DIYgamer.com writes: "When I think about MIT, Hollywood has told me to think of Vegas card-counting. It's a popular story about some smart kids beating the system. Eitan Glinert and some of his cohorts from MIT's GAMBIT Game Lab are taking a different kind of gamble. They've teamed up to create Boston based indie studio Fire Hose Games. They recruited an artist off of Craigslist whose emailed portfolio was too good to be true and brought on an old friend to help manage the whole thing. While they've been in existence for a while now, they haven't yet shown off any real parts of their first game Slam Bolt Scrappers, though it was first announced a few months ago. So when I met up with Eitan at GDC, I wasn't expecting him to hand me a controller and crack open the game on his laptop as we sat in the middle of the busy convention center hallway."
Slam Bolt Scrappers is a strange game. Strange in an interesting way. The basic premise is that you have a building area and your opponent has a building area. You then fight over crates which can be dropped in your own building area in a sort of psuedo-tetris way. When these crates are arranged into square shapes they form turrets that shoot at the other player’s turrets. Oh! And there’s different coloured crates for different types of turrets. Also there’s ninjas and giant robots. Got all that? Good.
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Build and brawl in this fast and frantic mash-up! Race your opponents to build the most powerful towers in Slam Bolt City while defending against deceptively adorable baddies and hugely epic bosses.
