http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/index.php en madras@madras.pl Copyright 2012 Pivot Pivot - 1.40.7: 'Dreadwind' Mon, 07 May 2012 18:40:10 +0200 60 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=28 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=28#comm However, there are still some good news unrelated to Oozi. It's too early to share them, so I'll just say that I'm really excited about the future :). ]]> 28@http://marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/ default Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:53:00 +0200 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=27 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=27#comm 27@http://marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/ default Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:36:00 +0200 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=26 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=26#comm sales data of Blocks That Matter (in short - 20x more sales on PC than on XBLIG).

Meanwhile I have started working on Unity port of Yet Another Zombie Defense. It's still in very early phase of development, but I have a couple mock-up screens (made by Andrzej) I can share with you:







As you can see, it's completely 2D. I decided to abandon 3D because of wide variety of Android devices - I'm afraid that some of them wouldn't be capable of running the game smoothly, and sometimes 2D art looks even better than 3D. ]]> 26@http://marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/ default Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:27:00 +0200 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=25 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=25#comm Here's our Launch Trailer:



Another good news is that the PC version is pretty much ready, we're just doing some final testing. Now we're going to submit it to Valve and keep our fingers crossed they accept Oozi for distribution on Steam.

Other than that I don't have any plans for upcoming weeks... So I think I'll just take a break from work and see how things shape up with Steam. ]]> 25@http://marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/ default Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:59:00 +0200 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=24 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=24#comm 24@http://marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/ default Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:04:00 +0200 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=23 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=23#comm
There are no big news this time, though. The most significant is that I quit playing League of Legends - I have spent definitely too much time playing this game over the last few months. Our work on Oozi is going on steadily - all code & content (except music and sound) of episodes 3&4 is completed and you should see the last two episodes released on XBLIG pretty soon. Then we will start working on PC release. ]]> 23@http://marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/ default Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:09:00 +0200 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=22 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=22#comm


Sadly, Microsoft killed our release.

First, our game didn't appear on the first position on New Releases list - it popped up on #4 slot instead due to a technical issue on Microsoft's side. To make things worse, soon another couple games were released and the game was not even visible on the first page. As a result, during the first three days we got only 1600 trial downloads. Oozi Ep. 2 got over 4000 in its first three days and Avatar Fantasy RPG got over 4500. So we'd get at least three times more trial downloads if things were going normally (zombie games are very popular on XBLIG).

Second, Top Downloads list froze the same day we released the game. It "unstuck" four days later, and unfortunately it took into account only the last day of downloads data, when we were already pushed far off the first page of New Releases list. The game appeared on #40 slot.

Sadly, as a result of those two issues we're not going to make any significant money on the game, despite decent user rating (3,75/5) and great critic reviews (10/10 on XboxHornet.com, 9/10 on XBLARatings.com and 5/5 on Armless Octopus). We were even lucky enough to have the game mentioned on GameSpot.com and on IndieGames.com, but it didn't help much. Up until now we got only 3500 trials and 800 sales, which is way worse than any other game we ever released.

That's why right now we're busy porting the game to Unity. We're probably going to abandon XNA as soon as we finish Oozi. ]]> 22@http://marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/ default Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:38:00 +0200 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=21 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=21#comm
I have some big news though. My brother has been working on his 2D zombie game over last two months and now it's nearly completed. We're going to release it on Xbox LIVE Indie Games this week. Stay tuned for more information. ]]> 21@http://marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/ default Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:22:00 +0200 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=20 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=20#comm
Meanwhile I'm still working on the fourth episode. All story levels are ready are already implemented, all that is left is to create a boss fight and challenge levels. The fourth episode will be the last one and when it's done we will start working on PC release that will consist of all levels released episodically on XBLIG.

What will be my next project? Perhaps I will be able to tell you next week :). ]]> 20@http://marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/ default Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:15:00 +0200 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=19 http://www.marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/entry.php?id=19#comm

You can get it here: http://marketplace.xbox.com ]]> 19@http://marcindraszczuk.pl/pivot/ default Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:49:00 +0200