We know you like Kahoots and we do too.

So we have created a Kahoots Theme for PS3 and PSP and we are giving this away free as part of minis month.

The wallpaper of the theme is a photo taken when a few of the Kahoots went for a picnic in the park. We catch them just as they have having tea, sitting on a fallen tree.

We have 5,000 of both the PS3 and PSP version available, and you can download them via the following codes:

PS3: N54G-HNBG-6KT4
PSP: 39JE-2QBF-ALPE

As this is part of the minis month promotion, the code will only work up until the end of February. So get downloading now.

To apply the theme to your PSP or PS3:
1) Choose Settings on the PS3 or PSP Home Menu and select the Theme Settings option
2) Press the CROSS button to display the Theme Menu, then press the CROSS button again to display a list of available themes
3) Scroll to the desired theme and select Apply

Enjoy.

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minis are now available to play on your PSP and now PS3! One of our favourites is the fantastic Kahoots from HoneySlug. To start you off on the right direction against Cardborg, Nat Marco Lead Designer at HoneySlug has created some handy hints and tip for Kahoots.

by Nat Marco, Lead Designer at HoneySlug
For anyone wanting extra Kahoots love to keep them warm and toasty this winter, here are some handy hints and tips drawn with my trusty felt tips! I had a lot of these tactics in mind when I designed some of the puzzles, so hopefully this will make completing them easier! Some of the hints are even useful for everyday life, I mean…who doesn’t like cake?

Thanks Nat! Want to know more about how Kahoots was developed and designed? Then take a look at the video below when PlayStation went to visit HoneySlug in their London Studio.

And finally…! Pay Attention to Pegbeast.

Thanks
Adam!

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Honeyslug is a game development company we started in the summer of 2008, with the aim of creating games with interesting mechanics which we could make with just a couple of people.

We’ve found Flash to be a great platform for prototyping our game concepts – most of which are 2D games – and one of the ideas we had was Kahoots – a fusion of Zoo Keeper and Lemmings – where you guide your little guys (called Kahoots) to an exit door, but aren’t able to control them directly. Instead you swap adjacent blocks – things like bounce-pads, spikes or reverse blocks – to alter their routes. As we started to build levels with the basic features, we came up with ideas for new ones – and added cannons, which the Kahoots can be blasted out of, Cardborgs – nasty creatures which kill any Kahoots within reach, and cardboard boxes, which must be crushed or torn up by Cardborgs to clear the path – meaning that you often have to juggle things around in order to keep both Kahoots and Cardborgs alive, without allowing them to make contact.

Based on the pixel art prototype, we worked with a Flash games portal who published the flash version, and funding its completion – and at this point we started to think about ways we could really make the game stand out visually. Since Nat had done a animation degree, focussing mainly on stop-motion plasticine animation, and Ricky was a dab hand in Photoshop, we decided to bypass the route of paying an artist to create polished assets for us, and instead make all the art ourselves – with the strict rule that everything in the game would be real – either scanned, photographed or hand-drawn. We set a budget of £30, and went down our local high street buying things for the game – buttons, beads and fabrics from the local haberdashery, sweets and chocolates in the pound shop and of course, loads of plasticine for the characters!

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