Physics-Based Animation in Gibbon: Beyond the Trees

Posted by on Mar 19, 2022 in Dev | No Comments
Physics-Based Animation in Gibbon: Beyond the Trees

Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, a game I’ve been collaborating on over the last few years with the awesome folks at Broken Rules, came out on Apple Arcade a few weeks ago. It’s an endless-runner style game in which the player controls a gibbon that can swing, slide, and somersault their way through the jungle, and […]

Osmos, Updates, and Floating-Point Determinism

Posted by on May 8, 2017 in Dev, iPhone/iPad, Multiplayer, Osmos | 9 Comments
Osmos, Updates, and Floating-Point Determinism

We just released Osmos 2.4.0 on iOS – our first release in almost 4 years. Why the long hiatus? Was it because 2.3.1, our previous release, was perfect? No, though it was solid and stable, and we were happy with it. Rather, it was due to our reliance on “floating-point determinism” for multiplayer. And for […]

Karmaka’s Art Lived Multiple Lives: Part 1, The Cards

Posted by on Jan 20, 2016 in Art, Dev, Karmaka | No Comments
Karmaka’s Art Lived Multiple Lives: Part 1, The Cards

I’m Marco Bucci – I painted the cards, box art, and banners for Karmaka. I’ve been part of the team for two years. As I write this, the game is just weeks away from its kickstarter release. We have high hopes for this thing. But instead of looking into the future, I’m finding myself going back through Karmaka’s many lives, reliving […]

USD! USD! A Kickstarter Request

Posted by on Feb 10, 2015 in Dev, Karmaka, Kickstarter | 12 Comments

We plan on running a Kickstarter campaign soon for a game in development. We also live in Canada. That means our pledge prices will all be listed in CAD (Canadian Dollars) rather than USD. Creators in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand are similarly bound to their country’s currencies. Let’s face it: the majority of […]

Tabletop Resources for Videogame Developers

Posted by on Feb 2, 2015 in Dev, Karmaka | 2 Comments

Dave and I are relatively old hands in the videogame industry. Between AAA and indie projects we’ve each been at it for over 10 years. But, aside from some hobbyist design, neither of us knew much about the tabletop game industry until we got serious about publishing Karmaka. Over the last 6 months we’ve done […]

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Posted by on Jun 19, 2013 in Dev, iPhone/iPad, Love, Osmos | 6 Comments
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Last year, Ryan Oliver – a developer from Nunavut – reached out to us. While playing Osmos he had noticed an achievement we named “Atanarjuat”, earned for completing the game’s “Chase” stage. This was a nod and a reference to a wonderful Canadian film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, based on an ancient Inuit legend. (yup, […]

What we’re up to…

Posted by on Oct 29, 2012 in Android, Dev, iPhone/iPad, Linux, Multiplayer, Osmos | 10 Comments

Things have been fairly quiet on the Hemisphere blog recently. The last year saw us busy on: Osmos Multiplayer, which we released on iOS this Summer, and updated soon after with voice-chat. This is where we spent most (read, a lot!) of our time. The Android port, released at the beginning of the year. A […]

App switching and graceful music handling in iOS

Posted by on Jul 6, 2012 in Dev | 4 Comments

We post few dev/technical pieces on our blog (I’d love to do more), but we ran into an issue recently that seems to plague many iOS apps on the store: Music not always playing on app resume. It’s not catastrophic when it happens – and can often be fixed by hitting the home button and […]

Smoothness

Posted by on Aug 10, 2010 in Dev, iPhone/iPad, Osmos | 5 Comments
Smoothness

Smoothness. If there was one aspect of Osmos that we were psychotically obsessed with during development, it was smoothness. Just like driving on freshly laid asphalt, skating on a rink just after the Zamboni has gone by, skiing through light untracked powder, gliding down a trail on a mountain bike with 10 inches of suspension, […]

Porting Osmos to Linux: A Post-Mortem (part 2/3)

Posted by on May 18, 2010 in Dev, Linux, Osmos | 45 Comments

Welcome to the second installment of our three-part Linux post-mortem. Part 1 lay the foundations for the article and where we’re coming from. Today’s post directly addresses the question “What worked and what didn’t?” with a set of ‘pros and cons’ that cropped up during the port. The final post will offer a more nuanced […]

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