End Boss Games LLC http://www.endbossgames.com Independent Game Developer Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:49:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Sticker Mule, Kickstarter, GDC http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/279/ http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/279/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:04:42 +0000 Big Boss http://www.endbossgames.com/?p=279

Today I got my stickers from http://www.stickermule.com/
I have to say the quality is really good. I ordered the rounded corner stickers. They feel really durable. Probably due to the vinyl. I suggest getting them to help promote games.

I also backed 2 new projects today on kickstarter.

Planet Explorers

  • This game just looks epic. In terms of gameplay and crafting. I’m interested to see how far this game gets.

Cheap Shot: A video game crowd punching frustration simulator

  • I saw these guys on IGN’s The Next Game Boss season 2. Thought it was hilarious.
]]> http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/279/feed/ 0 zFPS updated on youtube http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/273/ http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/273/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:08:53 +0000 Big Boss http://www.endbossgames.com/?p=273 Another update:

Enjoy.

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Congratulations, today is your first day of work at a top secret government agency that runs the even more top secret, Facility 15. Facility 15 stores and researches paranormal creatures & monsters to further the development of weapons of mass destruction. Unfortunately for you, things are not going to go well today as a major malfunction in the facility has released all the test subjects. Good luck getting out alive.

Features:

  • Random rooms of death! Rogue Like
  • Toon render
  • Old school DOOM shooter action
  • Weapon crafting
  • Monsters of all types
  • RPG elements
  • Inventory Tetris
How to play:
  • The game is currently WIP
  • Playable Alpha Build
  • Click on the icon below to view the Steam Greenlight Concept page

Dead Squared
Dead Squared

]]> http://www.endbossgames.com/games/259/feed/ 0 zFPS updated with public Build no.6 http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/zfps-updated-with-public-build-no-6/ http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/zfps-updated-with-public-build-no-6/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:44:56 +0000 Big Boss http://www.endbossgames.com/?p=254 So we just added another build for people to mess around with. Still very early WIP. Most of the guns are now in place, and just needs to be setup.

Guns guns guns

Take a look at our steam page zFPS on Steam Greenlight Concept

Or to play the current build directly go here:

zFPS Build no.6 – Guns guns guns

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Since my last post we launched our 2nd game >> Chicken Rescue.  Its been published by Ayopa Games.  It was featured by Apple for a week.  Sales were definitely better this time around but still not enough to get us into the black.

We are now working on our latest game:

Also check out the Steam Greenlight concept page I created:


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=115749778&searchtext=

Here is some early video:

That’s it for now.

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Chicken Mama needs your help to find her lost chicks. They’ve gone missing from the chicken coop and Mama has gone out to find them. Help her navigate through 24 fun-fllled, colorful levels as you tilt and turn your way around challenges and dangers in this accelerometer-based arcade puzzler for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Features:

  • Tilt-based gameplay that takes advantage of your iOS device’s accelerometer, giving you a fun and different way of navigating the game’s challenges and puzzles
  • 24 levels filled with collectibles, pickups, and puzzles that start out easy and get progressively harder
  • Multiple challenges to maneuver past such as rocks, crates, prickly plants, pushy pigs, and stinging bees. And don’t fall into the water surrounding the later levels or it’s game over!
  • Earn points and coins for completing levels with skill and accuracy
  • Tons of upgrades for Chicken Mama to make her faster, give her more health to survive stings and cactii, and make it easier for her to find hidden pickups and coins
  • Nine skins to unlock, like Robot Chicken, Ninja Chicken, and Zombie Chicken, that give Mama fresh new looks and cool new abilities

How to play:

  • Simply tilt your device to control Chicken Mama

]]> http://www.endbossgames.com/games/chicken-rescue/feed/ 0 Testing out PlayMaker http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/testing-out-playmaker/ http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/testing-out-playmaker/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:59:26 +0000 Big Boss http://www.endbossgames.com/?p=196 Just recently bought PlayMaker for Unity3D.

http://hutonggames.com/playmaker.html

This plugin basically adds visual scripting to Unity3D through state machines. If you’re familiar with Kismet from UDK it’s pretty much the same thing. I’ve only used it for a few hours but this is what I’ve setup so far. A simple movement control setup.

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http://pocketfulofmb.com/ios/ios-games-of-the-week-02222011-edition/

The obligatory puzzle game for the week. Chicken Escape starts you off as a lone chicken in a mixed up world full of tiles with colored roads on them. You don’t control the chicken so much as the board, and your main objective is to make your way to the chicken coop tile after it appears….

www.freeappreport.com

Thanks guys! We really appreciate this.

On the development front we just got our avatar system up on iOS. It looks pretty dam sweet I say. There’s going to be a lot of happy kids when we launch this app. Surprisingly the app is only 5MB, and it runs pretty good on iPod 2G. Once we add music and more content I’m sure the app size will double or triple. Goal is still to launch it at under 20MB for initial release. Some other news, the chicken spin off game is on hold. We spent that Friday experimenting with an even more simple concept. Though the concept is simple the code and math behind it is not. We will decide what direction to go once we get a playable.

cya next time.

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Some of our plans has changed as we are now going to try and slot in a 2nd Chicken themed game first. We figure it would be fun to work on a smaller game while keeping our main focus on the bigger ones. We plan to put aside at least 1 full day a week and half days on the weekends when applicable.

With the first 2 games being more family friendly we also will split them off as Play Town Games Label. End Boss will be used for more core games. The avatar system we been developing is almost ready for preview. It will also launch with the new Play Town Games site….or earlier :)

Here is a preview we left public for anyone to randomly find on youtube :) . I created this video as a request for Unity3D show reel at GDC. Hopefully it makes it! That’s all for now.

]]> http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/just-an-update/feed/ 0 Chicken Escape now up on the app store! http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/chicken-escape-now-live/ http://www.endbossgames.com/blog/chicken-escape-now-live/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:12:49 +0000 Big Boss http://www.endbossgames.com/?p=181 If you’re reading this..then click the links below

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chicken-escape/id413536509?mt=8&ls=1

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chicken-escape-hd/id416277559?mt=8&ls=1

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