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Flash Game: Kung Fu Panda Tales of Po
Nov 29th
At Seven2, I served as the lead developer on the pilot game for a brand new Nickelodeon tv series based on Kung Fu Panda! This recently released game, called called Tales of Po, is in the running to be Nickelodeon’s 2011 Game of the Year (along with Voltron Ultimate Victory, another game that I served as lead dev on)! It’s a side-scrolling rpg-brawler with similarities to Double Dragon, Castle Crashers, etc. Stay tuned for future posts on some of they key development issues & solutions encountered while developing this game. In the mean time, go play it!
Kung Fu Panda – Tales of Po (PLAY NOW)
First Think Labs class starts tonight
May 18th
The company I work for, Seven2, along with its sister company, 14Four, or co-sponsoring Think Labs. Think Labs is a series of free classroom training sessions in online and mobile development. For years we’ve been putting our new employees through a rigorous training program and we’ve decided to share this training with the community. We had a large number of talented creatives apply, but only 10 spots were available. Narrowing it down was difficult! So I wanted to first say congratulations to the 10 all-stars that made the cut:
- Carlos Rivera
- Eli Snavely
- Ginny Baxter
- Jame Stinehart
- Karli Ingersoll
- Manny Trembley
- Mitch Rickman
- Nicholas Malara
- Peter Jantz
- Tyreil Poosri
The first session is an 8-week series dedicated to ActionScript 3.0 programming and it starts tonight! I’ll be co-teaching this course along with my adept partner-in-crime, Kipp Ashford.
If you didn’t make the cut this time around, stay tuned to the blog or the facebook page and we’ll let you know when the next session begins!
Flash Game: T.U.F.F. Puppy Unleashed
Dec 6th
At Seven2, I served as the lead programmer on the pilot game for a brand new Nickelodeon cartoon show called T.U.F.F. Puppy. This game is now in the running to be Nickelodeon’s 2010 Game of the Year. The game is called T.U.F.F. Puppy Unleashed! It’s a grid-based combat game similar to Final Fantasy Tactics.
This game will go up against a different game each day of this week (including one other game I did, Penguins of Madagascar: Oh Snow You Didn’t), and a winner will be crowned at the end of the week. Then this week’s winner will go up against the previous 3 weeks’ winners and one game will be appointed to rule them all (for 2010). A “vote” is cast simply by playing the game.
A shout out to all of the peeps that created open source libraries that we leveraged on this game including: AS3 Signals, TweenMax, Cool Console, Electrotank’s A*, and Bulk Loader.
Now, go play it!
Changes and Updates
Feb 4th
Sorry I’ve been MIA for a while, but a lot has changed for me in the past year: my wife Megan and I traveled A LOT (Thailand, Italy, London, Las Vegas, Grand Cayman, Mexico, Belize, Honduras), she got pregnant, we now have a 3 month old, I sold a car and bought a brand new RAV4, and I changed careers. Whew, busy year.
I chose to leave DigiDeal and the casino industry and I now work for a fantastic interactive agency called Seven2 (we’re hiring btw). I haven’t been here for long, but so far, I’m really enjoying it! The owners are awesome, the creatives are genius, the accounts reps are fun and on the ball, and the clients are big (Disney, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., AT&T, MTV, etc).
Here are two of the games I’ve programmed so far for Nickelodeon:
The Penguins of Madagascar: Oh Snow You Didn’t
Back at the Barnyard: All Cooped Up
Anyway, hopefully I’ll back to posting more regularly now. Stay tuned… =)
