#IDARB Preview – Mouse n Joypad
Ahmed writes – "#IDARB started as a single tweet by lead director Mike Mika of Other Ocean Interactive when he posted alongside an image of a red box, “Where to go with this? I’ve started a new project, it draws a red box. Thinking platformer.” And thus #IDARB was spawned, with the acronym of course standing for ‘it draws a red box’. After many inceptions, the game became an 8-player arena ball title focused solely on cultivating an e-Sports setting. Up to 8 players duel in an arena where the ball starts in the middle of the playing field, and opponents race to it with the sole goal of putting it in the back of the opposition net in a frantic pixel art environment. And while all of this is going on, tweets are shown scrolling by the bottom of the screen with fans chatting it up on social media. #IDARB is fun and frantic, but its quest for an uber e-Sports vibe suffers as the game is almost too fast and random to ever be a hit in the competitive community."
