We did the third Philly Game Jam over the weekend, which is pretty much a 45-hour game development competition. We were given the theme “mothers” and began to conceive and develop our beautiful creation: Duck It! We also earned the WTF! Award, which is, let’s be honest, the best award ever. You play as a [...]
Local Philly badasses Cipher Prime‘s latest game, Fractal goes live today! The follow up game to their wildly successful Auditorium, Fractal is a.. well, I’ll let them describe it as “A fierce intersection of fractal gameplay, dynamic audio, and kaleidoscopic visuals, Fractal is the new musical puzzle experience from Cipher Prime. Combo, chain, and cascade [...]
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Space Whale Andrew Aversa was recently interviewed about the booming start-up community in Philadelphia, along with Burst Online‘s Damon Alberts on the Philadelphia Videogame Growth Initiative, and many other entrepreneurs by the Philly Daily news. Read the article for Philly luvluv!
I’m still exhausted. Much love was shown from the gamers, geeks and devs, both from the area and all over the country, and we all had an awesome time. We wanted to roll up with WHALE PRIDE and inadvertently enjoyed ourselves like the [not-so] closet geeks we are. Experimental game dev, Ted Aronson, our Philly [...]
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Boldly going where no Galactic Beluga has gone before… You folks may not know this, but Philly is not exactly a hotbed of game development. When the total number of developers in every Philadelphia studio can’t fill a motivational speaker’s keynote room (sorry, Avish!), you know it’s an “intimate” industry. And yet, maybe because of [...]
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