April 2012
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RLIC Update: 04/14/2012
It’s been a pretty good week, filled with various tasks. At the start of the week I finished (for the most part) a really nice system for the robots’ movements. It’s not quite complete, but it’s already going to provide us with a lot of freedom and expressiveness in how the robots can move around. Once I get the character type animations in for some of the robots fully...
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Robots on Ice, er, I mean in space
I’ve spent the past few days working on the system that controls how the robots move around. It’s one of the two big systems I’ve built up and tore down multiple times (all for good reasons). I think I finally had a big breakthrough today and have found a method that we’ll be able to use to be more expressive with the robot movements while also being fairly efficient. We...
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RLIC Update: 04/02/2012
Hey everyone! Burton here. It feels so good to be posting again. We’ve been hard at work on the game in our nights and weekends around some full-time and contract work. I’ve been blessed to be able to position myself where I don’t need to take any work for the next 3-4 months. This is going to allow me lots of time to focus on making Robots Love Ice Cream (RLIC) as incredible as...
December 2011
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Thanksgiving and an update
Hey friends, here’s a cross-post from our Kickstarter page that we originally shared on Thanksgiving Day. Just to give you a window on what we’ve been up to:
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Hello everybody,
Since today is Thanksgiving day here in the United States, we at Addo Games wanted to take the opportunity to reach out and say how thankful we are for your support. While we’re at it,...
October 2011
2 posts
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What we've been up to
Hey guys, I definitely feel like our level of communication has been less than where I’d like it to be. I apologize for that. We’ve been working really hard on all of the efforts around the game, as well as some other-life efforts to pay our bills.
The Game, Man. Talk About the Game!
I (Burton) have been hard at work designing the underlying logic that all of the enemies will use to...
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Planet location survey
I thought I’d put together a survey to see what people thought would be the best locations to showcase in Robots Love Ice Cream. You can vote for one you see or enter your own. I’d love to hear your thoughts. The Sweets planet idea came from Chris Rickwood, who just did the music for Orcs Must Die and the theme for Madden 12.
Full disclosure, I’m intentionally leaving planets...
July 2011
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Kickstarter was a success thanks to our...
Thank you!
Thanks to all of our backers, the Kickstarter project was successfully funded! We had so many friends and media people stepping up to help and spread the word about our project. In what should have been perhaps the most stressful day of the entire campaign, I have to admit I was having a lot of fun with the process and talking to new people about our game and watching our Twitter feeds...
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Wired Magazine covers Robots Love Ice Cream! →
Jonathan H. Liu writes:
“I’ve mentioned before that I really love Kickstarter. So far I’ve backed about 20 projects, from board games to coffee joulies to gadgets to video games. I haven’t done as many art or music projects, but I’m sure it won’t be long before I find something there as well.
Recently I came across a campaign forRobots Love Ice Cream, an iPad app from Addo Games. It’s a...
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Some new eye candy from Robots Love Ice Cream
Hey guys,
I’ve put together a few new promotional shots that show off some of the fruits of our labors.
Ice Cream Truck (Hero)
This is still very much a work in progress, but I think it’s a great start. I’ve got the truck rigged and animated with suspension and chassis rocking that speeds up and slows down depending on the speed the player spins the planet at.
Koi Fish...
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Advance Preview - New Robot Concept! →
Our newest robot concept is a super-cute, wide-eyed little guy whom you’ll recognize as a popular figure in Japanese art.
This is a backers-only post for our Kickstarter project, but if you want to chip in as little as 5 bucks to check it out, you’ll get access to more exclusive content and great rewards. We have 13 days left to make our $18,000 goal, so your support and interest...
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My First Choose Your Own (Indie) Adventure
Hey friends, this post by Burton was originally published on AltDevBlogADay, which is a great community dedicated to promoting and supporting indie game developers. Enjoy!
I wanted to take this first posting on the blog to introduce myself, my company, and a little bit about where I’m coming from as a developer and indie startup. I know if I were seeing a new name or face for the first time,...
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Kickstarter Update #3: A Look at Gameplay, Part I
Around spending an incredible amount of time promoting both the Kickstarter project and the game in general, I’ve been working on developing out the gameplay logic for Robots Love Ice Cream. The quicker we’re able to do this, the sooner we’ll be able to begin balancing the experience.
In today’s update, I wanted to give you a little background now on how we’ve...
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Kickstarter Update #2: Robots Love Ice Cream theme...
Well, we’ve passed the $1000 mark, which means we’re not far from reaching the milestone of 10% funding after just 3 days on Kickstarter. If you’re one of the fabulous people who made an early pledge to Robots Love Ice Cream, THANK YOU! We truly can’t thank you enough for getting us off to a great start.
If you haven’t yet pledged to Robots Love Ice Cream on...
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Kickstarter Update #1
To all of our supporters so far, thank you so much for your support. After the first 48 hours of our project being up on Kickstarter, we’ve already hit the 5% mark just from a little social media promotion to our networks, and the support of a few great friends who’ve reposted or retweeted our messages. The IGDA is featuring us at the top of their curated Kickstarter page, and...
June 2011
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Here we go!
After a lot of hard work, we’re ready to show the world the game we’ve been working on. Today we’re launching a Kickstarter project for our new game, Robots Love Ice Cream. The game will be available for the iPad and iPad2.
This game is a bottled-up concoction of one part childhood nostalgia, one part modern creative inspiration, and at least two parts of the absolute best we...
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Building up speed on Project Treat
We’re putting our hearts and every bit of energy we have into our first indie game effort. In the next week, we’ll be launching a KickStarter for our first game project.
Stay tuned for more details!
-Burton