Ikaroids – Now only 80 Microsoft Points

John Wordsworth — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:47:15 +0000

With our next XNA title well underway, we’re excited to announce that Ikaroids has been reduced in price to only 80 Microsoft Points. That’s right, for only a dollar you can get your hands on an action packed dual stick shooter with over 20 campaign levels and 9 survival stages.

Ikaroids - Action Packed Arcade Shooter for only 80MSP

Plans have begun for a sequel to Ikaroids that will bring the space shooter genre into the 21 century. Because of this, we’d love to hear what you think about the first one. Let us know of things that you like and don’t like about the game by leaving us comments around this blog or by getting in touch with us directly.

Apologies about the delayed assets

John Wordsworth — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:03:42 +0000

I just wanted to post a quick apology that this Tuesday’s game assets didn’t go out as planned. Rest assured that they are coming – but for one week only we will be delivering on a Wednesday instead. Consider it like ‘late mail’ because of all of the snow!

The reason it’s taken a bit longer than planned, was that part of our giveaway was to include some shiny bitmap fonts with glossy effects. Then I thought – instead of doing each letter in Photoshop, why not write a program to do it for me!? Here is an example image produced by our, soon-to-be-released (possible not with the assets tomorrow, but soon) software for turning your boring flat fonts into something a bit more shiny, just by tweaking a few parameters…

Sample From the Miramonte Font (Click for Full Size)

Sample of a fancy bitmap font from Pericles (click to enlarge)

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Ikaroids – Now only 80 Microsoft Points

Apologies about the delayed assets