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Update #10 · Aug 9, 2012 · 2 comments

Hey!  The Super Motherload campaign is coming to an end!  We've had a great run, and by no means does missing our funding goal mean failure!  Super Motherload will get made one way or another.  There's still time for people to fund and back this project, but chances are looking grim.  Regardless, this his been an incredibly positive experience for all of us here at XGen and we just want to take this remaining opportunity to thank all of you for making it such a wonderful thing.

Once the kickstarter campaign is over, feel free to contact me at taylor@xgenstudios.com!  I'd love to hear from all of you!  And be sure to sign up for our official Super Motherload mailing list here:

http://eepurl.com/ol-Ej

I'll miss having this forum to speak to all of you directly, but so it goes.  It's high time for me to get back to making kickass games!

As always, remember to make art, make science, make love. And perhaps most importantly of all: have the courage to make mistakes on the road to something great.  Be good to people.

Safe journeys all!

-Taylor

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Enter to win a free advance copy of SUPER MOTHERLOAD!

Update #9 · Aug 8, 2012 · 6 comments

Hey guys!  Thanks so much for all of the support and encouragement that we've received during the course of the Super Motherload Kickstarter campaign!  All of us here at XGen would like to thank you for all of your commitment and input to our project over the course of these last few weeks.  It really means a lot to us!

Unfortunately, with 3 days left to go it doesn't realistically look like we'll be successfully attaining our Kickstarter goal.  This means you will all be automatically refunded whatever you pledged, so there's no need to worry about cancelling your order!

HOWEVER, we don't want to lose touch with you guys either!  So we've set up this super easy official Super Motherload mailing list in order to keep you guys up to date.  I promise we won't be spamming you constantly, but we'll definitely let you know how things are going from time to time and notify you about other ways you can participate and be a part of the Super Motherload release!  This game is as much for YOU as it is for US, and we want to make sure that you all get to continue being a part of it!

And if that's not incentive enough, we'll be randomly selecting a few people from our mailing-list to give away advance copies of SUPER MOTHERLOAD!  If you are one of the lucky winners we will be sending you a FREE COPY of Super Motherload once it's finished to your e-mail address, and you will be among the first to have a chance to play the finished game!

All it takes to enter is just an email!  So yeah, get your bad self all signed up at the link here, and best of luck to you all:

http://eepurl.com/ol-Ej

-Taylor

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Update featuring Kurtis Wiebe!

Update #8 · Aug 7, 2012 · comment

Hi guys, Taylor here!  Today we've got a special video update coming from the writer of Super Motherload: Kurtis Wiebe!  Kurtis is renowned as a writer with numerous comic books published through Image Comics.  His published titles include Peter Panzerfaust, Green Wake and The Intrepids.  In today's video update Kurtis talks a little bit about writing the story and imagining the world of the Super Motherload universe.  Check it out!

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Super Motherload Sound Design!

Update #7 · Aug 3, 2012 · comment

HEY!  Taylor here again.  Today I've got a special interview with Eric Cheng talking about doing sound-design and music for Super Motherload.  I ask him about how he got started in music, I show some live voice-acting happening in the sound booth, he talks about sharing the stage with Grimes, and I get a quick tutorial on mixing sound and composing music for SUPER MOTHERLOAD.

If you're curious and have lots of time, the full, unabriged FORTY MINUTE (almost) interview can be found here:
https://vimeo.com/46902211

The short version (wherein I condense the nonsense to a bite-sized 9 minutes) can be watched below:

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XGen Reddit AMA

Update #6 · Aug 2, 2012 · comment

Hey guys, just a quick notice here: we JUST launched our Reddit AMA.  So if any of you guys are registered over at Reddit, come feel free to join us in the conversation here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xkkwh/we_are_xgen_studios_indie_game_developers_and/

-Taylor

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