Toy Party

ToyParty is a new game being developed by Fantasia, based on the multi-game concept behind the N64's Mario Party. Most releases feature one 'main' game, whereas Mario Party is a collection of what would typically be called 'subgames' and relies quite heavily on multiplayer play. ToyParty is similarly aimed at shared gaming, although Fantasia claim that the computer will be intelligent enough for single-player fun - but games such as those in Mario Party half rely for their success on the fact that you're playing real people, so it remains to be seen if Fantasia can do better than Nintendo. Some of the games will feature tests of speed, whilst others will require more thought than agility. A development picture of one game is shown here, reduced to a quarter size to fit:

The game can run in varying resolutions, with high colour-depth sprites for those with machines that can cope. Let's hope Fantasia can finish this game sometime soon so we can have at least one new release to try out, but they admit that "it would be closer to the truth if we said later rather than sooner."

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