We were featured on Venus Patrol as part of Dom2D’s TIGSource DevLog Magazine.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a 2-player co-op micro-platformer set inside a pink Death Star locked in battle with hordes of space baddies. Players work together running back and forth between ship control rooms, manning turrets, lasers, shields and thrusters to rack up points and stave off a vacuumy demise.
In mish-mash terms you could describe it as Jumpman meets Asteroids meets Han saying "Don't get cocky."
Shuriken Skies
Shuriken Skies is a 2-4 competitive, no-holds-barred, every-ninja-for-themselves, skydiving beat-em-up fight fest.
When your ill-fated flight on Ninja Air goes awry, you and your fellow passengers must battle in mid-air for the last parachute, or plunge to your doom.
News // Featured on Venus Patrol
By Jamie Tucker // October 23rd, 2012
DevLog // #3: Drawing Inspiration
By Matt Hammill // October 20th, 2012
To continue from Jamie’s last dev log with the sketches…
So after we’d decided on our concept for Global Game Jam, we started thinking about visual style. Jamie and I both have an illustration background; this is the fun stuff for us. Because a spaceship with guns is hardly a rare concept in games, we really wanted to avoid a default look, so leading up to GGJ we were gathering references from outside video games–plus I’ve always found this keeps you honest about how much you’re borrowing from any one source. Even though at the time it was “just” a jam game, we wanted to be coming from the right place.
Since the game features a ship’s cross-section, right away we hit on our nostalgia for the sci-fi technical manuals we had as kids.
R2-D2 by Kevin Tong
This started leading us further back in time to older sci-fi and space illustration…
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News // Upcoming Exhibitions
By Jamie Tucker // October 17th, 2012
We are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibitions of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime:
- • Miso Community Arcade at Digifest // Oct 18 – 20
- • Darkcade at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival // Oct 18
- • DIY Games Room at Canzine // Oct 21
We are always looking for more public events to exhibit our prototype, so drop us a line!
DevLog // #2: Great Kid, Don’t Get Cocky!
By Jamie Tucker // October 17th, 2012
A little over a month after the Global Game Jam (where we started Lovers) we, and the rest of the world awoke to FTL. In an email chain titled “RE: uhhhhhhh oh shit” we discussed mainly how cool FTL looked and “Holy shit they raised over $200,000!” Actually we we’re freaking out when they raised $40,000, but they quickly quintupled that figure. Unfortunately for us, from then on we knew that anytime we would show our game, people would make the connection to FTL and be in it’s shadow.
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DevLog // #1: In a Galaxy Far Far Away
By Jamie Tucker // October 17th, 2012
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime started off at the Toronto Global Game Jam early in 2012. Being veteran jammers, we were invited by Troy Morrissey, who organized the GGJ Toronto space, to take part in the jam and get interviewed for the documentary he and his crew were filming, Game Jam the Documentary. We had a great experience that was filled with ups and downs and a lot of silent typing.
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