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05-11-2012, 11:50 PM
Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, Kyle Pulver's Offspring Fling (http://store.steampowered.com/app/211360) is the best PC and Mac game you could ask for in the week approaching Mother's Day. Or any other day, really.
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Pre-pitch-post-gray-intro note: Offspring Fling (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/offspring-fling/) launched on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/211360) today for PC and Mac, and it's 20 percent off through May 18. It includes the Mother's Day Update, which has a level editor, replay and sharing features. Go make momma proud! (http://store.steampowered.com/app/211360)
What's your game called and what's it about?
It's called Offspring Fling, and it's a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced her children in a mostly happy but sometimes spooky forest. She'll have to make her way through more than 100 levels of baby throwing, puzzle solving, button pressing, bee-avoiding action if she wants to get them all home by dinner.
What inspired you to make Offspring Fling?
May 2011: I went to a local game jam in the Phoenix area. The theme: Motherhood. After an hour or so I had an idea of a puzzle-platformer game where you have to get a bunch of babies safely to an exit, and you could use them in all sorts of ways to solve puzzles and platforming challenges. Forty-eight hours later I had a pretty solid prototype of the game with 15 playable levels, and I ran with it from there.Continue reading The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Offspring Fling (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-offspring-fling/)
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Pre-pitch-post-gray-intro note: Offspring Fling (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/offspring-fling/) launched on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/211360) today for PC and Mac, and it's 20 percent off through May 18. It includes the Mother's Day Update, which has a level editor, replay and sharing features. Go make momma proud! (http://store.steampowered.com/app/211360)
What's your game called and what's it about?
It's called Offspring Fling, and it's a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced her children in a mostly happy but sometimes spooky forest. She'll have to make her way through more than 100 levels of baby throwing, puzzle solving, button pressing, bee-avoiding action if she wants to get them all home by dinner.
What inspired you to make Offspring Fling?
May 2011: I went to a local game jam in the Phoenix area. The theme: Motherhood. After an hour or so I had an idea of a puzzle-platformer game where you have to get a bunch of babies safely to an exit, and you could use them in all sorts of ways to solve puzzles and platforming challenges. Forty-eight hours later I had a pretty solid prototype of the game with 15 playable levels, and I ran with it from there.Continue reading The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Offspring Fling (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-offspring-fling/)
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