MEE – Marroni Electronic Entertainment

That’s right.  Just posted a brand spankin’ new blog on Gamasutra:

Give No Quarter: The New-School Arcade Experience

21st century arcades live in the phones in our pockets and are downloaded onto our HD consoles. Come along in-depth on the design of iBailout!! and analyses of other recent arcade titles as we discover the new-school arcade experience.

No jokin’ in that there description and much thanks to Aaron Biggs of the D’s premier underground hip-hop crew, United States of Mind, for hooking up such nice photos and a quality graphical treatment.  You already learned of the satire and meaning of iBailout!!, now please take a look at its gameplay design.

Also, we had another nice, quick iBailout!! review a few weeks back.   Scroll down to the July 21, 2010 entry and you’ll find these great words: “A simple, well-designed homage to a true classic.”

Finally, hit that jump for an extra, vintage photo left over from the Give No Quarter blog. (more…)

Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo was cool enough to talk with me last week about iBailout!!, what we’re doing at MEE and my personal game design thoughts and ideas and wrote up a profile that went live and has been featured on their site since a couple days ago.

Please take a gander and get a better idea of what’s going on ’round these parts.

SPOILERS:

There’s been more than a few (by a few, I mean several dozen) highly critical commenters and it’s pretty brutal and ruthless over there for me, but I’m doing my best to keep it real and (mostly) engage civilly and on a high level.  Please feel free to join the party if you feel up to it, but know what the deal be.

A new blog got featured on Gamasutra today:  Manufacturing Meaning: The Fed in iBailout!!

From the 244-character limit description:

In-depth on the construction of meaning in the world’s greatest game about the Federal Reserve and most loving and innovative Ms. Pac-Man homage, iBailout!!. You’ve been warned.

And, one more thing. (I haven’t yet made it through the whole epic 90 minutes, so if I’ve said something foolish or otherwise offensive, it’s all a pack of damn lies. Otherwise, it’s awesome and please enjoy.)

At long last, iBailout!! graces the space of one of the big boys of Internet gaming sites and I present to you all: The Joystiq Indie Pitch: iBailout!!

It’s all you ever wanted to know and were afraid to ask about the shenanigans that go on at MEE.  Danishes?  Daiquiris?  Half-nakedness?  All this and more awaits, ladies and gentlemen.

Get to clickin’.

UPDATE: Hit the jump for the question that was TOO HOT FOR JOYSTIQ!!11

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MEE is live and local at E3 2010 and, not only that, but we’ve got the single coolest piece of swag at the show (believe it–please): MEE E3 2010 Limited Edition iBailout!! Promo Codes!!11

If you’re lucky enough to track us down (or are just a cool journalist who appreciates a good game about the Federal Reserve and can get down with a most loving and innovative Ms. Pac-Man homage) you may just earn one of only 50 of these awesome little cards.

And, you can definitely follow on twitter, as there’ll be E3 tweetin’ a plenty goin’ down–don’t be afraid to give us a shout and join in.

Peace and iBailout!!, all.