Of Unicycling, Shadows, and Men Hitting Each Other in the Face

The attentive among you may be wondering, “Wait a minute–the next game wasn’t due until July 1st.  Why was Crane Wars released on the 15th, two weeks early?”

A good question!  While we certainly could’ve used the next two weeks to polish up Crane Wars, it also would’ve burned us out.  And we have three more games to make this year!  We decided to take a company-wide, two-and-a-half week break to split up the year.  This lets everyone unwind and recharge a bit before we hurl headlong into another series of 8-week game productions.  Making a game in eight weeks is a taxing process!  We love you, Internet, but we need some “me” time every now and then.

So what is everyone up to during the break?

• Matthew is unicycling from Kenya to Tanzania
• Adam and Matt Mechtley are finishing up their sweet iPhone boxing game.
• Steve is working on sweet shadow physics
• Ben is relaxing and working on sweet artworks
• Shawn is relaxing and working on sweet shader technology

If you really want to stalk us all over the break here’s our list of Twitter accounts. See you guys in a few weeks! We’ve got a lot of awesome stuff planned for Blurst over the next few months; the second half of 2009 is going to even better than the first…