Here are some pictures:

And some videos on ‘da tube’:

Ivar

Gullarp

Iceberg 

Village

We are proud to announce ‘Ivar & Gullarp’ the new add-on content package for Small Arms! This content package containing two characters, two levels, and two new achievements will release tomorrow, June 6th. There will also be a long awaited title update including a ton of new features and bug fixes.

Read the full press release here

See them in action here

For only the second time in the history of Gastronaut, we are hiring. It’s always hard to find good people, and when you are small like us it’s even worse. If you are sick of being a cog at a larger studio, or just want a leg up getting over the indie hump, come join us.

Hiring Console Developer

For only the second time in the history of Gastronaut, we are hiring. It’s always hard to find good people, and when you are small like us it’s even worse. If you are sick of being a cog at a larger studio, or just want a leg up getting over the indie hump, come join us.

Hiring Console Developer

It looks like those guys over at the Behemoth are releasing Alien Hominid to Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. The Xbox 360 version looks great! High definition and clean anti-aliased line work are a great match. And it’s only 800 points. You should buy it.
We are apparently their contact info for the Alien Hominid leaderboard contest.
-jake

Don and I won our ticket to the open bar at the Game Developer Choice Awards/Independent Games Festival Awards in the form of a nomination for Best New Studio! I’ve been a couple times before: first when Fuzzee Fever was a finalist in the IGF and later when our friends at Chronic Logic won the Grand Prize with Gish (I got to hang out at their table).

Our competition is tough with studios like Ready At Dawn and Iron Lore also nominated. I’m just amazed and proud at how we’ve gotten to this point! Apparently Shigeru Miyamoto will be there receiving his lifetime achievement award! Exciting times!
We’ll be heading to San Francisco in a couple of weeks. Our slides for the talk are done and we’re working on the actual speaking part now. It should be a good talk and we’re aiming to make it very useful for companies in similar situations to ours and perhaps bigger companies that want to enter the downloadable space.

-jake

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

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

The guys at gamertagradio.com did a nice video review of Small Arms. It has a good amount of gameplay footage spliced in, as well as a sexy closeup of CyberAthelete I know you’ve all been waiting for.

http://www.gamertagradio.com/vbportal/forums/showthread.php?t=2814

I did another Q&A this week for FiringSquad.com.

This site used to be all the rage when I was a semi-pro Quake player back in the day. Glad to see it’s still around, even if Thresh’s name is no longer in the title.

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