Origins Game Fair and a Potential Free MLS Game With Us

First off, check out our logo!!! It's finally here. We're pretty excited to be able to show it off. Let us know what you think.

As you can probably tell, stuff is really ramping up here on the Gamma Grunts front. We are still working on logistics while James Koenig, our artist, has started illustrating this week. We are continuing to learn what people expect from our game and how our product can really fit the desires people have. This has been a combination of talking to both consumers and industry folks, getting information where we can.

The first person who really helped was Brent Critchfield from Studio Woe. He created a game named, Gruff (www.studiowoe.com) where you play a mutated goat herder who is battling against other mutated goat herders. It was such a fun game with such unique art (see above) that Kyle and I fell in love with his product. Well, Brent runs the company himself and has ran successful Kickstarters in the past so he was the perfect candidate to ask questions about how the process goes. 

I spoke with him on the phone for about 2 1/2 hours last year about what we need to think about for every step of production and logistics. At the end of the conversation I realized that this is a lot of work and you can't go into this thinking only about the romantic idea of bringing your game to fruition. It takes a lot of ambition, a lot of sleepless nights filled with planning, a lot of research into which tools are usable on a budget, figuring out which marketing/promotion techniques work best for your situation, planning for worst and best case scenarios, and at the end of the day putting your money where your dreams are because before you go to Kickstarter, you have to work harder than you have ever worked before. This wasn't what he went over with me directly on this phone call but rather he gave me the first few tools I needed to get started. 

So with all of this, Kyle and I are proud to officially announce that we are going to have a booth at Origins. We'll be demoing the game and will have early copies we'll be raffling off every day of Origins. We also have a big prize for Wednesday night.

We're also going to take one lucky person out to a Columbus Crew Soccer Club match against Atlanta on June 13th, 2018. Check it out here: Facebook event