You didn’t believe me when I said how much fun it is to work with the folks at NinjaBee did you? I guess now you’ll believe me. Because of the awesome feedback and support you’ve given to Band of Bugs, they’ve given me more goodies to share with the U360 community.
I have a few NinjaBee T-shirts for both ladies and gents to giveaway. They include the black t-shirt seen in the photo below, the Cloning Clyde themed and even some limited edition ones! And no, the pretty Ninja girl is not included.
What do we do?
Simple. Just post a reply here or message me as usual via Xbox Live. I’ll pick about 15 of you with my extraordinary random picking skills. If you can, let me know your T-shirt preference. (black, Cloning Clyde or limited edition yellow)
Thanks again to my friends at Wahoo/NinjaBee for sharing with the U360 community! Be sure to catch the Band of Bugs Q&A to get up to speed on another quality title on the Xbox Live Arcade.
Developer: NinjaBee
Cost: 800 MS Points
Related: Cloning Clyde Interview
Rating Guide: How I Review Games
Review:
There’s something to be said about a game whose central character runs around showing his naked rear end. And that something is a lot of fun! Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for NinjaBee’s Cloning Clyde for the Xbox Live Arcade! It’s a welcomed side scrolling adventure set in a 2D world that should satisfy everyone’s Arcade fix.
NinjaBee, makers of another XBLA classic Outpost Kaloki X, return to the Xbox Live Arcade scene with yet another beautifully designed title. Gamers across the world stayed up until the wee hours of the night a few weeks ago for this edition of Arcade Wednesdays which sees an Arcade title released each Wednesday during the summer. Like all Arcade titles there is a trial version and a full version. The full version costs 800 MS points to download.
Again, as promised, U360 is delivering! I recently sat down with NinjaBee’s own John Nielson, lead designer of Cloning Clyde. Thanks to Wahoo Studios president, Steve Taylor, for making this possible!
Take a seat and enjoy a bit of ‘Cloning Clyde Inside’.
For the few who don’t know, can you take a moment and tell us how Cloning Clyde came to be. What was the inspiration behind this title?
When we learned about the Xbox 360 Live Arcade before the Xbox 360 even came out, it sounded like an amazing opportunity. Plus, with Microsoft’s arcade team being so great to work with, even as Ninjabee’s contract for Outpost Kaloki X was being worked out, we didn’t hesitate in getting the design in Cloning Clyde going. With a much smaller and mostly separate team, we started working on a prototype of Cloning Clyde. In deciding to make a cartoon look, we looked at some of our most favorite cartoons over the years including Simpson’s, Flinstones, Ren and Stimpy, The Angy Beavers, etc. As far as game play The Lost Vikings, Oddworld’s games and Lemmings, were among our top inspirations.
Humor seems to be a recurring theme with NinjaBee and Wahoo Studios. Is that intentional because of what the audience would like or are you just really a group of fun guys and girls?
Well, the humor in this game was very intentional. Like I said, a different team than Outpost Kaloki X’s worked on Cloning Clyde, and I think you’ll see that the humor has a little different of a flavor. Ninjabee is FULL of super creative, fun, dedicated and funny people and I think that will show in all of the games that are developed here. I wouldn’t say we’re necessarily dedicated to making all of our games SUPER ‘Humorous’, but we ARE dedicated to making all of our games unique, creative, fresh and most of all fun.
There I sat…midnight CST…waiting for the next release in the XBLA Wednesdays event. Then I realized…it won’t be released until 2AM CST. I went to bed. I woke up this morning though and went straight to the new Arcade releases and there it was…Cloning Clyde! I popped in my Wahoo code (thx to the team for this!) and began downloading. I played through the first training level and I immediately knew that I had found my next Arcade addiction.
I figured I’d post a small bit about Cloning Clyde to help you get ready! (stay tuned for a review of this Arcade title as well as a developer interview)
The full game lets you save your progress (including unlocked Achievements and gamer pictures), and includes:
- Explore a visually compelling world filled with hilarious action and crazy adventure as you struggle to escape the clutches of the evil company Dupliclone, Inc.
- Play as a variety of mutant Clydes, each with unique abilities, including Chicken-Clyde, Frog-Clyde, Sheep-Clyde and more.
- 2 simultaneous players cooperating on a single console. Up to 4 players battling it out in versus mode on a single console for great parties and family play.
- Solve exciting and addictive puzzles with a variety of resolutions.
- Play not only as one character but also switch between hundreds of clones.
- Hours of fun with 2 distinct game modes including 40 cooperative levels and 6 versus arenas.
- Play online in groups up to 4 players.
