28 May Something Fresh
Wow, it has been over a year since we launched Jimmy Pataya! Time for a small update:
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14 Jan Merlin’s Prefab Lab available in the Asset Store!
We have worked hard on this, and now it's finally there! Merlin's Prefab Lab is an extension to the game engine Unity. It greatly improves your art pipeline by keeping your models and prefabs linked when they update. Ever had to update dynamic models linked with...
03 Jan A New Year, A New Game (and an asset – and projects)
Happy New Year everyone! 2010 was an amazing year in many ways. We launched our first-ever self-published game, Jimmy Pataya, and got the best kick in the world when it hit the App Store. We did several "serious" projects as well, and although I can't say...
10 Dec EnerCities wins Best Learning Game award!
After the recent Dutch Game Award, the praise continues for EnerCities. Last Friday, we won the Best Learning Game award at Online Educa Berlin! The awards were an initiative of Engage, the European Network for Growing Activity in Game-based learning in Education. They aim to, well,...
21 Nov Best Online Game award for EnerCities
Every year, the Dutch games industry gets together for something special: the Dutch Game Awards Dinner. For one evening, an old industrial train dock in Amersfoort is transformed to host an epic show displaying the Dutch industry's latest and greatest achievements. This year, Paladin's game EnerCities...
26 Jul Cockpits
I stumbled upon a pretty cool article from Wired. It shows an amazing array of different types of cockpits, ranging from fighter planes to cruise ships. The amount of variables and knobs to tweak varies enormously. There was one big takeaway for me: The number of...
19 Apr Jimmy Pataya: beyond the launch
As you know, recently the Paladin team built an iPhone game in two weeks. It includes fun gameplay, nice graphics, music, sound and character voice, and highscores that can be shared on Twitter. In this post, I want to look back on what happened after...
16 Apr We have a winner!
When we at Paladin Studios finish a game, I make an estimate of the highest possible score is going to be. Usually it is a combination of my personal record multiplied by x, just to be sure. There is a good reason why I take my...
11 Apr Japan plus Youtube is succes
Lets start with a little about me: I usually go to bed around 10.30 pm. As some of you might know, Jimmy Pataya started out as a research project for us. Since it got a little bit out of hand and we became more serious about it we...
07 Apr Random coolness from the past two weeks
In the development of Jimmy Pataya, a lot of things were new to us. And I noticed several things: iPod v1 > iPhone 3G When ever you develop for a platform, you need to work within it's limitations and specifications. For both the iPod and iPhone these specs...