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I've followed you on facebook for ages. I used to see tones of photo's you'd taken.
Is facebooks algorithm just fucking with me and your still taking them?
TL;DR Things are going well. I'm super happy with the game and our team, and it's been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life already. We haven't even shipped yet. Beta (NA only) at www.icons.gg soon
Elevator pitch for the game, Free to play platform fighter designed around competitive play. Will release initially on Steam. We stole a bunch of Blizzard server devs to make our servers badass. Stole artists from Riot, EA, and Blizzard (and project M!) to make the game look great. Took designers from Project M and Riot to make the game feel great, and the cofounders were both huge melee players and tournament organizers. They won't let Free 2 play ever become any form of pay 2 win.
It's coming along super well.We raised a bunch of money in VC funding early this year that let us grow the team from like 8 people to ~30 people + contractors. We'll be releasing a beta soon (sign up for the beta at www.icons.gg) ... beta will be NA only initially. (We are still a small team. Would rather spend the time getting the game to feel great before spreading our resources super thin on a global release.)
We just took the game to twitchCon and had a booth set up there. It was super amazing to be working the booth and have thousands of people swing by and play the game. Seeing people having fun and going off on how good the game looks to them was a really cool and super rewarding experience. There were these two little kids. Brothers. Had to be like 10-12 years old. They kept coming back and playing the game... and when we were getting ready to pack up and leave they showed up and asked if they could play again. I let 'em play 3 more games before we took that computer down. Game 1, little brother wins. Game 2 goes to big brother. I hear one of them say "Alright, game 3. This is it!"... and I don't even know who won. It had to be a super close game becuase I heard them both pop off super excited. The big brother said "Good game" and gave his lil bro a high five and they walked away saying how they wish they had a PC so they could play this game at home when it comes out.
I don't know what it is... but the same thing with Project M... where seeing young kids get excited about something I made... is just such a rewarding and magical feeling. I remember playing Melee with my little brother back in the day... and how powerful that experience was to me. To think that I might have some part in bringing that sort of experience to someone else is... undescribeable
Here is a gameplay stream we did like a month ago. https://youtu.be/31-vndZxS2Q
We do regular updates on twitter (scroll down some to see our twitchcon booth stuff. It was rad.
https://twitter.com/IconsArena
https://twitter.com/WeWavedash
https://twitter.com/Llama_Juice
Because of this game I've moved from Seattle to San Francisco. We snagged a shared coworking space studio to work out of, and we're steadily growing to the point where we'll be needing to actually get our own place soon. It's been absolutely insane to see this game and this company grow from a super tiny team with an ugly blocky game to what we have now... and to see where this team is going gets me super excited.
Holy shit, I've been a member of this site for over ten years.
This is literally me
I believe in you bodie-sama
(why do I still remember how youtube tags work on this website I haven't posted a video in 5 years)
I thought the forum died a couple weeks back. I have cool tutorials bookmarked here, so glad I was wrong.
trying to get out of QA, getting training from a friend in tv/movies
drawing on the side
may have released an animated music video that I built for free while living off of savings
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link to music
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