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Brandon Boyer

AT 6:56 AM
Friday February 20, 2009

IndiePCiPhone

Doomlaser teases secret iPhone project, 'The Plumber Is Dead'

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Spotted via a not-so-subtle tweet from indie dev Mark 'Doomlaser' Johns, part of the TIGSource massiv. All we know about the above is that filename's called ThePlumberIsDead, that it was correctly guessed to be a 2D/3D gameplay mix, and that Mark's definitely got our attention.

I met Johns briefly at the 2007 Gamma 256 party (the same Kokoromi showcase where Jason Rohrer's Passage made its debut), and, amongst more legitimate accomplishments, he holds the distinct honor of being one of only two people I know who had even more trouble crossing the border into Canada that year than I did (the other being Fl0w/Flower creator Jenova Chen, who was barred from crossing altogether).

For more on what doomlaser's about, see the Gamma256 entry Johns had submitted that year, stdbits, which plays something like a psychotropic, corrupted retro-futurist Adventure.

Doomlaser [Mark Johns]

Previously:
Bringing Gamma home to you - Offworld
Only on Offworld: Polytron/Kokoromi's Anaglyphic super HYPERCUBE ...
Things We Lost In The Snow, pt 2: Passage hit the iPhone - Offworld Passage's Jason Rohrer and emotional game experiences - Offworld

1 Comment

BMcC

#1 – 8:16 PM February 20, 2009

Hey, that's when and where we met!

I was on that train with Mark. They thought he was Mark Johns, notorious Canadian drug runner (or something). Not The Mark Johns.

This year he had significantly less trouble, but our friend Syed got taken to the back for a bit o' the ol' interrogation because A) he's a darker-skinned fellow named "Syed" and B) he was packing all sorts of blinking electronics, exposed circuit boards, and even a plunger detonator (which they luckily didn't find).

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