Portion of the Austin 360 article:

On Monday, the first day of the Austin Game Developers Conference, I kept wondering, “How many of these people registered before the recent Austin game company layoffs?”

Bad news at NCSoft and Midway Austin notwithstanding, GDC so far feels like a gathering for an industry that’s still expanding despite the current national economic panic. Merrill Lynch sold? Sorry, we’re busy creating a playable demo for our Xbox 360 game.

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Haha, we can’t get enough of our Austin-based Red Fly Studios! They are one of the few devs that keep their blog current (we’re looking at you, Retro). RFS ended in the Guardian, a UK website, as an example of how newer games let players “do-it” themselves. Here’s the portion that talks about Mushroom Men:

Similarly, Wii has the bizarre battle game Mushroom Men, which involves back-garden wars between tiny fungal soldiers. Here, you bodge together your own Heath Robinson-style weapons by scavenging and combining objects from the environment.

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Red Fly Studios claims it’s one of the best write-ups they have seen so far, so you bet your buck it’s worth checkin’ out! Here’s a portion:

With the Big N now seemingly more focused on personal fitness and minigame collections than anything else, the burden of pleasing the Nunchuk-loving segment of the world’s Wii owners has fallen to the third-parties.  And based on what we saw of Mushroom Men:  The Spore Wars last week, few have risen to the challenge as well as the Austin-based Red Fly Studio has.

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