Around two years ago, me and Shikishiji started Cavalcade Interactive to create stuff that will make people happy – games. I was a freelance web designer and he was a PHP developer, and in our city, there were virtually no one in the game development space so we had a long way to go learning all kinds of stuff. So after about a year and a half with over 5 web games and a couple of iOS games released, we looked back and saw a few salient points that made an impression in our foray into game development;
RT @majicDave: Luckily I'm making a sequel. Unfortunately its 2 late. Luckily I'm making a Mac version. Unfortunately nobody buys Mac games. # This is what we are looking for! no more 10mb build size ala Unity3d. http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/features/ #iphone #games # we hate aids too at Cavalcade Games. someday we will make a web game [...]
RT @tweetmeme Gerald Sindell: iTablet Beta Tester Breaks Embargo http://tinyurl.com/y9rq8t8 # twitter's change password is not working. the new password is always invalid. #twitter #help # what the fck. Googlewave and Twitter is using the 'word' chillax. i hate that word. # Tweetdeck is a dumbass when dealing with multimonitors on a mac. # RT [...]
I am going to win an unlocked iPhone 3GS just by following and retweeting http://bit.ly/Xj6Vd # Reading: "Mike Darga's Game Design Blog: Players (And Designers) Learn Faster With Tight Feedback Loops" (http://twitthis.com/stktj6) # @Ranoka – lol, it was checked by default in a twit this wordpress plugin for a blog. clicked Ok for retweet before [...]
Is there a real life mercenary Twitter account i can follow? that would be really interesting. #who #follow # Google buying Admob and Gizmo5, EA buying Playfish. its acquisition monday! # Ftanks' got weapon select UI, grenade, terrain destruction improvement and life bars! Awesome work by @shikishiji # Checking out Brizzly. thanks to @adachen for [...]
Is there a real life mercenary Twitter account i can follow? that would be really interesting. #who #follow # Google buying Admob and Gizmo5, EA buying Playfish. its acquisition monday! # Ftanks' got weapon select UI, grenade, terrain destruction improvement and life bars! Awesome work by @shikishiji # Checking out Brizzly. thanks to @adachen for [...]
Still late but we think we can go beta this week. The terrain destruction system is undergoing some heavy optimization because it drops the framerate by 50% when it recalculates the terrain during an explosion. We are trying a ‘grid based recalculation by area’ method to restrict the part it recalculates. The come2play API is [...]
Change is afoot in Cavalcade Games land – but thats not the reason why this blog has been neglected for an extended time. The reason is I have caught some virus called Influenza which fortunately is not the swine or bird kind. With the valiant Shiki leading the charge by his lonesome for Fusion Tanks, [...]
Our next big release is codenamed Ftanks. Its a ‘refinement’ of the classic Worms formula featuring tanks (or Scorched Earth for the older readers) . It is funded by come2play to showcase their very groovy API. It is also being built with the Pushbutton Engine. PBE is a game engine for the Flash platform which [...]
We now have a Wibiya toolbar at the bottom part of our website In it you can see our Twitter stream, look at our facebook page (be a fan!), subscribe to our feed, share a post to digg or reddit, etc —- all without leaving the site. This de-clutters our sidebar and also allows more [...]
Word Mansion is once again delayed. This time due to some coding problems too mysterious to state. At this point, its now in the hands of our collaborator, Mr. Gabriel Bianconi to finish the game – sometime this year. So as offering to Effishenzi – the finish-your-game-on-time deity. Here is an animated art preview.