Tim Aste, Push Button Labs‘ resident genius artist finished the logo for our upcoming Flash game, Grunts Skirmish. He created a nice blog post about the process he used to create this awesome logo in one day.
Grunts Skirmish Logo
BTW, this is the same game that I blogged about in the article The Art Of Backing Off. We did do the Game In A Week push to get it started, and now two plus months later, the game is starting to have some magic moments. At the end of the week, we did prove to ourselves that it was worth moving forward with the game.
Flash and the Push Button Engine (more info soon) are a dream to work with. It is so much fun going back to the simplicity of creating a 2D game. We are really happy with the way the game is turning out, and hope it will be a candidate for a lot of different platforms. Check out Tim’s blog if you would like to see some in-game screen shots and animations.
Making a game like this is kind of like making pizza. Using pizza ingredients will almost always taste good, but sometimes it can taste like heaven. I’m hoping for heaven:)
-Jeff Tunnell, Game Maker
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Tim, your art rocks.
LOL Sweet! great job Tim.
Hi Jeff, so how soon will you release more info on the Push Button Engine? So far, I think you've said it's 2D and Flash based. I guess you're using Grunts Skirmish to test it out?
I'll leave it to Jeff to say more about it, but if you're interested you submit your e-mail for the beta at http://pushbuttonengine.com/
Yeah, Grunts is our test game for the engine. We will be announcing more soon, but in the meantime, anybody can take Ben up on the offer in his comment. We are not even in open beta yet, but have been trying to open things up a little more.
So is Jeff's comment saying you are not in open beta meaning for the engine? I submitted my e-mail several days ago. Are you not yet ready to respond to those requests?
Of course we're ready. But it's your usual beta story: we have a list of people, and as the beta progresses we let more and more in. When we really throw the doors open, we will be doing blog posts encouraging people to sign up.
Thanks Jeff and Ben. I'm signed up! I too appreciate the install base of Flash – it's great to see you guys doing an AS3 based engine.
Can you give me any hints as to when you might be allowing more people into the closed beta? I am working on a Flash game which is probably half way through and I am chomping at the bit to try out PushButton to see if it can help me and my team out.
It doesn't look like you have signed up at the beta site. Or you can shoot me a mail directly. Give me a little mini-resume and it will be easier to prioritize you on the list.
I resubmitted my e-mail address. It has my last name in it so it should be pretty recognizable. I could not find your e-mail address anywhere. I tried to send the mini-resume to catch_all like it has at the bottom of the PBE page but that got rejected.
You should get beta mail later today.
You should get beta mail later today.