GDC: Square Enix's Serious DS Game

Square Enix's chief strategist Ichiro Otobe took the Serious Games Summit stage today to deliver the keynote address, and ended up announcing a brand new Nintendo DS game. Whoops. Guess I should have actually gone to this, although I don't know what they were thinking doing it at 9 AM on a Monday.

The game, entitled Project GB, will teach players about all of the steps involved in making a video game, from design to music and everything in between:

*...*showed a fascinating set of tutorials allowing players to directly edit sprites, compose animations, and change gameplay parameters to test balance of a simple Space Invaders type game, and promised to allow players who wanted more depth access to both direct logic and framework, and even low level code.

Since this is Square Enix, I'd make some jokes about how the last part of the game is a bonus stage in which you turn a perfectly serviceable RPG franchise into a shitty action game, except this is too awesome to joke about.
Square Enix Shows Its Serious Side [Gamasutra]