Sunday, June 1, 2014

Working on an Indie Xbox / Playstation Game


A few months back I joined a 5 person indie team to create an Xbox / Playstation game. I can't release all the details right now but I'll share what I can. First - it's sooo much fun! Second - and it's really FUN too! We have two developers, an animator, musician, and myself - artist/art director.

This project has teeth - pun intended. It's a platformer like Braid, Limbo, Guacamele, etc. Hopefully we get ratings like those games too! The opportunity came as a chance to own a piece of the game - so if it sells well I'll get compensated - if it doesn't - I will have done a lot of work and learned a lot - been there before.


The head of Xbox Chris Charla has said that indie games are the future of gaming and Xbox is really excited to support indie developers. We have a release date for this coming January so we have to stay on track developing each level, testing it, making tweaks, re-testing and so forth. We plan to release on Xbox, Playstation, PSVita, and STEAM...if it does well - iOS. The most rewarding thing for me is to be able to dream something up, draw it, bounce it off the team members, tweak it, render it, hand it off to the developers and see it in the game. I'll keep adding updates from time to time as we progress.

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  1. Game development is a lot of fun. Sometimes even more fun than playing them. What's your favorite part so far?

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    1. I really enjoy coming up with wacky enemies and seeing if we can implement them into the game. Drawing and painting them is the best for me!

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  2. Wow, that sound so fun! Way to branch out with your talent and adapt your skill set to new things…I hope to share the game sometime with my son! Would it be purchase on an online store for download?

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  3. Oh wow that is great! I'm working on a game myself only I'm doing it alone pretty much, I was thinking about having a team in the future though.

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  4. The opportunity came as a chance to own a piece of the game - so if it sells well I'll get compensated - if it doesn't - I will have done a lot of work and learned a lot - been there before.كونسول

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