Posted By Jared Barboza, 01, January, 2015, in fragcast
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FragCast is a weekly podcast where the founders of Frag Castle Games talk about the latest progress on their games, the video game industry, pop culture and the ups and downs of running a super-small, lean startup.
In This Episode
Jared and John talk about
- sorry audio only people John has a spinning tree and we have to talk about it
- also, Jared left john as the primary video feed for the first part of the podcast
- heads up, theres a new version of aseprite the best pixel image editor ever
- we talk about how long it takes to make a indie game an excellent blog post by Tower of Guns developer Joseph Mirabello
- it’s been 7 months since we entered BFIG and 4 months since the expo and we haven’t received our reviewer feedback, we’re kind of upset and worried that the review teams feedback is lost
- one of Jared’s new years resolutions is to make one game a month, and possibly ship 3 of them to the app store
- We’ve been around for 2 1/2 years and we feel like we don’t have a lot to show for it, demos are not games
- John is thinking about working on a few different game types: Flappy Bird clone, a tower defence game
- Rock Kickass isn’t dead, but we’re re-assessing the core gameplay and making sure that we fail faster with it
- RK Runner development hell is done, we’re probably going to take it off of the app stores in a few months
- Shroom Jump is a game made by John for a conference, we really liked it and decided to release it for iOS. Get it today!
- Check out Jan Willem Nijman’s talk “The art of screenshake”
- You can checkout some very early prototypes that we discussed during this episode: Run Up Game, Comic-style Panes
Currently Playing?
- Jared has been playing Peggle Blast, Assassins Creed 3
- John has been playing Gears of War 3, Titanfall, Kingdom Rush
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