The Tale of Mr. Carter
The Tale of Mr. Carter is a short animation by SamuriFerret, a clearly talented young UK based animator
Thanks to AnarchyDom for pointing it out in the forum.
High Speed Chase 2.2 Now Available!
Apple finally got round to agreeing that High Speed Chase 2.2 was ready for publishing, so here it is! The 2.2 update, available right now.
Expect more FREE updates to come for all existing owners of the game or buy the game now to ensure future FREE updates.
Buy High Speed Chase 2.2 now from the App Store or just hit the shiny App Store logo to find the update.
If you want to see a video of the High Speed Chase 2.2 features, it's available to watch on Youtube right now.
What Would Mario Look Like Naked?
Apparently Mario without clothing would look like this. Hang on, this doesn't seem right...
PETMAN Robot
PETMAN is an evolution of the BIGDOG technology by Boston Dynamics. The thing that still gets me is in a few years we'll see auto-bots that will do things like drive us places, serve us coffee and milk our livestock.
Robot uprising?
Mini-Documentary
On Thursday the 28th of October, Johnny Two Shoes is being filmed for a short documentary for BBC 2 in the UK about game development, how we started and how we got into it at a young age.
I will try and post the video to the site once it has aired, I'm not sure of the air date right now.
Is there anything you think we should talk about or any questions you'd like us to answer in the film?
JTS Exclusive Games
Johnny Two Shoes is first and foremost a games developer, we actually built every game you can play on this website (and the website itself) and what's more, you won't find the majority of these games such as The Heist 2 and Attak almost anywhere else on the internet.
There are usually two types of casual gaming websites, portals and developer showcases. At Johnny Two Shoes we're more like a showcase, but, because we have a huge community that thrives on earning medals, socialising and interacting with the way we make games, we could be considered as a hybrid of those types of sites, taking the best of portals (medals, community) and showcase (personable, engaging).
Johnny Two Shoes is run entirely by two brothers Max (meridimus) and Josh (joshsslade) from London, UK. We hook-up our favourite freelance sound engineer, David Carney (thedavidcarney) for the awesome audio experience in our games.
I hoped you learned a little bit more about what Johnny Two Shoes is and if you'd like to take part in our bustling community you should head over to the forums and introduce yourself.
We're Feed Burnin'
Well, we realised our feeds were GROSSLY under powered, by that I mean I was stripping everything out just to get them working straight. Today, I did something pretty cool - I converted all our feeds to feedburner and made them so much sweeter. You can now view images, embedded video and full formatting inside RSS feeds.
It's already available through the Feedburner service, all old feeds will be automatically updated to use the new feeds so you don't need to update anything (or any cool widgets you made) to get it working with the new awesome-sauce.
Sorry I left the whole system in a bit of disrepair earlier, I've been so distracted with lots of other things going on at once but it should all be fixed now. If you spot anything funky, post it in the comments!
To summarise, you can grab the RSS feeds with all the new features right now:
Poni Hoax
I went to see Poni Hoax a while ago at Cargo in London, but I was prompted to write about them today because their album "Images of Sigrid" just turned up.
Poni Hoax are a mix of experienced musicians, their sound is really well developed and hugely varies between each track on the "Images of Sigrid" album. In my opinion, they are one of the greatest bands I have found for a long time, so for me, they deserve a space on the Johnny Two Shoes blog. I want to share with you what I have found!
Poni Hoax are a French band, so they may not be known at all in America or even very much in the UK. I want you to tell your friends about Poni Hoax, buy their album "Images of Sigrid" and if you get a chance to see them, jump at it. They're really are the most enthralling live performance I have ever seen, bursting with emotion and a kind of clarity that only well versed musicians can maintain.
Listen to Poni Hoax on MySpace
Photography by David Rivoal
Hello, Joe Danger!
Our friends at Hello games recently announced their XBLA, PSN and PC title "Joe Danger" for what looks to be an incredible game packed with style and oozing with fun.
I don't want to attempt to steal the lime-light on what Hello Games will say about it themselves, but consider this "Hello Games wants to make games that will put a stoopid grin on your face." and follow the link to read more.
R* Detail "Gay Tony" Multiplayer
Today R* detail the very best of what's to come in "The Ballad of Gay Tony", details of the often overlooked (by people who dislike the series) and overplayed (by people who love the series) multiplayer game modes.
The original Grand Theft Auto games are partly what inspired us to make our own games and even inspired a lot of them (see High Speed Chase, High Speed Chase 2, The Heist, The Heist 2), so you can see why this is big news for us.
This is what's new:
- Loads more deathmatch locations, including indoor locations
- Deathmatch kill streaks
- New weapon types, including sticky bombs!
- Free mode now has parachutes to play with (jumping out of your friends helicopter isn't so suicidal anymore)
- New helicopter (The Buzzard) and new N.O.O.S.E. truck feature in free mode
Find out everything R* has detailed in "The Ballad of Gay Tony" DLC, due out October 29th on XBOX 360.
