Category Archives: wind-up knight

Android TV and the Video Game Middle Ground

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Chris

We shipped Wind-up Knight 2 for Android TV last week.  If you were at Google IO, maybe you saw our logo flash up there for a moment.  If you actually have an Android TV, Wind-up Knight 2 is one of a … Continue reading →

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Learning about Free-to-Play from Devil May Cry

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Chris

The first 20 minutes of Devil May Cry are really clever.  What happens is this: you breeze through several rooms, chopping evil marionettes left and right and flicking that silver hair around like you own the world.  After the second or third … Continue reading →

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Playing Wind-up Knight 2 with a Guitar (and why it matters)

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Chris

Yesterday we posted this silly video about playing Wind-up Knight 2 with a variety of funny controllers. Nothing in this video is faked; we used a converter box (like this one) to convert our various console controllers to USB, then … Continue reading →

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Checkpoints in Unity

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Chris

One of the new features in Wind-up Knight 2 is checkpoints.  They work the way you  expect: if you die after passing a checkpoint you will restart at the checkpoint location with the game world restored to its previous state. … Continue reading →

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Leveling Up the Wind-up Knight Design Process

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Chris

When we built the original Wind-up Knight, Robot Invader was only three people: Casey, our intrepid designer / animator, Mike, our one-man art machine, and me, the code guy.  We hired contractors (the mighty Jordan Fehr for sound design and … Continue reading →

Posted in game design, prototyping, wind-up knight | 3 Comments

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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