I have watched a mini live show with my friend,Yeats.
This live is very interesting. That is an H.K. indie music studio P.M.P.S.(people mountains people sea),found in 1999.the members are good friends and silent partner.




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photo by YOUNG

Today I'm going to talk about Farbs and his Captain Forever.

I saw his game on GDC China indie game booth. Here's a live shot:


Any ideas? Probably not. Okay, the game with this retro graphics style is, all about find-and-shoot'em up, but most importantly, an easy upgradeable battleship, and the upgrade item comes from the wreck of enemy you destroyed!


So you can control your tiny little spaceship(WASD), with only a few basic equipment from the beginning, and use mouse to capture and install the equipments and weapons. What's more, the equipped weapons and propellers are context-sensitive. That is, if it's installed on the rare bottom, the propeller will boost your ship when you back off. And also if you install too many "shields", the weight will slow you down. So there's a strategy on how you configures your ship.

I couldn't stop playing this at the booth. When talking to Farbs(the author ofcoz), he said the game is inspired by battleship forever and warning forever, which are also games with great ideas. If you buy the game, you can find them in the credit ;-)

So, have a try and happy playing!

BTW: finally Farbs made it to the grand prize of IGF China 2009. Congrats!

Today we have moved to our new office.
The old place for our studio was at Wesley's home and we are really attached
to it, so as a memory we have taken a few pictures of it.
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Wesley's table

HP Laptop & Mac Mini

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Where Eiichi and March works...
MAC & PC ...

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Our white board.
Every office should have a whiteboard...

Can not show u too much because you see above, there are many unpublished ideas...

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Let me introduce our entertainment --- Board Games...They are our source of fun and inspiration...

"Mr.Jack" & "AGRICOLA"

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OK thats all .maybe next time I will show U some pics of our new office.

--------- by March

I was at GDC China this time, in Shanghai. There're four sessions in the afternoon, all about indie games, two sessions in the morning, all about iPhone games. So it's perfect experience I was there!

Like any other GDCs, there're lots of booths in the exhibition hall. In the IGF pavilion, I talked to several indie developers, young and full of passion. Here's an front view of the IGF booth:


One title from student group:



Later, the IGF was held in an Spanish restaurant near the river. It was crowded but everybody seems having a good time there:


Even Mega64 gave a video for IGF, unfortunately I don't have a chance to capture it :( Anyway, it's still a great experience to be there. Next time I'll show some of the games from 1st IGF China finalist.

-Ye

We are now focusing on our next iPhone game. It's a platform game something like Doodle Jump but our HERO jumps downwards, which is more dangerous ;-)
Here are two screenshot pictures of our upcoming game. Hope you will like it.

Our Hero:

The Game Scene: