You know that feeling in the pit of your stomach you get when you read the words “you know that feeling in the pit of your stomach you get”? Yes, that’s the one. The one you’re feeling right now in the pit of your stomach. Well it’s time to put that feeling to good use because Derrick the Deathfin is now 25% off, with an additional 30% off for PS Plus subscribers, for one week only!

Since his release in October last year, Derrick has been slowly building in reputation, garnering some great reviews and adoring fans along the way. Sales have continued to improve as the game becomes more known too which is great.

We know a Vita version would be super cool as well, we are still looking into that. What’s more we have some ideas for a sequel that would see Derrick indulging in some intergalactic mischief…
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Being a teenage shark constructed entirely from paper is not easy at the best of times. For Derrick, having just witnessed the brutal soupification of his parents, this was the worst of times.

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You know that feeling when you’re sitting in a rollercoaster on the slow ascent to the top, just in sight of the summit? That should be what you’re feeling right now. Only this time the ride down is going to be much wilder than anything you’ve experienced before. And everything on the way is going to be made out of paper.

As you can in the clip below, here at Different Tuna we have been working astonishingly hard to bring you the world’s premier underwater papercraft action game. We have handcrafted 32 levels and three level types set over four challenging continents. Each level is increasingly fiendish and colourful in its design.

To succeed you must fight, jump, race and eat your way through a myriad of confusingly textured circumstances. Good luck!

On October 10th this world can be yours to explore, and all for the deeply arousing price of just €6.99.

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Derrick the Deathfin is the world’s very first underwater papercraft game. The action – of which there is plenty – takes place in an irreverent aquatic world full of paper, goofy fish, paper, arcade action, paper, wanton destruction, and paper*.

After Derrick’s parents are brutally turned into soup he sets forth on a worldwide rampage of destruction in order to make himself feel a bit better. On his travels he eats all manner of dopey delights for dinner, duels with paper enemies and decimates manmade cardboard monstrosities. Derrick also has a distinct fondness for picking up diamonds and jumping through burning tyres in the sky. Just like a real shark.

Derrick journeys through 32 beautiful, vibrant levels set across 11 environments and 4 continents. He is in a constant battle against his metabolism, needing to constantly eat to stay alive. He must move, groove, jump, race and puzzle his way through increasingly crazy challenges to attain paper-shark certified glory.

You could describe the gameplay of Derrick the Deathfin as the illegitimate lovechild of Ecco the Dolphin and Sonic the Hedgehog. Possibly with Joe Danger filming in the background during conception.

Indeed the idea for Derrick came from a mildly confrontational and slightly inebriated argument one evening about the relative merits of Sonic and Ecco. Clearly the only logical next step was to try to combine the two game styles and frame it all in an underwater papercraft world. So that is what we set about doing.

The unique, vibrant art style of the game has been masterminded by street artist and all-round superstar Ronzo. All of the characters and environments in the game are based on real papercraft, often being modelled in paper before being photographed and recreated as 3D models, then imported into the game. This process and Ronzo’s uniquely goofy character designs give the game an original look and charm.

Derrick the Deathfin’s distinct styling and accessible yet frantic arcade action gameplay is designed to appeal to anybody with a PS3 and a bit of sense.

Derrick will be shredding his way onto PSN this summer.

* There is also a bit of cardboard for those that way inclined.

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