Enjoy!

Showing off some pretty lighting and some new gameplay mechanics. Hope you like it!

Ittle Dew – Epicsode 1 will be released for Christmas 2011!

In the graphical department, Anton and I discussed the best way to set a rotating chainsaw on fire. We can’t have clusters of them flying through the air with the fire coming out the wrong end – that would just be embarrasing. For some reason there’s also been an increase of frogs in our concept art and games lately.

During lunchtime and after work, Anton, Mattias and I play assorted fighting games and argue over the superiority of MK9, SSBM, GG:AC, and MvC3, not to mention arcade sticks vs gamepads. It’s the nerdiest time of day, and I think the more “serious” companies in the corridor wonder if we ever work at all. Every time they walk by our room, I happen to be staring at the screen or stretching my arms (such as right now), which probably doesn’t help.

Anyway, developing for the 3DS means a fine balance between interesting use of graphics and plain gimmicks, and in some cases opinions differ. We don’t really “think in 3D” considering that both of our games are 2D, gameplay-wise, so we rather use it as an extra feature. Same with the stylus, it’s just another way to navigate the menues. I may be oldschool, but I think buttons often work best.

Why did we include an Xperia Play in a 3DS post?

That’s it for my introduction – next time I’d like to go more in-depth with one of our games. “Designer” is a fuzzy job title, so I might also just talk about what I do here at Ludosity, and what you can expect if you want to work at a small game studio.

Just in time for GDC, we have put together a nice little trailer, check it out!

Hopefully the trailer will show you the gist of the game. Ittle Dew is a fun, warm action adventure game with lots of retro throwbacks, but updated gameplay. The game is still in its early stages, so there are some key features missing from the trailer, hopefully we will be able to show them to you soon also!

As for the “epicsode” thing, we are indeed planning to release the game as episodes, with a nice, bite-sized adventure in each. When you have more than one episode they will tie together and you can travel between them, but they are still independent adventures you can play separately.

Please let us know what you think in the comments!

Grab Achievements and win big prizes! Boot up old Bob and get the Build me up Buttercup Achievement today or tomorrow to get an extra ticket towards the big prize lottery at the end.

I think this drive is really awesome and is only something a place like Steam could do. To collect a bunch of Achievements across loads of games in a big Treasure Hunt is pretty much my definition of fun =)

So if you haven’t got it yet, go grab Bob right now! This is our biggest sale yet! 75% off is like.. alot!

Peace!

Really Shooter and his mother Poor Mama are running a cleaning service business, with Really taking commando jobs on the side. One day, aliens invade (!) and Really doesn’t hesitate for one second, he heads over to their mother ship and begins to mow down the invading forces with his trusty machine-gun. And of course, as usual it is up to Mama to clean up the mess after him.

Clean House features dynamic two-player gameplay where Really takes care of business while protecting his mother, and Mama cleans up the mess and support her son with ammo. You can play with a friend or with AI, (or play both with one controller in hardcore mode). There’s Story Mode and Survival Mode with online highscore, all for less than a can of soda on Xbox Live Indie Games!

Me and Daniel started talking about this idea way back when we chose our bachelor’s project in uni, but we didn’t realize the idea until NoMoreSweden 2009, where it pretty much cleaned house (even though it was called poor cleaning lady then..) Since it turned out so fun and unique, we’ve now decided to bring it to Xbox in full HD!

It’s coming along really well – in fact it’s almost done! It’s currently in playtest phase and will go into certification early next week.

In the mean time, check out these wallpapers our lovely artist Stefan has put together!

Just wanted to let you know if you have some cool heavy metal-kind-of-music that you think would fit our upcoming game Mama & Son: Clean House please let us know! We are looking for musicians that can contribute to the game project. This is for you guys who already have songs finished so we can put them songs in as soon as possible. We are only looking for free tracks since the game itself had had very small budget. Off course you will be in the credits if we use your music!

The game is feature complete and Daniel Remar only needs to tighten up the graphics

Anyhow. Mail me! daniel.kaplan at ludosity.com

Click to read more:
http://www.indiedb.com/news/unity-giveaway-contest-winners

Also just want to shout out to our friend Filip Coulianos who was participating in the Ayla team. Filip: Great job and you will do just great at Starbreeze! I know so!

And a big congratulations to Daniel Remar (yes, my cool co-worker) for winning the category Best Game with the game “Be a man!” of the No More Sweden contest!

The game looks so much more better when you see it live!

Update: http://bambuser.com/channel/nomoresweden/broadcast/881027

Fast forward to 2:27:00 to see some Project B footage!