Sticky DPad Games!

So after a few weeks away working on other projects and such, we’re finally back to work on ‘Dawn Of The Fred’!
We’ve both been putting in 15 hour odd days over the weekend and Monday, and should have the game finished and ready to be tested by June!

Not only that, but with the graphically assets almost complete for the game, Adam will be starting development on our ‘Project 3′ for a whole month during the coding period Jamie has to go through!

So, with ‘Dawn Of The Fred’ nearly complete, you must be wondering, what’s next for Sticky DPad?

Well, quite a fair bit actually! Obviously, the first thing is ‘Project 3′. We’ll be going full steam ahead on that once ‘Dawn Of The Fred’ is out there to the public. Now, aswell as all this, we will be starting work on a ‘Mystery Project’, which will be seeing a possible September/October release!

Oh! One last thing, with the sheer amount of work going on at the minute, we’re going to be finding it hard to get the DevBlog done daily, so expect a possible entry once every week or two.

Lastly, ‘Freds Fridays’ has found a new home for the next 7 weeks! Make sure your following us @StickyDPadGames to find out who this Friday!

I think that’s all from us at the minute… yeah, it is. Cya! <3 x

Again, we’ve been absent from the site, and updating you in what’s happening. We’ve been caught up in development, and things are crazy right now.

To start, development for ‘Dawn Of The Fred’ has haulted. For now at least. Adam will still be working on graphical assets from time to time, but we’ve had to slow down development by ALOT for good reason.

With Dream.Build.Play around the corner, we thought I’d be fun to see if we can make a game from scratch, and submit it within 1-2 months. Certainly challenging, and we don’t expect to get very far, but it’ll be fun. You can probably catch our failed efforts on the XBLIG marketplace sometime this summer.

Last, but not least, is the start of development on ‘Project 3′. It’s something we’re super excited to annouce, and hope to within the next month or so. Serious, this games gonna rival for the prettiest XBLIG title out there, and we ain’t kidding!

‘Dawn Of The Fred’ is still coming this Summer, so you ain’t got to worry about that! But it’ll probably be more July than June now.

We feel asif we need to give something back to you guys. Seriously!

The amount of support we’ve received in our first few months has been overwhelming! As a result, we want to give something back to everyone who’s helped us, and continues to support us throughout the year.

So we whipped up a little list of stuff we’ll be doing when hitting certain sales. I think it explains itself, so without further ado!:

100 sales - Hugs
250 sales - Kisses
500 sales – Trailer for ‘Project #3’ will be released!
750 sales – Free Earthbound-like guide to be released along side ‘Night Of The Fred’!
1000 sales – Monthly free content updates begin for ‘Dawn Of The Fred’ and ‘Night Of The Fred’!
2500 sales – ‘Fred’ T-shirts maybe?!
5000 sales – Your chance to be in ‘Dawn Of The Fred!’
7500 sales – ‘Fred’ ports to iOS!
10,000 sales – Free DLC for ‘Dawn Of The Fred’!
25,000 sales – Free DLC for ‘Night Of The Fred’!

Now, due to how big the next three numbers are, we decided to do something a little special. For every one of the following targets we hit, we’ll make the demakes listed below a reality, and release them as a free download. Kind of a thank you to everyone who’s supported us! <3

50,000 sales – Gears Of Tears

75,000 sales – Metal Bit Solid

100,000 sales – Low Res-Ident Evil

100,000 sales+? - We haven’t thought this far ahead to be honest…

All of the above will be happening! So let’s hope you enjoy our games enough to hit those numbers! <3 x

Here it is! We did an interview with OtakuDante himself talking about almost everything!
http://otakudgamereviews.blogspot.com/2012/03/freds-fridays-ep3-interview-with.html?spref=tw

If you missed the past two weeks, catch up below!

Week One – http://otakudgamereviews.blogspot.com/2012/03/otakudantes-gaming-inferno-exclusive.html

Week Two – http://otakudgamereviews.blogspot.com/2012/03/freds-fridays-ep2-characters-revealed.html

Enjoy!

As the title suggests, just what the frick have we been doing that’s left us abandoning the site over the last 3 to 4 days?!

The answer. ‘Dawn Of The Fred’!

Yeah, we’ve been super hard at work recently, trying to get as much done as we can. The main reason behind this, is the fact that until April, development will kinda be halted…

It’s not to say the development will completely stop, oh no! But Jamie has ALOT of studying to do, with deadlines that need to be met, which of course is understandable. He’s been putting the work off time and time again to work on these projects, but it really is crunch time for him now. That work needs to be done or else he pretty much fails.

On the upside, It’ll be quite the opposite for me, Adam! Because we want to get back on it straight away, I’m going to attempt to get all the graphical assets done this month. That’s like, everything! I’m going to be putting in 8-10 hour days over the next 2 to 3 weeks, and it’s going to be crazy. Yet it needs to be done! That way, as soon as Jamie is able to work on this full time again, progress will be extremely sped up!

Now, I guess there’s one question remaining. In the month or so Jamie will be spending coding in April/May, what will I be doing? Well, here’s some exciting news for ya! I’ll be starting work on a BRAND NEW IP for Sticky DPad. Jamie sort of knows about it, in terms of what needs doing technically, but I’m even keeping it a surprise from him during March. We understand that maybe it’s ambitious, the fact we’ve never made a game before, and now we’re making three of them. But it’s something we hope we can pull off.

This new IP is going to be something completely different from what you’ve come to expect from us so far. It really is. After a long discussion, we decided we wanted to spend the free time we had on creating a game the other side of the spectrum to ‘Dawn Of The Fred’ and ‘Night Of The Fred’.
We don’t want to really say much about it at the moment, other than yes, it’ll be 2D, that’s all we are really giving away. Development is underway, so expect an announcement sometime this month, or early April.

Now, never fear! ‘Night Of The Fred’ will not be effected by this! We are still aiming for that October release date. Unfortunately, we aren’t 100% we will hit it, but we can say it’ll be out this year, so don’t worry!

I think, that’s it for this update, now, we’re off (well Jamie isn’t >:D) to make some games! x

We’ll be the first to admit, a week?! One whole week nearly since we posted on the main page! Bah! We’re rubbish.

The reason? Well, we’ve been super busy laying down the foundations for ‘Dawn Of The Fred’, getting the game running, AI working. You know, all that good stuff. In terms of news, not a lot has gone on here lately. We’ve been so busy with ‘Dawn Of The Fred’, as well as updating the DevBlog daily (check it out!) that we haven’t had time for news!

We do, however, have a few pieces. To start, the first episode in our series of ‘Making Of The Fred’ should be up tomorrow! We’re hoping to get 2 episodes out a week, on certain days. For example, every Saturday and Wednesday. For those who don’t know, we basically are going to attempt documenting the development of our first (second? :S) game, start to finish. It won’t be as in-depth as the DevBlog, but it will show the process none-the-less. We also want to try and take a satirical approach to Indie Game Dev’ing as a whole. So that Indie Devs can relate with what’s happening, and Indie Gamers can see some of the things happening behind the scenes. Saying that, don’t expect anything too serious!

Following the DevBlog, we are tempted in doing a DevDiary also, where at the end of each week (Maybe every Sunday?) we show gameplay footage, of how the games improved from the previous week. Obviously this week will be hard, with it being the first But we’ll talk about what we’ve got done anyway. Then start comparing next Sunday! We’re still undecided yet, so if you guys wanna see it, let us know!

Sadly, our last piece of news, is sad.
Yesterday, was the last ‘Freds Friday’ with VVGTV. Yes! We know, we are as upset as you to see this happening.
Before anybody speculates, no, nothing has happened between our and VVGTVs relationship. If anything, it’s grow because of this. MasterBlud, who runs ‘Freds Fridays’, suggested to us that maybe we should spread it out a little. By that, meaning have ‘Freds Fridays’ run in 7 week sections on different sites. This way, it allows us, and ‘Fred’ a lot more coverage, as opposed to releasing all 40-50 whatever articles on one site. Which frankly, is a great idea.
We want to take this oppertunity quicky to thank MasterBlud for everything he’s done for us here! He has been instrumental in helping us out when starting ‘StickyDPad’, and his hardwork shall not be forgotten! Although we’re going all mushy on you here, the fact is, ‘Freds Fridays’ will be returning home to VVGTV at somepoint, but when, is a secret

Which begs the questions, WHERE WILL ‘FREDS FRIDAYS’ be next?!
Well we’ve been talking to quite a few awesome people and sites about this, all of whom we hope to get on board. As we mentioned before, once those 7 weeks are up, it’s on to another site! We’ll reveal where it’ll be this Friday, so stay tuned!

I think for now, that’s everything… Yup, pretty sure of it!
If you missed the Last VVGTV ‘Freds Fridays’ (for now!) you can catch it here! – http://vvgtv.com/2012/02/24/vvgtvs-freds-fridays-number-7-youre-grounded/

We’ll see you guys tomorrow, when we show the first episode of ‘Making Of The Fred’, until then, peace!

Hola!

Just wanted to quickly update you guys and gals with some info. Development on ‘Dawn Of The Fred’ official started today! We’ve got a busy few weeks ahead of us, so we may not be able to update the site as much, but you’ll still be able to catch us on Twitter!

Anyway, to work we go!