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Earl the Frog [X360 – Cancelled]

monokoma
24-03-2009
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Earl the Frog (later called “Max the Frog”) was an Xbox Live Arcade puzzle / action game that was in development in 2007 at Gamesmith. After a few months of thinking the team decided to go for a very easy and user-friendly gameplay.

The scenario came out of thinking about how to get into the female target-group. They thought about a princess.. and what does every princess need? A frog. And what does a frog need to do? Eeat of course. So they created the first concept for the game, in which a frog had to tidy up the place from flies to being able to survive until his princess finds him one day.

Around 1500 working hours of discussion, design & programming went into the project before its cancellation, as Microsoft was not interested to release it on XBLA. If you have access to an XNA Creators club membership, you can donwload a demo of Max The Frog from here, to play Max The Frog on your XBOX 360!

Thanks to Marc Bosch for the contribution!

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Microsoft, Playstation 3 (PS3), Sony, Xbox 360

Time Splitters 4 [Cancelled – Xbox 360 / PS3]

monokoma
24-03-2009
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Time Splitters 4 was the fourth installment of the FPS series developed by Free Radical Design. Sadly Free Radical “shut down” on December 18 2008. It was later confirmed that the company had gone into administration, leaving 40 of the original 185 staff still employed, but the future of Time Splitters 4 has become uncertain and maybe it will never be finished and released. The studio was bought by Crytek, the developers behind the Crysis series and Free Radical have changed their name to Crytek UK. It’s currently unknow if TS4 could ever be finished and released by Crytek. [Infos from Wikipedia]

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Vexx (Clip & Mischief) [XBOX/PS2/GC – Concepts]

monokoma
20-03-2009
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Vexx is a game developed by Acclaim for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube and released in 2003.  Thanks to the Vexx Fan Club on Deviant Art we found some interesting infos and concept arts from it’s development : “Vexx wasn’t supposed to start like a single hero, it was supposed for the game to be a hero/sidekick thing, just like “Ratchet & Clank” or “Jak & Daxter”; their names were supposed to be “Clip & Mischief” then the previous idea was discarded and give space for the single hero idea, deducing that it was at that moment which appeared the idea of the hero with gloves, seeking for revenge. However, the main character had another name: “Jinx” or “Jinxed”.

Some unused / beta music from the game can be downloaded from here.

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