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Rating of
4/5
Mega Fun in a Byte-Sized Package
Chris Kavan - wrote on 08/31/2016
When someone says your pet personal project can't become a reality, Megabyte Punch them in the face. It turns out that a two-man development team who just wanted something different was able to come up with their own twist on a few different genres and made it through the arduous process of approval to become a smash hit. Will everyone be able to emulate Team Reptile? Maybe not - bug don't give up on that dream just yet when things can turn out this well.
Presentation: Megabyte Punch presents a retro-looking 2.5 platforming world that is both technological and colorful. The colors really jump out at you and for how simple the design looks - it really does pack a punch. Much like the backgrounds, the characters share the same blocky yet highly-stylized design. Even with split-screen …
Rating of
4/5
SM4SHED
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/20/2016
“Megabyte Punch” (“MBP”) is the first game by two-man Dutch Indie developer, Team Reptile. After going through the Greenlight process, “MBP” successfully went from a Homebrew title that filled the developers’ personal desire to see a unique title in this style on PC, to a full commercial release appearing on Steam and GOG.
Presentation
“MBP” is a fairly simple-looking polygonal game built in the Unity Engine. Character and environmental models are crafted from simple polygons and feature bold colors instead of detailed textures. The resulting look of the game is very stylized, and reminiscent of the computer world in the ‘TRON’ movies, which makes sense, considering that’s exactly the kind of world “MBP” inhabits.
The audio, done by a freelance addition …
