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Offline Bloodworth

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MinDStorm Announced for DS
« on: March 27, 2007, 10:35:25 AM »
European publisher finds a new way to slide 'DS' into a game title.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=13209

 LET 505 GAMES BLOW YOUR MIND WITH MINDSTORM, THE NEXT EVOLUTION IN BRAIN TRAINING GAMES

   


Milton Keynes, UK – March 27th: Publisher 505 Games is pleased to announce that the next evolution in the popular ‘brain training’ phenomenon is headed for Nintendo DS on May 4th. MinDStorm, from developer ASK Co. Ltd., takes brain exercise software to a new level and offers a whole raft of exciting new games, features and challenges – all designed specifically to stimulate and improve the player’s brain functions and most importantly, be fun to play in their own right.

   


Transform gaming curiosity into powerful thinking with MinDStorm. The game features ten distinct types of challenge for players, all of which are simple to pick up and play using the Nintendo DS stylus, touch screen and microphone. Each of MinDStorm’s challenges is designed to focus on enhancing the player’s reason, endurance, analysis, intuition or observation. Regardless of the type of game chosen, extended play results in improved overall brain function and enhanced memory.

   


A first for the brain training genre, MinDStorm throws additional challenges and problems into the mix. Players are rewarded with ever more complex riddles to solve as they do well in the main training mode. General knowledge and geography-based challenges are also included to accompany the more abstract trials such as sliding picture puzzles, mazes to navigate with the stylus and spot the difference games.

   


Further innovation is found in the way the game will adapt the tasks it asks players to perform according to the local environment it is being played in. When playing on a bumpy car or train ride for instance, MinDStorm will omit the tasks that require precise stylus action. When playing in public the game will spare players the need to vocalize into the Nintendo DS microphone. With its many innovative and exciting challenges and features, MinDStorm offers arguably the most thorough workout yet seen in a brain training title.

   


MinDStorm releases for Nintendo DS on May 4th, priced around £30, from publisher 505 Games.

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RE: MinDStorm Announced for DS
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2007, 06:51:27 PM »
Pretty cool that 505 is actually releasing PR now, they never used to. Maybe people other than me actually started buying their cool weird novelty releases. Not this though, not MinDStorm. No sir. Not even that clever 'DS' worked into the title will get me. Nuh uh.

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RE: MinDStorm Announced for DS
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2007, 07:55:17 PM »
With that name I expected bricks. Lots of bricks. Programmable bricks. But it looks like I'll have to go to the university lab for those...

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RE:MinDStorm Announced for DS
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2007, 08:32:50 AM »
SLIDING BLOCK PUZZLES!!!!!!!!!!
NWR has permission to use any tentative mockup/artwork I post

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RE:MinDStorm Announced for DS
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2007, 08:55:35 AM »