Matt Korba

Last Week I was pleasantly surprised to see that Winterbottom had been selected for The first annual Sense of Wonder Night.

"The objective of SOWN 2008 is to unleash on the world new games that can give people a "sense of wonder" a feeling that something will change in their world and make them gasp at the moment they lay eyes on the games or hear the game concepts."

However, I was even more pleased to find out that The Unfinished Swan a game by Winterbottom Alumn Ian Dallas was in as well. Congrats Ian!

Moreover Kellee Santiago will be at the Tokyo Game Show showing Flower. So it looks like there is going to be USC love all over Japan this October.

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If you going, come say hi, July 15-17th LA Convention Center

Happy Summer

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The compression on this is not so great So...

You can watch a higher res youtube Here

OR
Download the full res version Here
EDIT fixed the above link

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During my thesis presentation I was asked what I would do again differently. I had forgot to mention I was writing a postmortem on the very subject for gamasutra. In the article I also cover a bit about how we went about building team Winterbottom and avoiding student game pitfalls. If you are planning on working with a student team on your thesis, you might want to take a quick look.

Article Here

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I am reposting this cause now I can embed it : )

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"Hush offers a glimpse, as it were, of how vignette might be used successfully in games. As an exploration of the potential of the style, the game is a success. And as a vignette of a situation in mid-90s civil war-torn Rwanda, the game is compelling..."

Read full article here

Hooray for Jamie and the Hush Team!

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I have been meaning to post these for a while now, but I have been terrible at blogging this year(hopefully Winter break will bring some quality blogging time). These wonderful pieces were done a couple months ago as an exercise to re-imagine Winterbottom. Unfortunately the talented artist who did these can only be credited as "Cucuy".

See more by Cucuy on the Winterbottom Flickr Stream

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Paul Bellezza, Jamie Antonisse, Phil Gregorchuk, Mike Brazil, Scott Gillies, Mike Rossmassler, and myself submitted a game to Tigsource.com's B-Game competition . You play an invisible monster in a bad scifi/horror movie in the 1950's.

VOTING has commenced.... You can play and vote here, we are at the bottom of the page. You need a forum account to vote, but the forums are a good place to hang out for independent games anyways : )

Our forum thread is here

More write-up on the intense 5 day game making process later on...

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Dr. Phil Blames Video Games for Virginia Tech Massacre

via gamepolitics.com

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