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Brandon Boyer

AT 10:25 AM
Friday March 6, 2009

iPhone

Tower defense mechanisms: Hudson call out Fieldrunners in incredible iPhone game ad

Right, this might be one of the most amazing videos I've seen all week, and I haven't even managed to fully translate it (I think it speaks a universal language!) and it's now in English!

In announcing their forthcoming iPhone game Elemental Monster TD, Bomberman and Adventure Island creators Hudson show what I'm presuming is a low-poly version of company spokesman/producer Takahashi Meijin (Hudson really only have one notable chrome-domed personality) literally calling iPhone tower defense favorite Fieldrunners out by name, as he berates the hapless quivering mid-level assistant director for not coming up with something that can adequately compete.

In the end, the assistant gets inspiration where you'd least expect it, and the game is born.

Hudson don't have much more information on the game apart from a March release date, but the adorably named arigato-ipod.com has a 10 minute presentation by producer Makoto Shibita [google translation] on Hudson's lineup that shows a bit of that and other upcoming iPhone games.

DoTheHudson! iPhone home [Hudson]

Previously:
Into the mind of the Meijin - Offworld
Lode Runner hits the iPod - Offworld
Things We Lost In The Snow, pt 3: Crayon Physics about to hit the ...
New towers loom: Fieldrunners update imminent - Offworld
Fieldrunners update coming "very soon", includes new maps and more ...
Fieldrunners, Edge top 2009 IGF Mobile finalists - Offworld

2 Comments

VoxExMachina

#1 – 1:01 PM March 6, 2009

Video broken! Is there an alternate link, or should I just google it?

(Or...y'know...you could google that for me...)

guy_jin

#2 – 3:38 AM March 9, 2009

I'm pretty sure that the bald guy who turns into a dragon is supposed to be Takahashi meijin - at least, he's the only bald guy I know of who works at hudson.

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