Team Meat’s next game could be on a handheld, but 'not like iPhone or anything'
How do you like them Apples?
Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes, the development duo behind brutally difficult PC and Xbox Live Arcade platformer Super Meat Boy, have been discussing their next game, telling Game Informer that the next title could end up on a handheld.
It won’t be a platformer. “We've farmed this. It's done. There's no more coming out of us," McMillen said of making another jumping game. Instead, the game might be a brawler, a shooter, or something more casual - and it could be dynamically generated on the fly.
But one place it won’t find itself is on the iPhone. “I think our next game, we’re both kind of half and half about this, will be a smaller game on a handheld or something,” said Refenes. “Not like iPhone or anything.”
That’s no surprise: Team Meat doesn’t have the most favourable opinion of the smartphone behemoth.
Refenes let off some steam at the Games Developer Conference 2010 in a heated rant against the iPhone. The developer condemned developers for selling dumbed down versions of console games, and laughed at customers for buying a joke app Zits & Giggles for $299.
Apple then removed Zits & Giggles, so the pair decided to make an iPhone version of Super Meat Boy, which turned out to be a pointless, unplayable Tiger Handheld-style parody of their console game, developed in just one day. Ouch.
Late last year, the developer hinted at the possibility of seeing Super Meat Boy on the Nintendo 3DS.
