Hey all,

Finally figured out how to make a video from our game, so enjoy!  We plan to be uploading the movies as we make progress, so enjoy.

We are working full force on Propaganda Lander for the iPhone! So here is another taste of the game in an easily digested art form.

Propaganda Lander Aliens

This is just concept art but, they look pretty funny. The Speedo on the fish character is priceless. Hopefully we can put up a gameplay video in the near future!

Seriously, total pussy

Now this is a tough guy!

The latest grand debate around the studio these days is who is tougher, Chuck Norris or Clint Eastwood?  Our new freelancer Jelani is giving us the hard sell on old Chuck but come on…  That guy is a total pussy, a pansie, a mamaluka coiled around his mommy’s leg.  Clearly, I’m unabashedly in support of Clint Eastwood.  I think Tommy may be too young to know either of these old farts but my suspicion is that Jess is on my side.  I can’t even see how you can argue against this, just look at Clint Eastwood.  You can scrub pots with that guy’s face.  Not just now that he’s old and wiry but even when he was young and well… wiry.  When Clint Eastwood gives a bad guy the stare down, you just want to crawl under the seat.  When Chuck Norris gives the stare down, well let’s just say he’s like that sad dad that teenagers walk all over like alpha dogs in a hen’s nest.  It’s like saying whose cooler Huey Lewis or Morrissey?  Oh no, hope I haven’t opened a new debate for next week…

We’ve updated our GamePro Labs page a little bit. There are still more things we’d like to add and figure out how to note that Propaganda Lander is for iPhone and not XBOX Live.

Some more pictures on our GamePro Labs page!

Good news everyone! looks like Propaganda Lander is going to be part of the GamePro Labs family of games.  We’re real excited to work with everyone at GamePro.  We’re also mere days away from finishing a Tiny Mantis project, that’s been occupying most of our time, then back to the Propaganda Lander :)  We’ve got some pretty exciting ideas for different worlds and Harry has drawn some excellent concept art for it… check back soon to see it

Here at Smashworx Studios we are gearing up for GDC.  What does that entail exactly?  Well, Jess eats oranges and drinks tea, Nik eats oranges and talks about zombie pirates and Tommy eats oranges and plots the downfall of the US government.  After our warm-up, we do some stretches, then we nap and wake up to play a couple of hours of the original Legend of Zelda.  Now refreshed, Jess begins to craft presentations relative the the companies Nik will meet with.  We think its important that the Smashworx brand is represented in a beneficial..ahem lucrative…light to these prospective customers.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with GDC, it is an annual convention that tries to pack as many geeks, publishers, and developers in one building as possible.  The whole lot is shaken until most are nauseous and gassy but a few persist and make very interesting business relationships.  We sure hope we’re part of the lucky few instead of the sweaty mess.  Hopefully, we’ll see you there and we can all share a hearty laugh and intricate high five.

Just waiting for those converts now

So after much hard work, the iPhone version is starting to look a little more like the Flash version.  There’s still a ways to go but we’re getting there.

We’ve updated the website with a screen shot of Propaganda Lander on the front page if you haven’t seen it yet. Just click on the Propanda Lander icon on the right side and you’ll get a nice screen shot and description of the game. For your convenience, here is the screen:

We aren’t just sitting on our hands here! The web version of Propaganda Lander has been more or less finished for a while now. We are working on an iPhone version of the game that we intend to release first. There is a whole bunch of things that we need to edit and tweak and develop to port the game to the iPhone. So sit tight! We will soon have something.

Maybe we can have some screenshots of the game at some point. We have submitted Propanda Lander to the Independent Games Festival! Because of that, we will need to have our port finished at some relatively early date. While we have a ton of other projects going on, this will at least keep us on our toes to wrap up Propanda Lander.