Arcane Circus

Curious oddities for your entertainment. www.arcanecircus.com

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A Westerner's Guide to the Japanese Games Market, the talk given by Arcane Circus' Molly Heady-Carroll during Pocket Gamer Connects London, is now on Youtube!

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Meet the kaiju!

Hagura, Ojira and Mashibuni are the three playable teams in our upcoming game, Kaijack Card Attack! Which one will you choose?

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Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 is going to be HUGE for Arcane Circus. We have been shortlisted for the BIP, are doing a talk AND showcasing in the Indie Zone! We're very excited to show our latest build of Kaijack. Who else will wee see there? :D

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Last night, Molly had the pleasure of presenting Kaijack: Card Attack at Picotachi's monthly creator meetup in Tokyo. What a lovely community!

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The most innovative business cards of 2018

You won't want to throw away these beauties!

Arcane Circus has been included in "the most innovative business cards of 2018" on Creative Bloq! Congratulations are in order for @ErikCircus , the designer of our cards! Check out all the nominees here:

https://www.creativebloq.com/inspiration/the-most-innovative-business-cards-of-2018

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Arcane Circus is 5 years old! We are so grateful for every moment we get to spend creating games and all the wonderful people who have been a part of our adventures. :)

To celebrate, Crap I'm Broke: Out of Pocket is 50% off on iOS and Android this week (15-21 Oct 2018). So grab it if you haven't already!

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crap!-im-broke-out-of-pocket/id1114606759?ls=1&mt=8

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.arcanecircus.ciboop

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Did you know our Creative Consultant on Kaijack, Charles Zembillas, was also on the design team for the 80's He-Man and She-Ra cartoons? He was recently featured in the Netflix documentary “The Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe”, showing of some never-before-seen concept art and sharing insight into the production of the shows. If you have Netflix, give it a look!

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Notice our genuine looks of amazement as we realized our selfie was being taken in this game by Akihiko Taniguchi, professor at Tama Art University. A huge thanks to the staff at Tama Art University for welcoming us into the school, showing us the work of the teachers and students and giving us feedback yesterday!

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There is a Dutch game developer AMA next week on Reddit and Arcane Circus will be participating. Join us tomorrow from 12:30-14:30 CEST and ask us anything! EDIT: The AMA is now live! Ask us your questions until 14:30 CEST. https://www.reddit.com/r/thenetherlands/comments/8z9rpx/ik_ben_erik_van_wees_medeoprichter_van_game/

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Our next game, Kaijack: Card Attack! will be playable for the first time next Saturday at Animecon​!

Come say hi and get a very early sneak peek in Den Haag in the gameroom on the Saturday the 16th of June! More info and a list of the other exhibitors below.

https://www.animecon.nl/program/events/gameroom/indie-saturday-2018

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Sofie op de Brug, gebaseerd op een waargebeurd evenement. Houd jij het 60 seconden vol?

Nu verkrijgbaar op Google Play!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arcanecircus.sofieopdebrug

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After months of pre-production, we have finally started the animation process for our next game!

Rough animation by Charles Zembillas (The Animation Academy), final animation by Molly Heady-Carroll.

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Everybody got bored during a Google hangout work session at Arcane Circus and an art jam broke out. Best drawings of our Kaiju yet!

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Research trip to the butterfly house at ARTIS Royal Zoo Amsterdam. Sketching and observing butterflies for a moth-inspired character in Kaijack Card Attack. (Not moths, but close enough, right?)

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With discoverability in the mobile games market becoming harder and harder, we've decided to shine the spotlight on the amazing indie developers making creative new titles. So welcome to the Indie...

Pocketgamer.biz interviewed our Co-Founder/Lead Artist Molly Heady-Carroll for "Indie Spotlight". Read all about how we started, our views on being an independent developer and Molly's life as a freelancer.

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Our friends, The Doppelgangers, need your help! (The band that did the soundtrack for Crap I'm Broke​).

They didn’t make it into the finals for #iamaresident but with your vote they can still be on a Residents album! Please follow the link, scroll to the bottom of the page, select “Life Would Be Wonderful” by “The Doppelgangers” as your write-in candidate and submit your ballot. No login required, it takes seconds. Any help is much appreciated! Please share and tell your friends!

http://www.residents.com/iamaresident/vote.php

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In order to inform the development of our upcoming Kaiju-themed digital card game, we took a research/sketching trip to “ The Art of Ray Harryhausen ” at Tate Britain, London.

Ray Harryhausen is the creator of giant creatures such as Talos from Jason and the Argonauts, Ymir from 20 Million Miles to Earth, the giant octopus from It Came from Beneath the Sea and the cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.  Not only is Harryhausen one of the greats in the giant-monster-genre of films, we are also big fans of his work at Arcane Circus! Artist Molly Heady-Carroll watched the heck out of Harryhausen’s films as a child and Arcane Circus has been re-watching his works as research for our game that is currently in development. It was quite another experience to get to see Harryhausen’s drawings and models in person, what an honor!

We took a trip to London to admire his great drawings/models and sketch from the work on display. Copying his drawings, learning about his influences and getting up-close to his models educated us greatly. We hope to channel some of Harryhausen’s signature style and creativity into our own work!

The exhibition ends this Sunday and has free entry. If you are in London, be sure to check it out!