First things first; Sneaky new years everybody! I hope you are ready for 2015, because we sure are!

Last weekend we were at GamepitCon, hosted by Gamepit. We had a great time showing our new and upcoming game; Tic-Toc-Tower. As an extra, we had a small contest running. The top 5 in the leader boards of Tic-Toc-Tower were given a price. The prize was small beaded character of you, pixelated on the spot! (yeah, Hans was very very busy pixeling and beading and ironing and what not) The game was received extremely well. Especially for a game (rather the prototype) we finished just the night before. This was also good boost for us to go and finish the game asap.

In short now; What is Tic-Toc-Tower? The game features quick-paced platforming action (of DOOM). You’ll get a random level from our large array of levels. You have 10 seconds to complete the level and get an new random level to complete. For each level you finish, you’ll get 1 point. You have running, jumping and ducking at your disposal to do the best you can!

Tic-Toc-Tower was one of the games we developed during our Mega Mammoth Mania Month. Our other games are really fun as well, yet Tic-Toc-Tower was the best.

All hail the backups! Well, if you made any of course…

Yes, indeed, we had our fair share of problems last week. Especially when we discovered that some of the programming was missing. And we didn’t have any backups either. Oh, some of the art was missing too. Without backups either.
I can hear you thinking already. I know, we should make more backups. We learned from it though! It won’t happen again. I promise!

Aside from all the backup problems, the week was pretty good. We had some productive days. Our games are beginning to look like the finished products we imagined them to be.

Ferdi learned a lot about pixel art. How to make circles and big functional art pieces for pitch purposes. Funny thing is, when he wants to show what he learned, Hans stands behind him saying; “That’s not how I taught you that!”

– Ahum… I just got Rick Rolled by the radio while writing this blog post –

Furthermore, this was also an angry week. Riley and Sven were angry, very angry. The code was being a -bleep- and they were angry at it. It didn’t work. Enough said.

All in all, just backup your stuff. Don’t back down, but look up and backup!

And on that Sneaky Farm he had a Cow! A hungry one at that.

A little while back we published our first game on the Google Play Store; Feed the Cow – Baby Game! An easy and simple game for the little ones.

Just recently our team at Sneaky Mammoth expanded with the addition of 2 interns. And what’s a better way to incorporate them into our sneaky workflow than with a small game project? So, after a large glass of fresh milk (get it?), we decided to make a simple baby game. Easy and fast, so we could get used to our interns and they in turn could adapt our sneaky way of thinking.

Out there in the grassy field of development, we were working hard. Plowing the pixels and seeding the new code, a code that would later grow into a lush field of cows. And indeed, it grew quite nicely. Feed the Cow was finished rapidly. Developing the game was a fun progress, with lots of laughter and the occasional demonic mammal.

All in all, It was a good way to start of with our new and improved team! Time to moo-ve on towards the next big project. It’s going to be awesome!

It’s been a while since the last time I posted, so I wanted to give everyone an update.

A good six weeks ago, we had a great gamejam, the accessibility gamejam. The goal of the accessibility gamejam was to tackle a problem people with disabilities encounter while playing games. Make a game which is also playable by this large group of gamers.

We had a lot of great fun, and brought to life Mole Riders 2. A co-op railroad shooter one button game playable by blind and deaf gamers.

The week after we we’re putting the finishing touches on mole riders 2 in our spare time when I fell ill. And it was bad. I had a 40 degree fever for almost three weeks and had to be admitted to the hospital for oxygen deprivation. There they found out I was infected with a mutation of a rare bacteria strand. It sucker punched me with a double lung ammonia, a throat infection and mutated white blood cells. After another two week of recovery I am finally back!

So now we’re complete and (kinda) fully operational again. We’re going to have an announcement for Mole Riders 2 soon, and also have an update for Jetseizer coming up.

These next few weeks will be busy with testing, and integrating our first intern into Sneaky Mammoth!