To start, a reminder that today is the last day to vote in the XBLA Awards! https://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/xblaawards/ And now for the third and final chapter in the continuing saga of what’s up with Robotology lately: things that are working well (but may still need some tweaking/adjustments as we go). Ironically — or perhaps not technically […]
Robotology: Triage Part 3, Stable Condition..?
10 Mar / by: M&R / 16 comments /XBLA Awards Voting is Now Open!
03 Mar / by: M&R / 3 comments /We’re happy to say you can now vote in the 2nd Annual XBLA Awards. Here’s how: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/xblaawards/ Voting is open from now until March 10. One week only! We just downloaded the voting application and noted that it weighs in at 37 MB, so it’s twice as large as N+, even considering all three level […]
Rock the Vote!
27 Feb / by: M&R / 13 comments /It’s been brought to our attention that N+ is up for some XBLA Awards: https://majornelson.com/archive/2009/02/26/the-second-annual-xbox-live-arcade-awards.aspx This is awesome news, and we’re totally thrilled. Thank you Microsoft! It’s an honour to have been nominated, and we would love to win! And that, dear readers, is where you come in. It’s that time again, time to Rock […]
Happy N-iversary!
20 Feb / by: M&R / 30 comments /Yes, it’s the 1 year anniversary of the release of N+ for XBLA. It’s been a great year — reception has been very positive, sales exceeded our expectations, we’ve been nominated for awards (and even received one two- check out Brilliam’s review here!) and we’re just so thrilled that so many people gave it a […]
Robotology: Triage Part 2, Under Construction
14 Feb / by: M&R / 9 comments /First, some quick news: N+ is a finalist for “Best Downloadable Game” in the Game Developer’s Choice Awards! We feel so honoured to have been nominated. Also, we’re part of a group that just started in Toronto, the Hand Eye Society. The first meeting was last Thursday and it was great! Looking forward to more. […]
Robotology: Triage Part 1, The Cutting-Room Floor
06 Feb / by: M&R / 14 comments /The past few weeks have been fairly unproductive, at least in terms of writing code; now that the editor back-end is mostly fleshed-out, the minutia have begun their inevitable soul-sucking death-by-a-thousand-cuts. After the first 90% comes the last 90%, as they say 🙂 We’re still in the “figuring things out” phase of design for the […]
WTF N4G?!
20 Jan / by: M&R / 19 comments /We don’t want to sound paranoid, but it seems like people are trying to start controversy where none exists! We recently did a short interview with Ryan Rigney (who also wrote this article on N+). In it, we mentioned that there was a limit to the amount of saved data that could be stored by […]
A few years ago, at Slamdance, we were introduced to a game we liked very much, called Rumble Box. A beat-em-up game with characters made of cubes and spheres, cel-shaded graphics and a cool mechanic whereby the parts of your bested opponents assist you in your climb to the top — what’s not to like? […]
Misc Crimbo News
28 Dec / by: M&R / 21 comments /We’re in the process of improving our spam-filtering, so if your comment was lost we apologize — please resend it! In other news, N+ (XBLA) is part of a couple special promotions: in North America, you get a free copy if you sign up for 12 months of XboxLive! Gold membership. Or, you could just […]
Robotology: Edit Mode II
18 Dec / by: M&R / 20 comments /One month later, and we’re still working on the editor backend — it’s actually going really well, aside from the fact that it’s taking much longer than we anticipated! As you may have noticed, this is a recurring theme with Robotology: our scheduling estimates are based on the known hardest task, however the actual effort […]