Author: Admin

Hey, it’s your resident game designer at Muse Games, Eric.  As of late, I’ve been taking on a lot of marketing responsibilities like managing our Facebook page for Guns of Icarus Online to bantering on Twitter.  Muse is a small outfit so if any of us have free time or the skillset, we’ll try to fill in additional roles.  To some extent, I’m a jack-of-all-trades and maybe only a master at one (game design, duh).  I think that’s enough to preface the story I’m about to tell, a huge fiasco but also an unexpected win for us at Muse Games.

If something can go wrong… it will definitely go wrong if the internet is involved.

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Continue reading “Fire! Fire! Oh wait, a Phoenix Rises!”

The weekend event is, officially, closed.

We’ll leave some of the servers up in case you missed it, but won’t be monitoring them quite as closely.

And we’re running another closed beta this weekend!  Surprise, surprise!  What we’re doing this round is ramping up players and of course testing a few more things.  We have to ready our servers for the load during the ominous open beta coming soon.  So we’re doing a promotional drive right now to attract more players into this round of beta.  You can check that out here:

Servers will be up 8/3/12 at 12pm EST to 8/5/12 11:50pm EST.  Get your play on this weekend!  Don’t forget to report bugs at http://bit.ly/MuseBugs

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Continue reading “Beta 7 Details!”

Hey, folks!

The official Guns of Icarus Online group is now live on Steam!

It’s got fancy things like event announcements (closed beta weekends! Classic Guns of Icarus play sessions!) and chat (talk about airships and, uh, kittens!) and a link to our forum (awesomeness!), so you should definitely join!

Check it out here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/gunsoficarusonline

This Editorial Feature was written by Howard Tsao, CEO and Founder of Muse Games Corp.

Recently, some friends and fellow indie devs have been asking me for help to read over a few contracts ranging from publishing, distribution, contests, to RFPs, or partnering on music or art. I’m not a lawyer, and I’m learning as I go as well, but I did accumulate some experience along the way, and learned from some pretty horrific situations, that I could at least offer some feedback on what I find, so hopefully others won’t suffer the same fate. Going over contracts is always difficult and laborious, especially with all the legal mumble jumble being so cryptic, like a code or a riddle to be deciphered. So my goal with this post is go into some examples and to not only point out some things to watch for, but also what I proposed as solutions.

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Continue reading “About Contracts”

We’ve changed our schedule a little bit to facilitate some more testing, which is great for everyone, so that means we have another closed beta weekend coming up!  Same details, servers are officially up and supported on Friday 7/20/12 at 12pm EST will be down on Sunday 7/22/12 at 11:59pm EST.

More details about what changes and additions you can expect after the jump!

Continue reading “Beta 6 Details!”

Hey, you! Yeah, you! We need your help!

Guns of Icarus Online has been nominated for “Notable Kickstarter of the Year” in Guild Launch’s Dragon Slayer Awards at this year’s Dragon*Con!

Winners are determined by popular vote. We’d looooove to take this award home, so if you thought our Kickstarter campaign was pretty rad and would like to help us out, please head over and cast your vote!

http://www.theguildlife.com/promotions/g/DragonSlayer/

Thanks for your support!

Thanks again for a wonderful closed beta weekend!  We’ll be having our 6th and last closed beta (pushed the open beta back, lots of changes need to be made first) starting on 7/20/12 so keep your eyes open for that!  I’ve got a lot of important information for you here especially regarding those who pre-order and want to get into our last closed beta.

Continue reading “Beta 5 Response”

New beta is upon us this weekend.  You all know the drill.  Drillin’ drillin’.  Servers will be up on 7/6/12 at 12pm EST.  Servers go back down on 7/8/12 at 11:59pm EST.  So better stay in, host some LAN parties, buy your Mountain Dew, and SHOOT SOME AIRSHIPS.

And better late than never, we had a great response to our last beta weekend.  Lots of valuable feedback that we’ve turned over.  So thank you very much, once again!

Now I’d like to talk to you about a major change coming this round… after the jump!

Continue reading “Beta 5 Details and Beta 4 Response”

We’re running a fan screenshot competition for various prizes like copies of our game, soundtrack, and in-game costumes!!  You can vote for your favorite screenshots in three categories by giving them a Facebook Like!

1. Explosions
2. Scenery
3. Ships

Check the Facebook albums out and drop some Likes!