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Lost Marbles Update

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:04:51 -0400

Its been awhile but I thought I should update. No we did not disappear and no we did not stop working on Lost Marbles. Just the contrary actually as we’ve been hard at work on getting the game released!

We are very close to announcing a set release date so stay tuned! In the mean time I’ve posted some updates as to what we’ve been working on. Enjoy!

-Keith

New Brightly Colored Dusk Skybox

Added Ropes! Swings for everyone!

Shooting Star Particle effects have been revamped

Lost Marbles - Now on GreenLight

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:02:21 -0400

It’s been quite some time so I figured that I would update everyone about what’s been happening lately.

We launched our greenlight page a little over a week ago and are getting a great response thus far!

Please vote for us here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93048608

Look for a demo in the coming days, we are excited to get the game into everyone’s hands. In the meantime here is a new gameplay video :)

The Creativity of Indie Video Games

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:13:00 -0400

No idea how this happened but a short clip of Lost Marbles was included in a special about indie games on PBS!

Thank you to whoever added our clip in there! You can see a few small clips at 53 seconds and 3:43 :)

Boston Festival of Indie Games

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:07:18 -0400

Had a great weekend in Boston. Easily the best indie community in the world! I figured that i’d add some pictures I took on Saturday. It’s not much but at the very least everyone needs to see the paper marble costume in all its glory!

We had the chance to get in a great deal of play-testing! I’m looking forward to polishing everything up!

…Okay so this isn’t actually part of a level, but I...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:27:00 -0400

…Okay so this isn’t actually part of a level, but I think it might be soon ;)

We just entered a build of the game into the PAX 10 on Friday, so fingers crossed for that. There are currently 17 levels in the game. Hopefully our goal of 40 doesn’t take as long as we think it might.

Also we’d like to be able to release something playable to the general public sometime soon, but we’re not sure exactly when right now.

Leap - Minority Report at Last!

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:38:33 -0400

I’m sure most of you have seen this already but it can’t hurt to share it again. Quite a cool way of interacting with your computer.

Scamworld - Great look at internet "marketing"

Sun, 13 May 2012 19:36:15 -0400

I’m sure most people have seen it once or twice. A get rich quick scheme on a random site you’ve never heard about. They ask for nothing else but your information. Well the Verge recently post a very in-depth article on the scam know as Internet Marketing.

Xpost:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/10/2984893/scamworld-get-rich-quick-schemes-mutate-into-an-online-monster

Being able to destroy stuff in games is always my favorite...

Sun, 13 May 2012 02:00:00 -0400

Being able to destroy stuff in games is always my favorite thing! Now I can in my own game. How awesome.

Currently experimenting with different visual styles for the...

Mon, 07 May 2012 08:58:07 -0400

Currently experimenting with different visual styles for the game. Not sure if the background fits but we like the tiles a lot. They are all like, shiny and reflective and stuff when in motion. Made by our new artist buddy Egil. He makes awesome Unity related stuff.

Gameplay preview of our current project Lost Marbles. Game is...

Wed, 02 May 2012 17:17:00 -0400

Gameplay preview of our current project Lost Marbles. Game is nearing completion and should be done in the next couple of months.

Gerudo Valley played on floppy drives :)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:07:26 -0400

Gerudo Valley played on floppy drives :)

Poo for WiFi? Only in Mexico…No really, this is actually...

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:08:53 -0400

Poo for WiFi? Only in Mexico…No really, this is actually happening in Mexico.

Zerg Rush

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:47:57 -0400

A little easter egg on Google, if you search “zerg rush” you will be given a chance to fight off a swarm off O’s from destroying your search results. Google always seems to have an amazing sense of humor despite being a massive company.

What we're working on

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:38:00 -0400

So it has been quite awhile since we’ve posted anything about projects we’re working on. Keith and I decided that we really wanted to go back and remake the game we did for final project at Full Sail, which was a puzzle platfomer called Lost Marbles. In this game your goal is simply to get to the end of each level as fast as you can. To do this though you’ll have to control up to three separate marbles and use them in tandem to navigate various hazards and puzzles.

We decided to try out the Unity engine as it seemed like the easiest way that we could get the game done. It only took me a couple of days to realize that this was the correct choice. Unity is amazing in many aspects and in just a couple of short months we have the vast majority of the game done. Right now we’re mainly just adding more levels.

It’s always fun to look back on the origins of a project though. Back in 2008 while we were making the original version of Lost Marbles at Full Sail we couldn’t believe how amazing the game was! And honestly as the student project it was, it was pretty good (well we did get an A). But when I loaded it up earlier, I couldn’t help but to just laugh at what I was playing. It was kinda bad, like kinda really bad. But still for a bunch of students working on only their second game project ever and having only 3 months to code everything themselves, I’d say it was pretty damn good.

Anyway I thought it would be fun to do a couple of comparison shots just for fun. The first two are from the original game and the next two are the same reworked level in the new version (click for larger versions):

*Assets aren’t final, we’re currently searching for artists to make the game look as good as possible*

As you can see Unity has certainly given us the ability to make the game look better (especially water and particles). Even more importantly though it has also given us the ability to make the game control and feel better. Much better. Stay tuned for a video of some gameplay soon!

I laughed way more than I probably should have.

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:56:03 -0400

I laughed way more than I probably should have.

LightTable IDE

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:24:14 -0400

Light Table - a new IDE from Chris Granger on Vimeo.

What a great concept for an IDE. Most of the time I feel like I’m fighting my IDE trying it to have it do what I want. Lightflow seems to solve a lot of the problems current programmers are having.

The Most Dangerous Gamer

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:43:18 -0400

The Most Dangerous Gamer:

An extremely long albeit interesting article mainly about Jon Blow, creator of Braid, and the age-old debate over whether games can be considered art or not.

The Internet? Bah!

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:52:08 -0400

The Internet? Bah!:

An extremely funny article written for Newsweek back in 1995 talking about how the internet will fail to make a dent in society. Oh how silly they look now :P

World Builder (high quality) (via bbranit) This is what the...

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:54:30 -0500

World Builder (high quality) (via bbranit)

This is what the future technology should be augmented into. We need the tech to be almost invisible ,instead of abstracting them out with lcd screens.

thingsorganizedneatly: Colour co-ordinated colour pencils.

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:37:50 -0400

thingsorganizedneatly:

Colour co-ordinated colour pencils.