Good Morning Gato # 119 – Rail Cat

Gato is a show off, showing off all of those crazy banister balancing skills. And yes, we still have a holiday wreath up in May (the tree was down in January, so there!)

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3 Comments May 3, 2013

Good Morning Gato # 117 – Gato Hugs

Sometimes you need to hug a cat. With the events of this past week, we could all use a Gato hug. And sometimes when you’re very, very lucky, the kitty will tolerate your hugs.
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Leave a Comment April 19, 2013

Introducing: Georgey Massacre

Georgey Massacre

Hard working and soft-spoken, Georgey Massacre is the paladin and woodblock player of the band. GM joined the band during its formative dive-bars-and-community-centers year at the insistence of a family member who wishes to remain anonymous. But don’t let that soft, modestly dressed exterior fool you. Georgey can really keep a rhythm.
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1 Comment April 1, 2013

The Blood of the Indies

In Charlie Murder, the whole band gets Windows Phones on the fictional t2f (short for ta2fön) network.  There’s a bunch of stuff you can use your phone for, like email (some of it rote, some of it interesting), camera phone, and squid-themed microblogging site squ.iddl.us.  I thought it was a fun way to give your characters a bit of an info hub, and I’ve been a big fan of Windows Phone ever since my Samsung Focus and its marvelous bulging battery bomb (that’s another story). Also, we have a game on Windows Phone, and we definitely make a buck or two whenever someone buys it, so that’s cool. Yet still, I felt the need to tweet this:

In the comments in Joystiq’s rad Charlie Murder preview write up, there were a few begrudging Microsoft for what was (erroneously) interpreted as some sort of paid off order from up high to include the phone in the game.  This is obviously entirely untrue; if anyone’s guilty of some sort of slimy promotion, I guess that would be me, as I’d like to get more people interested in a pretty solid other alternative to iPhone (and, again, we’ve got Z0MB1ES on dat ph0ne!!!1)

But I think this illuminates an underlying issue, namely that of Microsoft’s misunderstood role as indie games publisher, and how that ties to the trending media narrative on Microsoft being “bad for indies.”  Where do we stand on all this?  Read on:

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9 Comments March 29, 2013

Good Morning Gato # 113 – Purr, Purr, Purr

Gato is happy and content, purring away. Little does she know, her mum and pop will have to leave her and her sister in another’s hands next weekend.
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2 Comments March 15, 2013