Holy crap, GDC 08 was the best week ever. Every other week ever can just fuck right off. We’re all back home now and getting back to work on Fez, as well as other juicy bits we will unveil in a near-ish future. While you wait, here’s a video of Jason DeGroot, musician and producer on Fez, playing a remixed version of his score at a retro-themed videogame party in Tokyo called Fami-Mode.
Enjoy!
Hey all.
I created a fez-specific email addy, so you can send your love directly into the Polytron Corp inbox.
fez AT kokoromi DOT org
glee!
Breaking News!
Fez was just awarded the 2008 Independent Games Festival Award for
Hot damn!
Here’s a pic I took of Fish donning his monocle to deliver his acceptance haiku, while Renaud looks on.
With GDC only a few more days away, we have been busting our collective ass getting all sorts of things done in time for Fez. We’ll have some pretty big news about the future of the game to announce pretty soon. While you wait, here’s a couple of screenshots.
more after the break.
Us, actually.
Fez just received not one, not three but TWO nominations at this year’s Independent Game Festival!
Jason Rorher over at his Arthouse Games blog just put up an interview he did with me over the past few weeks.
You can check out my long, over elaborate and slightly pretentious answers right here.
Trixels, voxels, pixels and texels.
WTF.
Renaud explains how Fez is being built.
Alright, here’s a couple of explainations about the rendering technology behind Fez, what we call trixels.
Some people on deviantART and the TIGS blog post have pointed out how these are pretty much just voxels, but with a trendy name. As the lead programmer, I beg to differ… a bit.
At Last!
Jason, AKA 6955 who’s currently busy doing all the music and sound for Fez is also busy putting together this new show he’s producing for gamevideos.com. Its called Points and its slick as hell. Its about game culture, the kind of stuff you never hear enough about. Rather than go on about previews and reviews and products, Points is about the culture that was spawned and revolves around videogames.
The first episode is about these 2 gamer’s bars in tokyo.
Reason 9982373 to want to go to tokyo: they have bars for gamers.
Defenitly check it out. Its sexy and uses bolded helvetica as its font of choice.
Oh, and music by 6955, too!
42 days before the IGF entry deadline.
Im starting to feel the pressure big time. Feeling guilty whenever im not working on the game. whatever i do, feeling like i should instead be working on the game. 42 days remaining.
