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April 9, 2013

Steve, Skye, Kaelyn and I are now fully recovered from our week at GDC. We’re back working at the office, which Robyn did a fine job of ensuring that it didn’t burn down while we were gone. 

Super Motherload looked fantastic on the GDC Play show floor. We were so excited to have such a steady stream of people come by to play the game. We met so many people over the 3 days we were at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. What was really encouraging was seeing students from all across the country (the last photo is a group from Ringling College of Art + Design in Florida) devoted to spending their spring break networking and gleaning information and inspiration from industry veterans. It’s just nice to see that ambition and it’s a great reminder of the feeling I had right out of college: excited and anxious to get started working on things I’m passionate about.

The game ran really smoothly with few, if any, noticeable bugs. It survived even the most ruthless and thorough tester who admitted he was “trying to break” our game. People usually stuck around for quite a long session when they picked up a controller, and play sessions lasted anywhere from about 10 minutes to a half hour. I’m pretty sure there was even a group of 4 that ended up sticking around for over an hour digging the crap out of Mars and getting into a groove with the gameplay: managing their team’s upgrades, questing, and smelting alloys.

Our connected controllers would have a mind of their own sometimes and decide to take a break for a while and de-sync from the system that we were running the game on. Steve played tech support though and had us up and running at a moment’s notice. Aside from that—everything ran quite smoothly!

GDC 2013 was really constructive for the XGen team. It was a week full of meetings, networking events, amazing food and good friends. We hope to do it all over again soon!

- Scott

And, as always, our Steam Greenlight page is located here:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=110294430

We’re currently holding #52 spot on the Greenlight charts! Your votes and comments are much appreciated! Thanks for the support! 

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March 29, 2013

Mining Mars Is Better With Friends - Super Motherload - PlayStation 3 - www.GameInformer.com

Tim Turi from Game Informer gives his impressions on Super Motherload from our GDC Play kiosk in San Francisco this week. It’s a nice article that gives you a sense of the addictive nature of the game play. We were so excited to demo our game to a wide audience of industry professionals and we were blown away with the number of people that had played the original Motherload and were excited to see a multiplayer sequel. We’ll have a more thorough recap post about our experience at GDC Play in a few days time.

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March 25, 2013
Look what arrived in the mail today! Just in time too! We have about 400 of these babies to give away at GDC Play, so swing by kiosk number 41 from the 26th to the 28th in the South Hall’s Gateway Ballroom and we’ll hook you up with some free stuff.  The game is coming along really nicely. Steve and I play tested for about 3 hours yesterday and had a blast, we found a few minor bugs that Steve is crushing as we speak to be able to present a pristine build of the game tomorrow morning for the early birds at GDC. The menus and UI are feeling really polished and pretty much everything is hooked up. I’m really excited to show off how far this game has come in a year’s time and am even more excited to meet the people we’ve been chatting with about Super Motherload on Twitter, Facebook and Steam Greenlight — in person! See you tomorrow in San Fran!

Look what arrived in the mail today! Just in time too! We have about 400 of these babies to give away at GDC Play, so swing by kiosk number 41 from the 26th to the 28th in the South Hall’s Gateway Ballroom and we’ll hook you up with some free stuff. 

The game is coming along really nicely. Steve and I play tested for about 3 hours yesterday and had a blast, we found a few minor bugs that Steve is crushing as we speak to be able to present a pristine build of the game tomorrow morning for the early birds at GDC. The menus and UI are feeling really polished and pretty much everything is hooked up. I’m really excited to show off how far this game has come in a year’s time and am even more excited to meet the people we’ve been chatting with about Super Motherload on Twitter, Facebook and Steam Greenlight — in person!

See you tomorrow in San Fran!

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March 25, 2013
Here’s another promo piece I put together for Super Motherload to give away at our GDC Play booth this week! Come test out our labour of love and we’ll give you free stuff — posters, postcards, there’s even a few t-shirts if you’re really lucky! I’ve been having way too much fun creating these illustrations. This one was inspired by old cutaway technical illustrations, something you might see in an old Popular Mechanics magazine (check out google’s archive here — incredible!).  See you in San Fran! And, as always, our Steam Greenlight page is located here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=110294430 We’re currently holding #54 spot on the Greenlight charts! Your votes and comments are much appreciated! Thanks for the support! 

Here’s another promo piece I put together for Super Motherload to give away at our GDC Play booth this week! Come test out our labour of love and we’ll give you free stuff — posters, postcards, there’s even a few t-shirts if you’re really lucky!

I’ve been having way too much fun creating these illustrations. This one was inspired by old cutaway technical illustrations, something you might see in an old Popular Mechanics magazine (check out google’s archive here — incredible!). 

See you in San Fran!

And, as always, our Steam Greenlight page is located here:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=110294430

We’re currently holding #54 spot on the Greenlight charts! Your votes and comments are much appreciated! Thanks for the support! 

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February 22, 2013
Super Motherload will be at GDC 2013! Find us in GDC Play from March 26 - 28th in the South Hall, Gateway Ballroom, Moscone Convention Center. This is a fantastic opportunity for us to show just how far we’ve come in a year. We were at GDC Play for the first time last year and the response we got was really encouraging and the play testing by attendees was extremely valuable in helping us focus in on polishing a few aspects of our game play which we think improved the overall design. When we exhibited in 2012 Super Motherload was running in standard definition intended for the Wii, and WOW have things changed! We have since revamped all of the graphics to run in full 1080p and changed our target platform from the wii to PS3, Mac and PC. The game is no longer a simple demonstration build; the story has been revamped and all of the voice overs are complete. There’s new music, new game modes an UI. Essentially every aspect of this game has been looked over since GDC 2012. It’s amazing to think what we’ve accomplished in one year, and we’re excited to present a near-finished version of Super Motherload this year!  These photos of Skye and I are from the photo booth at the Three Rings party last year during GDC. They have the coolest office! It’s pirate themed! The entire office is dressed up to look like a pirate ship — port holes and all, and there’s even a nice lounge area with giant plush octopus tentacles. If you see a couple of dudes running around the show floor that look something like the image above (give or take the Groucho Marx glasses) say hi! And, as always, our Steam Greenlight page is located here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=110294430 Your votes and comments are much appreciated! Thanks for the support!

Super Motherload will be at GDC 2013!

Find us in GDC Play from March 26 - 28th in the South Hall, Gateway Ballroom, Moscone Convention Center.

This is a fantastic opportunity for us to show just how far we’ve come in a year. We were at GDC Play for the first time last year and the response we got was really encouraging and the play testing by attendees was extremely valuable in helping us focus in on polishing a few aspects of our game play which we think improved the overall design.

When we exhibited in 2012 Super Motherload was running in standard definition intended for the Wii, and WOW have things changed!

We have since revamped all of the graphics to run in full 1080p and changed our target platform from the wii to PS3, Mac and PC. The game is no longer a simple demonstration build; the story has been revamped and all of the voice overs are complete. There’s new music, new game modes an UI. Essentially every aspect of this game has been looked over since GDC 2012. It’s amazing to think what we’ve accomplished in one year, and we’re excited to present a near-finished version of Super Motherload this year! 

These photos of Skye and I are from the photo booth at the Three Rings party last year during GDC. They have the coolest office! It’s pirate themed! The entire office is dressed up to look like a pirate ship — port holes and all, and there’s even a nice lounge area with giant plush octopus tentacles.

If you see a couple of dudes running around the show floor that look something like the image above (give or take the Groucho Marx glasses) say hi!

And, as always, our Steam Greenlight page is located here:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=110294430

Your votes and comments are much appreciated! Thanks for the support!

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