Strange Loop Games is live!

Two exciting things today – first, our website and trailer for our first game Vessel are now live!  We still have a lot more work on the project before it’s ready to ship out, but we’d like to give a look to any curious internet citizens out there.

Second, Vessel has been nominated as a finalist in the IGF, in the category of ‘technical excellence’!  We’re extremely proud to be listed among so many amazing games, and looking forward to showing Vessel on the IGF floor.  Come out and play our game at GDC 2010…

We’ll be posting our development progress on this blog along with other random game-related minutiae as the mood strikes us, so stick around and drop us a comment.  Hello 2010, it’s going to be a busy year.

Music track is Jon Hopkins – Lost in Thought on Opalescent, licensed courtesy of Just Music www.justmusic.co.uk

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24 Responses to “Strange Loop Games is live!”

  1. David Amador
    4:58 am on January 6th, 2010

    Wow, this looks awesome . Is it coming for pc?

  2. Noxn
    5:22 am on January 6th, 2010

    When does it come out and how much will it cost? Ill pay anything.
    Just gimme.

  3. Martin
    5:56 am on January 6th, 2010

    incredible graphics and liquid physics! Also the atmosphere o the game is superb.

  4. John K
    9:17 am on January 6th, 2010

    Thanks! We still have lots of work to do on it so a release date hasn’t been set yet. We want to ship on PC and console.

  5. Federico Figueredo
    11:18 am on January 6th, 2010

    Your project looks very promising. So far I see a combination of moody atmosphere and physics based gameplay that will, in my opinion, net you a good niche for your game.

    I was sent here by Oliver Clarke of Blitz Games Arcade and I’m quite glad I took the bait. I really hope your game is successful and has a great start both on the PC and consoles :)

    —

    On a different note, I work at DroptheDice.com and we love to give our support to independent developers such as yourselves. I’m sure we’ll contact you in the future to talk about your work as a new game developing team and, of course, your game Vessel.

    Until then, best of lucks!
    Federico Figueredo

  6. Rick Ulrich
    2:30 pm on January 6th, 2010

    Looks interesting. I will be waiting for the demo. Good work!

  7. Radek
    3:08 pm on January 6th, 2010

    Nice trailer, guys.

    The game’s been getting quite a bit of attention via the IGF competition, so it’s nice to see the site go up as well.

    Hopefully you’ll continue to build interest in Vessel and have enough time and resources to make it into the game you’d like it to be.

  8. Derek VT
    4:06 pm on January 6th, 2010

    Hey John it’s Derek from the old Pandemic days. Man this game just looks awesome. It’s a really original concept and I’m itching to buy it :) Good work man.

    PS. Who does the music? I would like to hear more of that type of stuff.

  9. John K
    4:13 pm on January 6th, 2010

    Thanks guys. Hey Derek :) The music is Jon Hopkins, check him out his stuff is excellent.

  10. Tony
    5:45 pm on January 6th, 2010

    Awesome stuff John! Good luck with the IGF.

  11. Carson Fee
    5:47 pm on January 6th, 2010

    Very nice John! I dig the goo like liquid stuff, is that homemade sim? How about iphone or android versions?

  12. Michael Hampden
    1:35 am on January 7th, 2010

    Looking good Johnny K!! Keep up the good work buddy.

  13. ARme
    7:26 am on January 7th, 2010

    Glad you made it !
    Your game is one of the few that really deserve to be finalist IMO :)
    I wish you win this contest :)

  14. John K
    3:20 pm on January 7th, 2010

    Yep homemade sim. iphone and android would be cool, might be hard to get enough proc power though.

  15. Jen Timms
    7:53 pm on January 7th, 2010

    Looks awesome guys, congrats :)

  16. Cassandra
    12:18 pm on January 9th, 2010

    This looks awesome!! I can’t wait to buy it and play it. Way to go Marty! I’m so proud of you!

  17. Matias G
    4:44 pm on January 9th, 2010

    This looks utterly incredible. I was checking out the IGF entries and saw this one listed as a finalist, congratulations on that!

    2010 is going to be a great year.

  18. Don J
    7:49 pm on January 9th, 2010

    That looks to be a really fantastical world your creating there! I can’t wait to enter it.

    You were part of Pandemic? as in There is nothing left to fear but fear EA itself

  19. Tarwin Stroh-Spijer
    1:20 am on January 10th, 2010

    Congratulations on the IGF nomination. Hope it goes well for you! Game is looking very interesting so far. The humanoid liquid is amazing!

  20. jrocket
    3:01 pm on January 10th, 2010

    Way to go, Marty!

    Vessel looks incredible. Can’t wait to see it at IGF.

    jrocket

  21. Snake
    2:24 pm on January 11th, 2010

    Looks like an awesome game, definitely a buyer here, and love to beta test :)

  22. Lenny
    3:52 am on January 13th, 2010

    Man, I want this game.. Some one gimme a time-machine so I can jump into the future and bring the finished game back here. :D

  23. divit
    3:39 pm on January 14th, 2010

    Nice looking game!

    Will there be any Hofstadter things in it or will that only be your name (I only noticed it because I’m reading GEB)?

  24. Tom V.
    5:30 pm on January 25th, 2010

    The title looks really great John, can’t wait to play it! Best use of fluid dynamics I’ve ever seen. Welcome back from oz.