Kloonigames

Erik Svedäng’s beautiful game Blueberry Garden has just been released on Steam. Go buy it. Now. It’s only $5.00, so it’s a steal.

Blueberry Garden won the Independent Games Festival Grand Prize 2009 at GDC and I had the pleasure of giving away the award to Erik. I was literally jumping up and down of joy when I heard (before the show) that Blueberry Garden had won.

It’s a bit hard to describe Blueberry Garden if you haven’t played it. The experience of soaring through the skies, exploring the beautiful outdoor world all accompanied by the beautiful piano music by Daduk is just (for the lack of an better word) awesome. It’s an exploration platformer game, little in the vein of Knytt, but not really. The best description that I’ve read was by Michael Rose, when he wrote that “Blueberry Garden is like the Moomins as a computer game (minus the dodgey theme tune)”. Btw. Go and read the rest of Michael’s review.

Anyhow big Congrats to Erik for finally releasing Blueberry Garden. And in case you missed here’s the link to the Steam page.

P.S. In case you enjoy Blueberry Garden, spread the word, blog about it, YouTwitFace about it. Let people know, since indie’s don’t really have the luxury of a gigantic marketing budget so the only way to spread the news is word of mouth.

Jonathan Basseri created a visualizer for 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness. It’s pretty awesome and interesting to watch. There’s all kinds of drama involved with the game.

http://acmserver.cs.ucr.edu/~jbasseri/4_33.htm

This was posted on the forums, but it is such an awesome solution that I thought it needed to be posted on the front page. Thanks enzym!

Crayon Physics - That Darn Pole, featuring Wall-E from Jimmy Gunawan on Vimeo.

Keep the awesome stuff coming.

I’ve started sending out the full version to all the pre-orderers. If you’ve pre-ordered the game before January 4th you should receive a download link to the full version within the next 24 hours. Happy playing.

The very official press release of Kloonigames.

Happy New Year, here’s some pretty big news in few words:

• Crayon Physics Deluxe will be released on the PC January 7 2009.
• There’s an official iPhone version of the game, released January 1st (to the best of my knowledge) and it’s been done by Hudson.
• I’m kicking off 7 days of Crayons to celebrate the launch of the game (idea shamefully stolen from Bit Blot).
• Everyone who has pre-ordered the game before January 3rd will get the full game on January 4th (few days before the official launch date)