Best in Show Solitaire has been released on Big Fish Games today and was featured in their Daily Game Splash email. You can find it right on the homepage under today’s new releases or Felix’s Favorites (or just click here). It took a lot of work to hammer out all the bugs and tweaks that [...]
Here’s an awesome new trailer of Best in Show solitaire that shows off all the features and fantastic gameplay. The PC version is finished, so if you ‘preorder‘ now – you will get the Strategy Guide, Level Editor and PC Version of the game instantly. We will increase the price once the Mac and Linux [...]
For all those Best in Show players out there, I thought it was worth posting about how to use your old profile and save data without having to start over from scratch. We’ve learned a lot from working with online distributors and receiving feedback from our players. One very common problem was that the game [...]
We’ve had a busy last couple of weeks working with publishers, portals and distributors. The good news is that Best in Show is most certainly headed to some casual game portals (It’s still better to buy directly from us though). As part of this distribution process, we have created an in-depth manual and strategy guide. [...]
We are happy to announce that our game is currently available for Pre-Order from our website. You’ll save 50% by pre-ordering and will be able to start your quest and start training your dogs instantly after payment! We’re offering a sweet deal where you can get Best In Show, Storked! and The Magic Toy Chest [...]
I have spent the past couple days working on the Pet Store. The Pet Store is where you can go to purchase upgrades for your dog, buy additional spares, or browse and purchase new dogs. The original concept art is above. — The coding for the shop is very simple – but tying all the [...]
I took some time to record some gameplay of our current build of Best In Show Solitaire. The gameplay shows off the Title Screen’s look and shows off some actual gameplay and flow of the game. This footage still comes from a game that is still in development. Still I think it shows off the [...]
Last time I really blogged about Best in Show Solitaire, I talked about the variety of backgrounds and how that was important for the game. It was great to conceive all the variety of locations in the game, but then I had to think about the overall game’s story and progression. The basic premise of [...]
One of the really important things I decided early on was that I wanted to have good background variety. All of my locations had to fit into the dog motif (i.e. parks, lawns, etc) but having level after level of dog parks wouldn’t be very interesting for the player. So how could I add variety [...]
When I conceived the backgrounds, I knew that I wanted to maximize the artwork I was paying for and build in the ability to mix and match elements to form new unique permutations of the backgrounds. In order to accomplish this, I required that every background be dissected into 3 parts: the sky, backdrop, and [...]
