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A few days left for our crowfunding!

Last year we told you about the game Le Voyage de Kotick and the GameCup. An ecological game for teaching kids about marine ecology.

We won the second place and now the game is on a crowfunding (everything is explained here) : https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/le-voyage-de-kotick

If it reach second tier it will be translated in English and German!

Don't hesitate to share or participate in the project!

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Help us for a game project!

First, We All End Up Alone is still in development, we are actually looking for funding and preparing for production.

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Last year, we’ve been working on the prototype of “Le Voyage de Kotick” for the studio EJT-Labo. It’s an ecological game about a seal in the ocean.

(You can find more informations about the game here.)

The game is now in competition for the Game Cup and this is where we need your help to continue this project.

It’s easy you only have to vote by writing in the comments of this video : #LeVoyagedeKotick

-> Link to the video : https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2969842999721160

Thank you!

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El fuego

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Illustration for the We All End Up Alone Business Card

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Working on fake movies for the game #WeAllEndUpAlone by #NicePenguins

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We All End Up At Exhibitions (& New Demo !)

Recently we went to several shows to present We All End Up Alone :)

-Indie Games Play 7 : 24-25 October 2016 in Montreuil : http://www.indiegamesplay.fr/en/

-Paris Games Week : 27-31 October 2016 in Paris : https://www.parisgamesweek.com/en/

-IndieCade Europe : 18-19 November 2016 in Paris : http://europe.indiecade.com/

Photo credits : @RaskolnikovR & @inforumatik

We got a lot of interesting feedback and advice. There’s still a lot of things to do and change but we are making good progress. Thank you everyone for your encouragement and support!

We also gave few interviews :D (in French)

From GameOne : http://www.gameone.net/programmes/teamg1/0shkno/saisons/2016/k20etd/episodes/les-jeux-east-games-made-in-france/asnfqn/les-jeux-east-games-made-in-france/j1k9jq

From Gulli (at 3:59:03) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppj-A90j5cU&feature=youtu.be&t=14343

A small article : https://linfotoutcourt.com/preview-we-all-end-up-alone/

And The French magazine Canard PC talked about us in issue 349 from November 15th 2016.

And finally, we decided to upload the lastest version of We All End Up Alone - the one that we presented- if any of you want to try out the newest features we implemented. You can download it on Itch.io!

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See you next week ? (Indie Games Play 7 & Paris Games Week)

Next week we will be showing We All End Up Alone at two events :

-Indie Games Play 7 : 24-25 October 2016 in Montreuil : http://www.indiegamesplay.fr/en/

-Paris Games Week : 27-31 October 2016 in Paris : https://www.parisgamesweek.com/en/

See you there !

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We've been Greenlit !

Thanks again to every person who helped us in any way during this Greenlight campaign :) !

Don't forget to follow us if you want to stay tuned :

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Our next game We All End Up Alone is on Greenlight !! (with a demo)

The website of the game : http://weallendupalone.com/

The itch.io page for the demos : https://nicepenguins.itch.io/weallendupalone

And the Greenlight !! : http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=736937738

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Collaboration with OrgaNeo for Compost Challenge (light version)

We are pleased to work with OrgaNeo (https://www.organeo.com/) on a light version of https://compostchallenge.com/ : a serious game about sorting of the wastes.

This version is currently playable on touch screens at Paris bus stops

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Blida Builders is out ! (And free !)

You can grab it here : http://gamejolt.com/games/blida-builders/131823

Or on the official website of TCRM-BLIDA : http://tcrm-blida.com/blida-builders

The Trailer !

If you want to know more about the project click here.

Don’t hesitate to tell us what you think !

The game was even made on arcade for TCRM-BLIDA’s events. \o/

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Zombies want to eat your fingers

Here is a little side-project, which is currently named “Zombies want to eat your fingers”, a little puzzle game for mobile / tablets

The idea is pretty simple : when you touch your device, the zombie is attracted by your finger and will follow it. The goal is to trap every zombie to kill them (with a cage or a lava pit ...) and thus save these cute little penguins. 

We worked with Mevi, a really cool graphic designer (https://www.facebook.com/MeviGames) with whom we made another small game (check out our article : Parfois - A little game for kids )

Stay tuned ;) !

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Our next game :

Last september Yvan won the jury’s “Coup de Coeur” Price after a hackathon about health. He made a game to raise awareness about people who have cancer.

Photo Credit : Grand Est Numérique

We decided to continue this project called We All End Up Alone

Blending management and platformer mechanics, We All End Up Alone is a game where you play someone who just got cancer. Instead of watching someone's else fight, the player will live the experience and fight the sickness...

The game is still in development for now. We are working on a first version for testing. Let us know if you want to be part of the next private beta test.

Meet us at Stunfest (Rennes - France) for testing the first version !

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Parfois - A little game for kids

Hello there ! We recently participated in an Hackathon and made a litte cute game for kids. And we won one of the prices \o/ !

It’s currently in french and we may upload the game as soon as we translate it in english so stay tuned ;) !

We worked with Mevi and T05.

Photo Credit : Le Poulailler - Coworking Metz

For french people, here’s more informations (in french) :

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1030820490316183.1073741839.497968090268095&type=3

http://metz.fr/actus/2016/160310_Hackathon.php

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What we are doing now : Blida Builders

These last months we’ve been asked to make a game called Blida Builders to represent the place where we are working : TCRM-BLIDA a third place that is going to become one of the major gaming places (Events, Conferences and Video Game Development) of the Greater Region.

The Team : The manager of TCRM-BLIDA assigned the two persons originally in charge of the graphic identity of the place to this project. They found another graphic designer for Mechas, and we asked the musician who made the main theme for our GGJ15 game to join us. (You can find more details about them in the « Wo are we ? » section).

So now let’s talk about the game itself :

Plot : An unknow ennemy from deeper space wants to take control of Earth. People working in TCRM-BLIDA have to gather their forces to build a Mecha, and Gilles will take command of it to protect the planet. Pretty simple plot but connected with the two main ideas we wanted for the game : People from different job areas working together to achieve one goal and the fight against an enemy who wants to erase all these differences. And yeah... we are also big Anime fans.

Gameplay : This is a solo or a coop-game. The first part of the game will be a rythm game, synchronize yourself with the beat or with your partner to build parts of the Robot. The Boss part will be a reaction game.

This game is planned to be released in September on an arcade console and online during the launching event which will be held in TCRM-BLIDA.

So stay tune !

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Some Fresh News

Hey there, sorry for the delay a lot of things changed for us in the past few months. Here we go for a quick recap !

-First of all Manu joined us. He’s now in charge of the general graphic design of Nice Penguins and currently working on Mobile Games. He made a new logo and we thought it was time to update the Website.

-We are now working in a different environnement (what we call a Third place). This is really motivating and we meet new people and get new opportunities. (See the “Where are we ?” section for more details)

-We have released the post-jam version of our GGJ15 Game : Dash & Popy versus The Goblins (That we have made with Pikoia and Shaktar for the graphics (They worked on Dreamble too) and T05 for the Music)

-Yvan, with Romain Emery and Wesley Deglise, worked on a Google Cardboard game during the BBQ Game Jam 14 called Diamond Thief Turbo Championship Edition. It is an asymmetrical Co-op game were the player with the carboard plays with the first person view. The other player has a map of the environnement and can interact with it. Their goal is to communicate to get the diamond at the end of the level. The main idea comes from the action films were the hero has to inflitrate a place while the sidekicks are in a van with “Hacking Stuff” to guide and help him. Unfortunately we didn’t continue the project and the only video of the game is a small presentation in French. If you want to see a similar game check this one : http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/

-We also participated in three Hackathons :

        -Hackathon GEN Lorraine (In French) : We won the jury’s “Coup de Coeur” Price for the mobile App : “Ballade à Metz”. And then we created the App “Sounds of Metz” with Quentin and the city of Metz. (More infos in French)

        -Hackathon Music Tech Metz (In French) : This was a moog werkstatt workshop and we’ve made a little glitch game. We worked with Laurent Steiner on this. (Presentation Video / Gameplay Video)

        -Hackathon GEN Musique & Numérique (In French) : Yvan won, with the other members of the Jam Team (Eugénie Karadjoff and Let’s Shake Hands), the first place for the “Jam Pot” Mobile App. (More infos in French)

As of now we are working on several small mobile games like Bulbee. More details soon.

We are also making a game for the Third place, where we are working, called Blida Builders. Again more details will be coming soon.

We will post news about our projects more frequently, so stay tuned !

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Ludum Dare 31 : Snow to Basic

Yes we did it again :D

We (Yvan and @MCD_Artagnan) were helped by Infrudin and Globule Rose to make it.

With the help of Lykan for the music (and Lead Violin : Marie-Lou Bistocchi) :

https://soundcloud.com/cyrilvincent/ludum-dare-31-theme-1

https://soundcloud.com/cyrilvincent/ludum-dare-31-sad-theme

Special Thanks to Jubileus for the translation !

Snow to Basic : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=28578

Yeah the theme was "Entire Game on One Screen" but we liked the ☃ too :D

So we made a humoristic game about this, the boycott and the polemic around the vote of the snowman. #noman

BTW Infrudin made a Lego Nice Penguin :D