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The process behind making open source Unity games.

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Turning Our Personal Heroes into Celebrity Chefs

Turning Our Personal Heroes into Celebrity Chefs

Jen Page, Andrew Looney and Patrick Rothfuss as Celebrity Chefs in the new board game adaption Fish Cook

When you love games as much as the Cat Duo team does, your hero-worship starts looking a little different. Our free time is best spent painting Warhammer 40K armies and deck-tuning MTG (Magic: The Gathering), so you can imagine how little room we have for Kim Cardassian and the like.

Instead,…

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Is “Indie” an Abused Label? Great conversation starter!

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Getting Facebook integration started

Getting Facebook integration started

Social media is not longer a buzz phrase. Many of the most popular apps and games could have not achieved virality and success without it. In fact, social integration is so commonplace that modern, well written apps will almost always have it.

What is social media integration? 

It is the integration between social networks like Facebook and Google+ with a mobile app. The integration allows users…

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Cat Duo Jovios Controller Introduction

Cat Duo Jovios Controller Introduction

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The Jovios Controller

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From Drab to Fab: the Start-up Pitch Bootcamp

My company, Cat Duo Is developing a way to help the the Candy Crush addict be social again With addictive multi-player games that they can play together – with anyone, anytime, anywhere – 100% mobile

This was the pitch I gave to Founder Institute CEO, investor and tech entrepreneur, Adeo Ressi and a room full of people hoping to become tech founders themselves.

*That* pitch was a disaster.

My…

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Play Testing at the M.A.D.E. in Oakland

Play Testing at the M.A.D.E. in Oakland

On Sunday, February 23rd, the Cat Duo team traveled to the history museum of video games to test our future of video games prototype.

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (M.A.D.E.) is in Oakland and is home to several consoles and accompanying games from Atari to XBox. They host several events and classes centered around game development, as well.

Nearly 30 visitors to the museum came…

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Global Game Jam

Global Game Jam

David participated in the 2014 Global Game Jam in San Francisco and I arrived a day late and pretty useless except to coordinate materials, play test for other developers, and network.

We’re very proud of the amazing team that threw together a great game in such a short amount of time. Our talented crew included Stephen Coan, Stephan Kietzman, Seth Marinello, Selam Kebede and David Geisert.

On…

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Wire frames and UI Layouts

Since Cat Duo has shifted its focus from open-source Unity games to something totally new and therefore far more secretive, I’ve stopped putting up as much art for the concepts that we’ve been developing. However, we have been coming up with and trying out some very basic game concepts to test and demo our product idea.

Towards that end, I’ve been making some basic game layouts and wire frames.…

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Players Wanted to Play Test our Prototype

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Game Development Process

As we’ve been putting together a new product concept, we at Cat Duo found that we needed to formalize how we come up with new game concepts. To that end, I came up with the following questions to ask ourselves whenever we decide to move forward with a new…

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Part-time Marketing, Full-time Heart

“Candice. If the investors come back to us and ask that we let you go in favor of a more experienced games marketing manager, would you take 12 grand to stop working on this and essentially walk away?”

This was a question in the very frank conversation we…

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Press Releases: the end is just the beginning

My adventures in spamming the Internet with news of our first game release have just begun, but first, the credits:

Thanks to all of the amazing people who follow us via Twitter @CatDuoGames.

Thanks to the fine folks over at Reddit.com/r/indiegames and…

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Nuke 'Em From Orbit Instruction Page

After having a few people try the gameplay out for NEFO, David and I realized that we really need…

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Marketing Stuff

Candice here-

I often feel like the lame leg of the operation, but I was told that posting about our marketing plan would be helpful for anyone following along in our game development journey.

David and Steph started this blog, David got us up and…

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Updated Cloud Burst Beta

We’ve been getting lots of great feedback on the Cloud Burst beta, and have made the following tweaks:

1) Updated fire spread rate to be much more manageable

2) Altered level 1 cloud spawn rate to increase difficulty over time

3) Moved score to top of…

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Nuke Em From Orbit Mock-Up

I’ve been working a ton this weekend to get all the art ready for the Cat Duo entry in the Walking…

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