Building a tower
November 8th, 2009
A few months ago I decided that I could make better environment art but improving in art is hard, and often requires trying something completely different to get the result you want. Since then I have been thinking about how to build some new and improved cat buildings for Overgrowth. Here are some drawings I have made along the way ...
Overgrowth Soundtrack: Ambient 5
November 7th, 2009
Continuing our Overgrowth soundtrack series, we've uploaded another piece to our YouTube channel. The songs are composed by the talented Mikko Tarmia and often feature Anton Riehl on the flute. Today it is my pleasure to unveil ambient track number 5. Be sure to listen to it in HD. Most of the ambient tracks revealed so far have been ...
Wolfire Speaks At UC Berkeley
November 6th, 2009
The news has already leaked on our Twitter and Facebook page but today I had the honor of speaking at an entrepreneurship class at UC Berkeley. The class was UGBA 195 "Perspectives on Entrepreneurship". The students had just been doing a segment on strategy for the EA's and Microsoft's of the world and to round off their exploration ...
Critter Colors
November 4th, 2009
Sometimes it is useful to restrict your color palette to help communicate information easily in games. By using a different set of colors for each critter species it will be easier to tell them apart from far away. Can you guess which colors go with which critters?
YouTube Thinks We're Cool
November 3rd, 2009
In the past few months, YouTube has been our fastest growing social media page, by far. Today, YouTube invited us to upgrade our channel to partner status! This will help us improve our YouTube page and give us some new tricks we can use to disseminate Overgrowth videos. Check out our new channel page! Click to view our new YouTube ...
What is Overgrowth?
November 2nd, 2009
People that follow Wolfire regularly already know what Overgrowth is. However, many people who stumble across our videos on YouTube or GameTrailers end up confused by what they are watching. Given that we need a new video for today's IGF submission, I thought it would be a great time to tackle the issue head on. Introducing our latest video ...
Happy Halloween From Wolfire
October 31st, 2009
It's hard to believe that Halloween has already come around again. It seems like only yesterday that Aubrey carefully carved the Wolfire logo into a pumpkin, and Jeff, Phillip and I drenched it in lighter fluid and set it ablaze with a propane torch. This year we didn't have time for as much showmanship (because we stayed in ...