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Team Meat posts 'very 1st look' at Super Meat Boy: The Game for iOS 'and more'

Mind has changed

Team Meat posts 'very 1st look' at Super Meat Boy: The Game for iOS 'and more'
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Back in March 2010, Team Meat's Tommy Refenes publicly berated Apple, its App Store, and gaming on mobile phones in a blog post on his company's website.

Now, a new post on that same website is offering us a "very 1st look" at Super Meat Boy: The Game for "iOS and more". How times change. This was posted on March 31st, by the way, so it's likely not an April Fool's joke.

"So as some of you know, we have been playing with the idea of porting SMB on the iPhone for some time...," the blog post begins.

"Sadly, there was no way of doing this without the game becoming a pile of garbage, Super Meat Boy is a twitch platformer with precision controls, there was no way in hell this would work on a touch screen with buttons all over it, Super Meat Boy isn't a game we want to make a sub-par version of just to cash in..."

"So, we decided to totally remake the whole game instead, from the ground up!"

Details galore

Team Meat's Edmund McMillen was quick to point out in the blog post that Super Meat Boy: The Game is a touch-enabled platformer built "specifically" for touchscreen devices.

He also stipulated that the upcoming platformer isn't the "the Super Meat Boy you're used to" and that it won't be a "shitty port of an existing game with non tactile buttons spread all over the screen blocking the players view and making for frustrating controls". Thank goodness for that.

The blog promises further details of this project will be released "soon", so we'll keep you updated.

Anthony Usher
Anthony Usher
Anthony is a Liverpool, UK-based writer who fell in love with gaming while playing Super Mario World on his SNES back in the early '90s. When he isn't busy grooming his beard, you can find him replaying Resident Evil or Final Fantasy VII for the umpteenth time. Aside from gaming, Anthony likes hiking, MMA, and pretending he’s a Viking.