Anything related to the site itself or our launch.
Yes, our own set of Line stickers is finally up on the Line Creator’s Store! We made this set of 40 stamps starting last summer and finishing back in the fall and have been waiting patiently for them to land on Line ever since the submission. For those of you who don’t know what Line […]
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We’re less than 10 hours from the launch of our live game development show on Twitch.tv, and we’ve saved the best character introduction for last (at least, according to the character). Meet B. Grimm, our producer, the man who sucked us into his lonely future in order to make him a game. B. Grimm: “Now
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We’re counting down the hours to launch. Check our Twitch.tv page to follow us and for more information on when we’ll be airing in your time zone! Eric will be waking up way too early and starting the broadcast at 8am in Japan, 24 hours from now. But don’t worry, for most of you, it’s
Three days left to go, but before the launch, we still have two more members of Eric’s team to introduce. For today, we’ll introduce the artist of the bunch, Dotty. Dots, are you as excited to get started as we are? Dotty: I’m not paid to get excited, and if it doesn’t say “Dots” on
We’re down to the last week before the launch of Blue Tengu’s Live Development Show on Twitch.tv. For those of you in the US, it starts on Independence Day, but here’s a more detail rundown of the times: July 4th US & Canada: 4:00pm – 6:00pm Pacific 5:00pm – 7:00pm Mountain
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Being based in Japan, where the free chat application Line is the current king, we wanted to try our hand at making a set of Line picture stamps at some point in the near future. To better estimate how long such a task would take, we did two to start. They took a little less
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We’re now down to the last two weeks before the live game development show launches on Twitch and Youtube, so we’re busy getting everything as ready as we can get it. Eric put together a test episode of Blue Tengu unplugged, the bonus show where he puts away his development tools and dives into his
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If anyone happens to come by over the next few days, don’t be startled if things are all over the place. We’ve been customizing the theme to try and make the site look a little more like us before we launch. The current topic is getting a proper logo at the top with better menu
I just put together an introduction video for the upcoming season, which starts on July 4th (Americas), July 5th (UK Eastward). Since Blue Tengu is all about demystifying game development, I should demystify some of the video production too. Here’s a list of steps that went into the making of the video (if anything, it’ll
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Thanks to the ever-awesome Idle Thumbs podcast, I heard about the tool Trello. You’ll have to forgive me if that’s old news, but even old news takes time to reach me here in Japan. (In music, for example, I’m still catching up with the mid-2000s) I’ve seen some projects using Trello in interesting ways and
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