#upsiloncircuit

Ahoy everyone! This is your co-pilot Kitty speaking!

We’re really not good at updating things regularly, so I appreciate you being here, reading these words!

SUPERSHOW

SO! First things first, I’m putting together another Indie Dev Supershow! 

It’s going to be on Aug. 8th, starting around 10 or 11am EST, and going for about 15 hours! We’ll livestream somewhere between 20 and 30 games, all accompanied by their developers!

If you are a dev, you can enter to be in it till the 22nd with this form 

If you want to watch, the show will happen on our Twitch channel so please follow us to get alerted when we go live!

I’ll also be streaming as I play test many of the entries (there are more entries than show time, so I must JUDGEMENTS at them) so you can discover even more games!

I’m crazy excited to do this, I discovered after the first one that I truly love meeting new developers and being able to connect them with/show their creations to passionate gamers! It makes sense that I love it: I like helping people, I get to play cool videogames (YAY!), and I make new friends too!

UPSILON CIRCUIT

We haven’t talked much about UC in a long while, and it’s because we’re getting really close to something but it’s not quite there, and we’ve been so caught up in the work that we just haven’t taken the time to really sit back and think about what to even TELL people!

Here’s the update for right now: 

Big things are in the works for Robot Loves Kitty, it’s a little scary, a little exciting, and hopefully the result will be more than just a little amazing. If all goes well you should hear about it in a few months, but I actually can’t tell you what it is yet.     :| sorry

Progress is going well though, so keep your eyes peeled (eww?) or sign up to the newsletter here: http://upsiloncircuit.com/

GAMEKID

Now, you’re probably thinking that we’ve been working on too many projects at this point, but it’s not ACTUALLY too many, it’s just enough!

The Gamekid is also moving along really well! it’s mostly Juju working on it, so that Robot can focus mainly on Upsilon Circuit.

We’ve been waiting on getting some price quotes to finalize a few things; then we just need to get a Kickstarter campaign all set up, with some shiny video!

 ...It won’t be me in a giant cardboard box singing and waving my arms :(  (the song also won’t be: Gamekid, gamekid~ Play with me I’m so happy!  Gamekid, gamekid~  I love you and my thumbs love you too~)  Robot said no  ~_~

If you want one of those things that Robot is eating in the picture above, head over to the Gamekid site to learn more; and to get a heads up when we launch the Kickstarter!

OH MY!

That’s pretty much all the game news from us at this point! Other things that have been happening are:

We pitched in and helped start a Dev Co-Working space in NH, called Game Assembly that we now work out of many days a week! 

One of our cats (Star, she’s 18) has a spot on her chin that won’t heal.

We have to clean and are out of food, 

And we are in desperate need of another power strip

We've finally unveiled our secret project to the world. Upsilon Circuit is a single server, persistent world, online action RPG, with a limit of 8 players. Players adventure in a massive dungeon maze where they fight monsters, collect ‘Dream Tech Fragments’, and unravel a mysterious story.

Each player broadcasts to a livestream audience, who bid to purchase weapons and items to help a player, or monsters and traps to hinder them. Experience points a player gets from the game are distributed to the audience, who then collectively assign the skill points.

When Players die, they may never get a chance to play again. A member of the audience is selected to fill the open slot and they begin their only adventure in the maze.

The idea for Upsilon Circuit came about while thinking about real permanence, rarity, and consequence in video games. We also had so much fun watching people play our other games that we decided to create a game that would be a lot of fun to watch. 

Upsilon Circuit is in very early development, but we'll keep you posted on our progress. You can sign up to the newsletter at upsiloncircuit.com if you do that kind of thing.  We are working with artist Erin "CobraMode" McClellan who collaborated with us on Zap'em Dino Cowboys in the VRJam; and once again with composer David Dirig who did the Legend of Dungeon soundtrack.