Indie XMas, And The Start Of A New Adventure

[x4000]

(Cross-posted from my blog)

First off, let me plug the Indie Games Xmas 2009 Calendar.  This was something originally proposed over on the excellent GameProducer blog, which we at Arcen quickly knew we wanted to be a part of.  The idea is that this is an Advent Calendar wherein every day a new indie game, trailer, or similar is released.  As it turns out, the first day (today) is revealing AI War.  Be sure to check back every day of the month for more updates on lots of great indie games, however; the idea is to promote some great gems you might not otherwise have heard of during a season where the AAA games typically steal the spotlight.

In other news, coincidentally this is also my first day working fulltime for Arcen Games.  Up until now I've also been holding down a day job as the CTO of a SaaS software company, but since our 2.0 release and release on Steam, Arcen is now doing well enough to support myself and our composer fulltime in addition to our artist, who has been fulltime since August.

My posts tend to be lengthy, but for this momentous (to me) post, I'm going to keep it quite brief.  I've been at my past company for over 8 years, and I'll really miss the people and the clients there -- it's been a great time there, and I'm a bit bummed to no longer be part of that great team.  Of course, it was my own choice to leave, and at the same time as I am a bit sad about leaving my last post, I couldn't be happier or more excited about moving into fulltime game development.  There's lots of exciting stuff brewing for Arcen in 2010, so I'll be sure to post about that as they come up!

And, you know, I'll post some more on game development topics before too long, too!  It's just been a very busy month.

[doctorfrog]

In other news, coincidentally this is also my first day working fulltime for Arcen Games.  Up until now I've also been holding down a day job as the CTO of a SaaS software company, but since our 2.0 release and release on Steam, Arcen is now doing well enough to support myself and our composer fulltime in addition to our artist, who has been fulltime since August.

Big steps! Congratulations on that, Chris & Co.

[Snowman]

Cool.

I wish you luck.

[x4000]

Thanks to both!

[Echo35]

Someone actually Stumbled me that site a few days ago and I was wondering if you were going to post AI War on there.

[RCIX]

(Cross-posted from my blog)


First off, let me plug the Indie Games Xmas 2009 Calendar.  This was something originally proposed over on the excellent GameProducer blog, which we at Arcen quickly knew we wanted to be a part of.  The idea is that this is an Advent Calendar wherein every day a new indie game, trailer, or similar is released.  As it turns out, the first day (today) is revealing AI War.  Be sure to check back every day of the month for more updates on lots of great indie games, however; the idea is to promote some great gems you might not otherwise have heard of during a season where the AAA games typically steal the spotlight.

Soon's the other guy posted it (forget his name) it went right in my bookmarks!

My posts tend to be lengthy, but for this momentous (to me) post, I'm going to keep it quite brief.  I've been at my past company for over 8 years, and I'll really miss the people and the clients there -- it's been a great time there, and I'm a bit bummed to no longer be part of that great team.  Of course, it was my own choice to leave, and at the same time as I am a bit sad about leaving my last post, I couldn't be happier or more excited about moving into fulltime game development.  There's lots of exciting stuff brewing for Arcen in 2010, so I'll be sure to post about that as they come up!

Congrats! hope this business works out well for you

[Snowman]

To further support your foray into the gamesindustry, I just preordered expansion.

Aahhhww, who should believe this ?

Would´ve bought it anyway .....

[keith.lamothe]

I'm very happy for y'all that Arcen's income will support your transition to full-time staff

[x4000]

Many thanks to all of you!  It's our awesome community and fanbase that has made this possible!

[HellishFiend]

I would also like to chime in with my support. I have been thoroughly impressed with not only your game, but with your involvement with the forum community as well, and I am rooting for you to have a very successful career in game development.    You can count on my purchase of any future AI war expansions and most likely your future games as well. Additionally, I will most likely be composing and submitting a review to gamefaqs.com at some point in the future to help with exposure (currently, there is no review for the game on that site).

So again, congrats, and best of luck for the future!

[eRe4s3r]

Congrats from me as well Tis a good thing!

Not much more to say.. is there?  

[x4000]

Many thanks -- definitely a good thing from our end, as well!

And thanks also for planning a GameFAQs review, HellishFiend.  As many sites as we can get some visibility on, the better, so that's much appreciated!

[Spikey00]

Congratulations on the first slot on the calender!  I hope that this will result in more publicity for the game--though, to be honest I seldom visit those types of sites.

[x4000]

So far we're seeing significant traffic from it, and it's been increasing in volume every day, so I think word is getting around.  Hopefully it will do really well for all the indie games participating in it!

[Tankor Smash]

Congrats on the success of your spectacular game!