We’ve all been hard at work  on Guacamelee! here at Drinkbox, so please excuse our absence from the Mutant Blobs Attack blog page. Twitter is so much less work! Onwards to future blob news.

Ryan MacLean will be showing Mutant Blobs at GDC in San Francisco as a part of GDC Play from 1pm to 4pm on Tuesday, March 26th in the OMDC area. Try the new control scheme we’ve implemented for the PC version, say hi to Ryan (he’s a nice guy), then check out the rest of the amazing talent Ontario, Canada has to offer.

We’re also excited to be showing off Guacamelee! at the Independent Games Festival Pavilion in Moscone South from 10am to 6pm Wednesday to Thursday and 10am to 3pm on Friday of GDC week. For those not in the know, Guacamelee! was selected as a finalist for Excellence in Visual Art at this year’s IGF.

And in past blob news, Matt McKnight, a.k.a. LethalFrag, played Mutant Blobs Attack during day 382 of his 2 year livestream challenge. We’re honoured to be a part of your journey, Frag. Best of luck the rest of the way!

A Very Dapper Playthrough PT 1

A Very Dapper Playthrough PT 2

Fun Fact: LethalFrag has elected to not shave his beard for the duration of the challenge.

Not-so-fun Fact: Rosie, LethalFrag’s ferret pictured below, is not horse-sized.

Incidentally, if you’re in the Toronto area you can check out DJ Finish Him, a.k.a. MegaShaun, play some tunes  at this event on Friday. He wrote the awesome credits song for our game and did the soundtrack for They Bleed Pixels. Unconfirmed sources on twitter report a high probability of melted faces.

Wow! What a year it has been! Way back in February, we pushed Mutant Blobs Attack out of our office and into your Playstation Vita. It received a tremendous reception as a console launch title. The metacritic gods were kind to us as we were consistently number two on the list for best games on the system early on in the year. The game also got consistently positive user reviews, so thanks guys!

All your community support and love made people stop and notice these Toronto indie devs. Thanks to you, we won IGN’s People’s Choice for Best Playstation Vita Network Game and gave the Besties Podcast over at Polygon a solid run for their ‘Sweet Sixteen‘ (we wound up doing better than Diablo 3). We were also nominated for GamesRadar’s Handheld of the Year, wound up on Game Informer’s Top 50 Games Of 2012, and won Best Handheld Game over at Digital Trends.

Blob Tats

So thanks for buying, playing, and expressing how much you enjoyed Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack! It really means a lot to us! Aaaand if you don’t have a Vita, you can get it on Steam for $1.99 during the winter sale.

Here’s to an even better 2013!

I’m on a special top secret assignment from Drinkbox Studios that requires me to live 5 days ahead of everyone else. So for me, right now the date is Monday, November 19th, and, man, do I have great news. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 was amazing! Well worth the wait. I can’t believe that thing with Edward though, what a bummer.

So, by now you’ve probably heard that PlayStation Plus is coming to the Vita. I can confirm that this is true, time travelers honour. In case you missed out on the details, PlayStation Plus subscribers in North America will be able add Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack to their Playstation Vita game library for free on the 19th, European subscribers will be able to do so on the 21st. Not only will PS+ subscribers get Mutant Blobs Attack, you’ll also get a whackload of other cool games and discounts and exclusives. You should check PlayStation Plus out for yourself if you haven’t already.

As for me, I’ve got to hop on my hoverboard and get to Jodie Foster’s birthday party. Peace out!

This year during the Steam Hallowe’en Sale, you can get Mutant Blobs Attack for half off the usual price. That’s amounts to pennies – three hundred and ninety nine pennies to be exact. The sale starts TODAY and ends on November the 1st. That isn’t much time!

GET TALES FROM SPACE: MUTANT BLOBS ATTACK HERE!

]]> http://mutantblobsattack.com/blog/2012/10/29/steam-halloween-sale-mutant-blobs-50-off/feed/ 0 http://mutantblobsattack.com/blog/2012/10/18/toronto-after-darkcade-attacks/ http://mutantblobsattack.com/blog/2012/10/18/toronto-after-darkcade-attacks/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:13:12 +0000 matthewj http://mutantblobsattack.com/?p=641 Good evening </dracula>,

Tonight, for one night only, you can play Mutant Blobs Attack at the opening night of the inaugural Toronto After Darkcade at Pauper’s Pub as a part of the Toronto After Dark Film Fest! Conveniently located across the street from The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, you can join other sci-fi/horror/monster movie fans and filmmakers at the festival’s first of many pub nights this Hallowe’en season. The festivities start at 6:45pm with the screening of Grabbers and then American Mary. After the films, starting at 11:30 pm, the Darkcade gets underway on the second floor of the bar.

And we’re not the only game being shown tonight. You can also check out Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime by Matt Hammill and Jamie Tucker. The Darkcade takes place every night of the festival and will showcase two amazing games each night from indie developers. See all the selections here!

We’ve got Mutant Blob on tap.

We would like to thank the people at Toronto After Darkcade, especially Alex Bethke, for putting this all together and including Mutant Blobs Attack! We’re excited to be a part of it, and hope to see you there!

The Playstation Vita version of Mutant Blobs Attack is now on sale for $5.59 during the ‘Caravan of the Dead – PlayStation Store Halloween Sale’. AND if you’re a PS+ member, can get Mutant Blobs Attack on your Vita for a less-than-some-slices-of-pizza price of $3.91.

Equal to one Blob

The sale starts today and ends on October 30th. Check out the PlayStation Store for more info about other spooky steals!

We’re happy to announce that the North American patch for Mutant Blobs Attack on the Playstation Vita was released on Friday (finally!). The European Vita patch went out a while ago, so now both regions have their blobs up to date.

What’s new? Well sir, for one thing, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack now offers full in-game support for French and Spanish (or is that two things?). So feel free to throw away your French-English and Spanish-English dictionaries as they have outgrown their usefulness.

Also, we made a bunch of little art, design, and code tweaks. There were issues with the blob shrinking when backtracking in certain areas, friend tokens getting stuck in walls, and countries displaying incorrectly in leaderboards. Now the blob only gets bigger, friend tokens are unstickable, and the leaderboard is gussied up, among a bunch of other minor fixes.

Thanks for playing Mutant Blobs Attack! And for those who still haven’t tried it, enjoy!

We’ve made a few changes to the Steam version of Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack.

Design-wise, to make the game flow more smoothly, magnetic surfaces and booster arrows have replaced some of the sections that relied on telekinesis.

Also, there are now more tooltips to inform players where alternate mouse controls may be useful. And the controls screen has been updated to show more mouse controls as well.

Finally, the manual in the game’s root folder has been updated to include “dedicated mouse recommended” note, more complete control listings, and an “Advanced Control Tips” page.

Link to Steam product update post

Stop counting your sleeps, stop looking at your watch, and quit your jibber jabber, SUCKA!, because Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is NOW available on Steam NOW for PC.  And NOW it’s 10% off the full price of $7.99!  If your limbs are flailing uncontrollably, please use this time to take a few deep breaths to recompose yourself before continuing on.  It’s ok, we’re excited too.

#HASHTAG 

Now you might be thinking “What’s a hashtag doing in a blog post?”  Well, FANCY PANTS, head on over to Twitter and write a blob-themed haiku (140 character limit, and please keep it clean).  On August 17th, we will select 10 haikus and give their authors a code valid for a FREE COPY of MUTANT BLOBS ATTACK on Steam.  You should probably call up your high-school English teachers and thank them for helping you get a free copy of Mutant Blobs Attack!

In case you can’t remember your haiku lessons, here’s an example:

There you go.  Forty-seven characters of transcendence.  That’s all it takes.  Tweet all haikus to @MutantBlob or @drinkboxstudios for a chance to win!  Winners will be contacted via direct message, so be sure to follow us so we can contact you.

Congratulations to IGN users Chronorayven and Andrew for winning a free copy of the game by leaving a comment on our last IGN blog post.  Also, congrats to twitter users @unluckyrose, @balrod16, and @gmanvg who won by participating in our contest via Twitter.

DRINKPAX

At PAX Prime, August 31 – September 2, come chat with us at the Drinkbox Studios booth – booth 772 – as we will be showing off Mutant Blobs Attack on PC and our upcoming lucha libre-themed, Metroidvania 2D platformer. Guacamelee!  Last year at PAX, we had four lucky contest winners who won the chance to be background characters in Mutant Blobs Attack.  So, in a way, part of them will live on FOREVER.  With that being said, how can you afford to not visit our booth?  We have a lot of fun things planned.  Hope to see you there!  And if you can’t make it, be sure to follow us on Twitter @MutantBlob and @drinkboxstudios for loads of PAX Prime antics!