Sprite Kit Sample Project I did a little sample project using Sprite Kit with xCode 7 and objective-c. It isn’t a full fledged game at this point, but it is a decent starting point for somebody that is completely new to Sprite Kit. The objective of the game is to dodge asteroids. You get 100 points for each one you dodge. Sprites were taken from…

Wizard World Comic Con Nashville 2015 David Corrigan was invited to be on the “Career in Video Games” panel at Wizard World Comic Con in Nashville 2015. We discuss what inspired us to become involved in gaming, what opportunities are out there, challenges in working in games, and best advice for pursuing a career in gaming. *Thanks to Merlus15 for filming the panel and posting…

We will be at the Game Developer Conference March 17th-21st in San Francisco. If you would like to meet up with us and see what games we are working on send us an email over on the contact page or find us on Twitter. See you there!

The latest update is out for Cowbell Fever. Download the 1.3 update to get the latest fixes and improvements. You will notice that “Cowbell Hero” has now been renamed to “Cowbell Fever HD” in the App Store. Similarly “Cowbell Hero Jams” has been renamed to “Cowbell Jams”. We were asked to stop using the “Hero” name. It is the same great game with all the…

Last weekend we hosted the Nashville Game Developers Holiday Party, and it looks like a good time was had by all. The evening was spent playing arcade games, card games, eating pizza, and drinking beer. We have a small but growing game development community here in Nashville for those who don’t know. Yes, Nashville has more to offer than just country music. This year the…

Enter a world inspired by the graphics and sounds of the Nintendo Entertainment System. 8-Bit Beats is a music adventure leading you through worlds inspired by classic 8-bit games like Mega Man, Castlevania, and the Legend of Zelda. Every world contains three original 8-bit songs and ends with a dramatic boss battle. Build up your health and buy items along the way to aid your…

Check out some of the cool things we have inspired by our games. Cowbell Hero soundtracks, t-shirts, and Tiny Grave t-shirts are available. Quantities are limited so don’t wait long to pick up your official game merchandise. Also coming soon we will have a limited number of Cowbell Hero comic books featuring additional artwork not shown in the game. This is a professionally printed 48…

Score Con 3 is now a wrap. Thanks to the Score of Cool Springs for inviting us to the event, and thanks to everybody that stopped by and played Cowbell Hero. We had a good crowd of people playing the game and everybody seemed to really enjoy it being there. It was also one of the games featured in the Video Game Olympics so the…

I just pulled the winning names from the contest box we had at our MTAC booth. Cowbell Hero T-Shirt winners: Zack Brewer Kacie Henderson Austin Washington Grand prize winner of the Atari Flashback 4: David Brewington Congrats to those guys. Hopefully I can read the emails on the cards correctly and contact you all. Some of it is pretty hard to read. 🙂

MTAC 2013 was a blast. Thanks to everybody that stopped by and played Cowbell Hero. We had a steady stream of people all weekend and everybody had very positive things to say about the game. For the people who entered in our drawing we will select the winners tomorrow. We saw some great costumes. We saw a dance off between two Deadpools. There was a…