Spelunky – soon to be XBox360 flavoured

He's all-new, he's high-def, but he's still 2D! Ha; take that, The Man!

Hot on the heels of the last post, pictures from the much-anticipated XBox360 port of the Best Game Of The Last Ten Years (That I Have Played) Spelunky have finally been released along with some hints at what can be expected in the finished game. Along with the terrific, procedurally-generated gaming that we all know and love new features for owners of Microsoft’s notoriously prone-to-breaking-down console include: dynamic lighting, achievements and “new game modes”. Naturally, the graphics have been given a thorough makeover (as you can doubtless see, assming you’re not prone to completely ignoring the pictures I attach to posts here) described as “hand drawn” that nonetheless seem to retain the character of the originals.

I’d say I can’t wait only I don’t have an XBox360 and so I’m incredibly jealous. You lucky bastards, etc!

For more details and more pics, visit Spelunky World.

Spelunky 1.0

Newer, shinier, V1.0-ier

I mentioned in a post a while back how much I love Spelunky the excellent procedurally-generated platform game where you whip snakes, avoid piranhas and steal gold. Well, the game’s programmer Derek Yu has finally got around to releasing the first non-beta build of the game, V1.0, and it can now be downloaded from its very own website.

Data used in previous versions seems to carry-over into the new version without any problems, just copy-across the relevant files from the game’s root directory.

Even better news for XBox360 owners – apparently a special version is being written (presumably for download from XBox Live Arcade) and pencilled-in for a 2010 release!

Now, if only a Nintendo DS release were forthcoming…