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On the road to nowhere

simon — Sun, 02 May 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Well. So according to “the plan” By now I should have had 28 sheep wrapped and packed. Turns out it’s more like 4, well.. not like… it’s exactly 4. On the other hand, though, I do have 20 sheep drawn, inked and scanned ready to paint, and that’s good. That was all last week but I’d qualify [...]

Quick update 50% marker passed!

simon — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:48:19 +0000

Just tooting my own horn. I just passed the 50% mark on the art asset creation for the sheep decks. Just 62 more cards to finalize.. Here’s where things stand as of now: Cards Drawn 78 remaining 47 total cards: 125 Cards Painted 63 remaining 62 ready to paint 15 Cards Placed indo Deck Files 63 remaining 62 ready to place 0 Cards Tested in Gameplay 1 remaining 124 -<this isn’t exactly accurate but I know what it means>- Known Text [...]

A minor change of Title

simon — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:00:00 +0000

So with the acquisition of a planned fun little markting site for Mutant Sheep, the game has undergone a Minor Title change. It’s now: Mutant Sheep Eat the Earth! [read that in a booming movie trailer voice] So with the arrival of the new scanner and spring mental cobweb cleaning done, it’s time to get down to [...]

Updated look for the site

simon — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Digital Spring Cleaning Well it was about time for an update around here, a bit of spring cleaning you might say. It was a bunch of fun.. especially trying to get Comicpress to integrate without going insane.. Still have to have to fix the navigation on the posts and subpage.. but it’s functional for now and [...]

Incubation And Spreadsheets

simon — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

State of the Sheep So after a couple days of taking a look at all the assets I feel like I’ve got a good grasp of where things stand in Mutant Sheep Eat the Planet! In Short.. Cards Drawn 75 remaining 50 total cards: 125 Painted 62,remaining 63 ready to paint 13 Placed 60 remaining 65 ready to place into deck 2 (this is a short and easy step but it’s important which [...]

Firing up the ol engines of creation!

simon — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000

So now that Jude has come into our lives things are slowly settling into a routine (granted it’s one with less sleep than we’d like, but it’s a start). That means there is starting to be some periods of non super stressful time where freelance work and pet projects can once again start to flourish. On [...]

Sheep benchmark

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Time for a little progress update, eh? Ok so some more sheep have been done but it’s time to assess the situation and get a firm grasp of where exactly I stand. But first a picture of the prototype tuckbox that the game will be shipping with (some assembly required) Why Include something as silly as a [...]

Slow progress

simon — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:05:01 +0000

So progress in sheepsville has been..well.. slow.. I’ve got another dozen or so sheep painted and ready to go into their cards, but overall, progress has been a fraction of what it needs to be. The upside, however, is that I’ve gotten a bunch of freelance work (that’s right, I’ll work for money) and that’s pretty much [...]

Mutant Sheep Balanced on a Razor’s Edge

simon — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Well as promised, here’s a recap of the weekend’s playtesting. It’s gona be a long one. The good: It was amazingly fun. A bit unlike other games, the going strategy seems to be hording your cards in your hand until you can twist the game in your favor, which seems a bit of a hard concept for [...]

Sheep with a side order of stuff

simon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Time for a quick update! All the text on the cards were wrapped up by Sunday night as hoped! This included the 30 something painted cards and a blank placeholder for the ones that have not been painted yet. It turns out that there will be 8 blank cards in the set so I’m thinking of making [...]