Darkspore Beta on Joojoo editing heroes and triggering abilities using touch

With 2 days of the open Beta on Steam , you need to try out Darkspore . The devs are so friendly they even let me know they were adjusting the controls after I asked them to optimise them for touch , which is how I am going to play this game . Crysis 2?  well that joins the list of hundreds of Steam games which I need to buy and never play ...


In this video you see the hero editing section of the game , now this is going to be addictive as hell in itself , and I learn how to trigger abilities , without using the mouse this time , and as you can see from the larger explosions in this latest  video... 

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Darkspore Beta on Steam played with touch

This week everyone gets to join in the Darkspore Beta on Steam , just remember to have your EA account details ready , which you will have set up last week in anticipation for Crysis 2 , I knew there was a reason that game came out on the pc.....


I should be trying this out on my gaming pc , but I really don't play on the old Dreadnought any more , so I am  trying it out on a joojoo first as since iPad , touch is the way to play for me  : check out the videos . These are my first playthroughs  so I am really testing how touch works with the game , and it turns out not bad at all . The game itself shows promise , any Diablo fans out there will feel right at home , as will those fond of white lab coats and cloning sheep....

If you are into micromanagement of any sort , you are going to love designing shimmering beasties and messing literally with their DNA , pairing different types , switching just at the right time in battle , Darkspore it seems is made up of the perfect mix of  game design nucleotides , just the right combination to get you addicted . 


Technically the  Darkspore engine is very impressive as you can see from me playing with a great  level of detail on a tablet pc,every part of the screen is alive ,the only static pixels being those on the menu , NB the ion gpu in the joojoo I am using is pretty impressive . Darkspore is another game that I will play using a tablet  , touch  just makes you feel more powerful!!!! And my multi monitor gaming rig ? well it edits my joojoo  YouTube videos  very fast ....


You gotta love Steam , when you get your Windows 7 or Mac tablet all your games are ready to play as my continuing exploration of  tablet gaming shows ... 


Now if I could just get the developers to include optimised  control options for multi touch ....








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40 % off Darkspore on Steam today

Darkspore is what Maxis did next , and today you get 40% off and a new demo to try out  from Steam . If you have a Windows 7 tablet lying around , this is one game that plays quite well with touch , as I found out during the beta earlier this year. 




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Darkspore for £7.85

Diablo fans waiting , waiting ...waiting .. check out Darkspore for £7.85 now   

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Lenovo X220T Tablet Test No.10 : Darkspore played with Pen and with and without touching the screen!

Darkspore was one of the first games I tried out on a tablet , way back when it was in Beta , it had excellent mouse based controls that translated very well to my then newly Windows 7 installed   multi touch Joojoo [ 1 , 2 ]and multiscreen Iconia tablets  so it was always going to be a game I needed to test out the Lenovo X220 T . Maxis made a lot of friends during that Beta , if you were a part of it you felt you were part of the development team on a very cool game . 


Right now whilst you are still aching for Diablo III to arrive , the incredibly fun and under rated Darkspore is cheaper than most iPhone AAA apps ... and it serves as a very good testing medium for how sharp the Pen on the Lenovo X220T  is , and continues to reveal the absolutely Potteresque abilities of this battery less  game controller ( ok in thegameveda`s hand the totally serious Lenovo Pen is considered first a gaming device , second  a Deathly Hallow , third a potential Light Sabre ... and lastly a text input device) . The fascinating thing about the Pen is that you can hold it almost 1 cm from the screen and still interact with the screen , in Darkspore .... and eventually Diablo 3 this means an end to all that incessant mouse clicking ...that drives me mad when playing lootemups  , you can also use finger touch if you prefer , but the pen really adds finesse to messing with the creature designer , menus and combat I can hover the pen over a bad guy and attack far quicker than scrolling a  mouse or swiping a trackpad , just watch the video , and the first time you manipulate ( and every time thegameveda manipulates ) an object using the pen WITHOUT touching the screen you feel strong with the Force ...  Plus that pen is never running out of batteries or charge like your mouse! 

In the USof A get Darkspore  And in the UK you would be silly to miss out on Darkspore for £7.85



   

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