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Square Enix Music Interview With zircon

Posted on April 2nd, 2011, by Andrew Aversa

This was a really fun Q&A by the good people at Square Enix Music Online. We discussed the contrast between writing original albums and scoring video games, as well as how I met my wife through video game music, my approach to the Return All Robots! soundtrack, and my music production setup. Definitely check it [...]

Return All Robots is Good for Brains!

Posted on March 27th, 2011, by Aaron Chapin

On March 3rd, some of Drexel University‘s best and brightest students competed in the robo-arena, with Return All Robots as the battleground! Sponsored by Drexel’s IEEE Student Branch, the competitors were given a set period of time, and let loose upon fresh installs of the game. Whomever completed the most levels within that time would [...]

Return All Robots! Has Launched!

Posted on December 23rd, 2010, by Jordan Santell

Ladies and gentlemen, with only 8 days left in the year, after 12 months, we’ve finally finished Return All Robots! and published it on Xbox Live Indie Games and PC through our beautiful friends at Cipher Prime! It’s been an awesome journey, and wouldn’t have been possible if everyone on the team didn’t crank out [...]

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Trailers, 8static, Minecraft skins?

Posted on October 19th, 2010, by Jordan Santell

Super ultimate post. Get ready for the Return All Robots! epic trailer. Also, Andrew made a video showing off the gameplay without all that razuhmuhdaz and epic-movie-trailer-guy-voice: So close to being finished! We were also luckily enough to have a chance at showing off our game and talking a bit about ourselves at the monthly [...]

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Return All Robots! Teasers

Posted on September 28th, 2010, by Jordan Santell

Hey guys! We recently shot a series of trailers with Electric Palm Tree for Return All Robots! coming out next month! So check them out, spread the word, and if you dig it, subscribe and we’ll keep it up! Check out RAR! in the weeks to come! Keep in mind, robots are no laughing manner.

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First Look at Return All Robots! and Remix Contest!

Posted on September 16th, 2010, by Jordan Santell

Since we’ve only had two live events (at Betascape and IGDA Philadelphia), we’ve had many people who’ve been interested in what we’ve been up to and the progress on our game but were unable to catch us when we set up shop, so we made a quick video of walkthroughs for two of our levels [...]

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Dream-Build-Play: Lessons Learned

Posted on March 24th, 2010, by Mike Worth

We have had a fantastic last 7 weeks! Our first title, a top-down action-puzzler titled Return All Robots!, has reached alpha; we submitted a nice playable demo to Microsoft’s Dream-Build-Play competition, and we are on track for a full game release to Xbox Live Indie Games by the end of 2nd quarter, 2010. So, we [...]

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IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU GROAN

Posted on January 3rd, 2010, by Andrew Aversa

We’re live! Welcome to the new Space Whale Studios website, brought to you by our technical director, Jordan Santell. While you can read more about us on our About page, the tl;dr version is that we’re a Philadelphia-based game dev studio focusing on small-scale, retro-inspired games with modern twists. We’re presently working on two titles [...]

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