Jacob and Don will be speaking at the Independent Games Summit of GDC. Our talk will be a “Postmortem” of Small Arms. More info is available at our blog.

Don and I will be giving a talk at the Independent Games Summit of GDC. The talk will be a “Postmortem” of Small Arms, which we still have yet to write. It will likely encompass some helpful tips for developing big ideas with small teams, balancing graphics-technology and art, making games to fit in XBLA size requirements and more! With the “more” being us talking about what we messed up and how not to do it. I’ll also be on a panel discussion at the IGS. So make sure to come to the talks. Gastronaut + public speaking: could Cutty be far behind?
-jake

We’ve been moving very slowly here after launching Small Arms. Vacations & holidays have slowed our normal busybody schedules to a snail’s pace. Small Arms has been an amazing success and we were happy to take some time off to watch it go.

In the meantime, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has profiled Gastronaut and Small Arms. This includes a photo of Don and I, sitting in front of the Gastronaut family TV. The paper also had an image of Lord Peet (Small Arms’ resident knight wanna-be) on the front page mingling with Rachael Ray. Note to the Food Network: Lord Peet is available for the next “Throwdown with Bobby Flay.”

The paper came out on December 18th. The article can be found online at this link: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/videogames/296238_software18.html

We were also mentioned in a Hollywood Reporter article about Xbox 360 Achievements. Click here for that article.

-jake

After finishing the game, we set about working on the new Small Arms website. This is now complete and the results can be seen at:

www.smallarmsgame.com

It has lots of cool features that give you a good look at the characters and weapons of the game fully animated. The site was made for us by the dynamic Donnie Steele, whose name we will license for an upcoming action game.

-jake

Major Nelson stopped by to interview us before we all took off for vacations. You can listen to us on his podcast here.

-jake