Michael Michael On PomPom Shmups

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an Adrenaline Vault interview with Michael Michael, one of the two developers at indie game outfit PomPom. They've just had their two good-looking PC shoot-em-up ('shmup') titles, the Robotron-inspired Mutant Storm and the Defender-inspired Space Tripper picked up by indie publisher GarageGames, and talk a little about the idea of "..more single stop online portals for quality independent developers, so that customers who buy a PomPom game and like it can return to the same site for similar titles by other developers, rather than hunting throughout the Internet" - definitely a good idea.

I was all set to get excited

[Allen Varney]

I find this whole "central indie-game hub" trend very interesting, and I was hoping to read another success story in this PomPom interview. Turns out they're on the brink of oblivion, no longer working on games, and hoping this deal pulls them back to solvency. Sigh!

Re:I was all set to get excited

[easychord]

Well, necessity is the mother of invention and all that. I don't see why any gaming geek would get a hard on for distribution and publicity unless they absolutely had to.

Mutant Storm is a very good game by the way. Its worth getting excited about, and I've paid for my copy.

And the award for most confusing article title....

[onomatomania]

This post is officially a finalist for the "Most confusing slashdot headline Evar" award. Upon reading it, I was like "what the hell is a schmup or a PomPom, and what on earth has that got to do with the chick who played Cleo on ER [imdb.com]?

Re:And the award for most confusing article title.

[Bitsy Boffin]

This is a Pom-Pom [homestarrunner.com]

Wet Blanket?

[Ratso Baggins]

Miles Visman must be one!

After all he could have changed his name to Miles Miles for the good of the ....

Available for Linux and Mac too!

[Daniel Ashbrook]

It's worth noting that both of PomPom's games are available for not only Windows, but Linux and MacOS.

Help!

[Airwall]

Who Who on What What What the Dingdongs?

the title is all wrong

[Tibor the Hun]

shouldn't it say "Michael Michael on pom pom schumps schumps"?

PomPom games are fantastic

[Katravax]

I own them both, and wish there were more coming. They have a very old-school feel and gameplay, but the gorgeous looks of modern games.

Mutant Storm will make you go and buy a dual-stick joystick, like the Thrustmaster Firestorm [thrustmaster.com]. It's a lot more fun than Crimsonland. Much more action, and it always shoots where you point, just like Robotrom -- no separate fire-button action needed.

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