Happy Father’s Day
This one goes out to Ken Zuhn, aka my dad! Happy Father’s Day, dad! Science Fact: The octopus has three hearts. Ostensibly this is because the two hearts on the sides handle pumping blood through the gills and the third heart sends freshly oxygenated blood…
A Fistful of Context
We’ve been playtesting Octodad for a while now, and as we’ve been building our first level towards a more-or-less complete state, I’ve noticed something. Gray boxes just aren’t much fun! I’ve been under the impression for a long time that mechanics are the end-all and…
Kickstarter by the Numbers
About two and a half months ago the guys over at War Balloon Games, the creators of the magnifique Star Command, put up a brave analysis of where their Kickstarter money was spent and what it was spent on. We’ve also been attempting to be…
The Skinning of Octodad
A man once was walking down the street. Behind him he heard a sound like the popping of wrappers and the pulling of suction cups. The man quickly turned around, but there was nothing there. Frightened, the man began to walk faster. The sounds resumed,…
Contextual Engagement in Dadliest Catch
You might have read my previous post about IndieCade submission and how we didn’t make it in last year. If you did you know we’ve been working on fixing a lot of the physics issues and the lack of polish that the first Octodad game…
A Dadgerous Wallpaper for Your Desktop
Well we really hope you all enjoyed our little April Fool’s joke! We noticed that a few people asked about a wallpaper version of the “Armed and Dadgerous” image so our artist Chris whipped up a few quick versions of it for ya’ll. Enjoy! 800…
Armed and Dadgerous
I know a lot of you saw our recent Dadliest Catch trailer which probably left some burning questions in your skulls. Why is Octodad so sad at the end? Where can I get that great song? Why did they misspell deadliest? Well, I’m here to…
Getting Ready for IndieCade
Last year we entered IndieCade with the first Octodad game and with little success of making it into the actual show. Now I think we all knew why we hadn’t made it in, but it was nice clarification when we got the feedback from the…