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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