PixelJunk Eden, the latest game in the PixelJunk series was released last July and for the past few months, developer Q-Games has been working on some new content for the game. Via the PlayStation Blog, Q-Games President and Executive Producer, Dylan Cuthbert now speaks about an expansion to the game, called Eden Encore. Earlier Cuthbert had said that there would be two or three PixelJunk games in 2009.
In Encore, firstly there are to be five new stages, with five new backgrounds, one for each stage, and also five new tracks of music created by Baiyon, the game’s music mind.
Dylan said on the blog, “To make things a little easier we are going to retro-patch the original Eden to have a new feature we created for Encore. This is the three-seed smart-bomb power your Grimp now has. Simply put, if you jump into three full seeds in a row, all the ‘Prowlers’ on the screen explode into a big cloud of pollen. Everyone who boots up their original Eden in a few weeks will be patched and get this feature, so look out for that!”
Encore will add a certain zero-G item to one garden which allows players to float about and control their Grimp without the fear of falling until the effect wears off. Also, at the end of the game, if players collect all the 25 new Spectra that have been added, players will be able to play the entire game again in a completely different way.
No clear release date for this game expansion has been announced but it is known that the pack will be available for 5.99 USD (approx. Rs. 305).