CK Status Report, May

Hey readers!It's been a busy month for Cardboard Keep, but we're finally in a position to knuckle down and spend our time working on our game again for a good long while. What's been happening this month?

New Website

If you're reading this you're already on it! We've finally gone live with our new website and we're very happy with it. It should read well on mobile devices and is much simpler to navigate than the old site, feel free to take a look around!

Gamma.con Attended

Last weekend CK attended Gamma.con, a pop culture expo right here in Canberra, and we were blown away by the attendance numbers and the overwhelmingly positive response we got from people who tried Warden. If you were there and tried our game, thanks! We estimate we had almost 200 people play Warden, and the feedback was extremely useful. We spent all of Monday discussing it and making our next plans based off these experiences.

Our latest work on the art and texturing style in Warden.

Kotaku Mention

One play we got at Gamma.con was gaming journalist Junglist, who gave us a mention on Kotaku, thanks Junglist! You can read his article here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/the-games-of-gamma-con/

Warden is currently in closed pre-alpha with early access planned in the coming months.

Newsletter

Finally, we've started taking subscriptions for a monthly-or-so e-mail newsletter. If you'd like to have our delicious updates fed straight to your inbox, you can sign up here: http://eepurl.com/US01n

That's all for now, until next time! Calum 

CK Status Report, April

Happy Easter readers, Cardboard Keep has been hard at work on our large project, Warden, and dabbling in smaller experiments as well. We are getting really close to publicly announcing Warden, but in the mean time...

Interview

We did preview Warden in an interview with Final Round Gaming! Read more about Warden and our studio in our discussion with them: http://www.finalroundgaming.com/aus-indie-dev/interview-with-cardboard-keep.aspx

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Marketing Materials

CK has taken delivery of our biggest marketing order so far, including brand new business cards and... t-shirts! Keep an eye out for our shiny new logo at conventions and expos, including...

Gamma.con

Cardboard Keep can confirm we'll be attending Gamma.con, a pop culture expo right here in Canberra on the 24th of May. This will likely be the first time Warden is out in the wild for you to play, so if you're in the area come along and say hi! You can find out more about Gamma.con and grab tickets on their website here: http://gammacon.org/

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Pizza and Pixels, Canberra Game Dev Meetup

CK devs attended the first Pizza and Pixels meet up for local game devs on Wednesday. We met lots of great people including 2K Australia devs working on the just announced Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, and saw lots of interesting local projects. If you're a game developer in or near Canberra keep an eye out for the next meet up and come along to network! More info here: http://www.meetup.com/Canberra-Gamedevs/events/175300642/

That's it for this update.  Stay tuned for more news on Warden real soon. Until next time, Calum

Indie Shoutouts: EB Expo

Cardboard Keep attended EB Expo in Sydney two weeks ago, and on top of having a lot of new faces play our games and get to know us, we met a lot of fellow Australian indie developers we weren't aware of. This alone would have made the expo worth going to, and we'd like to give a shoutout to a few of the really awesome other games in development we saw there.

OTTTD by SMG Studio

An adorably beautiful tower defense for mobile with one of the strongest art styles I've seen. Big shout out to these friendly guys and their awesome game!

Burden by Pixel Pickle

Extremely atmospheric tower defense in which you build defenses onto a lumbering colossus as he wanders the level, defending him from tiny climbers and aerial attackers. Again the art here drew me in instantly, can't wait to see the finished product.

Outpost by Outpost Software

A multiplayer, side-scrolling modern shooter. We had heaps of fun with Outpost and can see a lot of potential for a big online fanbase, you can download it now!

It was great to see so many awesome games coming from local indies, best of luck to everyone who was exhibiting at EB!

More from us soon, Calum