Comments on: BUY SLAM BOLT SCRAPPERS ON PSN (and some PAX East pics)!

By: checker

checker — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:37:34 +0000

Hah! Thanks for stopping by and saying hi! I love the outfit and those pictures. :) Development slowed to a crawl because I was heads-down in this server stuff for the beta. I can’t wait to actually work on the game proper again.

By: That TF2 Spy Chick

That TF2 Spy Chick — Wed, 11 May 2011 02:39:36 +0000

Wow, I didn’t realize just how many people came to see SpyParty. I’m so glad I found the Beta announcement on Kotaku, and that that led me to this page. I must say, from what I played at PAX I am really excited about this game. It’s wonderful to see SpyParty get all this media attention, it deserves it. As someone who aspires to be a programmer, seeing someone think outside the box and create a unique project, which then gets mobs of fans at a convention, is a real inspiration. Also, I must admit, I get a kick out of having my picture up here (I still have one of those blue booklets!). I also get a bigger kick out of seeing SpyParty go to Beta; I heard rumors that development had almost slowed to a crawl, so it’s great to see progress. Man, did I fill out that early-Beta-access sign-up fast. Anyway, keep being awesome!

By: checker

checker — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:41:19 +0000

Geoff was great, and the conversation was interesting, so I can’t wait to see it!

By: justin

justin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:05:20 +0000

checker: Speaking of gt.tv, Jonathan Blow, Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, and I are going to be on the Bonus Round in April sometime. It was taped at GDC.

hey, man! that’s cool! hope that guy geoff keighley wasn’t a fucking dick! make sure to post a link when its up though! happy you could find a spot at pax with the fire house guys... good luck with the game! also the girls from the two adjacent booths were cuute! and the fire fighter in picture 11 is on fire: ohh baby!1! capcha: answer spy

By: checker

checker — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:11:10 +0000

Yeah, the time is in the corner of both player screens, it’s just most people are overwhelmed with information their first couple plays. Some day I’ll try to gather some data on who thinks which role is more and less stressful. :)

By: Christian Cassara

Christian Cassara — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:26:20 +0000

I’ve been following your game for a long time now–I love the idea of “psychological” warfare. I really enjoyed the two times I played it at PAX east. In my second round, I had my scope on the spy for about 15 seconds before the round ended, but I was too focused to consider the time. I don’t recall if the time is available to the sniper at all? I personally felt less tense playing the spy, and found that if I just relaxed and took my time doing the obstacles, with short periods of walking around aimlessly, it was going to be really hard for the sniper to discover me. As the sniper though, I found it really difficult to find any obvious tells, though I imagine once you get an idea of all the possible animations, and how the AI is supposed to look it becomes easier. Either way, it’s nice to see your game progressing. I look forward to future demos.

By: checker

checker — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:31:32 +0000

They told me there was going to be a short thing, but I haven’t seen it yet. It doesn’t look like it’s on the web yet?

Speaking of gt.tv, Jonathan Blow, Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, and I are going to be on the Bonus Round in April sometime. It was taped at GDC.

By: checker

checker — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:30:26 +0000

Yeah, I already display the quantitative information and was going to do more of that kind of thing, but that’s a great idea to do a kind of silly qualitative analysis as well!

By: Rene

Rene — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:48:28 +0000

For a non face-to-face, online match, a great way to have some conversation (and a little break) after each match is to display a few performance metrics for the players to read through. Something like “The Sniper really took his time.” or “The Spy is paranoid (checks his watch too often)”.

Games like Worms and Goldeneye (N64) have included something like this and it worked really well. We would always laugh about these between rounds.

By: Squishy

Squishy — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:47:11 +0000

Hi Chris, I don’t know if you were aware but you got a bit of coverage on GT.TV yesterday. They did a small segment on Indie games and showed Spy Party. It was recent footage because it showed the small balcony level. I got all excited and was saying to my wife “that’s the game I keep telling you about” :)

Thanks for the PAX coverage.