{"id":3168,"date":"2014-06-16T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T00:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2014-06-24T11:55:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T18:55:02","slug":"tetrageddon-games-after-indiecade-e3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/tetrageddon-games-after-indiecade-e3","title":{"rendered":"Tetrageddon Games &#8211; After Indiecade @ E3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiecade at E3 is now over, and I&#8217;m left a little speechless.<br \/>\nBeing part of the showcase has been a life changing event for me creatively speaking.<br \/>\nHere was a place where other game developers where supportive, and played each-others games. The staff was incredibly dedicated. There was so much respect going around, I felt like I had found the respect hub.<br \/>\nI enjoyed seeing the reactions when I told people it was all my work. No team was harmed during the creation of this product! As a woman in a predominantly male industry, I feel like I&#8217;ve accomplished the impossible at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest take away from all this is that indie games are the future. I don&#8217;t think games would be as influential if it where not for this scene. <\/p>\n<p>I could keep going about how amazing, and &#8220;life changing&#8221; its been, but work is calling!<br \/>\nBy now I&#8217;ve received a stack of feedback, and there&#8217;s much to be done.<br \/>\nAt one point I was handed a card and I almost fell over seeing the &#8220;name of the magazine I grew up reading&#8221; on it. I&#8217;m not sure how to proceed now, perhaps follow ups are in order&#8230; Or maybe I should just frame it, and keep it on my wall&#8230; My head is spinning.<br \/>\nOne gentleman took playing Offender 2 very critically, and\u00a0\u00a0gave me some valuable feedback on the placement of the metrics (they should be at the bottom of the screen)&#8230; I will be updating all the games.<\/p>\n<p>Two people played Offender 2 all the way through. I hope they liked it. I assume they did if they beat it. It&#8217;s quite a compliment considering that it&#8217;s a fairly long game.<\/p>\n<p>First I will tune\/fix all the games, and then I\u2019m creating my long-time-coming 3D arcade to put the games in. It will add greater context to the games, as well as being a kick ass environment on the web.<br \/>\nThe games you play, and how you play them, will have an effect on the environment. This will make it easier to interact\/view the project as a whole (not individual separate pieces).<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got the server\/hardware now so that I can create the social aspects of it. I still need to develop the back end so that players can update\/add what they did with the game&#8217;s sourcefiles&#8230; In a safe, and non-spammable way.<br \/>\nI also want players to be able to draw on the walls. Like real time graffiti. I know very well how to do stuff like this in a 2 dimensional environment, but 3D is a completely new beast to me&#8230; so learning something new!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/indiecade_after.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a final note, Tetrageddon Games has been receiving some amazing press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twinfinite.net\/2014\/06\/11\/e3-tetrageddon-hands-on-impressions\/\" target=\"_blank\">E3 \u2013 Tetrageddon Hands-On Preview<\/a>, on Twinfinite<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tetrageddon is certainly one of the most interesting and unique titles I have seen at E3, and I wish the developer the best of luck in the festival and look forward to where they take their ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/killscreendaily.com\/articles\/tucked-corner-e3-was-messy-brilliant-satire-online-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tucked into a corner at E3 was a messy, brilliant satire of online culture<\/a> by Kyle from Killscreen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her insistence here is passionate: despite the absurdity of her project she sees it more as a platform than something to ever be \u201cdone.\u201d Theoretically the Tetrageddon arcade could encompass the complete range of digital\/human interaction: A game for what it\u2019s like browsing news sites, updating a profile, watching a YouTube video, and so on. The internet, as we know, is bottomless. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telemundoatlanta.com\/1829_nacional\/2581386_nintendo-cree-que-2014-es-un-punto-de-inflexion-para-wii-u.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo cree que 2014 es un punto de inflexi\u00f3n para Wii U<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.8cn.tv\/content\/best-games-indicade-e3\" target=\"_blank\">Indicade Showcases Some Truly Brilliant And Truly Strange Indie Talent at E3<\/a>, via 8cn.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This game deserves a special mention because of the obvious amounts of crack it inhaled before even deciding to become a game. &#8211; 8cn<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ngplusblog.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/20\/indiecade-at-e3-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indiecade at E3 2014 on New Game Plus<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tetrageddon is a collection of nine minigames, but it\u2019s really more a cohesive peek into a perfect display of absurdism. More accurately, it\u2019s a brilliant estimation of what would it be like if you soaked up the Internet into a sponge, squeezed it out over cheesecloth, and took what fell through and put it into a game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmnow.com\/electricsistahood\/e3-2014-indiecade-booth-gives-a-taste-of-whats-to-come-this-autumn\/\" target=\"_blank\">E3 2014 | IndieCade Booth Gives A Taste Of What\u2019s To Come This Autumn<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The weirdest game I came across was one called Tetrageddon Games, a series of mini-games that were beyond the strangest of the bunch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/Nathalie_Indiecade_E3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThis is me! Picture credit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearemuesli.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">We Are M\u00fcesli<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiecade at E3 is now over, and I&#8217;m left a little speechless. Being part of the showcase has been a life changing event for me creatively speaking. Here was a place where other game developers where supportive, and played each-others games. The staff was incredibly dedicated. There was so much respect going around, I felt like I had found the respect hub. I enjoyed seeing the reactions when I told people it was all my work. No team was harmed during the creation of this product! As a woman in a predominantly male industry, I feel like I&#8217;ve accomplished the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}