Blendo Games Newsletter, September 29 2010
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1) Air Forte released on Steam!
2) Flotilla v2.4 released
2) What's next from Blendo Games?
3) How to contact us
4) How to subscribe to the newsletter


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1. Air Forte released on Steam!

Our game "Air Forte" has been released on
Steam! It includes the PC and Mac version,
and is having a 10% off promotion for its
first week of release.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/55020

Air Forte is a game exploring math, vocabulary,
and geography. Pilot your airplane through a
variety of arenas, either by yourself or up to
four other players.

For more info, screenshots, and videos:
http://www.blendogames.com/airforte

Enjoy!

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2. Flotilla v2.4 released

We've made a new patch for Flotilla, adding some
extra features and fixing some bugs. Here's the
full changelist:

Crash: Fixed crash in audio initialization.
Game: AI now chooses enemy targets on a more random basis.
Game: Fixed issue with Bruja Heart item not working.
Game: Camera no longer automatically zooms out after all ships have orders. Player can manually invoke camera reset by clicking mousewheel.
Game: Fixed Adventure issue where player has no more planets to visit.
Controls: Q and E now lower/raise the camera.
Controls: can now use numpad for camera control. 

If you have the Steam version, it will auto-
update itself. Otherwise, grab the patch here:
http://blendogames.com/flotilla/help.htm

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3. What's next from Blendo Games?

Our next title is coming along nicely. We're
very excited at having our first internal
playtest this Friday.

What's a playtest? We start a playtest by bringing
in someone who has never before seen our project.
This person is plopped in front of our game and
we tell them: "start playing."

Watching someone play an early version of your game
is an experience that's at once wonderful and
soul-crushing. In a lot of ways, it's like watching
your firstborn take their first steps, and in many
other ways it's like watching the hunter take a
shot at Bambi's mom.

After the playtest, we end up with a notebook
filled with Everything That Went Horribly Wrong.
We address these notes by taking our game and
performing a variety of lobotomies and operations.

Once we feel the glaring issues have been dealt
with, we set up our next playtest session with
someone new - and so it all begins again.

For now, these are internal playtests. In due
time we'll likely proceed to playtests open to
the public.

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4. How to contact us

We'd love to hear your feedback. Here are the
different ways to contact us:

Email:
brendon@blendogames.com

Messageboard:
http://www.blendogames.com/forum

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blendo-Games/258329918382

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/BlendoGames

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/BlendoGames

RSS:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/118279350.rss


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5. How to subscribe to the newsletter

Subscribe to our Blendo Games Newsletter to
receive announcements for:

* new titles
* updates
* patches
* add-ons
* other cool things!

Subscribe here:
http://www.blendogames.com/newsletter.htm