GDC08: Now for some Monkey Business
by Eric Caoili 
{ Feb 20th 2008 at 1:30PM }
As you already know, we're in love with wacky 2D platformers, the crazier the better. You need only look to our romantic exchanges with Barnyard Blast, Sanuk Software's low-budget Castlevania spoof, for evidence of our forbidden flirtations.
At an IGS session yesterday, EA Tiburon's Kyle Gray demonstrated a new DS game, tentatively titled Monkey Business, currently in development and after our own heart. The colorful game's hero, a British explorer named Hatsby, could be seen battling an opera-singing boss and a robotic construct of Big Ben.
The combo system seems reminiscent of The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night, and there's some unclarified puzzle mechanic played out on the touchscreen -- what's there not to love? We were surprised to hear that EA greenlit the project, even if only for its EA Casual Games division, but Kyle explained, "It's this weird new face of EA ... They're actually looking to do new things, now."
Swing past the post break for more videos from the Flash prototype of this very interesting platformer.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brello @ Feb 20th 2008 2:35PM
I'd play it!
AmishPhysicist @ Feb 20th 2008 4:59PM
looks awesome!
ManekiNeko @ Feb 20th 2008 6:26PM
Oh, baby! After a decade of worst-person shooters, gaming is finally back! This looks like a long-lost Japanese platformer for the Sega Saturn, which is exactly the kind of game I want to play.