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From Sweden MS WP7 conference…with love
Alright, i’m officially pumped right now. Simon, our master developer and international genius went to the MS WP7 conference today, and got some amazing feedback on our current development. Without giving away too much (before he posts), I can easily say he was extremely effective. I guess being international can certainly have its advantages 
To say the least, we have MS themselves looking at our game–Kinect and Mobile–interested in what we’re doing.
Big, big UPS to Simon for going out and getting it. I couldnt help myself and had to give a precursor here. Pics and much, much more info to come soon. Oh yeah, The Hearts of Men: Throne of Deceit is in peer review, so if you are on it, please test for us so we can release for the Holiday 2011!
PC The Hearts of Men Demo Coming
We’re doing some final adjustments but the game, on both Xbox 360 and PC is 100% complete! Done. Nailed it. I need a freaking week off!
To begin the game kickoff, we’re doing a few things, one is gonna be reaching as many people as we can. We’re also offering a bit of incentive for fans, gamers, game devs, and anybody else to follow us on twitter and Facebook. As it stands, our marketing and PR is pretty atrocious, but we want to correct this with our first official, final release of a game we’ve become quite proud of over the last few months.
With the pc demo coming THIS WEEK and going into XNA submissions, we’re going to do a promo where anybody that likes us on Facebook will get the demo early!
We’re also getting ready to announce our post mortem, and hoping this will take–we’re doing it LIVE!!! Yes, this is kind of new, but its the only way I’ve ever enjoyed a post mortem is with immediate feedback. We are planning on doing this through Google+ Hangouts, so we’ll be doing some tests to see what can actually be handled in such a format. Could turn out pretty cool.
And, we have other big announcement coming, but we’ll save those for later 
Once again tho…After 1.5 years developing this game, we’re DONE! Submitted to Steam and a few other notable Digital Distributors, now waiting on approvals. OH!! The game is going to be purchasable directly from our website too!!! Paypal, credit card…I’m even considering food stamps folks
Finally Finalized–The Hearts of Men: Throne of Deceit
After over a year and some months, we are proud to announce that we are FINALLY done with The Hearts of Men: Throne of Deceit. Congratz to us for being able to officially be in final playtesting and debugging, I know we’re all ready to move onward and upward.
Some may recall we had already released The Hearts of Men on the Xbox Indie Games channel, and after some really great feedback we decided we couldn’t leave good enough alone. Since the original design of the game had called for some of these things (upgradable stats, advanced pathfinding AI, destructible spawn points, multiplayer), and Dream.Build.Play was lining up with our estimated timeline, we figured what the heck, why not!? Plus, every game we create is a statement about us, so we can’t do things in a half-assed manner, that’s just not who we are. After reading every review that was written about the game, most seemed to be asking for the same few things. A very exciting aspect of releasing this final version will be the new reviews, especially since we did a pretty solid job on the original release, including an Indie Game of the Week at Dealspwn, amongst other 4 and 5 star reviews!!
Now of course comes the hard part for us, which is marketing our product. I enjoy the idea of marketing something you can stand behind, but it’s such a full time hustle, you almost feel like you are begging people to give you the time of day, and then again trying to sell the game. We’re really hoping our latest strategy will help us along, which includes releasing to the PC and Steam, alongside Xbox Live Indie Games. This week we will be releasing a detailed preview and preparing to release the demo onto PC soon after. Our goal is looking to release the game as soon as possible, so we’re hoping to breeze through the submissions process this type with less issues than we’ve previously dealt with.
And for now, that’s all. I’m excited tho, we’re finally done, and that’s that. After what seems like a lifetime, we’re putting this game on the shelf. We pushed and pulled on this one…and we’re done!
We’re gettin’ our Heart on again
Dream Build Play 2011 also has its heart on…The Hearts of Men: Throne of Deceit, that is We finished our DBP version, and submitted it about 1.5 hours before the deadline, which was quite thrilling really. We worked through the night cutting videos, sounds, new drawings, and screens to get things ready. Thankfully it all worked out in the end, so now it’s all about impressing the judges!
Besides Dream Build Play 2011, the Indie Summer Uprising is quickly approaching, and we’ll be submitting the title to that as well, trying to earn one of the 8 coveted spots for the event. Starting August 22nd (I believe is the tentative date), 2 indie games will be released per week. After a successful start with the Winter Uprising in December, the coordinators, Dave Voyles and Kris Steele, have stated they will continue to show the power of the platform and the great content coming to the Xbox Indie channel. It’s a great thing they have coordinated, and worth mentioning…alot! You can find more info at Armless Octopus, but once again I want to personally thank these folks, having seen the winter entries, I know they are going to keep bringing more and more quality to gamers attention.
Now, the fun begins! We’re going to polish the game, then polish it some more. We’re going to be playtesting alot of multiplayer, and then start some marketing and see how all these contests turn out. We’ll prep for release (dependant on Uprising results), and then finally–hopefully–get people talking about the game, and get some more 5 Star reviews!!! We liked that last time ;D
