Pushing for a Publisher!

 Ahoy all you Sky Pirates!


    After PAX we barely had a chance to breathe before our next dive into a new push. This time we wanted to get to a point where we can really show off to publishers. We are looking down the barrel of having to get real jobs, so this has become an important focus for us. The best news is that because many publishers want a playable ‘slice’ of a game, we’re aiming to make a demo for everyone to try!


    But before that we had a challenge- to make two videos showing off the game and crammed with as much enticing footage as we can get. So I spent a lot of time making a new island and town, as Russ put together the animations and gathered the action footage of games and ship combat. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get our better character models together in time so we used some placeholder ones, but it gets idea across for now. I`m finishing up the characters and we`re going to make a new trailer- hopefully by the end of the week- for everyone else to see!


Good to see the gang together!


    This comes with a small favor to ask of all of you, however! We entered our video into a competition for a publisher, Blue Ocean Games. Us and several others are in the voting process. The first goal is to make the top 100, and if we can do that, then we go for the top 10 in the second round. If we get top 10, we get a chance to pitch to Blue Ocean!


    This is where you come in:


    We`re asking all you lovely scallywags and aeronautical-naughties to join in on the voting! If we get into the top 10, we get to present in front of a publisher!



Go here! ~~~> *** https://blueoceangames.com/challenge/voting *** <~~~


    So if you have a Steam account and want to see some great new indie games, join the process via the link above- and of course, give ours a top vote too! Their process for registering and linking your Steam account takes some time (I`m still waiting for verification), but it`ll be worth it.


    We are already looking forward to our next set of refinements and getting a build out to everyone to wander around the pirate island and village, and join a ship together!



Home sweet home





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