Reintroducing Osmos for Android!
Many have asked – and so we’re happy to announce that Osmos has returned to Android! Some may ask: Why did it disappear in the first place? Well, back in 2011 we worked with a company called Apportable to bring the mobile version of Osmos to Android. They were great to work with, and the […]
Physics-Based Animation in Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, a game I’ve been collaborating on over the last few years with the awesome folks at Broken Rules, came out on Apple Arcade a few weeks ago. It’s an endless-runner style game in which the player controls a gibbon that can swing, slide, and somersault their way through the jungle, and […]
Osmos, Updates, and Floating-Point Determinism
We just released Osmos 2.4.0 on iOS – our first release in almost 4 years. Why the long hiatus? Was it because 2.3.1, our previous release, was perfect? No, though it was solid and stable, and we were happy with it. Rather, it was due to our reliance on “floating-point determinism” for multiplayer. And for […]
Karmaka’s Art Lived Multiple Lives: Part 2, The Box
As I mentioned in my last post, after having painted a version or two of all the cards in Karmaka, it was time to tackle the mother of all Karmaka paintings: the one that would be printed on the box. Dave and Eddy wanted a square-shaped box with an image that encapsulated the game’s characters, themes, and images. I […]
Karmaka Art-Print Poll Results
On Saturday we posted an online poll to Karmaka’s Kickstarter asking people to pick the top three Karmaka cards they’d like to see converted into art prints. (These will be available for purchase on Society6, alongside the box art and the Karmic Ladder sometime in February.) I didn’t intend to write a blog post about […]
Karmaka Print and Play
This is a BIG moment in Karmaka’s development: we’re releasing a free Print and Play (PnP) of the game! You can download it from this page. For those unfamiliar with the PnP concept, it’s analogous to the free demo of a video-game. Download the files to your computer, print up the various components (cards, rules, […]
Quick Reference Cards
We’re *this close* to releasing a Karmaka print and play! One thing we just finished creating is a two-sided quick reference card – a handy rules summary for each player: The graphic design style for these cards is based on the look Scott has created for Karmaka’s rules – coming soon! :)
The NEW Karmic Ladder
Here’s another sweet art update for y’all: the NEW “Karmic Ladder”, by Lane Brown. We had revealed the original Ladder by Marco in the Spring, but over the course of play-testing we’d gotten a not-insignificant amount of feedback saying the Ladder’s “woodcut” style didn’t quite fit the rest of the game’s art style. We had […]
Karmaka Graphic Design Update
One of the things we’ve focused on over the last month has been the graphic design of the cards for Karmaka. It’s primarily a card game, and we really want the cards to look their best! So we worked on them with a graphic designer, Scott Nicely, and have something we’re really happy with at […]
