Posted by Ross
Thu, 15th Dec 2011
Hi everyone. Orbit has been out for a little over a week now and the reaction so far has been great. It’s currently one of our highest rated games, with a user rating on the PSN Store of 4.33/5 in Europe and 4.44/5 in North America from hundreds of ratings. While it’s still early days and we’ve only had a few reviews come in, the critical opinion has so far been very positive with PlayStation Crowd’s CrowdCast describing it as “the gaming equivalent of premium crack cocaine”. It’s also been reviewed by PushSquare, who awarded Orbit 3-out-of-4, commenting that “the game’s impossible to put down”.
For those of us who are not PlayStation Plus users and are waiting anxiously, fear not! Soon your waiting will be at an end, as Orbit has reached escape velocity and will be boldly going to the regular PlayStation Store next week.
Of course, while all that has been going on, work has not stopped on Hungry Giraffe. As you can see from last week’s video footage, the game is progressing very nicely. Today we finalised our music and sound effects, which are being dropped into the game during the rest of the week.
We’ve also been getting into the Christmas Spirit here at Laughing Jackal. Every day this week we’ve been giving away PSN codes for our games on our Twitter account. If you’re not already following us you totally should be, as we’re going to be giving away more codes daily until the end of next week. Not only that, but we’ve been running a competition on our Facebook, Twitter and Google + accounts for a really quite special prize, so I thought I’d give all our fans on the blog a chance to join in:
All you have to do is add a comment beneath this blogpost telling us your favourite Fighting Fantasy gamebook and - listen up because this bit is important - provide an email address for us to contact you on. Don’t worry we’re not going to start spamming you we just want to be able to confirm that we’re sending the poster to the right person! The competition remains open until 4pm GMT this Friday, so you have just over a day to get your entries in.
Good luck everybody!
Edit- I just noticed I didn't actually mention the special prize. You can win a Fighting Fantasy poster signed by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The competition is open worldwide.
Posted by Ross
Thu, 8th Dec 2011
Hi everyone. We’ve got a bit of a treat for all of you who are ravenous for more news on Hungry Giraffe. We’ve been hard at work since last week’s Guide to Caring for Your Giraffe and are now ready to show off the first work-in-progress footage of Hungry Giraffe:
So, what do you think? We’re aware that we have a few tweaks and additional particle effects to add but hopefully it will still give you a clearer idea of just what we’ve been up to. We are very proud of the giraffe’s neck; I have been told that there’s some really clever maths behind it! Also, I can tell you each of the food items have been researched and personally tested for calorific and nutritional content!
I was going to leave it there for this week, but last night I was visited by three spirits who showed me visions of the past, present and the future and how Laughing Jackal have not always kept Christmas in the right spirit. Upon waking, I was struck with a sudden urge to buy a large turkey and head around to Bob Cratchit’s house. Sadly I realised I didn’t know a Bob Cratchit and - while I could look one up in a phone book - I’m not sure scaring a stranger was quite what the spirits intended.
So, instead, I have decided to launch Laughing Jackal’s 12 Days of Christmas. Every weekday, 12 days before Christmas, we’re going to be giving away PSN codes for our games over on our Facebook, Twitter and Google + accounts.. So, join us as we spread good cheer (and games!) and, if you’re very good, you might find a Laughing Jackal code in the bottom of your stocking.
God bless us, every one. See you next week. :)
Posted by Ross
Tue, 6th Dec 2011
Hi everyone. I’m delighted to let you know that our latest spacefaring PlayStation Mini Orbit will be rocketing onto the North American PSN store today, before touching down on the European PSN Store tomorrow exclusively for all you lucky PlayStation Plus astronauts for the out of this world price of free. The rest of us will have to wait until after Doc returns from his lunar trip on the 20th and 21st of December respectively to sign up and save the space programme for just $3.49/£2.49.
The launch pad is all set. Are you ready to get into Orbit?
