The Game Developer's Conference is going on this week. I wish I could have attended, but my stars didn't quite align to make that possible. It's a little intimidating to just start attending something like that on your own. Next year I need some buddies to room with that have been there before or something. I feel like I may have missed an ideal opportunity to go promote Super Chibi Knight and the last few days of the Kickstarter campaign to the kind of people who would want to support it... oh well... next year who wants to go with me?
In Kickstarter news, we met our first stretch goal, and are now chipping away at the 2nd. There are only 3 days left, so if you wanted to help out and haven't yet, here's YOUR LAST REMINDER! ;-)
Here's a celebration video I posted on St. Patrick's Day when we hit our 1st stretch goal (me and Bella dancing a jig and drinking):
And here's a video of me taking Bella's concept art and finalizing it for the game based on this description she typed up for me:
"Story behind:The panda has amneisia because an evil witch controled him to bump his head.The evil witch now has power over him and the amneisia bump is now the witch.You have to kill the witch amneisia bump in order for the panda to become a beast mount and\or gaurdian. looks like:Shaggy black and white fur red eyes.Bump witch is grotesc and unibrow and sgraggly broom.After killed witch smooth black and white fur with aqua blue outfit with silk white socks with black tight laces Chinese shoes."
I don't have an update on the wrestling game this week, Luis is a bit behind on art at the moment because of his latest career transition. Encourage him to get back into gear in the comments below!
I also made this for Pi Day revealing the true Pi Day date.
Next week I get to start fulfilling Kickstarter orders and finally begin the long intense buckle down to finish up Super Chibi Knight. It's an exciting time and an intimidating time, but the Kickstarter money eases a lot of the stress so HUGE THANKS to everyone who has been kind enough to help me out there. Y'all rock and make my feels feel.
My updates for the next few months will all be about finishing Super Chibi Knight for release on Steam. I hope you'll follow my journey and help keep me motivated!
UPDATE!
I was interviewed by the Super Indie Pals and talk about my past in gaming, my influences and inspiration, i-smel, JetGetters, Crawl, Greenlight, and Kickstarter!
TomFulp
Whenever I see you drawing all this art for the game that you will then PROGRAM too, I feel like such a wimp for struggling with just programming. Excited to see the witch and panda in action!
BoMToons
Your guys' game is gonna be like 1,000 times better though because of the flexibility to experiment and focus on just one thing each. If I have the choice in the future, I'd definitely prefer to focus on one or the other. I think it also helps with the whole burnout thing to have someone else to rely on and relying on you.
I've felt trapped trying to finish SCK in my spare time while still supporting the fam with freelance stuff and often wished I had someone else to get me kicked back into gear and to feed off someone else's energy.
Can't wait to see your guys' game. How close are you to finishing?