No Quarter Update

So alex and i are currently crunching for pax10 and Indiecade. the goal is to have No Quarter in working order for both but our primary focus this week has been on Alpha Red (known as gun in older posts), or track 1 on the No Quarter album.

Alex recently added some AI to the enemies and the game has taken a very action packed direction as of late. The game currently runs on a deeper physics engine then Alex made for Gish, its hard for me not to be very excited about this game... its a very dynamic game, and we are doing our best to come up with more gameplay mechanics that will complement this style.

it blows my mind that no one has done a physics based shooter like this before.. it seems like shooters hit a wall with Metal Slug.

anyway i was working on the title screen for our beta and thought id post what im working on. ill try and posts some up to date gameplay videos once the pax10 beta is finished. The goal is to have No Quarter done by june, so we can jump on to Gish 2 Full time, we shall see how it goes :).

Oh also Tim from Braid is going to be in Super Meat Boy.
-Edmund

Press link round-up

Games Tm.

I got my biggest article yet in this months issue of Games tm. a 6 page article about innovation in video games and the IGF, they interview me and the tale of tales people about the direction of the indie scene and the importance of being indie.. its a great read if you live in the UK.

Gamedev.net Coil interview: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/business/features/igf09interviews3/page9.asp

Game informer indie week 3 (coil related): http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200904/N09.0422.1910.37476.htm

Dynamic graphics article about indie gaming:
http://www.dynamicgraphics.com/dgm/Article/28941

Battery Acid super meat boy interview:
http://leakybattery.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/super-meat-boy-interview/

ok well im all caught up, now back to work.
-Edmund

Contest Winners! (draw me nude)

So im about a month late on this, but i finally got a few hours of off time.. so here it is

The results of the "DRAW ME NUDE" contest!

So i got so many submissions (over 105) that i had to change the awards just a bit, mostly due to the fact that most of the really great entries were already drawn with a tablet, and i wanted the 1st place winner to be someone who needed a tablet, so here are the results.

5th place ( a piece of paper that says fuck off on it signed by me ) Goes to!......Fluffkomix! for submitting over 7 horribly drawn pictures of me nude (one of me with a tiny vagina) congrats!.

4th place (a copy of TIACFH) goes to Animan-7 for his disturbingly accurate image of me flexing nude in the mirror.

3rd place (a copy of TIACFH) goes to The-Puppet, uniquely disturbing with a great art style.

2nd place (a signed copy of TIACFH) goes to Sucho for a very well painted edmund abomination.

1st place (a signed copy of TIACFH) goes to Jagondudo, i think its obvious why i picked this one.

and finally

The Grand prize (my wacom tablet) goes to I-Smell for doing a hilarious take on Aether, depicting me swinging from planet to planet with none other then my penis! GOLLY!

This contest went way beyond what i expected, and had some amazing entries.. here are a few runner ups that i feel should be posted as well.

shunshuu

tmkunt

Idude

Biffthetimid

idiot-monarch

ultrapitchfork

and my personal runner up fave

increpare

Either way, ill be printing all these out and wallpapering my desk area with them to fual my narcissistic self loathing (does that even work?), and they will eventually find a perminent home on the rerelease of my CD next year!

I love you all
-Edmund

Possibly the best ad there ever was ?

I did this tonight, im very very pleased with myself. Seriously, if you have any appreciation for anything ive ever done at all, you will post this image on your blog and spread the word.


Special thanks to Myron for the inspiration.

-Edmund

Danielles hamster died.

I posted the 1st in game art from Super Meat Boy over on the SMB blog.. but im going to spoil most of that fun and post it here because lets face it, posts without images are like whores without nipples.


If you're in need of more info go read the blog.

Oh also the escapist did an interview/article on Meat boy as well, >read that too.

Im slacking big time on posting the winners of the draw me nude contest.. but i swear ill get to it once im done with these Spewer levels.

-Edmund