We're huge fans of the blockbusters here at Push Square Towers, but fresh blood is required to make the biggest and best games a reality. Sheffield Hallam University based in the north of England has been working with PlayStation for a little while now, with its Steel Minions studio promising students real-world development experience. And its next game, PieceFall, is set to release next week exclusively on the PlayStation 4 – for the princely sum of £1.00.
Long-time readers may remember our feature on the team's previous title BounceBack, which launched as part of Sony's short-lived PlayStation Minis initiative. Many of the students went on to land jobs at Sumo Digital, working on releases such as LittleBigPlanet 3. And the future looks equally bright for the latest batch of fledgling developers that have built the university's all-new Tetris-like title, as the production values appear to be a real step up.
The game's due out on 15th July on the European PlayStation Store, and we're hoping to bring you more from some of the students behind the release over the coming week.
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£1 is a nice price, looks pretty good as well!
I'll get it, looks nice.
If this comes to America, I'll get it. Especially if it benefits the students behind it. If this leads to them becoming the next great developers, I want to support them and let them know that I believe in what they can do
Yay Sheffield...home of two crappy football teams and me!!...game looks really nice actually and at a quid it seems an absolute steal, hopefully a lot of people will buy it and as cowboysfan22 said lets see the money help fund other projects for students
The place i used to work at(booker wholesale) delivered to sumo digital and they have a huge solid snake statue in the foyer... And really nice freebie pens!
I shall buy it to support them for that cheap price.
These guys will be getting supported. Who wouldnt buy it for £1 lol. 3d tetris... cool
This is why I always champion indie developers or student projects because they are the future, not all will make great games of course but without developers there's no industry.
Having a PS4 exclusives puzzler like this reminds me of the likes of Kula World Kurushi - bring on the puzzlers!
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