Archive for April, 2009

Bumble Tales Demo Released

Friday, April 10th, 2009

We recently worked with Tandem Games and Perfect Dork Studios to produce a demo of their very colorful and addictive match three game Bumble Tales, due out later this month. You can check both the demo and full release of the game here.

Try Catch Games had a great time working with both game studios of which both put out fantastic games. Tandem Games is responsible for Domain of Heroes and Perfect Dork is currently developing a cool platformer-puzzler called Box Macabre. Check out their respective sites for details on these great titles.

–Nate

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MN SWF Camp Presentation

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Yesterday was a lot of fun as I got to present to the local MN.SWF group at their annual code camp they hold.

I presented a simple game of Simon off of my good friend Brad Bollinger.  Both presentations went great and complimented each other well.  If you attended talk or if you are curious about the presentation and files, you can download the code and presentation.  
Download the code here
Download the power point slides

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Don’t get ahead of yourself

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Making games is hard work.  It takes planning, creativity, code, sound and lots of ambition but most of all it takes money.  Unless you have rich relatives that give you a big chunk of money because they believe in your game as much as you do, you have to find work on top of your passion game.

All of us at TCG are experienced in taking on freelance work.  However, we want to do games under the TCG banner.  By working with other indie/casual game shops we have been doing just that.  Along with all this client work we are developing Moonlight Lament and we are going to take our time with it.  With no real set deadline, it will get done when its ready.  With that said, we won’t be lazy with it.  We just realize the beast we are creating.

Even though this will be a Flash game first we will release this for XNA as well.  With the Flash version we are still figuring out how we will make money with it.  I will tell you this, we won’t be using much, if any, advertising.  Its absolute crap for making money right now.

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