Just played the latest title from Kenta Cho at ABA games. He focuses on shooters and is probably most famous for Tumiki Fighters, a side scroller inspired by toy blocks in which you can collect defeated enemy ships and attach them to your own. The game gained enough attention to earn a port to the wii under the name “Blast Works.”

His newest game is called Mazer Mayhem and while the gameplay is different from his previous works, visually it still has that unique Kenta Cho style.

He does a lot of interesting stuff with polygon alpha values which gives a very technological feel that is interesting to look at. I recommend checking the game out, its a fun time killer.

Beyond the gameplay differences, it seems this is also the first ABA Game developed for XNA, Microsoft’s new game creation system. Unfortunately as a result its necessary to install the XNA Game Studio to play the game on a PC. On the plus side, XNA allows for playing the game on the Xbox. All in all its an interesting development platform and part of Microsoft’s push to “democratize” game development. I’m not sure if it will achieve that goal, but it is certainly a big part of the indie game scene currently.