Back from PAX East

We made it back from an exciting weekend at PAX East, and we’re once again ready to start pounding on our Fist Puncher Kickstarter campaign. Thanks to the supportive people at Kickstarter we were able to demo Fist Puncher in the Kickstarter Arcade for three incredible, face-smashing days. Once again we received plenty of insightful feedback and got tons of appreciation and support from our fans. We also got a chance to check out some of the other awesome Kickstarter games that people are working on: Against the Wall, Organ Trail, Code Hero, Guns of Icarus. Not to mention some of the bigger indie games that are going to make a splash in the upcoming months: Runner 2, Monaco, Super Time Force… there’s too many to name.
PAX East - the mob

The biggest news, however, is that our Fist Puncher Kickstarter campaign hit its goal of $10,000. We are officially funded! A few generous backers in the past couple days pushed us over the $10K goal. Thanks to everyone who pitched in. But typing only goes so far, so instead we put together another thank you video where we give shout-outs to all of our new backers. Thanks! We couldn’t have done it without you!

Fist Puncher Kickstarter Month: New O’Grady Patrol Diaries

We’re powering forward with our promise of new Youtube video content to support our Fist Puncher Kickstarter campaign. For this Thursday and Friday we have two new episodes of O’Grady Patrol Diary. Join the renegade cop as he muses and rambles about hackathons, country music, Dr. Karate, and cement-fu.

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Pre-PAX East Summary

These past couple weeks have been intense. Kickstarter, Greg Miller, video updates, interviews, and now we’re preparing to roll out to PAX East in Boston tomorrow. Let’s get everyone caught up on the highlights.

First, about a week and a half ago we launched our Kickstarter campaign to try to raise the final funding needed to complete Fist Puncher. There’s plenty of great incentives including copies of Fist Puncher, copies of Next Game Boss winner Washington’s Wig, a chance to become a playable character in Fist Puncher, and a ton more. We’re at about 45% right now and still have a long way to go. If you’re interested in pixel art brawlers or are dying to play as roller derby girl that confuses her enemies by kissing them, then check out our Fist Puncher Kickstarter.

Second, we appeared on IGN’s Up At Noon with Greg Miller where we did a fun interview at the end of the show. You can also check out the extended interview with Greg Miller. Lots of talk about Pies, quitting jobs, super indie icon Bean, Fist Puncher, dogs wearing wigs, and more.

We’ve also been doing a series of updates and additional video content to help promote our Kickstarter. You can hear from other indie developers, watch a talk we gave at the Super Happy Block Party Hackathon, listen to us give a shout-out thank you message to all of our first 100 Kickstarter backers, watch a trailer for Washington’s Wig, or just go to our Youtube channel and see all the video spam we’ve been flooding the internet with (no wonder the internet’s been full lately).

This weekend we’ll be at PAX East in Boston. We’ll be showing Fist Puncher and talking about our Kickstarter campaign off and on in the Kickstarter Arcade. Stop by to talk Kickstarter, give Fist Puncher a whirl, or rap about baseball (can the Brewers win the Central without Fielder?). We’ll also be wandering around checking out other games so if you have something awesome that we NEED to play, send us a message.

Fist Puncher Kickstarter Month: Up At Noon Interview with Greg Miller

How sweet is this? We did an interview with Greg Miller for his hugely popular show Up At Noon on the IGN/Youtube START network. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, this was the most fun we’ve ever had doing an interview. Pies, The Next Game Boss, Team Bean, triple handshakes, Fist Puncher, Washington’s Wig – this episode has it ALL. This might not be Full House, but this is certainly Must See TV! Check out the latest Up At Noon episode and the full, extended interview below.

Fist Puncher Kickstarter Month: Super Happy Block Party Hackathon

Thanks to Alex Peake of Code Hero fame we were able to slip into the lightning talks at this past weekend’s Super Happy Block Party Hackathon in Palo Alto, CA. Totally unscripted, nothing prepared, just some off-the-cuff talk about indie game development and following your dreams. Watch it here: