Enjoy!

This is a concept art of a “secret” project we’re developing… we’ve designed 19 levels so far … ; )

Secret concePt ARt of a KeY project at CodercHILD

The Game Design is being done by Pedro Fuentes who is applying all his knowledge in game mechanins and design to the current projects.

In the other hand, Elena María García is in charge of the art department. She will bring the aesthetics and the graphic style and mood we want to identify our CoderChild projects.

Finally we want to mention that we’re not looking for collaboration any more, but in any case, thanks to all of you for your interest.

Elena and Peter at their greatest splendor

Hola a tod@s, soy David Márquez y soy el fundador de este estudio de desarrollo de videojuegos.

Así a modo de introducción, diré que CoderChild es un pequeño estudio de videojuegos situado en Barcelona, pero a pesar de ser pequeños, nuestros juegos han sido publicados en algunas consolas, algo que no todos los desarrolladores de videojuegos tienen la suerte de poder hacer! : )

Como cualquier proyecto, CoderChild ha tenido momentos complejos, y es por esto que tras estos dos años estando sólo al frente del estudio, veo que necesito cubrir algunos puntos importantes, y este es el motivo por el que escribo esta entrada en el blog.

Estoy buscando socio / colaborador para el estudio. Lógicamente, no voy a asociarme con el primero que se presente, pero si tras un par de proyectos trabajando la cosa funciona bien, entonces la asociación será el próximo paso.

La persona que busco se debería ajustar a un determinado perfil, pero es bastante amplio, porque hay varias posibilidades y variantes.

Los siguientes son requisitos indispensables:

De los siguientes sólo 1 es indispensable, el que mejor se ajuste a vosotr@s:

Se valorará mucho la experiencia en el desarrollo de videojuegos, aunque no es necesario que sea de manera profesional. Los proyectos personales o amateur son también muy válidos. Si habéis hecho un master de videojuegos también es estupendo.

También quiero que sepáis que estoy abierto a estudiar alternativas y otras propuestas.

Las personas interesadas por favor que envíen un email presentándose e incluyendo el currículum o enlaces donde se pueda ver vuestro trabajo, o material que querais a la siguiente dirección:

contact[arr0ba]coderchild[punt0]com

donde:

[arr0ba] es @
[punt0] es .

También podéis usar el formulario que hay en la sección CONTACTAR.

Para cualquier duda sobre lo escrito podéis usar también la misma dirección.

Por favor, corred la voz sobre esta nota!, puede que no os interese a vosotr@s, pero a lo mejor a tu prim@ sí!

Muchas gracias por vuestra atención!
David.

Less than one week!!!

This post is just to let you know that we’re still awaiting for the game approval. It’s taking some time but this is something usual when a project is being released on a new platform.

Hope we’re lucky enough and we can give you some good news in the next post!

• Concept approval of the game. Yessss, we’re finishing and it’s still not approved! We finally got the approval!
• Write the electronic manual. It’s done!. We’re happy with the result : )
• Electronic manual and ingame text localization.
• Localization integration.
• Content polish: some animations, graphics, sounds … just details. To be honest, this stage never finishes. There’s always something that can be improved… but there is a point we need to say STOP!
• Game illustration. It’s done!
• Game Logo. It’s done!
• Prepare and send age rating material for ESRB, PEGI & USK
• Bug fixig… yes we have some of them : / There is always some dumb bug there,
• Implement save game module for the console. It’s done!
  
• Integrate support for stereoscopic vision into the engine. It’s done!
  
• Fill the paperwork for testing.
• And finally…. Send to test for the game approval!
• …
• And then marketing assets elaboration… promotion, etc, etc, etc

As you can see, we’ve done many things since then.

This week we’ll finish the issues regarding localization and preparing the rating authorities materials, and also we’ll start preparing the paperwork for testing, continue with the polish and the bug fixing. There will always remain bugs, although they can be really dumb.

Take note of the processes involved during the development, and the names and jargon we use (milestone, rating certification, etc…). If you’re lucky enough to develop professionally a video game, these concepts will sure arise : )

Here at CoderChild, we would like to show you how internally this profession works, at least in small doses. And because of this, we do not hesitate showing you all this process, just in order to let you get an idea of how a console videogame is done.

Take a look at our published posts. You’ll find always some interesting details there to be taken into account : )

By the way! Do you know that may be this project will be released in Japan!?!

See ya buddies!!

Of course, this will not be de final name, but for now we prefer to refer to it in this way. At the specific moment we will unveil it’s name! : )

In the last 2 months and a half, we’ve been putting all our efforts in this project. Basically, we want to release a game for the digital market in the eShop (thanks to the publisher)

So first of all, we thought about the concept, and then we started the hard work.

At this moment, the game contents is already finished. We can safely say the completeness of the project is at 90% or even more, and the remaining work is what we’ll be working for the next weeks.
Right now we’re on the polish and preliminary test stage. This stage is specially sloooow : )

Now we’ll explain what exactly needs to be done until the following milestone:

• Concept approval of the game. Yessss, we’re finishing and it’s still not approved!
• Write the electronic manual.
• Electronic manual and ingame text localization.
• Localization integration.
• Content polish: some animations, graphics, sounds … just details
• Game illustration.
• Game Logo.
• Prepare and send age rating material for ESRB, PEGI & USK
• Bug fixig… yes we have some of them : /
• Implement save game module for the console.
• Integrate support for stereoscopic vision into the engine.
• Fill the paperwork for testing.
• And finally…. Send to test for the game approval!
• …
• And then marketing assets elaboration… promotion, etc, etc, etc

Some of these things will be done by the publisher, and some others (most of them) are ours.

Did you guessed all the things need to be done in order to publish a game for a console?

Hope you’ve found interesting this post ! ^_^