Octodad: Dadliest Catch F.A.Q.
We get asked many of the same questions on a regular basis. Here are some of the most popular and what we have to say about them. When is the game coming out? We’re still on track for around end of year 2013 / very…
Time Travelling Churches: A look at our first level in development.
Hello all, Kevin Zuhn here with a message from the past: Building tutorial levels is hard! Back on the first Octodad we left our tutorial level until late in development, and it shows. Upon starting Dadliest Catch, we decided to do it right, and build…
Why I Want to Emulate an Octopus
When you work on something and fill it with love, you sacrifice pieces of yourself to your creation. Time, energy and hope are all slain on the altar of design and implementation. Octodad has put a lot of time into building something he doesn’t want…
PAX East 2013
Come play Octodad: Dadliest Catch in person at PAX East in Boston, on March 22nd-24th! Visit us at booth 781. We’re part of the larger AMAZING Indie MEGABOOTH, and 6 of the 8 horses will be in attendance to show off our neat-o game for ya’ll. Meet the…
Playtesting with Little to no Budget
Trials of Testing while Indie We don’t have the money to hire a QA department to test Dadliest Catch for bugs and we at least didn’t think we had the resources to playtest it properly. When we started working on the game we used things…
Octodad’s Path to Popularity
It’s probably not a stretch to say that the first Octodad became popular for two major reasons: it was quirky and it was free. But aside from that, it’s interesting to take a look at what has really helped push us into the spotlight over…
Octodad in the News (1/11/13)
Sometimes Octodad is in the news, and sometimes people say some nice things about it. Dadliest Catch for instance has been getting a solid amount of attention in people’s “Most Anticipated Games of 2013” lists. In case you don’t follow us on twitter or like…
Happy Holidays
I’m sure at this point you are all bracing your inboxes and social feeds for Holiday Impact™ from the swarm of good tidings and cheer. While some of this can seem far from genuine and a clear adherence to form, we at Young Horses want…