Category: Community

With the publisher’s insistence that we worked in secrecy and that they would eventually be in charge of player interaction, when we left the publisher, no one knew about what we were doing.  We had 15 facebook followers who were basically us, family, and friends.  The problem of how to get the word out was obvious, but more importantly, we had no way of getting enough people to help us test and give feedback.  With a set of mechanics and a demand for teamwork that hadn’t quite been tried before, we wanted people to help us test as early in our development as possible.  With the struggle to get the word out we turned to Kickstarter.   Continue reading “GoIO Post-Mortem – Part III: Lessons from Two Kickstarters”

Hey everyone,

With all the new videos and the sale we’ve got a bunch of new players and we’re really excited to have you here! Every Friday we post up what the team has been working on both for the Guns of Icarus Online you’re playing now and Co-Op mode a massive expansion that will add many new features including PvE combat. 

To talk to us live join us at twitch .tv/gunsoficarus at 3 pm eastern, 7 GMT, and ask us any and all questions you can think of!

Follow the jump to see what the team’s been working on. Continue reading “Weekly Progress Report 5/16/2014”

After the saga with the publisher ended, I was pretty demoralized, we all were.  But I really didn’t have time to sulk.  We were about broke.  The money we made from the original Guns and CreaVures was running out.  I didn’t really know any publishers, or anyone for that matter, who would give us money.  We had just ended a publisher ordeal after all.  Looking around the room, I owed it to everyone to keep us going.   Making games is what what we always wanted to do.  We had sacrificed too much, came too far to just lay down and quit.   Continue reading “Guns of Icarus Online Post-Mortem – Part II: Starting Over”

Guns of Icarus Online is over three years of our lives.  In the span of creating this game, our room had caught fire, our building had endured a great flood, we had been stomped on by a publisher to near death, and overcame one of the worst game launches ever, releasing on the night of a hurricane.  Sleepless nights can’t begin to portray the summation of all stress and elation.  In this span I’ve gotten everything from pneumonia to a concussion from walking straight into a doorframe after a few late nights in a row.  With the game now over a year old, I figured it’s a good time to reminisce on how this game came to be, the major the decisions and crisis we faced, how we overcame them, and what lessons we learned.  Through out this journey, our vision and faith in who we are as a team would be thoroughly tested.  There were so many things we didn’t know and many struggles.  To us, this journey wasn’t just about making a game, but also about trying to make a difference together as a small team.   Continue reading “Guns of Icarus Online Post-Mortem – Part I: Publisher Hell”

Time once again for the weekly progress report! This is where you find out what we’ve been working on and what you’ll be seeing someday soon!
To talk to us directly about these new updates along with anything else Guns related come join us at twitch.tv/gunsoficarus.

The team’s week after the jump. Continue reading “Weekly Progress Report 5/9/2014”

We made it to Friday! It’s been a busy week with a patch, hotfix (emphasis on hot for pun purposes,) and working with casters for a major push for Guns of Icarus.
We appreciate everyone sticking through the week with us and helping us catch, draw, and quarter some bugs that slipped through the testing procedure.

As always we’ll be holding the Dev Fireside chat at 3 pm eastern, 7 pm GMT, on Twitch.tv/gunsoficarus.

For the team’s activity follow the jump!

Continue reading “Weekly Progress Report 5/2/2014”

With the release of the new update, it’s that time again to post the most wanted bug list.  If you see these infamous characters in game, please alert the bug squashing authorities (us) at feedback@musegames.com. Continue reading “Top 10 Most Wanted Bugs”

Hi everyone!  Thanks for waiting patiently for us to take the servers down and roll out the new update this morning.  The new update, 1.3.6, is now live!  And here are the release notes.  It’s pretty long as usual, so grab a cup of tea and enjoy!

Continue reading “1.3.6 Update!”

Hey everyone,

This is the last progress report before 1.3.6 and we have so many cool features and fixes upcoming. We’re really sorry about the delay due to Pax, but we hope a bunch of the cool things we’re putting in will make up for it.

As always come talk to us during the dev fireside chat at 3 pm eastern 7 pm GMT on twitch.tv/gunsoficarus. You can ask us all about the new patch, features, and other upcoming parts of the project
After the jump see what the team has been working on all week.
Continue reading “Weekly Progress Report 4/25/2014”

Hey everyone!
It’s Friday and that means it’s time for our weekly progress report and fireside chat. Howard is off doing important things leaving Eric and I in charge of the fireside. That means we’re going off script and acting crazy by answering questions and talking about Guns of Icarus development. (and yes, these two wacky and wild individuals are available for parties.)  Join us twitch.tv/gunsoficarus at 3 pm eastern, 7 pm GMT!

During the fireside Co-Op will be a big talk especially since we got to show off footage last week and you’ll have the lead designer to talk to, but we will also be talking about Ship customization and our plans for the next patch.

After the jump you’ll find out what the team has been working on. Continue reading “Weekly Progress Report 4/18/2014”