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Here’s a little fan art I received from Ruairi Flynn (jhammo52). He used some of the sketches found here (http://www.casterthegame.com/caster_sketches/) as a base.
Great stuff!
He also has some great videos for Caster found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0cpW3VGS0c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVXWa7ll5_M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EwlICILWIc
Thanks Ruairi!
Hey all! The Caster t-shirts have arrived! I am very happy with how they turned out and I think you will like them.
In true Caster fashion, they are glow-in-the-dark!
I just finished packaging all of them up with your pencil drawings and I am sending them your way!
All nicely packged up in tyvek envelops.
Thanks for your patience!
Hey all!
We had about 50 orders for Caster t-shirts. Since each shirt ships with an original hand drawn pencil sketch by yours truly, that means I did 50 of those as well.
Today I just finished the last of those and went ahead and scanned them all in and uploaded them for your viewing pleasure here:
http://www.casterthegame.com/caster_sketches/
I’ve submitted the t-shirt order and things are looking good.
It will still be a little while until the shirts are done, but I will let you all know once I’ve mailed them out. Oh, and the shirts have a little something extra to make them true “Caster” shirts…. Any guesses what that might be?
Thanks!
Hey Everyone!
I’m happy to announce that I’m making some Caster t-shirts! (as seen above, white ink on a black shirt see also http://elecorn.com/blog/2010/02/t-shirt-design/).
If you are interested in getting one of these fine limited edition shirts, send an e-mail with your preferred t-shirt size and style and a shipping address to:
*Put “Caster” somewhere in the subject line so that it will pass through any filters and I’ll be sure to get it.
No need to pay now! Once you get your shirt, you can pay for it by clicking on the “Donate” button found here:
The shirts will cost me about $20 to $25 USD each plus shipping and handling but feel free to pay what you like. I’d rather people have t-shirts that want them than not getting one because of price.
In addition, each t-shirt will ship with a unique hand drawn sketch from your’s truely (requests are encouraged)!
I’ll only be taking orders for a week, so be sure to send them in soon.
One more thing!
For this next week I’ve set up a pay-what-you-want* option for Caster similar to what has been done for several other independent video games. If you think Caster is too over or under priced, this gives you the option to pay what you think the game is worth! Spread the word! All the fun fast paced action of Caster at a price that anyone can afford! Just follow the instructions found at the bottom of the page here:
Thanks all! And thanks for supporting Caster!
*Pay-what-you-want only applies to the PC, Mac, and Linux versions of Caster.
Yesterday Caster was released for Mac via Steam!
Caster supports Steam Play which means you’ll be able to play it on Mac or Windows from any computer with just one purchase.
Check it out!
Sadly, many times game studios work on projects that are confidential and never see the light of day.
Thankfully this one is out!
Hidden Path Entertainment worked with Valve on this update. I didn’t help much on this one, but am excited for it’s release nonetheless.
Check it out here:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/260/
Thanks!
Lately I’ve taken a break from Caster and have been focusing my “side project” time on SmithGame. SmithGame* is a game I’m making with my kids.
*Disclaimer: It was named by my kids and I did try to talk them into a better name but to no avail.
The game was greatly inspired by Katamari Damacy <Tangent>It’s a game my entire family including my wife adores and one of three reasons I purchased a PS2… the other two being Shadow of the Colossus and the numerous PS2 demo disks that used to come in Playstation magazine… good stuff… </Tangent>
Anyway, I didn’t plan to spend tons of time on this project, but there are some things that are worth the extra time spent.
For example, I spent the past four sittings implementing procedurally generated beveled cubes.
Was it worth it? See for yourself:
Before Bevel
After Bevel
I think the amount of extra polish something like this gives the game is significant. Plus it was a lot of fun figuring out a good way to handle the corners–their triangle arrangement etc. Yes, I could have spent much less time making one in a modeling program… but that’s not as much fun so I didn’t.
It’s been a while since I’ve done much with 3D geometry and mesh manipulation and it felt really good to get back into it a bit.
Anyways, for those of you interested in looking at the very-slow-non-optimized-code-because-I-only-run-it-once-at-startup, you can download the code below (look at CustomModel):
I’ve updated the docs on how to make your own levels for Caster. Along with this I have posted a sample mod that contains descriptions on all the different settings and options when building scenes, actors, behaviors, props, scripts, etc.
Visit http://www.casterthegame.com/mods.html for more details.
We also have a special build of Caster on iPad ready to go. Hopefully in time for the iPad launch.
Caster has been updated on the iPhone! Enjoy!
The Mac version of Episode 2 is now up!
Also, check out this fantastic trailer that Marco Herold made:
Just finishing up the iPhone version. Should be submitting it tonight!
