Particles, Colors, Music.

First, Will and Dain talk about where we are with Duet:

This blog post is dedicated to one of Cipher Prime’s favorite fans, Neil Sardesai, who recently transcribed “Cassiel,” the seventh track to Flight of Angels, the Splice soundtrack.

Many goals in game development are easy to understand, if not to implement. You know you need to create an enjoyable experience, that the UI needs to be readable, the menu needs to be useable, that it needs to interface with whatever distribution platform you’re putting it on, and so on — the implementation of a solid game design largely comes down to patience, practice, and coffee. But artistic goals are less obvious, especially when you go to write something like the soundtrack to Splice.

We love games. We love making them, playing them, talking about them, licking them, etc. This weekend, one lucky Cipher Primate (the author of this post, in fact) attended PAX East, where she fangirl’d hard while helping represent the Philly dev scene.

At a recent Cipher Prime dev night, a roomful of game-lovers and -makers had the pleasure of sitting down with Ichiro Lambe and Rohit Shenoy of Dejobaan Games for a virtual chat. These dapper gentlemen imparted great wisdoms ranging from their personal experiences making games to their success in marketing (according to Rohit, giving games interesting names “seems to work every time”) to their mastery of the art of seduction (it’s all in the salsa, apparently).

After thousands of losses and months of play, I am just 17.87 seconds away from beating the final level of Super Hexagon. And when the clock ticks pasts 60:00, I will prize that moment as one of my greatest gaming achievements.

Splice is gonna be in the latest Humble Bundle. Boosh.

This February, Cipher Prime had the honor of being featured in IndieCade East 2013! For one orgasmic weekend of indie love, we shipped off to New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image to share our games with developers, artists, press, and fellow game enthusiasts alike.

Cipher Prime is honored to be a part of Valve’s Linux launch sale! From 10:00 AM (PST) on February 14th through 10:00 AM (PST) on February 21st,  we’re selling the Linux version of Splice on Steam for 50%  off! Go get it! 

We’re excited to announce that Ichiro Lambe and Rohit Shenoy, the esteemed ballers of fellow indie developer Dejobaan Games, will be doing a virtual Q&A session at our February 28th Game Dev night. Their studio touts such charming titles as Drunken Robot Pornography and Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby.