Spooky Scary Fantendo Showcase 2016/Presentations/Transparent Interactive

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==Day 1 (October 27)==
Welcome to the Transparent Interactive presentation at Spooky Scary Fantendo Showcase!
Today's presentation is all about the Glassbox, our upcoming home console. First, we want to show the interface and compare it to earlier designs. Then we want to talk about the consoles online functionality. Let's start!
This is the final look of the Glassbox Menu. The app icons are now laid out in a grid pattern, and the service app icons are now placed separately, next to the regular apps. On console prototypes the background color was locked to blue, but on the final device you'll be able to customize the background, choose from pre-installed themes and even create your own (for custom themes Glassbox ThemeStudio is required).
Glassbox is offering a lot of online features, and they all have one thing in common, they're powered by Glassbox.net. Glassbox.net is the console's online service which provides online functionality for games and service apps. It also includes the console's account system, simply referred to as "Glassbox.net account".
A Glassbox.net account is required to buy games and apps from Glassbox Store, get access to the new cloud service Glassbox UpDrive, using the console's social network Glassbox Plaza and watch movies and tv shows on the fee-based service GlassboxTV. The registration is free, but we will also provide a paid subscription service, called Glassbox Plus. With a Glassbox Plus subscription, you get 60% off on every game in Glassbox Store, unlimited UpDrive storage and you don't have to pay for GlassboxTV. It will cost about € 12,99 per month. The console's release is planned for early 2017.
 
And that's it for today. Stay tuned for tomorrow, when we'll reveal a new game. (Laviverytrapoiram)
==Day 2 (October 29)==
Due to some complications we can not show any footage.
Today we are introducing the newest installment in the Mario Party series, Mario Party: Revival. In this game you are playing Mario Party with the classic gameplay known from Mario Party 1 to 8. So you're travelling across the 6 varying boards and try to collect as many stars as you can. When all players took their turns a mini-game is played. The winner will be rewarded with 10 coins. A standard party has 14 turns. And in story mode the player with the most stars and coins will be able to fight the boss. If he's successful, the party is finished, but if he fails, he has to try again and the party won't end until the boss is defeated. One of the game's innovations are cards, which act like candies in Mario Party 8 and are replacing the regular items. They can be obtained in a card shop, on a card space or by playing special mini games. Speaking of mini games, there will be 80 new mini games to play and beside the story mode there will be 2 more game modes, which are party mode where you can choose the rules for your party freely and mini game mode where you only play mini games. But there is more than playing Mario Party alone. Introducing Mario Party World. This additional service allows you to play this game with players all around the world. This additional feature will cost € 1.29 per month, if you have a Glassbox Plus subscription it's for free.
Mario Party: Revival will be released in Early 2017 exclusive for Glassbox.
==Day 3 (October 30)==
Today's announcement is a game that we've already announced in the past but never finished it, Paper Mario: Legend of the Star Gate. Now, approximately 2 years later the work on this game is going on. In this game, Mario and Princess Peach are visiting the beautiful town of Star Valley Springs which is known for its crystal clear wells. But their vacation is going terribly wrong, when Peach heads off to the town's market she is kidnapped by Bowser. Mario tries to fight Bowser, but for some reason Bowser knocks out Mario with surprising ease. When Mario comes around after some time he heads to Merlon's house on the east side of the town. Merlon tells him that Bowser stole the ancient treasure from the Astral Shrine which made him invincible and he developed plans to destroy the entire Mushroom Kingdom. The only way to hinder Bowser realizing his plans is to fight him with the power of the Star of Wishes hidden in the Star Temple. But the Star Temple can only be accessed by going through the Star Gate, a massive gate which is hundreds of years old. But there is one problem, 6 Star Gems, which are scattered all over the kingdom are required to open it. So Mario sets off on a new adventure to retrieve all 6 Star Gems and defeat Bowser. Beside the story the game introduces a new battle system: Mario attacks with action commands that can be timed to increase their effect (e.g. by pressing "A" just before landing on the opponent). Mario himself can only perform weak attacks, but he can use Battle Cards for stronger attacks. However, they act in a different way than the Battle Cards known from Color Splash, e.g. they are not discarded after use but stay in Mario's card album. Further they are not only used for attacks but have a variety of uses (e.g. increase stats, provide abilities, etc.) and using their ability/attack costs a varying amount of CP (Card Points), so they kinda act like Badges from previous Paper Mario titles. Battle Cards are usually stored in Mario's inventory, their ability can be enabled by placing them in the card album. However, the amount of Battle Cards Mario can place in his card album is limited, but can be increased with level ups. Speaking of level ups, after every battle, Mario receives a varying amount of Star Points. When Mario accumulated 100 Star Points, he gets a level up. At each level up Mario must choose one of his stats to boost. He can either increase his HP by 5 or his CP by 3, and at every fourth level up he can expand his card album by 1 card slot in addition to HP-up and CP-up.
Paper Mario: Legend of the Star Gate will be released in 2017 exclusive for Glassbox.
 And at this point the Transparent Interactive presentation at Spooky Scary Fantendo Showcase comes to an end, we hope you liked it. Until next time, bye!
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