Gravitronix
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Gravitronix is an action/battle game for the Wii
. Gravitronix was the first game created by Medaverse Studios, a game design firm located in Dover, New Hampshire
. The game was released on Nintendo's online WiiWare
service for 500 Wii Points. Medaverse has confirmed that Gravitronix will offer language support for multiple European languages.
The actual gameplay of Gravitronix was kept under wraps by Medaverse, as they feared their idea would be taken before Gravitronix comes to market. The game involves defending territory on screen while simultaneously attempting to assault the territories of the up to 7 other players by using the aforementioned projectiles. The game features 8 player simultaneous play with four players holding a Wii Remote and four holding the attached Nunchuk.
The game revolves around twisting either a Wii Remote or Nunchuk and pressing two buttons. The player will twist to move a gravity platform back and forth within a set territory and use the two buttons (A and B or C and Z) to fire one of two gravity beams which will either capture projectiles or launch them away. The goal is to break through the other players' defenses and send a projectile into their territory to defeat them.
Medaverse hopes to feature online play but they have made mention that the feature is still up in the air, and in an interview Medaverse CEO said that "We had hoped to have online multiplayer, but it just wasn't going to be an option for our first game."
In addition to this, Medaverse is currently having a character adoption drawing on its developer blog in which gaming news sites can "adopt" a character from the game in the form of an exclusive first-look at a Gravitronix character as well as a link to their article from the developer blog.
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
. Gravitronix was the first game created by Medaverse Studios, a game design firm located in Dover, New Hampshire
Dover, New Hampshire
Dover is a city in Strafford County, New Hampshire, in the United States of America. The population was 29,987 at the 2010 census, the largest in the New Hampshire Seacoast region...
. The game was released on Nintendo's online WiiWare
WiiWare
WiiWare is a service that allows Wii users to download games and applications specifically designed and developed for the Wii video game console made by Nintendo. These games and applications can only be purchased and downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel under the WiiWare section...
service for 500 Wii Points. Medaverse has confirmed that Gravitronix will offer language support for multiple European languages.
Gameplay
Gravitronix is an action/battle game for 1-8 players on a single screen and uses different primitive shapes (cubes, pyramids, spheres, lines) as projectiles and utilizes unique physics per object.The actual gameplay of Gravitronix was kept under wraps by Medaverse, as they feared their idea would be taken before Gravitronix comes to market. The game involves defending territory on screen while simultaneously attempting to assault the territories of the up to 7 other players by using the aforementioned projectiles. The game features 8 player simultaneous play with four players holding a Wii Remote and four holding the attached Nunchuk.
The game revolves around twisting either a Wii Remote or Nunchuk and pressing two buttons. The player will twist to move a gravity platform back and forth within a set territory and use the two buttons (A and B or C and Z) to fire one of two gravity beams which will either capture projectiles or launch them away. The goal is to break through the other players' defenses and send a projectile into their territory to defeat them.
Medaverse hopes to feature online play but they have made mention that the feature is still up in the air, and in an interview Medaverse CEO said that "We had hoped to have online multiplayer, but it just wasn't going to be an option for our first game."
Characters
Gravitronix features a number of different characters which the player can select to represent them on screen. According to Medaverse president Jesse Lowther, "we do have plans for many future games and Gravitronix includes a number of characters who will appear in those games. Since we also wanted selectable characters for Gravitronix, we decided it would be a perfect fit to fill the Gravitronix roster with characters who will (hopefully) appear in future Medaverse games." Character selection will not have any impact on gameplay, according to the developer blog.In addition to this, Medaverse is currently having a character adoption drawing on its developer blog in which gaming news sites can "adopt" a character from the game in the form of an exclusive first-look at a Gravitronix character as well as a link to their article from the developer blog.