Month: November 2010

Steambirds: Now out for iPhone, iPad and Android

November 11, 2010
by Daniel Cook
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Have I mentioned that this was a busy week?  Monday saw the release of our new Kindle game Panda Poet.  Yesterday, we release not one game, but two games.  The first is Steambirds for iOS.  The second is Steambirds for Android. Indie legends Adam Saltsman and Eric Johnson from Semi-Secret handled the iPhone and iPad versions.  They’ve been leveraging their experience with Canabalt and Gravity Hook to help navigate the wild west of AppStore relevancy. […]

The Cutest Kindle Game Ever: Panda Poet

November 9, 2010
by Daniel Cook
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Panda Poet, our next Kindle game, just became available for purchase. Panda Poet is my take on an anagram-style word game boosted by an epic dose of procedural pandas. Just like with Triple Town, I played with several key design philosophies: Designing from the root: Instead of expanding on an existing genre, I went back to first principles and re-evolved the mechanics using rapid prototyping. Evergreen gameplay:  Instead of making a series of fixed puzzles, I […]