ANNOUNCEMENT: Our quest has ended, and Paladin has shut down operations on May 1st 2024. Thank you for your support over the years! ❤️
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...
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...
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...
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...
This isn't about breaking physical stuff nor it is about trying to break software. No, it's about getting broken mentally. As Nick said before, creating a game in 2 weeks changes game development, a lot. As Jimmy Pataya was my first as a game designer I...
Well we did it, Jimmy Pataya has been submitted to the App Store and is "Waiting for review" at this very moment. Like every deadline, it was a though one. Not only did we have to fix some performance troubles, we also had to create and implement the...
Today we were surprised to find ourselves on nu.nl, the largest online news portal in Holland! The article writes about a leading party in The Netherlands, PvdA, who state that the Dutch games industry should be supported. Frank van Heemskerk, representing PvdA, says it is an important...
When we decided that we would try to build an iPhone game in two weeks, we knew it would be tough. We knew it would involve doing a lot of technical research, creating a lot of designs and making a lot of tough decisions. Lukas...
Let me start a with bold statement: Apple Macs suck. To be more precise, I don't like OS X and I don't care about cool window animations, fading etc. I'm the guy who likes Windows and still uses the classic theme. Anyway, that's not what I wanted...
Last Friday we put all the artwork and gameplay we had so far together to create a playable demo. The idea was to let a couple of testers play the game and listen to what they had to say. Like always, there were both positive...