http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog Sweet. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:26:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, the polls are closed and N is out :( We are disappointed, but are happy to lose to a game that people feel so passionate about -- that is, simply, a beautiful thing. Congrats, Torchlight, and good luck to all the games in the next bracket. Thanks to DIYGamer for ... http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog/?p=619 It looks like N isn't going to make it to the next round of the great Indie Games Tournament.. unless you vote! Now's your last chance to save N from a fate worse than death: defeat at the hands of a Diablo clone*! NOOOOOOOOOO000000000000oooooooooooooooooo............ http://www.diygamer.com/2010/06/torchlight-tournament/ *yes, a Diablo clone by the creators ... http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog/?p=621 As seen on the Major Nelson blog, N+ is one of the many games featured in the XBLA "inventory blowout" sale, from June 16-22. Yes, that is correct: now is your chance to pick up the best version of N+ (according to us anyway) for only 400 Microsoft Currency Units! That's ... http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog/?p=606 To start off: N has advanced into the second round of The DIYGamer Indie Games Tournament! Thanks for voting, everyone -- please keep it up! This time we're up against Braid, which will be tough to beat... our fingers are crossed :) You can vote for your favorite game here ... http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog/?p=597 We've just been informed that DIYGamer.com had the awesome and hilarious idea of using a tournament ladder and public voting to determine, once and for all, which game is THE BEST GAME EVER. Check it out here: http://www.diygamer.com/2010/05/diygamercom-indie-games-tournament-2010-bracket-tournament/ N is up against Minecraft in the first round, which we think is ... http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog/?p=592 We're getting ready to leave for Game Developers Conference 2010, but we wanted to do a quick update before leaving, since it's been so long since our last post.. as usual.   Concerning Office Yeti: Prototyping went well, and we now have a 3D simulation/graphics system working and most of the graphics and ... http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog/?p=556 Yes, we're still alive! The the past few months have been quite stressful and busy, with a constant stream of things coming up that required our attention...resulting in us never having the time and/or energy to properly make with the blogging. To jump straight to the crux of the post: we've ... http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog/?p=552 Okay guys, the new server is now servin' up delicious content for everyone on all of our sites. Let us know if you notice any unusual sloth or pages not loading -- there are always a few bugs to work out. Our mail server was down for a few days, ... http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog/?p=544 Please bear with us over the next little while, loyal readers -- we're shifting our sites around and moving from our cheapass webhost to a proper server, and there will probably be a few kinks to work out. Rest assured, we'll be back soon, and hopefully with a much more ... http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog/?p=538 We just finished making another video showing some of what we've been working on around here: walking robots! See it here on Vimeo (higher quality) and Youtube (lower quality). (In case you missed it, you can check out the first video in this post.)   The graphics are of course still just debug ... http://www.metanetsoftware.com/blog/?p=508