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A busy, but pleasant ride: Stops in Brazil, Ukraine and Steam!
Hey BeautiFans!
last two weeks have been quite busy for us with a couple of events and the Steam launch, now we have a bit of time to tell you about what we have been up to this later exciting times!
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| SBGames 2013 (Fuente: Arena IG) |
The first stop of our trip is Brazil and its SBGames 2013, one of the most important events focused on game development in Latin America. It took place from 16 to 18 October in São Paulo, and there was our community and PR guy, Jesús Fabre, that met some of the most interesting brazilian devs and gathered some feedback on Nihilumbra. Glauber Kotaki, pixel artist on the indie hit Rogue Legacy, praised the art quite a bit, and Saulo Camarotti and Beto Souza, from Behold Studios (creators of the amazing Knights of Pen and Paper and the upcoming Chroma Squad) loved the game mechanics and atmosphere. It was a great experience for us to be witnessing this "indie rennaissance" that is going on in Brazil right now, with games like Ninjin, Toren, Mr. Bree+ or Qasir Al-Wasat (the last two are struggling in Steam Greenlight,so if you like them, upvote!).
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| Some awesome devs discovering Nihilumbra: Glauber Kotaki (left) and Saulo Camarotti and Beto Souza (right). |
Our second stop is goes several thousands kilometers away from Brazil. No further than Kyiv (Ukraine), where Casual Connect was being celebrated.
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| Nihilumbra was showcased beside two great titles: The Inner World and a Knight to Remember. |
And there flew our colleagues Marcos Sueiro, one of our programmers, and Kevin Cerdà, our Creative Director and Nihilumbra's designer. Kevin did a speech about riding on sharks and living the indie adventure. He focused on how hard has been the labour of creating a and marketing Nihilumbra for iOS and the exhausting feat of getting out of Steam Greenlight.
Kevin and Marco's time at Casual Connect was fun as always but it was also really rewarding. They had the chance to meet with some great independent developers such as the guys from Studio Fizbin, who are the creators of The Inner World, Fishing Cactus with Algo-bot, Staal Media that brought a great flash game called A Knight to Remember, and a lot of other developers of awesome independent titles.
Both had the chance to have some serious conversations about videogame development while partying hard and wearing silly hats, as you can see in the pics. Bussiness is hard.
And finally, we cannot forget to mention how intense everything has been for us to launch our game on Steam. We are really thankful for all the attention we got from the press, from sites, youtubers and people supporting us on Twitter, Facebook, even in our new Nihilumbra page on Google Plus. We are learning a lot from everyone's feedback on Nihilumbra. That's why, in the future, we want to share our impressions and write up an article about all that we learned from the feedback on this conversion and the differences from mobile to PC/Linux/Mac audience, hope you like it!
Cheers!
BeautiFun Games.
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Shark-riding in Hamburg
Getting Loot
Last month we sent part of our team on a side quest to the Casual Connect Indie, and we got some loot:
Kevin showing us the cool stuff while a guy gives exactly 0 damns about it
It was a great multiplayer experience, sharing quality time with other indies from all over the world. In Hamburg we got the chance to connect with fellow adventurers, play each other's games and get to know what's going on in the indie scene.
Playing Co-Op
The nice guys at Yellow Monkey got a prize as well for their game Hue Brix. Later on we got to know Yoeri Staal (give his game Flooded Village a try here) who was a truly awesome guy.
Kevin was also quite hyped about Hairy Tales (Arges Systems) and Forced (Beta Dwarf). He's also been nagging us about moving BeautiFun Games to Argentina since he met the fine people of Epic Llama (who at the very least deserve an award for Best Indie Company Name).
Hernán López (Epic Llama) had a bad case of indynitis
And then, using the free beer powerups to fill up his Mana Bar, Kevin used the "Ride a Shark" on full blast.
Riding Sharks
We were kindly invited to do a post-mortem of Nihilumbra. It's quite a departure from our usual kind of talk. Rather than introducing our game, we focus on the process of making it - how me made it happen, what went wrong (aka Where We Screwed Up) and what we learned during the development. Watch it to discover how YOU can be a shark rider (yes, you), if you really really really wanna do it.
Too busy playing Nihilumbra and couldn't go to Hamburg? Watch it here:
That's it.
Now go ride some sharks.
And tell us about it.
Having lots of [Beauti]fun at the Best App Ever Awards
Sometimes we get prizes.
And sometimes we get a beer and a good time, like last night at the Best App Ever Awards 2012.
The ceremony was sponsored by Free App Slots and held at Barcelona's well-known club Luz de Gas. The place was packed with developers, publishers and other game-related party animals.
Nihilumbra was nominated in the Most Innovative Game category. No mean feat, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Eufloria (Omni Systems Limited) or Waking Mars (Tiger Style). Of course we were totally wowed to be in such company, and we didn't mind a bit that the prize went (very deservedly) to The Act (Chillingo). Then, as part of our unwavering commitment to beautiFun, we partied.
We met a lot of old and new friends from the industry - and had a blast. Pluuuus... (wait for it)... we made some cool pictures so you get the chance to meet the team in its REAL natural environment and doing The Real Thing.
Left to right:
Aniol, CEO, Programmer and Lead Beer Lifter
Marcos, Programmer and Senior Handshaker
Lourdes, Artist and Master Headbanger
Víctor, Marketing, Writer and Associate Beerhater
Kevin, Game Designer and Smileyguy-in-Chief
Pol, Programmer and Head of Teleporting Tech
Jordi, Artist and Ninja*
* (Don't bother trying to find him in the pic)
And sometimes we get a beer and a good time, like last night at the Best App Ever Awards 2012.
The ceremony was sponsored by Free App Slots and held at Barcelona's well-known club Luz de Gas. The place was packed with developers, publishers and other game-related party animals.
Nihilumbra was nominated in the Most Innovative Game category. No mean feat, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Eufloria (Omni Systems Limited) or Waking Mars (Tiger Style). Of course we were totally wowed to be in such company, and we didn't mind a bit that the prize went (very deservedly) to The Act (Chillingo). Then, as part of our unwavering commitment to beautiFun, we partied.
We met a lot of old and new friends from the industry - and had a blast. Pluuuus... (wait for it)... we made some cool pictures so you get the chance to meet the team in its REAL natural environment and doing The Real Thing.
Left to right:
Aniol, CEO, Programmer and Lead Beer Lifter
Marcos, Programmer and Senior Handshaker
Lourdes, Artist and Master Headbanger
Víctor, Marketing, Writer and Associate Beerhater
Kevin, Game Designer and Smileyguy-in-Chief
Pol, Programmer and Head of Teleporting Tech
Jordi, Artist and Ninja*
* (Don't bother trying to find him in the pic)
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