A Brief Summary of Wolfire At GDC 2010
March 15th, 2010
Some of you probably noticed that I have been neglecting my live chat duties on Wolfire's contact page. The reason was that while the rest of the team spent most of their week fighting the good fight on Overgrowth, I was hanging out at GDC 2010 in San Francisco. The Independent Games Summit Tuesday marked the start of the ...
Fan Interview Continued
February 15th, 2010
It's time to answer another question in the Wolfire community interview! After the dev studio tour question, the second most popular question, with 38 likes, comes from Swordarm. In typical Swordarm fashion, his question is actually five questions, so I think it warrants its own post with five answers. 1) Mentioning that studio tour again (great idea from Liam ...
Overgrowth - ModDB Editor's Choice for Best Upcoming Indie
January 29th, 2010
ModDB announced today that Overgrowth was awarded the 2009 editor's choice award for the best upcoming indie game. This is quite an honor especially considering the calibur of the other games that were nominated by the ModDB community: Natural Selection 2, Encore!, Frozen Synapse and E.Y.E. This might add a little extra flare to the old Overgrowth ...
Organic Indie Preorder Pack Postmortem
January 25th, 2010
In addition to John dyeing his beard pink, we promised that we would write a postmortem report on our recent "Organic Indie Preorder Pack" promotion. Here it is! To recap, a couple of weeks ago, we ran a promotion with fellow San Francisco developer, Unknown Worlds, bundling preorders of our two upcoming games together, Overgrowth and Natural Selection 2, for ...
Anton's Live Performance of the OG Theme
January 23rd, 2010
Despite Anton Riehl's hectic music production schedule, he was kind enough to make time to meet up with us and brought the flute he used for the Overgrowth main theme along with him. We had no choice but to demand that he give us a live performance. Fortunately, a camera was nearby, and we can share the experience with ...
Visiting Anton at Skywalker Ranch
January 21st, 2010
Anton Riehl, who has provided us with the amazing live flute performances for Mikko Tarmia's Overgrowth Soundtrack, invited us to visit him at the Skywalker Ranch yesterday. For those that don't know, Skywalker Ranch is George Lucas' giant private resort/workshop. From left to right: Anton, Aubrey, John, Pink Beard I think there is an implicit NDA that ...
The Beard Video
January 18th, 2010
As many of you know, we recently teamed up with Unknown Worlds to create the Organic Indie Preorder Pack. In the bundle video, there was some talk about John dyeing his beard pink if we reached 1000 sales. We passed 1000 sales, so without further introduction, here is the beard video! Be sure to watch it in high definition. Close ...