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Gaining insight into Game Insight: A conversation with CEO Alisa Chumachenko
By Nick Tylwalk
It's a tale everyone has heard before: woman plays a lot of MMOs, joins a gaming start-up with some of the members of her guild, and eventually leaves to head up her own multinational mobile/social gaming company.Actually, maybe the story of Alisa Chumachenko isn't a very common one. But while the CEO and founder of Game Insight may not have taken the usual route to the executive level of the industry, that doesn't mean she has any less insight (no pun intended) into where mobile and social games are headed.In fact she might have more than most people because of the way Game Insight has had to shift focus in its three years of existence. Though its original aim was to create casual titles like city builders and hidden object games online, the state of social gaming during the company's infancy forced it to switch gears quickly to tackle the mobile market.Sometimes having no game plan can pay off: The story of Snail Bob
Developing Snail Bob, a casual web and mobile game for families and kids, was a risky endeavor in hindsight. We had no specific theme plan at the beginning of the franchise. Instead we let a free flow of creativity lead us as we designed the game. It turned out that the random variety endeared players and built fans, but for us as developers, we quickly learned how much more work we had bitten off for ourselves. How it began: We started by creating a short prototype of our new character, Snail Bob, crawling by himself. It was really funny, but we still needed to know more about how players could interact with him. Initially we wanted to give players the opportunity to drag physical objects, but after creating the prototype we discovered that dragging those objects made the gameplay too difficult. We made changes so players could control Bob using different levers, buttons and other tools in order to get him to finish each level.This resulted in an unusual mix between physics, puzzle and point-and-click games. The levels were all quite different. We created a number of unique animations per character per level, with the goal of delivering variety and surprises for players. This of course demanded unique code for each behavior; and often that code is used only once in a game session. Like cartoons of the old days when an artist drew 24 pictures for one second in a cartoon, we could spend several days on one level that the player completes in a single minute.New Spec Op brings Infinity storyline to Marvel: Avengers Alliance
By Joe Jasko
Marvel: Avengers Alliance has unleashed a brand new Spec Op for the popular action-packed superhero universe, and this time it's bringing the new "Infinity" storyline from the Marvel comic book series directly into the fold!In the new Spec Op event, players must face the dreaded return of Thanos the Mad Titan and his fierce following of warriors known as the Mighty Black Order. Expanding the character roster of Marvel: Avengers Alliance to exciting new heights, the new Infinity Spec Op will reward players' efforts who complete the journey with a rare Black Bolt character model for future use in the exhilarating action game."What's more, new Inhuman Lockbox pickups will offer the chance of adding Infinity's Thane (a mysterious new face to the Marvel universe) to your character roster as well, in addition to other new characters like the Black Dwarf, Corvus Glaive, and Proxima Midnight.So will you be taking on the task of stopping Thanos on his rage-fuelled quest to capture Black Bolt, the King of Inhumans? Be sure to let us know in the replies!Valve unveils SteamOS; a new Linux-based operating system for your living room
By Joe Jasko
The first of three mysterious announcements from Valve has been unveiled today, and it looks like Steam will be getting a brand new free operating system designed to take advantage of your TV and your living room. It's certainly the next logical step for the innovative gaming company after the recent success of their Steam Big Picture Mode.The newly coined "SteamOS" will use a Linux-based architecture combined with a Steam gaming experience that is fine-tuned for the big screen. But the best part about the new operating system so far? The fact that Steam OS will be available as a "free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.""The official announcement page for SteamOS tells us that the operating system is capable of running on "any living room machine," and that it will come with a significant performance upgrade that not only increases the breadth of graphics processing, but also audio performance as well.Free Games and Sales: Nimble Quest, Legend of Grimrock, and more!
By Joe Jasko
Being the online news source that we are, I'd like to think that most of us here at Gamezebo stay pretty privy to the current events that go on in the world. And if there's one current event in the world of gaming that everyone seems to be talking about today, it's the unheard-of milestone that Rockstar Games has managed to achieve this week with their highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto V: making $1 billion in only three days.Now while most people are looking at this in the light of what it means for gaming, and what kinds of things could be possible for AAA franchises in the future, I've been busy thinking about all of the great video games I could score with that cool $1 billion! And given all of the great new sales going on this weekend, not only would I be able to buy everything on this list without blinking an eye, but then I'd still have enough left over to buy every other video game in existence, and maybe an ice cream cone or two."So as always, if my mind has wandered too much in thinking about how I would spend my theoretical billion, be sure to let me know of any other free games and sales that I may have missed down in the replies!Hands-on with Citizens of Earth
We've been waiting oh-so patiently for Citizens of Earth since our first peek at its colorful, cartoony 2D visuals back in January. While the wait is not quite over, its launch on Kickstarter this week and the inclusion of a playable alpha demo has sated some of that hunger and confirmed many of our hopes: namely, that this game is going to be good. And it's going to be even better for fans of Earthbound.The story follows our "hero," the Vice President of the World, during his post-election vacation at his childhood home. After being forced out of bed by his Chrono Trigger-cameo,curtain-pulling mother, the VP decides to head to Moonbucks for a late-morning pick-me-up. What begins as a simple trip to the local coffee shop quickly turns into a series of challenges and mysteries that need solving. Why are protestors picketing on your lawn? What happened to all the bags of Special Blend coffee? Can anyone stop the sick bee that is infecting hikers?"As the Vice President of the World, our hero has one main talent: recruiting followers. This comes in handy since he's also above fighting his own battles (because he can't risk ruining his $500 suit, come on!). The first two, default recruits are your brother and mother, but there are dozens of other NPCs available to charm into your party. Most require you to complete a goal first: for instance, the Barista will join you once you find her missing Special Blend coffee, while the Baker will join after you run off the guy who's trying to take his giant donut. Each character comes equipped with their own stats and special skills: Mom can heal status effects with hugs, while the Conspiracy Guy can interrogate enemies to learn their weaknesses.Replay Wednesdays: Dungeonism, Everlove: Rose and more!
By Joe Jasko
We cover plenty of new games here at Gamezebo every week, but the number of games we've already covered that show up on new platforms? It's staggering. This Wednesday and every Wednesday, Gamezebo is rounding up the games that aren't quite new, but might be new to you depending on your platform of choice. And who doesn't love new(ish) games?This week's highlights include enduring the Kingdom of Despair on PC and Mac, relearning the fundamentals of dungeon crawling on iPad, and engaging in a torrid love affair on Android.JoyBits talks the evolution of Doodle God and the road to Doodle God 2
By Joe Jasko
What once started out as a simple idea for a text-based web game about combining elements to make new ones has since spawned a handful of sequels on dozens of platforms, and is currently reaping the accolades of having over 100,000,000 user-downloads across all titles combined. That's right: I'm talking about JoyBits' simple and addictive Doodle God elemental crafting franchise. From its old text-based days, to finding new life on the iPhone in 2010, and gaining colorful graphics, unique and stylized humor, and so much more along the way, the Doodle God series is one of the most played, and most recognizable names in casual gaming today.I recently had a chance to learn more about the evolution of Doodle God from JoyBits co-founders Anton Rybakov and Nick Kotlyarov, and to ask them a few questions about how their life lessons in mobile game development to date have since gone on to influence and shape the upcoming release of the highly anticipated Doodle God 2. Through emailing with Kotlyarov, I learned that the basic Doodle God formula was first expanded in two key areas: by creating thematic episodes such as Technology and Modern World, and populating each one with a series of thematic quests, like "Save the Princess from the Dragon." With this new content to the original Doodle God now in tow, JoyBits next set their sights on expanding the universe even further with spin-off games like Doodle Farm and Doodle Devil. Once those follow-up games got some good traction with players in the months after, it was time to revisit some of the now-classic Doodle God titles and reignite them with massive title updates. In particular, JoyBits is currently celebrating the launch of both "Doodle God 2.0" and "Doodle Devil 2.0," each of which contains an awesome amount of new content and features.