How's Our Blogging?
April 9th, 2009
Hey guys. We've been working hard on the blog to keep you up to speed with all parts of the Overgrowth development process. The truth is we could talk about more than could be fit into a thousand blog posts but we really want to focus on the things that people find most interesting. If we use the number ...
Overgrowth squashed by SMALL TANK
March 31st, 2009
As we compared notes with the developers and publishers at GDC, we realized that Overgrowth is just not very marketable. It's a niche fighting game for a small hardcore audience, and takes too many risks in terms of scope, setting, technology, and controversial subject matter. Not only is it a tough sell to the mainstream, but it even doesn ...
5 Indie PR Tips from Wolfire
March 28th, 2009
Well, GDC is finally over. The biggest highlight for us was probably when Ron Carmel from 2dboy gave a lecture on Everything you always wanted to know about going indie but were afraid to ask and gave us a shout out about how we have been drumming up publicity for Overgrowth (here are Ron's slides). The guy who yelled ...
GDC Is Almost Over
March 27th, 2009
Hey guys some of you have noticed that I haven't been online much this week. The reason is that I've been spending the past few days at the Game Developers Conference. This being my first time at GDC, I wasn't sure what to expect. I had hoped that GDC might allow us to meet some new people ...
GDC Begins
March 23rd, 2009
As many of you know the Game Developer's Conference is happening this week. We are super excited because this will be our first time attending the glorious and chaotic festival that is GDC. GDC is easily one of the biggest gaming events in the world and it has special significance to indie game developers because it contains the marvelous ...
Overgrowth Voted 5th Best Indie Game on ModDB
March 1st, 2009
The ModDB Mod of the Year Awards have recently been announced. In addition to Overgrowth's nomination for the Editor's Choice "Best Upcoming Indie" award the final polls have been announced and Overgrowth has been voted ModDB's 5th Best Indie Game. We're very honored that Overgrowth has achieved such recognition at this early stage in its development ...
Audio interview with ModDB
January 17th, 2009
After witnessing the magic of modding in Lugaru (from the 3rd party campaigns Empire and Temple to Lotus Wolf's Weapon Shop), Wolfire has been steadfastedly committed to getting players as many mod tools as possible for Overgrowth. You guys are simply too creative and too talented for us to do otherwise. After we made our commitment to modding clear ...