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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Doom & Destiny on DESURA!

Dudes and Dudettes, the time has come.
Doom & Destiny is now available for PC here on Desura!
Play the funniest indiest role playing game on your personal computer and have the time of your life!
Or just leave a comment, a positive one, on Desura and help us to conquer the internet world!!!
Click HERE to go on Desura!

HeartBit Interactive @ Games Week, Milan

Well, we where there, as guest, but we were there :)
Tons of games, very interesting conferences, special guest and a super free buffet offered by AESVI...
GREAT!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

SPYLEAKS OST, for FREE!

Enjoy the classic chiptunes sountrack of Spyleaks for free! Here on Desura!

HeartBit Interactive @ Lucca Comics & Games 2012

Oh my Flying Spaghetti Monster!
Lucca Comics & Games was a BLAST!
So many many people, so many fans, so many games...
AND HEARTBIT INTERACTIVE WAS THERE!
as its games:
Finally, indie games conquer the biggest nerdiest fair in Italy and we are proud to say we were there!
But this was possible only with the help and support of our fans, new friends and most of all,
of our BIGGEST HEROES EVER!

HeartBit Interactive @Playing the Game!



A two-day meeting on the theory and practice of videogaming.

On October 27th and 28th the first Playing The Game event will be held in Milan, at Spazio O': it represents the meeting point of production practices, use and (re)interpretation of the videogame medium.

The event will take place within the context of IF - Immagina il futuro, promoted by the Province of Milan and the Chamber of Commerce.

Playing The Game will be organized according to thematic areas, dealing with many aspects of the videogames universe, from the most practical (the playing experience) to those strictly connected with Academy and Art. Specifically, the sections of the exhibition will be:
• Indie Games
• Homebrew
• Game Art
• Conferences

The event will gather leading national and international personalities for each of the thematic areas. The Game Art section will feature works by Matteo Bittanti, Duncan Harris, Marco Mendeni, Shinji Murakami, Kenton Sheely, TonyLight and VjVISUALOOP.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

SPYLEAKS on DESURA!


Craving for some impossible old-school puzzle action?
Yearning for some retro graphic, chiptune music?
Hankering for some awesome SPYLEAKS but you don't own an XBOX 360?

Friday, October 19, 2012

The ULTIMATE UPDATE is OUT!!!

Doom & Destiny is bigger than ever!
Tons of new quests, dungeons, pieces of gear, powers, monsters and GIGAWESOME extravaganza are now gold in this new update!
Level cap reaches level 99!!!
A new vehicle, the airship!
A whole new area: the Desert of Mystery!
8 new epic dungeons,
30 new gears, including the Ultimate Weapons and Armors,
16 new Powers,
9 new Secrets,
9 new Side-Quests,
the epic fight against Dr. Insano comes to an astonishing end
and be brave enought to challenge the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
Only on Doom & Destiny!!!



Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Doom & Destiny is getting REAL!!!


First boxed copy of Doom & Destiny!!!
It will be sold @ Lucca Comics and Games 2012 in november!

Monday, September 3, 2012

GREENLIGHTS!!!


TO ALL THE DOOM & DESTINY FANS OUT THERE,
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO HELP US!
D&D is on Steam Greenlight and needs your votes and comments!
Help us getting on Steam!



AND TO ALL PUZZLE LOVERS, SPY FANS AND RETRO GAMERS,
SPYLEAKS is on Steam Greenlight too! 


Tuesday, August 28, 2012

DOOM & DESTINY, UPDATE COMING SOON!

One year ago, Doom & Destiny was released on XBLIG during the Summer Uprising!
To celebrate that day, we will release soon the last and most epic update of the game! 
+10 new dungeons, +70 new monsters, +40 new pieces of equipment, +16 new outstanding Powers, secrets, challenges, quests and the level cap increased to 99!!!
and as always, IT'S FREE!!!

DOOM & DESTINY RULES THE ULTRAWORLD!!!

Friday, August 17, 2012

SPYLEAKS is LIVE on XBLIG

The game is avaliable on XBLIG
for 80 MSP only!


Tuesday, August 14, 2012

SpyLeaks is coming!

My last work in collaboration with, as always, Heartbit and our new friends in Vintage Team is about to be published!
While you wait, you should check this amazing trailer!

Monday, June 25, 2012

Doom & Destiny, the awesome XBLIG!

Doom & Destiny is becoming pretty popular on XBLIG,
being among the TOP rated games in the world!

In the US, it's 27th

In Canada it's FIRST, AMAZING!
I LOVE CANADA!

and even if in Italy XBLIG isn't well known, Doom & Destiny is 11th

This isn't awesome, it's GIGAWESOME!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Doom & Destiny, 1.3 update is LIVE!

Finally, the long waited Doom & Destiny 1.3 update has been released!



So, you might be wondering, what's new?
Here it is:

-an entire new adventure! 7 dwarfs are lost around the whole world and need your help to return home! find them all!
-the ship! the ship! the ship!
-5 new super dungeons;
-more than 20 new powers!
-a complete new set of weapons, armors and utilities sold in various new shops and secret locations;
-3 new sidequests for hardcore players;
-new secrets!!!
-new hilarious graves!
-tons of new monster and challenges;
-level cap increased from a lame 40 to a legendary 60!
-game performance improved;
-less misspellings (maybe)
-bugs fix!

What are you waiting for? Destiny? Go play it!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

MINER WARFARE, FREE PC version

Yep, I'm not joking, but we went nuts and decided to release MINER WARFARE for PC for FREE!
Follow the download, start to game and enjoy! It's an order!
Download link right here!

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Sballo a Rapallo.

The experience in Rapallo at the IVDC was GIGAWESOME!
I had the chance to meet so many amazing people and make tons of friends!
Here just a few from the Indie Shelter , UNA games , and 10th Art Studio

Not mentioning all the celebrities I met!
It was like being a groupie in Duran Duran's backstage!



Here I'm with Ian Livingstone, co-founder of Fighting Fantasy (a roleplaying gamebook series) and Games Workshop!





Here I'm with Warren Spector, famous role-playing and video games designer. He created System Shock and one of my favorite game of all times,
Deus Ex! Now he works with Disney.






Here, from left to right, there are Dan Marshall from Size Five games, an amazing indie guy who is now freaking famous due to his awesome games! The guy in the middle is Jason della Rocca, he know tons of video games, he is super cool and I bet he knows Kung-Fu. Next to him is Matthew Hopper, creative director at Id Software (do I have to say anything else? of course not!). The lovely lady to the right is Erika from UNA games.

The only one I missed was American McGee. I had no idea what an amazing guy he is, but know I know!

Last, but not least, here I'm on stage with my colleague Matteo (from HeartBit), Dan Marshall, Fabio (the Indie Shelter) and long hair-dude from DarkWave during a speech. Yeah, I know, I'm awesome!


Well, what can I say except MITICI!


Wednesday, March 21, 2012

IVDC!

If you want to play MINER WARFARE or just stop by and say "Ciao!",
look for us at the Italian Video Game Developers Conference in Rapallo (GE) from the 22nd to the 25th of March!

Monday, March 19, 2012

MINER WARFARE - Trailer - For Glory

MINER WARFARE

Last week my colleague and I were invited in Bologna for the Svilupparty (a party for developers) where people like us could showcase their work.
Instead of creating a Power Point presentation, we decide to create a new game.
In only two weeks, we made MINER WARFARE,
a frantic 2D action multiplayer experience where up to 8 miners dig their way through dirt blocks and other miners to be the wealthiest gold digger at the end of the match!

We didn't want to create anything new, just something fun, and DANG it was!
People loved! So we took another 1 week to finish it and well, it's done and ready to be published!
But since we wanted a kickin' rad soundtrack, we contacted some musicians for, well, some music.
So right now the game is in hold until the soundtrack is ready (but don't worry, if it takes to much time, we have a plan B)

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Doom & Destiny updates

Doom & Destiny is constantly updated!
Well, not constantly because it takes a LOT of time.
Yeah, you might not believe it, but making dungeons, creating monsters with attacks and animations, rewards, new powers, side quest, towns and God knows what, requires a lot of work.
Not mentioning that adding stuff always create problem with what you already done and testing a 15 hours game it's getting harder and harder...
BUT do not worry!
We are working on the 1.3 version.
It will feature the ship (finally!) and a super sidequest involving 7 lovely dwarfs.
So be prepared to some a new nerdy adventure, FOR FREE!!!

Sunday, March 11, 2012

UPDATE COMING SOON

soon this forum will receive more updates, I promise :D