http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek Game Development behind the scenes | blog by Maciej Biedrzycki Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:13:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Saqqarah is now on BigFish and I am very happy to report that on the second day after the launch we’ve made it to the top ten. Till the last minute we didn’t know how the market would respond to the game and now we feel a big relief,  although ... http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/06/the-good-big-bad-fish-exclusive-games/ Tomorrow is our big day. Ancient Quest of Saqqarah will be launched on the first portal, namely BigFishGames. The game will be available exclusively on BigFish for two weeks in exchange for a small promotion campaign. After that time it will hopefully appear on all major portals. Of course please ... http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/06/our-big-day/ Lately we are doing a lot of stuff that is new to us. Most important is that we are now self publishing our games under the Game Club Cafe brand. This is different than with Magic Match, as this game was published on an exclusive basis by Oberon Media, who ... http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/06/casual-games-exclusive-self-publishing/ I hope that you don’t mind that recently every blog post on Casual Games Harmony is about Saqqarah, but I can’t help it as there is so much going on! Anyway we’re thrilled to see how good the game is doing so far. The feedback is very enthusiastic and coming ... http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/06/saqqarah-a-new-record/ Today, after exactly 1 and half year of development Ancient Quest of Saqqarah has been launched on Game Club Cafe. This is a pra-premiere of the game and for now you won’t find it anywhere else on the Internet. The game is available for purchase so if you’re wondering which ... http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/06/saqqarah-finally-here/ Yes, it’s true – Saqqarah will be launched on one of our websites in a few days. This will be a short two-week soft launch and we will try to catch some last minutes bugs and make some final improvements before we give green light to selling the game on ... http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/06/saqqarah-launches-soon/ As you might know we’re currently very busy preparing localized builds of StoneLoops, finalizing Saqqarah, trying to port our games to Mac and negotiating a lot of agreements as we are trying hard to successfully self-publish our current titles. It all takes a lot of time and effort but there is nothing ... http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/06/spellscape-soundtrack/ We are currently working hard to bring our latest games (StoneLoops! and Saqqarah) to the Mac platform and I must say I am shocked to see how problematic it is. StoneLoops! was developed using the Popcap Framework and is now being ported by RedMarble Games.  With the second game it ... http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/06/mac-game-porting/ Yesterday we have launched Game Club Cafe, our premium casual games distribution portal. Like with most our projects we had many problems developing the website (don't ask me why is that - we probably are cursed or something). We had to limit the scope of the project several times and it ... http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/06/best-games-game-club-cafe/ After writing about Magic Match and about Pteroglider it’s time to go even further back in time. Actually I would like to go to the very beginning and give you a glimpse of how it all begun with Codeminion. This will be a story of Spellscape, the first game that ... http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/06/spellscape-crpg-postmortem/