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Mechagami Kickstarter Announcement

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Scarybug

Help support Mechagami on Kickstarter! Did you ever play Super Metroid and wish you could take off in your spaceship and visit some other planets? Do you love vintage arcade games like Asteroids, Space Invaders, Joust, Missile Command, Defender, Lunar…

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Showing off Mechagami

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Scarybug

Mechagami is a Flixel-based Metroidvania style indie game being developed by Scarybug Games. Here I’m showing off the gameplay from the first world and talking about the development process and inspiration.

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Chronotron for iOS Progress Video!

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Scarybug

Hey guys! We’ve got a video up on my YouTube channel of the progress so far on Chronotron for iOS. The big new feature will be the level editor, which is featured prominently in the video, along with the in-game…

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TwitStorm’s Story

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Scarybug

I’m about to release a game that’s been “done” for over 2 years. It was initially delayed due to the difficulty in finding a sponsor willing to back a game that requires a connection to a PHP proxy of a…

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Chronotron for iPhone Coming

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Scarybug

The very talented Craig Hinrichs and I have begun working together on a sequel to Chronotron for the iPhone (and possibly other devices later on). We’re still in the early stages of prototyping and designing, but we’re both very excited…

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Chronotron Nominated for Award by Nickelodeon/AddictingGames

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Scarybug

“First-of-Its-Kind Convergent Prime-time TV, Web Event Honors Best Online Games” Read the Full Press Release Chronotron was nominated in the category “Best Performance by a Robot”. Winning games will be shown on the TV machine on June 27th.

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Chronotron nominated for Best of Casual Gameplay 2008 Award!

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Scarybug

Chronotron was nominated for a Best of Casual Gameplay 2008 award in the category of Browser-based Puzzle game! You can vote once a day, if you like. I’m working very hard behind the scenes to bring you something awesome. Winning…

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Chronotron in the Wall Street Journal and around the Web!

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Scarybug

Chronotron was featured heavily in a recent Wall Street Journal article about the rise of Indie games. They mentioned fellow PAX 10 alum Schizoid as well! Speaking of PAX 10 alum, congrats to The Maw for winning the audience prize,…

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PAX 2008 Photos!

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Scarybug

A slideshow of photos taken at or near the Chronotron PAX 10 booth!

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X-Play Interview!

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Scarybug

X-Play interviewed all of the PAX 10. Here’s their Chronotron interview! I have no idea why I look so unenthusiastic! Pointing a camera at me makes my face do weird things, I guess. Thanks X-Play!

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Joe Rheaume..otron 2 weeks ago

I finally fixed that bug where the targeting reticule in missile launcher mode would start to be sort of affected by gravity after you died.