So, I decided to take a break from working, and write this short blog post on some of the back-end coding stuff that goes into Return All Robots. As you may (or likely don’t) know, Return All Robots is based off of a flash game we made at the 2009 Philadelphia Game Jam, called Shovelnose [...]

Hi, everyone! Mike Worth here; just throwing out an interesting observation that I just experienced. So, I’m watching Game 5 of the Flyers/Devils playoffs (Go, Philly), and I’m irritated. The Flyers are not looking good. They’re harried, they’re spazzy, my favorite line (Briere/Hartnell/Giroux) can’t get any offensive momentum. And, it doesn’t help that my daughter [...]

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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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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