Is Cownado still a thing?

tags: postmortem space beaches

Happy Befana everybody, I have some presents, and some news for you.

Holy bouncy boilerplate, Batman, it’s been 7 years since the last post. What happened? Is Cownado still a thing?

The tl;dr version is yes, Cownado is still a thing, but there have been some changes.

Since the last update, we continued working on Space Beaches, reached about 95% completion, and we also showcased it at the Indiecade Europe Festival in 2019 in Paris.

Then life happened, for everybody.

The artist who worked on the graphics for Space Beaches just plain disappeared, even though that was kind of expected, considering that after some life events that, among onther things, made her move from Canada to the USA, the quality of her work (and communication) started to suffer.

Other than that, initially Cownado was founded by 3 people, with clear roles:

Andrea handled game design & level design, Carlo handled the business side of things, and I handled programming & music, with graphic design outsourced to freelance artists.

But, as I said before, life happened for everybody, and Andrea & Carlo do not have the time to invest on Cownado anymore.

I still have passion for making games though, so, from now on, Cownado continues as my solo project.

Honestly, I have no idea if I’ll ever release Space Beaches, let’s just say that the project is on hold for the moment.

In the meantime I did a little redesign to this website, to give it a bit more colour, and also I’m working on a new game, but it’s still too early in development to showcase anything.

Lastly, at the beginning of this post I promised you some presents, so here they are:

Considering that Google removed our games from the Play Store, you can now download the Android APK packages of Frank the Dillo and Dawn Of Ultra Pong directly from this website.

As the development of my new game progresses, stay tuned for more news.

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A new start

tags: postmortem space beaches

Happy Befana everybody, I have some presents, and some news for you.

Wow, it’s almost 2 years since the last post, so what happened in the meantime?

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Lessons learned from Frank the Dillo

tags: postmortem frank the dillo

Now that Frank the Dillo has been released, it’s time to take a look back at what went good and what went wrong with its development.

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