Pirate Mayhem: The Inspiration

As some of you have guessed, the main inspiration of Pirate Mayhem was a classic concept and gameplay of some old games.
The original one, as far as I know, that started this very interesting mechanic was Cabal, an arcade game from the late 80s with tons of ports. Its “sequel”, Blood Bros, improved the basics [...]

Another round of Planet Delta reviews

Little by little more reviews are appearing, this time 2 great new ones of our first XBLIG project, Planet Delta.
The game scored 7.5 at Wasted Seconds and gets some nice comments. The reviewer is a Puzzle Bubble fan, so we are very happy that the comparative has been positive for Planet Delta.
The second review is [...]

Pirate Mayhem: The Characters

The image above shows the 3 main characters of the game. The one from behind is the player representation (is a bit shy for the time being :P), the other 2 are the basic enemies: the pirate and the dead pirate.
While the player’s character remains always the same, the other 2 could appear in different [...]

Evil Avatar’s Xbox Live Indie Games Giveaway

XBLA & XBLIG Ratings together with Evil Avatar and ten developers, have started a giveaway of this games: Little Racers, Pegzo, Hieronymus Bash, Battle Havoc, Rabid Gophers, Dock’em, Trino, Weapon of Choice, Planet Delta, Bomb Disposal Expert and Duologue.
To find out how to win one, our Planet Delta and Bomb Disposal Expert are 2 of [...]

Pirate Mayhem: The Concept

Today we will try to explain the concept behind Pirate Mayhem, focusing on the gamplay experience. We atached the screenshot below (the same we have shown before) to better understand the explanation.
High Concept
An adventurous pirate travels around the world shooting at tons of rival pirates to steal their treasures.

Gameplay
The action happens in some stereotyped locations [...]

New Planet Delta Reviews

Here they are, more results of the token mailing some weeks ago, this time Planet Delta’s turn.
And we repeat two of the websites that reviewed Bomb Disposal Expert a few days ago, and so we are very grateful with both of them
One review was written at Emuholic’s Game Blog, while the other one [...]

Dream Build Play 2009 Winners!!

From the Creators Club press release:
This year’s global Dream.Build.Play competition garnered more 350 games from over 100 countries, nearly doubling the number of community members who enrolled in and submitted Dream.Build.Play titles from those in last year’s competition. Many of these creators have the opportunity to appear on the Xbox LIVE Indie Games Channel.
Dean Dodrill of [...]

Pirate Mayhem: a new project is born!

We are working on a prototype for our next hit :P, and we thought it could be interesting to share the whole developing process in the blog with all of you.
This post starts a series of articles about Pirate Mayhem with a mock up of what the game will look like. Although the screenshot below [...]