Shaun Inman is working on a game for the iPhone/iPad called Mimeoverse: Mimeo and the Kleptopus King. As an avid iPhone (and future iPad) user, I’m generally skeptical of sidescrolling games on the platform (and games that make use of virtual “buttons” in general), but this game actually looks quite promising.

In order to start thinking about level design for his own game, Inman played through all of the DS game New Super Mario Bros and took notes on almost every level in the game. There’s a lot of interesting thought here, although I do hope he gets his Wii back soon and manages to play through New Super Mario Bros Wii with the same critical eye, since NSMB DS was an ultimately shallow and disappointing game.

—Casey