F*CK YEAH!
That was my acceptance speech. I wrote it in crayons on my way to the stage. I still can’t believe it, but Crayon Physics Deluxe won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival (IGF).
I’m just happy that I got to continue the tradition of crappy acceptance speeches (with monocoles) at the IGF.
I really didn’t get a change to thank all the people who have helped me make the game possible. I felt a like a self centered brick, for not thanking anyone, but I didn’t prepare at all for the possibility that I might win, so I was afraid to thank anyone, because I might totally forget a bunch of people. So here’s a list of people without whom, the game would have never been made.
* _Ghost (Jarogniew Slotala), huge thanks for creating such an amazing piece of music and for allowing me and other people to use it. I think it’s hard for an outsider to understand how much his music changed the game, I wasn’t sure about the exact feeling I wanted the game to conceive and it wasn’t until I listened to his song I realized what I wanted.
* Erin Catto, for his marvelous physics engine Box2D. Which he has created on his free time and which he generously released as an open source project and has never asked anything in return.
* Jussi Laakkonen for helping me out with the business stuff.
* Juuso Savolainen for helping me out with some of the coding stuff.
* Daniel Benmergui for helping me out with the design stuff.
* Petri Luukkainen for being an awesome friend, play testing the game way more than is humanly possible and for doing the youtube video.
* All the testers who have given me their precious time to use for the improvement of the game. Without you guys the game would have never made it!
* Kyle Gabler for inspiring me to start doing prototypes!
* All the people who wrote comments, forum posts, blogged about the game, emailed me about, harassed me about it, the guy who kidnapped my cat and demanded that I’ll do a never version of the game or my get gets it… Huge thanks to you all, with out you I probably would have never made the game.
Edit: This was the reason why I didn’t want to say any names during the acceptance speech, because I was sure I’d forget someone. So I wrote this blog post in a hurry so I forgot to thank Ale Fernandez and Krishinda Powers for allowing me to use their sample “Krishinda Singing” in a commercial product. Also thanks to _ghost for allowing me to use Lullaby in (in which “Krishinda Singing” is used) in a commercial product. (I feel awful for forgetting them 
)
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Congratulations!!!
February 24th, 2008 at 12:40 am
I knew it! Congrats.
February 24th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Congratulations !!!
Félicitations !!!
http://funnyquizz.free.fr
February 24th, 2008 at 12:48 am
‘gratz!
February 24th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Did your get get it? Where’s that never version?
Just playin. I make mistakes too.
LOL.
That’s odd that someone kidnapped your cat. WTF would anyone want to kidnap a cat.
February 24th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Way to go!
I’ve been silently watching and waiting, and you well deserve this prize.
Keep inspiring!
-Ben
February 24th, 2008 at 1:51 am
HOLY FUCK 20,000 DOLLARS
February 24th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Way to go!!! You’ve made consistently great stuff, and this is certainly well-earned. Congradulations!!!
February 24th, 2008 at 2:03 am
haha, nice speech
February 24th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Congrats, Petri! I’m looking forward to downloading and playing the final version of the game on my friend’s Wacom Cintiq ^^. It was also a pleasure to meet you, though it sucks that we didn’t get to talk as much… oh well, there’s always next year.
February 24th, 2008 at 3:41 am
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February 24th, 2008 at 5:10 am
You deserved it. Congratulations!
Your public demands Crayon Deluxe!
February 24th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Wow, congratulations, buddy! Your game really deserved it!
Now the pressure to get CFD out for us to play is of course higher than ever…
February 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Congrats man.U really deserved it.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:50 am
You deserve it! I’m waiting for the game to be released.
February 24th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Congratulations!
You did it with your fresh and uniq Crayon Physics Deluxe!
I know you have some more great games on your back pocket!
Keep going!
Ps. Hyva tpiiri!
February 24th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
GREAT! Congratulations! You absolutely deserve it!
But now get moving and finish it!!!
February 24th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Congrats Petri! And don’t worry, that was one of the best speeches ever, haha
February 24th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Yeah! You really, really deserved it!
Congrats!
February 24th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Congratiolations Petri! Crayon Phisics rules! The audience loves you
Eh… I mean they love Crayon Phisics. Nice job. You deserved this 
February 24th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Congratulations dude!!!
It was sure you win it !
Continue your good work and finish that wonderful game for I can play!
February 24th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Totally deserve it. Brilliant!
February 24th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Your winning was great news Petri. Congratulations to you and keep the games and ideas coming!
Bill
February 24th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Congratulations, that was dell-deserved! Keep on rocking! (Btw, check out my website. You know what they say about imitation
February 25th, 2008 at 4:37 am
F*ck yeah indeed! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
February 25th, 2008 at 4:41 am
Congratulations! No one deserved that more than you (althogh audiosurf is close… :p)
I love the game and cant wait for release!
and a wonderfully written speech by the way. You should make that crayon scribble a level of the game! XD
February 25th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Hi I was wondering who do I contact to get an interview for my podcast?
February 25th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Wow! Many many congrats man! I was almost sure you could win … Hope to see the final release Of Crayon published soon!!!! Again, congratulations!!
February 25th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Awesome! Congratulations Petri!!!!
February 25th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Gratz Pete! You’ll get a nice collection of DVD’s from the local Video stores discount shelves.
February 25th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Congrats for making some good freeware, absolutly deserve it, please dont play pc games, make pc games!!!!!
PS: I’m sorry to say, but i just had to say this, u look like a girl
February 25th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Crayons rocks!
February 26th, 2008 at 7:43 am
I thought it will be a hard competition… But i knew you ARE gonna win^^
February 26th, 2008 at 8:03 am
congrats! you were up against some good competition it seems, but a game like CPD doesn’t come along that often. i knew it was something special the 1st time i saw it. can’t wait to get my hands on a final version.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
great! congrats! you deserved it!
February 26th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I really thinked that audio surf gonna win but still CONGRATZ!
February 26th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Congratulations!!! BTW, Crayon Physics would make an awesome DS game.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Congrats`
great game ! great ideea !
“F**K YEAH” :))))
February 27th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Congratulations! Keep the games coming.
February 27th, 2008 at 2:02 am
nice job m8
congrats!
February 27th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Congratulations. Crayon Physics is an inspired piece of puzzle / game / art / state-of-mind that is truly a sum of it’s parts, from your vision, the physics engine, the music, the intuitiveness… it’s the perfect nexus of everything coming together. Once again, congratulations on your achievement and recognition; hopefully many, many more doors of opportunity have opened for you.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:45 am
I don’t know much about the game industry, but i hope and pray you talk to Nintendo about this game, and try to get it Published on the DS.
It would be a perfect port. I think Nintendo would absolutley love love love your game, and I would LOVE to carry this around on my DS. That would be freaking awsome.
So seriously, I am going to write them and email and tell them to contact you, and you should contact them. This NEEDS to be on the DS.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:48 am
By the way, just for you:
http://www.warioworld.com/
The Nintendo’s Software Development webpage.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:37 am
I knew you could do it mate
February 27th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
You have deserved it! It was so a brilliant idea… Why did you not realize it? Anyway: congratulations!
February 27th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Hi!
I found your game on gamdev.net in june or july last year. I downloaded it and i must say that i was very impressed by the game. It was awesome! really original and relaxed game! hope to see more games of this quality! The game was truly inspiring and it awakened my interest for physics applications.
Congrats from Sweden!
February 28th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Congratulations.
One thing I would _really_ love to see is… what platform you’re targeting. Right now, I can’t for the death of me find any mention.
(I assume, based on .zip extensions and the lack of mention, that it will be PC/windows. It’d be a shame to miss out on cool games just because no-one’s telling us they’re for OS X / Linux / various consoles.)
Cheers, go on with brilliant quirky games;
//ata
February 28th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Congrats!
I’ve been looking forward to the release of deluxe for a while. Looks like it will definitely be worth the wait now
February 28th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Fuck yeah Is right Congrats!
February 28th, 2008 at 9:53 am
please make it mac os x!!
February 28th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Onneks olkoon!
February 29th, 2008 at 7:19 am
WOW
Congrats
you did a great job with crayon ^^
February 29th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Cik Forsi (: (finger)
February 29th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
congratulations on winning!
what’s it been like since winning? i bet there’s been masses of interviews and the like.
February 29th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Cool, I want it for my Nintendo DS.
seriously cool.
congrats!
March 1st, 2008 at 2:23 am
I’m Czech and I can’t wait for this to be released! Just to make sure… Will it be for free, or do you have to pay for it? Nice job BTW.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:27 am
Reply to:
Ninja
“Did your get get it? Where’s that never version?
Just playin. I make mistakes too.
LOL.
That’s odd that someone kidnapped your cat. WTF would anyone want to kidnap a cat.”
Someone kidnapped his cat? Damn! That’s big pain. Did you get the precious cat back? I could borrow you one of my 19 cats (No, I’m not crazy, we’re just a big family).
March 1st, 2008 at 6:49 am
When it says I can draw whatever I want, does that mean I can also draw strings? Because I so dearly want to be able to create an elevator lift.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:33 am
Awesome job, the game is innovative and is simplicity at it’s best. I like it a lot
March 1st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Amazing dude! Congratulations. You have come a long way from that early days QBasic stuff
Now that you have some extra money, you could possibly consider returning my Larry 6 disks? 
March 1st, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Great work! You deserve it! But release the game already!
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 am
How did people come to know so much about Crayon Physics Deluxe if it has not been released yet?
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:05 pm
well deserved bro! MAC VERSION PLEASE!!! Can you say iphone/touch killer app?
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
i’ve been showing a lot of my friends and teachers the video, and they’re all very impressed.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Hi,
thank you for making the situation clear to people from the outside (like me)!
You just forgot to mention another musician, who even didn’t use a non-commercial clause and just wanted some attribution: brad sucks … just look at this page: http://ccmixter.org/files/bradsucks/3556
Thanks for the great game once again and I m already looking forward to the deluxe version
bye
March 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Awesome! Congratulations!
Your fame continues - Brenda Brathwaite mentioned Kloonigames in an Escapist article:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_138/2968-The-Game-Design-Game
(Sorry if someone has already posted, I seem inable to bring up all of the comments…)
Keep on truckin’, Petri!
March 5th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Congrats Petri, Ive been watching your project for many months and am looking forward to seeing the final outcome.
Perhaps you have already seen this but I think that you could really benefit by checking out the following technology on Youtube, its a DIY interactive whiteboard that you can make with a projector (or LCD screen) and a Wiimote. I would imagine it would be fantastic for playing your game at LAN parties and other events. It also supports multi touch so perhaps you could incorporate some sort of two player co-op mode or competition mode where players could play on a huge wall screen with IR light pens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ
The software itself is free at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
March 5th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Your comments system is not working correctly, it only ever shows page 1 of the comments even when you click the other comment pages. Tries in IE7 and Firefox. Hope this helps and congrats again on the win.
March 6th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Congratulations, but I’m sure it’s been mentioned that this game is not a completely original idea. MIT shows it here a full year before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNTgglPbUA&eurl
And I’m sure there are others who have dont it before. Nevertheless, congratulations on making it fun for everyone! All the best to you in the future.
March 8th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Ei helkkari vieköön o_o Onnittelut. En voi uskoa todeksi, toivottavasti peli julkaistaan pian julkiseksi.
March 9th, 2008 at 2:48 am
usually i don’t leave any comments on visited websites, but this time i just have to:
PLEASE FINISH THE GAME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND I WILL PAY (ALMOST) ANY PRICE TO PURCHASE IT.
greetings from germany
March 9th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Congrats on the win! Once you get it done port it over to the iPhone too! I wrote about this at: http://www.devberry.com
Cheers,
Neil.
March 9th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Hyvä Pete! Kyllähän sen huomas jo ala-asteella taikatempuista että sussa on ainesta! Äiti leikkas mulle lehtileikkeen Kouvolan Sanomista, en ois muuten huomannu koko uutista. Jatkahan taistelua! =)
March 9th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Hmm en pääse Firefoxilla tai Operalla katsomaan kaikkia kommentteja.. Taitaa olla joku temppu tämäkin
March 11th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Congrats on the award! You deffinately deservered it. And hey, if you need any more testers, you know who to ask.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:34 am
I’ve been following the crayon hype for a while and still enjoy playing the first release of the game. It would be great if someone could actually make it a Nintendo DS game… i think it would be a perfect match.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
F*CK YEAH! congratulations man
Felicitaciones por el gran trabajo
March 17th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
OOH My friend just shown me the video of this game! OMG I’m looking forward to be able to play the deluxe edition on my Wacom tablet! omg! <3<3<3<<33 It’s like the PSP Loco Roco game of PCs!
March 24th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Congratulations on a well deserved award. Can’t wait for CPD!
April 13th, 2008 at 5:01 am
CONGRATS
but, if you finish the game, put it on the ds, BUT KEEP IT FREE on the web! the ds would just be an improvement for it.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
[...] Skubu jums pranešti vieną labai svarbią naujieną. Žaidimas, kurio pirminę versiją siūliau jums pažaisti, gavo Seumas McNally didįjį prizą ($20k) Independent Games Festivalyje (via). [...]
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 am
Debt Relief…
checked your site out. great stuff….
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:27 pm
goood
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:46 am
Thanks, Much to be thankful for. Best to you.