New York City Trip
Bumpy Grumpy
is in residence in TWO prestigious arcade cabinets in New York City, so
my wife and I decided to make New York City our destination for our
family trip.
(Header pic: So much amazing cream cheese)
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Was the Empire State Building visit awesome? Yes!
Am I scared of heights? Well, you can see it in my eyes :D
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New York City Arcade Scene Is Big!
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Wonderville Arcade is in Brooklyn and it's got an amazing collection of "indie game arcade cabinets".
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These are often one-of-a-kind arcade
experiences. If you are in the area, you've gotta check this place out!
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Bumpy Grumpy Tournament Results!
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I had organized a high score tournament for Bumpy Grumpy with Mark from Wonderville.
So on the Saturday evening of our trip we took a subway ride from Manhattan over to Brooklyn for the tourney.
Remember: the game is out on Steam so people can practice at home--but its very different to play on an arcade cabinet in front of a LIVE audience!
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It went like this. We took sign-ups for all to
play. Then each contestant got two runs. We went through all players
once, then a second time. Mark wrote their scores on the whiteboard.
And I got to commentate!
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The end result was lots of Bumpy Grumpy games,
lots of cheering, shouting, and screaming, and lots of fun! Congrats to
the top 3: Nick, Blaze, and Mark!
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Bumpy Grumpy and the NYU Game Center
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We also got a tour of the NYU Game Center in Brooklyn.
Gentle reader--let me tell you--their "library" was enviable. It works
just like a regular library, but you get to check out GAMES instead of
BOOKS!
And the faculty there often give students assignments like "Your new
game is similar to this one from 2002. Your weekend homework is to check
out the game in the library and play it to see its design."
How cool is that?
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ChainStaff Demo at PAX West!
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The honestly-fantastic publisher for ChainStaff, Null Games, is flying me out to Seattle to show off a demo of ChainStaff at PAX West.
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If you've not already wishlisted ChainStaff on Steam, please do!
It's a huge boost for me.
Every wishlist helps me as it moves the game up through Valve's
automated lists, which gets us in front of more people. And that means
more sales and more weird games for you!
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My next big game is an action-platformer with a transforming grappling hook.
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Here is the Null Booth info for PAX West.
Null Games has a great collection of games coming out in addition to ChainStaff and Null always has AMAZING SWAG for giveaways, so please stop by.
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Player Animation Progress
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And finally I'll leave you with a recent video I made on the player animations in ChainStaff!
Happy swinging.
