Saturday 1 February 2014
PAD: Professional Associated Developers.
This week we attended the presentation of the Professional Associated Developers association in Barcelona. PAD is a non lucrative, open, active, inclusive, horizontal and transparent organization with the goal of fulfilling the real needs of the independent (indie) video game developer. Its goals are:
- Promote the cooperation between companies.
- Promote the video game industry and associates by participating in international events.
- Organize a Developers Congress Bridge between media and associates.
- Help associates find quality counsel in business management.
- Establish cooperation agreements with organizations from other sectors, public and private organizations, universities and other specialized educational centres.
BeautiFun Games is one of the 40 founding partners, we believe that PAD will definitely improve our relationships with the institutions and also help us to strengthen and be closer to the Spanish indie scene.
Vía @BeautiFunGames
Serena released for free on Steam.
Serena is a free adventure game that Senscape released with the help of other 40 collaborators.
How long has it been? A man sits in a distant getaway cabin waiting for his wife Serena. Where is she? Things in the cabin evoke memories, and the husband comes to a disturbing realization...
This short point-and-click adventure is the result of a massive collaborative effort between dozens of fans and designers of adventure games. Rallying to support the venerable genre and its passionate community, these developers have brought together a grim and highly detailed horror story in what is the largest, possibly even the first, game project of its kind. Talents include crew from renowned indie companies Senscape, CBE Software, Infamous Quests, Digital Media Workshop, Guys from Andromeda, and many more.But Serena has a reason to exist, and it is basically something nobody ever did before. It is a game made to unite the community around adventure games genre.
Vía @JesusFabre
Some awesome film and music resources from the 80's.
Do you like the Eighties? here at BeautiFun we love everything related to pop-culture, comics, music, films from that era, so we couldn't do less than share with you this recent film project Marcos found on Kickstarter. It's called Kung Fury:
Thanks to this film we discovered its musician, Mitch Murder, a true wizard who captures the spirit of the 80s in their albums. Check out his site:
Do you want to know some more 80s music, also movies, radio, and artists in general? then here you have one of the ultimate resources online. Check out NewRetro Wave, updated with more and more content every month!
Vía @sueythelaw
SUPERHOT, a breath of fresh air into FPS mechanics.
This pasts week we have been talking about this game, SUPERHOT was born out of the 7DFPS movement, where a nice bunch of developers met to create FPS games that innovated in some aspect (gameplay, aesthetics). What could happen if we took a regular FPS, but tuned it to make the time to progress in the same measure our character moves?
This conversation came to the table because our friend Jordi, from Deconstructeam, invited Kevin to participate on this interesting discussion about game design, check it out but remember its in Spanish!
The Floor is Jelly is out!
Our friend Ramón Nafria announced this week on Videoshock that this funny and curious indie platformer is out, check out the trailer:
We haven't tried it yet, but at least after reading the description on their site, it seems promising:
Who hasn't dreamt, at some point, of filling a pool full of jello and swimming in it? In some of us, that dream never died. Some of us kept dreaming: what if the whole street was jello? Or the continent? The world!? The Floor is Jelly posits a universe made of jello, made purely for one's own amusement. No longer need we look to our walls and our floors and sigh, "How solid! How sadly immalleable! How I wish for a world consisting only of Non-Newtonian fluids!" That world has arrived, via the dark magic of videogames, as The Floor is Jelly.
