoft, and somebody inevitably asked about a sequel.

On the subject of the current Lumines, Mizuguchi addressed the issue of why the maximum score is 999,999, admitting he simply didn't expect people to top it out very quickly. "Maybe I should change the MAX to 999,999,999 for the next Lumines," he mused. "Anyways... the reason for 999,999 is I was thinking how long PSP battery would last. I thought it would last about two hours... so I kinda calculated from it, then I decided to pick 999,999 =)".

As for Mizuguchi's top score? "999,999, of course!"

There was also lots of general chat about his favourite skins ("Shini' and Lights"), the inspiration for some of them, how he comes up with ideas, and his other work.

You can find a full transcript of the chat on the gamepaused blog.

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ecureuil
07/09/05 @ 15:21
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Rez 2 plz.
AssassiN
07/09/05 @ 15:26
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He can't as Sega owns the copyright to it and he no longer works there
speedjack
07/09/05 @ 15:28
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I was just thinking how good Rez would be on the PSP.

Better still if you could use your own MP3s off the memory stick and the visuals were generated based of that.

(I think Jeff Minter tried something similar with Unity - but sadly that got canned).
onyxbox
07/09/05 @ 16:07
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Just make a new puzzler with a new name and a new concept.

Chavs only buy games with numbers on the end, they don't do original, it blows their mind. They have to buy things that are already commercially successful so buying something that doesn't have a number is too risky for them.


Cloudane
07/09/05 @ 16:07
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Make the puzzle 'lights' interact with the music, ala Rez.
Darkedge
07/09/05 @ 16:18
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REZ 2 (with a different name) or Sega just pay him to make it :D

Imagine 360 Rez 2 *drools and wets self*
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Burton2000
07/09/05 @ 16:20
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lol 2 hours batery life clearly he wasnt informed of anything by sony
sephy
07/09/05 @ 16:45
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Sega just pay him to make it
wouldnt be first or last time Sega got an outside developer to make them a game. It's happened recently with Gunster heroes
captain-future
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"Anyways... the reason for 999,999 is I was thinking how long PSP battery would last. I thought it would last about two hours... so I kinda calculated from it, then I decided to pick 999,999 =)".

Somehow instantly I like the humour of this guy.
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ZOMG!
Bangaioh
08/09/05 @ 15:39
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Totally agree with Fluff...
More original content or at least less sequels.
I want a PSP Kurushi.

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