Daxter PSP

cholden

Daxter for PSP is shipping next week. As a Jak & Daxter fan, I was looking forward to this. Anyway, I got to try out the demo today, and it's great. Solid PSP Platforming game with a lot of variety. They gave Daxter a bug spraying weapon that allows him to hover around rooms, and adds a huge arsenal of moves and attacks. Additionally, because this game streams like previous Jak & Daxter games, there's NO NOTICABLE LOAD TIME. I know many of you other PSP gamers out there have been feeling the pain of long load times from lesser PSP titles, but it seems they've all but eliminated this. I'm definitely going to pick this one up next week along with Megaman Powered Up!

Also, resident Polycounter Jon Jones was a foreground artist on Daxter, contributing many characters, level pieces, etc. Congrats on shipping this Jon!

Jeff Parrott

Congrats Jon! Game got a great review at IGN. Definately looking forward to checking this out next week. Pimp some art work if you can.

KDR_11k

Additionally, because this game streams like previous Jak & Daxter games, there's NO NOTICABLE LOAD TIME.

Surprises me that that's allowed, so far it sounded like streaming would horribly rape your battery life.

Jon Jones

Thanks guys!! It's been a very bumpy ride, but I'm stoked it's finally done. It's in stores in the US on Wednesday the 15th!

KDR, the battery life is on par with other PSP titles. The most severe battery drain comes from the UMD spinning up, which doesn't happen that often with us. Don't worry, Sony knows what's up with that type of thing.

BoBo_the_seal

WOOT! Well that settles it I'm picking up a PSP this weekend.

Congrats Jon! It's still my dream to work on a platformer one day.

AstroZombie

Congrats, Jon!!!

notman

My kids are REALLY wishing they had a PSP for this game alone. They love the Jak and Dextor series.

In fact, I'd love ya if you could hook a bro up with some inside images for wallpapers

ebagg

Very much congrats Jon, I've loved the Jak & Daxter series and this is another very persuasive reason to own a PSP.

Mark Dygert

I just finished playing MegaMan Hunter X for the psp, I can't wait for Jak & Daxter. Grats on a nice little title under your belt =D

flaagan

Good to hear there's more fun out there for us PSP owners! I'll pick it up asap!

Rick Stirling

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Surprises me that that's allowed, so far it sounded like streaming would horribly rape your battery life.

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And how do you think we managed to get GTA done?

danr

depends how you stream - LCS came off the UMD in short, controlled bursts.

er ... unlike Hudson in Aliens ...

Jon Jones

Thanks for all the kind words, guys!

The website is up now:

http://www.ottsel.com

You can see some of the characters I did on the 'My Fans' page. I modeled\textured\rigged Ximon, Taryn, Osmo, Brutter, the Hotelier and Daxter in his exterminator suit. That's on top of the 300-odd animated set pieces I designed\modeled\textured\rigged\animated for the game.

It's crazy getting to see my work out there finally. It's been a very, very crazy year and a half.

Jeff Parrott

I picked this up on the way home last night. I am completely blown away with this game. I was really impressed at E3. But it got taken to a whole other level. Real ace job on this one Jon.

cholden

I'm a little over 50% now, and holy crap! I can't believe how much detail they are pushing around in all these areas, and the sizes of some are ridiculous. Breezy Valley and the train hopping level were amazing. I can't wait to finish off this one.