Archive for September, 2009

First fan art

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Today is a big day!

We are proud to showcase Fishing Cactus’ very first fan art courtesy of Olivier Drouet. Thanks again for having helped us getting some more color on our office walls.

Do you have an exceptional Fishing Cactus (or Root Beer)-related artwork you wanna share with the world? Feel free to send it to fan (AT) fishingcactus (DOT) com.

Fan art #1

Project Eyeballs enters production!

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Production has started on our new game and we’re finally ready to share some initial info on project “Eyeballs”!

No doubt you’ve already seen the artwork on our projects page (you did right?). Those Eye-shaped characters are going to be the stars of a new a fast-paced multiplayer action/platform game coming to Wiiware!

The game is being developed in collaboration with Michael Heald of Fully Illustrated, who has already done an amazing work on our website. This should say a lot about the art quality and character style you can expect!

We won’t say too much about the project itself for now, except that’s it’s being prototyped and the gameplay is shaping up to be simple, accessible and more importantly, fun! Also, the title on the screenshot is temptative :)

We could say we’re aiming for a Wiiware winter release, but we reckon that announcing a vague “when it’s done” release date is a lot cooler so, let’s go for it!

Codename: Eyeballs! On Wiiware! When it’s done!


Eyeballs


Giant wallpaper…

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Today we installed the company’s banner on our office front door. It is unusual enough to take a picture of all Fishing Cactus staff.

Every little bit helps.

FiShing Cactus company banner

Store on its way

Monday, September 21st, 2009

We are currently deploying our own web store and soon you’ll be able to buy some really cool Fishing Cactus stuff. Amongst the different goodies you’ll be able to find on the store, there are shoes, skate boards and tons of other extra quality stuff directly coming and designed on Zazzle.

To give you an idea of what will be available, just take a look at the following shoes, don’t they look AWESOME?

Fishing Cactus Shoes

Not to say that buying something in the shop also helps us a little bit financially :)

:Shift: iPhone featured in Edge

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Shift iPhoneShift has been featured as one of the best 50 iphone / ipod touch games in the famous gaming magazine EDGE.

Here’s what they say about the game: “The sharp presentation and ingenious level design will make you flip the gameworld around to get your character to the exit. There’s not much to it, but what there is still make your head hurt.”

I take the opportunity of this post to remind you that we made a big and free update on the game adding several brand new levels.

Back on track

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

The blog theme is now back on track!

To give you some news about what we are doing at the moment, we are currently finsihing a new iPhone game and are working on two others.

We will start soon talking about a brand new game we are working on so stay tuned!