I was a freeware pick on Indiegames.com Thursday night! Yay!

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2008/11/freeware_game_pick_night_of_th.html

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Also for all the Mac users I've youTubed some game play so you can experience Scott's awesome vocal work.  Not nearly as good as playing, and kinda spoilery but better then nothing!

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I just finished watching this awesome documentary on everyone's favourite bongo playing physicist Richard Feynman's final pet project before he died. A drawn out attempt to visit an obscure and remote part of the then Soviet Union because he thought the capital city had a funny name. It's weird and inspiring stuff:


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My sister thanked me for some Photoshop help over the weekend by getting me a surprise ticket for the Herbaliser show last night.   I hadn't seen them in several years but they're by far one of my favorite live bands.   Their studio albums I'm not so much of a fan of since there jazz/funk/hiphop instrumental stuff gets muddied by too much MC'ing.  ( Read more... )

The Artcade a few weeks ago went awesome and it has started to get some good press.  GameSetWatch has a particularly detailed review of the event and they had this to say about Night of the Cephalopods:

Night of the Cephalopods. This is probably one of the most exciting titles, because it does something that I can't think of any other games doing ( Read more... )

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!

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The newest Artsy Games Incubator meeting notes are up on the blog, as usual they represent where we were with the games around a week or so ago (actually two because of my trip, we skipped a meeting).  Here's a shot of Night of the Cephalopods from those halcyon days, a simpler time, before I had implemented things like player death.


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Just got back last night from a fantastic road trip to go visit redknot and wander Boston with dunderbug & hirovox :

Highlights:

• Stopping at the side of the road to break into a long abandoned factory complex - it felt very Half Life 2, I kept expecting head crabs.
• Coding and pixeling a whole bunch of new features into Night of the Cephalopods during long car drives.
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The next update is up on the Artsy Games Incubator blog from our meeting last week. We're all starting on our final games now and I've been making good headway on mine despite a lot of technical hurdles. Here's the first screen shot of my final game "Night of the Cephalopods!"


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