Hello Kotaku!

Welcome to those of you who are visiting us for the first time because of the awesome Kotaku article posted today. It’s strange to get a text from a friend that reads “you are Kotaku famous now!” and having no idea what they are talking about. I rushed to my cell phone, that was already in my hand from reading the text, and painfully waited for the Kotaku website to load. I admit, I was a bit nervous, I thought that there might be some unfortunate pictures of me circulating from GDC. To my utter relief though, it was for BulletTrain, and we still have no idea who we talked to that gave us up. Whoever it was… THANKS!

We are hard at work ironing out the kinks, and making the game even more fun. It’s a simple concept really, but I’m surprised how much goes into making even the simplest of games. Granted, this is a new platform for all of us, but it’s been great to get our hands dirty and make art and code for our own ideas for once. For me personally it’s been a life altering experience just to draw again and see how it all comes together.

Of course, there are some comments from people who apparently take everything at face value and have no appreciation for tongue-in-cheek. It’s really sad that in this world of social networking and sexting that people still believe everything they read, unless it ends in a “winky-face” 😉 So just in case there are some FBI agents reading this blog who do not have functioning Sarcasmeters, I never had any intention of becoming a hired assassin (I can’t vouch for Andrew). Yes we were all laid off by EA. Yes it sucked. Yes it got us together and got the creative juices flowing. Yes we are having a lot of fun poking fun and making a FREAKIN’ VIDEO GAME! Lighten up already, things are too serious in the world to not enjoy dissing your boss… 😉 (/sarcasm) lol, wtf, hah-hah… sigh.

~ Manny

downsized games – better than murder.

So I’m having lunch with Andrew, basically the same thing we did almost every weekday, except this time it had been two or three days since EA shut down Pandemic Studios leaving most of us without anything to do. I don’t think it had sunk in yet, but it was strange that we finished eating… and then just sat there wondering what to do next. You can only send out so many resume’s before you need to let the job postings refresh. We started talking about how messed up the entire situation was. Over 200 people laid off, and all looking for jobs. The same jobs that we were looking for at that. It was at this point we decided that we would become hired assassins who got paid to eliminate the competition in the job market. Sure we’d have to kill some friends, but for the most part we’d get to finally put a bullet into some of those damn smug programmers and designers… not to mention those art guys who are so damn proud of their tree texture they just won’t shut up about it. Anyways, we drew up our plans (both secretly plotting to kill off the other once the cherry jobs became open) and made plans to buy some guns, and maybe make T-shirts with cool logos of a gas mask with X’s over the eyes. Luckily before the bloodshed began Ariel called me and said, “Hey, wanna make an iPhone game?” The rest, as you see, is history.

On a totally unrelated topic, did you know that you can not return a rifle or ammunition after you purchase it?

~Manny

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BulleTrain is downsized games first original release.

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It’s the year 2124 and giant mega corporations rule the universe. Even though space travel has been achieved, the corporations still use superfast Bullet trains to deliver goods planet side (it must be cheaper, like outsourcing). This makes the Bullet-railroad barons, lead by the dastardly JR, the richest and most powerful people in the galaxy. You used to run a small shipping company on your home planet of Glendon-19 but a hostile takeover by Elaborate Acquisitions, your local B-rail corporation, has left you out on the streets. With the help of your best driver, Atal, you scrape together your last credits and outfit your transport ship/bedroom with enough weaponry to take down the corporations B-rails. It’s time to hand out the pink-slips, in blood. BulleTrain!!!!!!!!!!!

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