Macguffin Games

Getting Ready for the PAX Boston Indie Showcase

A couple things that many will already know..

1. Penny Arcade is coming to Boston with PAX – the Penny Arcade Expo – this March.
2. We’re going to be launching the “$5 Beta” of the game there!
3. Penny Arcade announced right around the end of last year that they’re going to also be doing a Boston Indies Showcase, something analogous to the PAX 10 from the west coast show, except that you need to live within X miles of Boston to be eligible.
4. The deadline for submitting to the showcase is this coming Friday, 1/15.

So we’ve been busting our butts to get the game working!  Things are in overdrive.  Graham is drawing like a madman when he isn’t working with the couple people we have helping write game events.   Whitney has been coding like some sort of crazy proficient coder-person, doing the last couple features we want for the deadline and then working on tweaks and bugs.  I’ve been switching from design to coding to getting the game events into XML, and whatever else.  It’s kind of nuts.

This coming Monday morning, we’ll sit down at Betahouse and play the game for the first time.  I’m extremely excited to do it, and I’ll be spending the rest of the weekend making sure we hit that spot.  Then we have five days to get it into some sort of proper shape for Tycho, Gabe, Robert, Lindsay, and whomever else in the Penny Arcade crew will be playing it.

No problem!

… going to get back to work now.