Our first game!

evilblah · May 2011

Hey everyone, just wanted to share that the company I started a good couple of months back (Mind Factory Studios) just announced it's first game. Here is a little blurb about it. Hope you guys dig it!

We are Mind Factory Studios, a new indie game company made up of a bunch of friends making games we enjoy playing. We just announced our first title and would love if you could shout it out for us as well!

It is called: Little City

Little City is a logic puzzle game using a retro art style and includes 100 puzzles! Difficulties range from easy to extremely hard. Can you find the right path?
Little City is planned to be released in 2011 on iOS devices and PC.

Here are the promo images of the game that are also on Mind Factory Studios' Facebook Page. More images and videos are coming soon with hopefully a playable demo!

Thank you for your time,
Mind Factory Studios

p.s. Like the Facebook Page!

Skamberin · May 2011

Hey that actually looks pretty cool! I'll try the demo when you get one out

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Good luck further on guys!

rooster · May 2011

congrats! good luck with it

couple notes for me:
your presentation could use a little polish (everything is screaming for attention in bright yellow) and most of all:
hate that font!! I assume those numbers are important, but they're really not legible.. something a bit bolder and cuter would work better imo.

anyway, keep at it!

Barbarian · May 2011

Best wishes for a successful launch.

jimmypopali · May 2011

Looks great!

Mio · May 2011

looks good! good luck on launch!

chrismaddox3d · May 2011

This looks fun, may have to get this.
congrats on the new game.

Lamont · May 2011

Yeah, things like this I buy. I can play for a bit then stop.

evilblah · May 2011

Wow guys! Thanks for the great responses! The font has always been one of those debated issues but its the one we ended up with. Haha! I will be posting some more stuff pretty soon, tonight I am gonna try and put together a sample video of how it is played and then hopefully, this weekend we will have a demo out! Fingers crossed that is!

You guys just made my day!

evilblah · Aug 2011

It's out! Since first posting this thread back in May, Mind Factory Studios has been working like crazy, doing new code to make Little City as refined and polished as possible! At least for a 2 man crew and a little support on the side!

I am happy to report that Little City (iPhone) and Little City HD (iPad) are now out on the Apple AppStore! Take a look, try it out, rate it and let us know what you think! Tell your friends, your wives, and your kids cause we are puzzling everyone up in here!

-bair

evilblah · Aug 2011

Hey all! I started a blog awhile ago and have been updating it with random thoughts and artwork. Now I am going to be updating it with Little City information and stats as well! Take a look at it here:

http://evilblah.blogspot.com/

Let me know what you think!

rooster · Aug 2011

hey man! still hate the font but congrats nonetheless

hope it does well!

you guys have twitter? (just noticed your sig- do you use that or is there one for the game?)

evilblah · Aug 2011

Hey rooster! Haha, thanks! Yeah, I think in the next game I will be doing a lot more critical brainstorming when it comes to the font... That one gave me so many issues as development went on.

That's my personal twitter but its also the companies. For the most part you will get me saying things about the game or what we are currently working on. Pretty much just like the blog.

biofrost · Aug 2011

Awesome, I plan on buying this one as soon as I can. How long would you say the development took?

evilblah · Aug 2011

@biofrost - That is awesome to hear! 7 months give or take. About a month of full time work to get all the art and design finished but the real time came from beta testing the game and reworking all the bugs we kept finding. That ended up taking us about 6 months.

I am pretty happy with the end result and am glad for all the lessons we learned during this games development. Now to put those lessons into action!

PolyHertz · Aug 2011

You should probably avoid scaling any pixel art non-uniformly for advertisements and such.

That aside, congrats on the release.

gilesruscoe · Aug 2011

Congrats on the release guys, i wish you the best of luck

evilblah · Aug 2011

@PolyHertz - Thanks.

@gilesruscoe - Thanks a lot! This is the first game for most of the guys on the team so it's a pretty exciting thing. We are all excited and ready to get started on the next one!

evilblah · Sep 2011

Did a little interview about Little City and some of it's development. Take a look!

http://www.renderosity.com/game-developers-use-cinema-4d-to-create-little-city-for-iphone-cms-15824

Thanks again Polycount for being so awesome and encouraging!

-bair

Our first game!

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