Author Archives: Chris

Wind-up Knight 2

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Chris

We’ve been pretty quiet lately.  It’s been almost a year since our last game, Rise of the Blobs, and other than a few blog posts here and there (and an award or two) we’ve kept a pretty low profile.  But … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, iOS, mobile games, Uncategorized, wind-up knight | 5 Comments

Porting Wind-up Knight to OUYA

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Chris

Wind-up Knight has just shipped for OUYA. It runs great on the console and is really fun to play with a controller. If you have an OUYA, go check it out! If you don’t have one, $99 is totally worth … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, game engineering, wind-up knight | 2 Comments

Free-to-Play is A-OK

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Chris

Let’s talk about free-to-play games. I mean, really talk about them.  Pick them apart. Analyze them.  Maybe even learn a few things. Because sometimes I feel like talking to game developers about the topic of free-to-play games is like talking … Continue reading →

Posted in game industry, mobile games | 6 Comments

Rise of the Blobs

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Chris

Robot Invader is staffed exclusively by veterans of the console game industry.  Our team of five has shipped over 50 console games between us, and we worked together on many of those titles earlier in our careers.  When we developed Wind-up … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, iOS, mobile games, rise of the blobs, Robot Invader | 8 Comments

The Future of App Stores (and the history of video)

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Chris

I grew up watching movies.  Mostly on video tapes, which came in hard plastic cases from a place called Flicks & Pics a few blocks from my house.  Flicks & Pics was something of an institution in my neighborhood; it … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, iOS, mobile games | 7 Comments

Playing the Story

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Chris

Last week David Jaffe, the outspoken designer of tons of games including God of War and Twisted Metal, gave a speech at DICE about how games and stories are incompatible.  The coverage of the talk makes it seem pretty cut and … Continue reading →

Posted in game design, game industry | 8 Comments

OS Native UI in Wind-up Knight

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Chris

A while ago I posted the following tweet to my twitter account: Fun fact: #windupknight on Android includes 7575 lines of Java. iOS version has 7005 lines of Objective-C. Both have 12000 lines of C#. This generated a lot of responses, mostly … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, game engineering, iOS, mobile games, wind-up knight | 11 Comments

Locomotion Smoke and Mirrors

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Chris

If we’ve done our jobs right, Wind-up Knight is a fairly simple game.  There are only four inputs, and only two are ever needed simultaneously.  Sir Sprint, our heroic spring-loaded knight, runs forward automatically, removing the need for a classic … Continue reading →

Posted in game design, game engineering, wind-up knight | 26 Comments

Wind-up Knight for iOS Released

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Chris

Human language is incapable of expressing the degree of excitement we feel as we announce that Wind-up Knight is now available on iPad and iPhone via the App Store.  We even made a cool trailer to commemorate the moment: We … Continue reading →

Posted in iOS, mobile games, wind-up knight | 9 Comments

Pay by Numbers

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Chris

Why tear out my heart for all the world to see? Why not paint by numbers Catchy melody Burn it up the charts with sweet simplicity Then do it again — Self, Paint by Numbers If you ask experts in … Continue reading →

Posted in game design, game industry, mobile games, Uncategorized, wind-up knight | 83 Comments