Lara Kehler

Stuff from my life as a game developer, artist and mother who's attempting to have it all and not loose her S*&T doing it.

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Minesweeper is SOOO much better with Landmines!

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Zombie Minesweeper: A Love Story by Frogtoss Games available August 9 for iPhone and iPad

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I connected Tumblr to my http://flavors.me page - http://flavors.me/larakehler

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A little teaser for the NEW game: Zombie Minesweeper: A love story

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ZOMBIE MINESWEEPER t-Shirt

Get yours now! before it's to late!

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Most likely the new icon for my iOS game Zombie Minesweeper: a love story!

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Zombie Taxidermy - The Rabbit

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these are REAL Skywalkers!  Holy crap!

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

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Great time lapse painting...

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Zombie Graffiti - Take One

So I got home exhausted and inspired from a zombie photoshoot for this little Indie game I'm developing called Zombie Minesweeper.  To be honest I've never really been "into" zombies...kinda thought they where dumb.  So when I learned that I would be responsible for doing zombie make-up that night I was a little concerned....

It's not every day that I even WEAR make-up so when I went to the costume shop looking for supplies I had to get a lot of tips on what kind of materials would be easy to work with and yet still give us a good effect.  I think the wounds turned out pretty excellent considering!

When I got home that night, I sat down at the computer (as usual) and smiled at my current desk top image. (found here: http://duffbot.blogspot.com/) I noticed the urge to start painting bags under the eyes, changing the skin pigment to a less "healthy" colour and carving out some nice wounds....so I did:

Thanks Ciaran Duffy for your lovely brown bear who now deserves a hug for what I did to him!

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Promo shot for SOON to be released Zombie Minesweeper game.  Featuring the lovely Kirsten Spouler!

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After watching this I am re-affirmed that making games with @frogtoss and @Ipsquiggle is what I want to be doing. http://bit.ly/4tVNFK

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Zombie Minesweeper: What Story?

So I'm here to set the record straight and explain that for our first release of ZM we weren't completely off the wall with regards to the implied story of a "girl running through a zombie infested minefield gathering flowers..."  WTF?

The problem is that we didn't actually FINISH the story or even START it for that matter...we simply threw up the game as is: girl collecting flowers for no apparent reason.

THE WHOLE TRUTH:

So the original (kongregate release) story idea was this:  You are on the way to gather/deliver flowers to your parents grave.  Suddenly there is a zombie apocalypse and it's only because of the love and devotion to your parents that you continue on your quest.  When you finally arrive and place the hard earned flowers, your zombie parents reach up from their graves and proceed to chase you until you're caught, infected, and live happily ever as a zombie family!

See!  There actually was a story after all...too bad it never made it in.  Check out some of the comments on the Kong Forums regarding our 'lack of story'...pretty amusing :)

In Zombie Minesweeper - a love story, we promise to properly include players in the story...although we can't promise that there won't be the occasional raised eyebrow.

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James, Me and our little girl in San Fran during GDC-2011

sometimes you just gotta Hold'em down!