I have been secretly collaborating with a new project that I want to announce now. Here’s some information:
Key features:
System requirements: Diapers. Patience. Time. Tons of other stuff.
I started coding games when I was a small kid with access to Commodore 64.
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Congratulation Juuso. :)
You should give him/her a lot of crayons to embrace his/her inner artist, so you could have a free artist in the future. :P
Thanks. I wonder if (s)he would eat them…
Congratulations!
So a new gamer/game developer is coming to the world in the near future :D
Congrats! Best of luck to you both :)
Cheers
Charlie
@Ronin: quite possibly. It might take a while for this young apprentice to learn to code. Maybe first step should be learning Ook! (scroll down on that page to see syntax)…
@Charlie: thanks!
Congrats Juuso!
~DtD
Hey awesome! Congrats to you both!
You’re in for an exciting time indeed (I know I’ve got two of them :)
Thanks DtD & Hobbe – it sure is exciting! :)
Sounds like a clone of a existing projects. “It’s like Quake + Diablo!” isn’t original, it’s BORING! I expected something better from an indie game producer like you, Juuso!
Er, perhaps I should just say “congrats!” instead. ;)
Ha! Congratulations! It will certainly be an adventure and hard work but also very rewarding. Good luck to you and your family to be.
sounds awesome in a grand scale. Wish you the best with it!
…oh, and it’s never too early to put a controller in their hands. My oldest (3) can already find her way around little big planet.
Should be ready to be a play tester in 6 months.
Congrats! :)
Congratulations! Our first child is just over 2 months old — you’ve got a great adventure ahead of you.
@Brian: :)))
@Jake & BoyScout: updated the blog post to reflect this… adventure it is… ;)
@Scurvy: Thanks
@Robert: Cool, so cool! :D
Congratulations, Juuso and “team”! That’s a huge project to keep under wraps for so long. Your wife must have you under a very strong NDA! ;)
Congrats! This is definitely a life changing project and I’ve got some experience in that genre as I’ve manage 3 of them :)
JC
@Russell: Yeh, publishers lay down the rules… but I’ll try to get some screenshots (or gameplay video) online at some point ;)
@Ovogame: 3. Yaiks. :)
Thanks!
Ovogame: why not change your name to Ovagame and keep on making “new projects”? ;-)
Jake, actually OvO means egg.
:)
JC
Many congrats Juuso!
My wife and I are also hard at work in the final stages of our own little project release date scheduled for Feb 1st! :-D
Good luck with your own adventure!
Iain
Remember “non-toxic” does not mean “great for snacking”. Only helpful advice I’ve got. Grats!
Also I was reading it like it was a game until I read the definite release date. Not that release dates are that accurate for this sort of thing usually. Hope your project doesn’t release too early…
As for a rating, you need that “gaming experience may change with online play” disclaimer on here. Or something like that.
@Iain: Awesomeness, congraz to you guys! And thanks.
@Katherine: Thanks for the wise words. :)
Congrats!
In true Micro$oft form, I’m happy to inform you that our development team are in fact working on a competitor for your “product”, due to be released in February.
That said I would think that there’s probably demand and a niche of its own for both “products” ;)
Thanks Antti and congraz to you two as well.
Congratulations Juuso :D
Congratulations Juuso!
Remember girls are always girls, no matter what they want to be or how you teach them. Well, the same applies to boys also.