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More stuff to consume.
09 months ago
So, a number of little things to eat up.
1) Dylan McHugh, an aspiring journalista, interviewed us last week, and has now produced an article about what a bunch of crazy people we are.
2) Uriel has released some concept art of our bedeckery twins. Smarm does not even begin to cover it.
3) Jocelyn did some work on one of our T-Shirt designs last night on LiveStream. You can see how it’s going so far over on our forums.
4) We actually made a regular blog post yesterday for a change. It’s about Gamification. You should give it a whirl.
And, as if you needed a bit more…for those who have not seen, or if you have not been keeping track:
Our initial town layout test. Bolton.
So, never fear. We’re going, we’re going. As usual, if you have questions, comments or concerns we encourage you to leave them here, but we really encourage you to head over to our forums, make an account and get involved.
Win some swag. Have some info!
01 year ago
Okay boys and girls!
We want to start talking more about Emerald Kingdom. One of the best ways to do that will be with forums. To that end, we are announcing the opening of the Emerald Kingdom Forums.
And, because we like making things here, we want to hear from you. We also want to hear from your friends. Emerald Kingdom is starting to hurtle towards alpha, and we want to see what some of you folks think and want. So, to start the dialog and get you guys into the forums…we are offering you the chance to win some swag from us.
For the person who refers the most friends to the Forums, who sign up and post…we will send you a Double Cluepon T-Shirt. We will even sign it if you want. The person who refers the second highest number of people will also get a T Shirt, but…we hate signing clothing…so, no hand signed shirt for the runner up.
Both winners will also receive a color character signed by Uriel. How will you know which character you want? Easy…by the end of January, you will know.
But, you may ask…how will we know who referred who? In the box under TimeZone…have them put your forum name, or your DeviantArt, Twitter, Facebook…etc. We will tally up the referrals on Jan 31st. Winners will be the ones with the most, and second most number of people who used you as the referral. See below:
Double Cluepon staff, and their immediate families are ineligible. Referrals from the blog, and our other channels such as FB, dA are also ineligible. So, get signed up, and get your friends to sign up! The more the merrier. The small print is: we will know if you try to stack the referrals. You will be disqualified if you try. =)
In the coming week, we will be talking about Emerald Kingdom’s story, its features, character bios, and the coming Comic…Twin Perennial.So, if you want to know more…the forums are the place.
Back to our regularly scheduled development!
01 year ago
We have not been slacking. We have been busy with a variety of things. Honest! So, now that we have accomplished a few things, it’s time to make some announcements!
First up on the list, whether you have noticed it or not: we have actually put some content in place, and put up a real home page over at: http://www.emeraldkingdom.com/ . More than anything, we wanted to take some time to make everything uniform across the board with our sites. Emerald Kingdom’s area is now, for the most part, done. While we are on the subject: dont forget to register for our forums.
Another thing we recently accomplished is retooling a bit of the Double Cluepon home page. Feel free to check it out.
Back to the topic at hand, one of the other things we have been doing is laying groundwork for Twin Perennial. Twin Perennial is a serial webcomic. It’s purpose: to help you folks start to get into the world of Emerald Kingdom. It’s been designed from a “ground up” standpoint. From the work done so far, it’s looking very much like it will appeal to a wide variety. One of the things I have said before is, Emerald Kingdom has someone for everyone. In terms of the story based characters, that is especially true. Our wonderful Sprites run the gamut. We hope to have Twin Perennial starting up soon.
Next up on our cavalcade of news: we have acquired some new talent! We have added our new Director of Animation, whom you will know as Sandalphon. She comes to us with a background of already really awesome work. She is bringing herself up to speed, and will soon be hard at work breathing life into Emerald Kingdom. She will also make you cry if you aren’t careful. In all seriousness, she is a highly skilled animator, and we look forward to seeing the new moving models!
Finally, we have released some new art for the hungry masses:
Sheyala is one hell of a bitter pill. =) You can find out more about how she was conceptualized here.
Fifty.
01 year ago
I have been quite busy as of late. Between resume vetting, working on some web re-organization and generally taking some time to regroup….I have barely had time to do much anything else. When I get busy, the blog goes silent. That’s going to change a bit as time goes on. More of the crew here at Double Cluepon will begin writing posts here and there. Nova, our CR Vixen will also be getting in here soon to keep things rolling, and keep things tidy.
So, for the fiftieth post, I just wanted to give you some updates as to what is going down here at Double Cluepon.
While we will be mostly interviewing this week, having collected a massive number of resume’s last week…it’s still not too late to submit a resume and portfolio to us. We have gotten so many folks sending us credentials it’s very overwhelming. We wish we could bring all of them in, but we just do not have the resources. However, one of the things we are considering is some kind of intern program. We think it might be helpful to some of these folks to still hang around a game studio. Especially an indie studio.
- WireWorks, our first game, fared much better than we initially hoped.
It sounds weird, but all of us felt WireWorks had a chance to not do as well as it did. We never expected it to hit four stars. (The version of WireWorks that is going into Emerald Kingdom will be far more polished) Despite that, it did a lot better than we hoped. It came out of the gate, and for our first ever product, it beat the Average, hovering around 3 stars, or just under. Not bad for our first try! Especially in a world of hundreds of thousands of flash games. We learned a great deal from its reception. We also learned where we failed, and what needs improvement. We are already putting some of these things into new policies as we move forward with Emerald Kingdom. Even so, everyone we spoke to directly in some way loved WireWorks, and we are quite proud of our debut product.
- We are currently working on revamping our web presence.
Be on the lookout, we are in the process of putting together a new unified web presence, with a uniform interface so things are easier to navigate. We are doing this now, while we have some time during the spin down of WireWorks development, and during our star search for a new artist.
- We have opened our forums, and have also posted some details about some major features you will find in Emerald Kingdom.
You can find our forums here. More to the point…the forums are the place to mingle and hobnob with us folks at Double Cluepon. We read them all the time, and may from time to time answer direct questions. If you want to get more direct with us about Emerald Kingdom…the forums are the place to do so.
- Twin Perennial is now in production.
We do not have a release date for the debut. However what we can tell you is this: the story outline is done, the script production cycle is now been started, and it is in full production. What is Twin Perennial? It’s a web comic which is based on the characters and world of Emerald Kingdom. While many of the main characters will appear, it will “key” in on two very important major characters. The sisters Paranoia and Confusia. Twin Perennial will serve to introduce the world, concepts and characters of Emerald Kingdom. We have not mentioned her in awhile, mainly cause she has been busy with her own gigs in addition to helping to develop the strip…but you should definitely check out Joan Varitek. You should also check out her etsy store. We love Joan. Greatly. In that platonic kind of kindred type of love. Not the prison type of love. Also, banana’s.
So, in closing…things are busy, yes. Not as busy as they are going to get very soon. I really want to see some of the kids walking around the world already.
Ja Mata!
C2E2 REPRESENT!
01 year ago
Joan Varitek will be at C2E2, which starts today and goes on through the weekend. While there, she will be promoting Double Cluepon, and specifically Emerald Kingdom. She has an entire run of custom made character cards from Emerald Kingdom. We did a set of 6. They are quite nice, we are proud of them. They also include one character we have not yet released to the public.
The back contains the Sprite name, a byline and some information about Emerald Kingdom.
Joan will be in the Artists Alley, at table G8. While there, you should make it a point to look at, and buy buy buy some of her most awesome artwork.
