February 2013
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The latest on Soulless
The good news is that Soulless 2.0 is complete and ready. The bad news is that it doesn’t currently compile in Stencyl 3. So depending on how long this issue will take to iron out will determine how much longer until Soulless hits the Mac App Store and iOS App Store. Fingers crossed someone over at Stencyl can help me with this as the log file doesn’t even show any errors, so this...
January 2013
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Old IMG Review of Soulless from 2008
Most people don’t need much from a platformer. A little variety in the background, a few interesting puzzles, or even interesting ways to make things blow up are enough to make most people happy. The question lies in whether that’s enough for anyone to want to spend any money. Usually, it isn’t.
Sadly, Soulless is lacking any really interesting gameplay elements. It mainly...
The multi-platform ports
Will 2013 see Soulless and Powerslam go multi-platform? I believe so. The Stencyl port of Soulless is coming along well. I have ported 8 of the original 21 levels so far, but that does still leave 13 more levels. I really hope I can have them done before the end of January.
Not only this, but Erik has made progress with his hard work porting Powerslam over to Monkey (a huge thank you goes out to...
December 2012
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WatchWell, the GameSalad port has hit a real snag so I’m now giving Stencyl a try so I can weigh them both up and decide the best possible solotion for Soulless’ future. Seven weeks in, and I have my Stencyl port of Soulless brought up to where I got the GS port up to and the Stencyl port is looking equally good. So look out for this new multi-platform port coming to you at the beginning of...
September 2012
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WatchI have to admit I wasn’t sure if it would be possible to port Soulless over to GameSalad when I first started this but thankfully I have reach the point that I am confident a complete port is in fact possible. So I’m a little excited that all of the time and effort I have put into this won’t be wasted so wanted to share this video of the port so far.
August 2012
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Destination X competition
I don’t win things very often so I have to say I was more than surprised to find my new Impact Wrestling shirt in the mail today.
Main Event had a competition where people had to email in what they thought about Austin Aries giving up the X Division title for a shot at the World Heavyweight title. The competition was a cool way of them promoting the upcoming PPV Destination X.
At any rate,...
July 2012
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Powerslam review by Analizando Mac
Cobra Blade nos trae el juego PowerSlam un juego de wrestling al mas puro estilo arcade para nuestros Mac.
En PowerSlam nos encontramos con dos modos de juego, el modo torneo (48 rondas) y el modo exhibición con 11 modos de juego (uno contra uno, todos contra todos, cuatro esquinas, dos para dos, sumisión, mejor de tres, etc.). Ademas, cuenta con un completo editor que se desbloquea una vez...
June 2012
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Soulless update?
Believe it or not I am actually working on an update for Soulless. Powerslam may have taken longer than expected but just as I said all along my attention has finally returned to my original game.
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Powerslam Featured on Indievania →
Powerslam has gone live on Indievania. If you couldn’t buy it from the Mac App Store this is the perfect opportunity to get the Universal Binary version of the game that can run on any of your Macs, new and old!
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Powerslam 48 hour sale! →
To celebrate TNA’s decade milestone and that Powerslam was released the same year (amazing coincidence as I didn’t plan that) Powerslam is going to be on sale for a crazy $2.98! Yes that’s half price but hurry as this sale only has 34 hours left to go!
May 2012
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Powerslam - 1.3.0 Update →
To say thank you once again to everyone who bought Powerslam, update 1.3.0 is now out! What’s new? This time round you may now find yourself in a backstage braw during the Tournament Mode! Plus the game is now better optimised and takes up less disk space!
Still haven’t got Powerslam for your Mac? Then why wait any longer, you can buy it from the Mac App Store, Mac Games and More,...
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Powerslam review by App Store Arcade
Way back in the good old days of the SNES when I was mooching off my parents and the WWE was still the WWF (well the mooching hasn’t changed), we were treated to a multitude of button mashing wresting games. Now the genre has faded into the corner of the ring as well as our minds. However as Hulk Hogan managed to re-pop up as a current TV persona, so has a retro-like wresting game. In the right...
March 2012
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Powerslam - 1.2.0 Update →
Just a small update this time that adds the first new move since the release of Powerslam to the game and a new and improved How to Play video to thank everyone once again for purchasing Powerslam. Each sale is so very appreciated.
February 2012
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Powerslam - 1.1.0 Updated
Powerslam not violent or bloody enough? Well you’ll love the new 1.1.0 update then! As a big thank you to everyone who purchased Powerslam (I truly appreciate the support!) the action can now spill into the parking lot with the new Street Fight mode. Imagine how brutal a wrestling match in the arena parking lot would be with so many weapons at your disposal. Well imagine no more and download...
January 2012
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Powerslam - Out Now! →
At long last Powerslam is here! Australia day 2012 has seen the release of Powerslam onto the Mac App Store making it my first game to be featured on my favourite online marketplace. You can download it from there right now or if you don’t have a Mac new enough to access the app store or want to try out a demo first be sure to check out my Powerslam page.
December 2011
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POWERSLAM - Release Date Set
Are you ready? At long last the arrival of POWERSLAM is in sight. Australia Day 2012 (26th of Jan) will see the release of the first ever Macintosh wrestling game.
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WatchThe intro to POWERSLAM is finally complete!
There are only a few minor tweaks to the game still left to be made, so provided all goes well when I try testing the game on some other Macs we may finally see the debut of the first ever wrestling game for Mac between now and February 2012!
November 2011
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Soulless now only $5.95! →
To celebrate the launch of my new website with CartLoom powered shopping cart (you can now buy my game(s) right from my new website) I have dropped the price of Soulless down to just $5.95!
New website and host →
It was great using iWeb and Apple’s .Mac (later renamed to MobileMe) hosting service but sadly with both being discontinued it has become time to look elsewhere. So iWeb is out and RapidWeaver is in. There will be some downtime but after that my new website will be ready for the world to see thanks to my new host MacDock.
October 2011
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In motion
I think I have finally done enough work to show how the game is currently looking. Rather than more screenshots however I have made a quick six minute video I have uploaded to both Vimeo & YouTube. Feel free to check one of them out below. http://vimeo.com/30977183
R.I.P. Steve Paul Jobs
An inventor, an icon, a technological genius has passed away today. I speak of none other than the young Steve Jobs who was only 56. A very inspirational man that I certainly looked up to. He changed the way I listen to music, use a phone, use a computer, play games. He made my life easier in many ways with his visions. I am deeply sadden by this news on many levels and unfortunately words fail to...
July 2011
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The lengthy evolution of POWERSLAM
Here we are in 2011, three years since my first game release and my second game has yet to come out. That is despite work beginning on it the year after Soulless was released!
While my lack of coding abilities obviously contribute somewhat, what has truly slowed development down is my quest to discover a style all of my own that I could use across all of my games. So lets turn the clock back and...
June 2011
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Website update
Finally got around to finishing off my new website design today. I’ve had it sitting on my computer half completed for a while now so decided to make today the day I would finish it and upload it. As usual, it can be found at http://www.cobrablade.com
Website update
Finally got around to finishing off my new website design today. I’ve had it sitting on my computer half completed for a while now so decided to make today the day I would finish it and upload it. As usual, it can be found at http://www.cobrablade.com
May 2011
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Anime Doll Kit →
Want to start creating sprites for your games? This is what I use in combination with Poser Debut for creating all of my female character sprites. To create male characters, pop in over here. Hope this helps any hopeful up and coming game creators. ^_^
iPhone post
A test post from my iPhone using BlogPress. Not much to see here but it’ll be interesting to see how well it works. Also don’t forget to check out my website at http://www.cobrablade.com
New 2011 iMac
Half a decade old, it has finally become time to replace my old loyal iMac with a new one. Technology has just changed too much to make it practical to continue using it (only being able to upgrade to a maximin of 3GB of RAM is difficult when dealing with 3D rendering). It’ll be missed, but the exciting news is just how much faster my workflow will become with this new iMac. I’m also...
Easter Success
Very happy with how much I was finally able to get done during my Easter break. My confidence for POWERSLAM coming out this year is extremely high after this!
April 2011
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Logo Design
Playing around with a few logo design ideas when I decided to do one inspired by one of my old favourite companies… see if you can guess what company I’m talking about. ;)
March 2011
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Got an iPhone... finally.
I finally got myself an iPhone… I know it is pretty late… but considering I wanted a Mac way back around ‘97 and didn’t finally get one until around ‘07, it isn’t that bad. The good news is I can finally look into game creation for the iPhone!
February 2011
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New Dev Log
Hello and welcome to my new blog. Previously my blog has been located over at Inside Mac Games… but with the blog section over there a forgotten memory to many and no doubt unseen by most I figured I might as well make this the new home of my blogs. The really good news is I have been able to migrate all of my blog posts from IMG over to blogger. (For those who are interested it involved...
Downtime
Anyone who tried to access my site during the past 48 hours may be wondering why it was down. This was just due to me transferring my domain over to Crazy Domains. Everything should be back to normal now and I apologise for any inconvenience.
June 2010
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New Site Design
I’m still working on POWERSLAM and still hope to have it out some time this year. Hopefully I can share some screen shots once I have done the guts of the graphical stuff. I’m also hard at work on a new site design. It has taken all day but you’ll be able to see that the work has paid off when you see the new look of CobraBlade.com.
May 2010
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New direction & Interview
I have two very news worthy items to report and they both happened today. Last week I decided to unify all of my future games by giving them all the same setting. It’ll be a while yet, but when I redo Soulless it’ll also fit into this theme, so there will be some radical changes made to it. The other news item is that my friend Erik Hogan conducted an interview with me regarding my...
April 2010
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Reflexive going solo
I have some bad news to share with everyone. My publisher Reflexive is about to retire this part of their company and concentrate exclusively on their own games from now on. This means that Soulless and Powerslam my current game in production will now only be available from my own personal site at www.cobrablade.com
March 2010
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Contra 4 = Hardcore, not HD graphics
-Rant Warning- The dumbest but most common thing I see people use to describe hardcore gaming is HD graphics. How can anyone honestly complain and say the Wii isn’t for hardcore gamers because it doesn’t have HD graphics? The graphics are what makes a system not for hardcore gamers? If graphics truly are the definition to a hardcore game, go watch a movie. Boom, you just experienced...
January 2010
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TNA vs WWE
This iMPACT! just gone was simply phenomenal. Not since the days of WCW have I enjoyed watching wrestling so much. Hogan truly has sky rocketed TNA in a single night. So it looks like I picked a great time to create the first ever wrestling game for OS X!
September 2009
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TNA Announces Australia Tour
I am really excited about this. A little over a month from now my favourite artists Yello will be releasing a new album. But early next year, something even bigger than that. TNA is coming here to Australia for the 1st time! I honestly can’t wait and would really love to have Powerslam out then to celebrate… although that may be impossible as there is so much more work that needs to be...
August 2009
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New Site Live!
Well the wait is over, check out CobraBlade.com for the new website!
New Site Layout
My website will soon have a completely different look. It is already completed for the most part now sitting in iWeb waiting for me to upload it but I am still holding it off until I am completely satisfied with it. So on this note I have decided to delve deep into my memories to talk about my hobby of web site creation that goes back to even before I started game creation. I remember when I 1st...
Update on latest game
Powerslam will be the 1st ever Macintosh wrestling game. Visually the game will be very different to Soulless and in fact once this game finally sees the light of day I am planning to revisit Soulless changing many things along with its visual style to that of Powerslam as all my games from now on will use what will soon become my signature style. It is still early days for the game despite how...
June 2009
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R.I.P. MJ
I can’t believe it, I really can’t. I doubt it has even sank in properly yet. I get a phone call from my fiancée this morning with the most unexpected news… Michael Jackson has passed away. Having grown up listening to his music idolising him as a child and even playing his games it is so hard to fathom. Sadly though it is a fact, Michael Jackson passed away this very day and...
March 2009
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2009
I know it has been a while since my last entry. There has been little to report until now however with the lack of support I received for Soulless. I now know exactly what MDickie meant when he said it is a thankless job being an independent game developer. The good news however is Soulless is now available through Reflexive. Reflexive have been really great to me and I am very happy to have the...
November 2008
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Soulless: Out Now
A few days late, but I was flat-out taking care of the launch of Soulless. It is now available and has been since the 31st as I was able to achieve my goal of a Halloween 2008 release. You can find Soulless here at: http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=19672-1 Thank you to anyone who decides to support me by buying my game. So where to from here? Well my next goal is to get my game...
October 2008
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Final stretch
Soulless is finally completed. It took many hours and many late nights but it has all paid off. My goal to make a game within 2008 has been realised. Now there it is just a case of major testing until the end of the month. I hope to have Soulless out for all of you great Mac gamers by Halloween.
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It pays to test
Yesterday my fiancée Liz was testing Soulless when I spotted something. When a Marine dies, they are meant to be grayed out. Instead this certain Marine vanished altogether. Looking into it I have found the cause and am correcting it as I type.
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Smooth sailing ahead
The great news is it has finally happened. I am finally up to the point it has gotten easier. So hopefully the game will be out in the next few months. Fingers crossed.
September 2008
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Half Way
Soulless is now 50% complete! It has taken a long time to get this far considering I wanted to have the game made in under a year so I can only hope the second half of development is more forgiving.
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Soulless Demo
Available now! Very late I know, but I have been very busy with other aspects of life, such as promoting one of my favourite bands, Dendura, and studies. You can download the demo from the main site at cobrablade.com/html/soulless.html
August 2008
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Demo coming soon...
The demo is more or less ready. The next few weeks will simply see some internal testing of it done. The demo will technically be the full game to this point. As I am simply holding off further development until the demo is out and mainly concentrating on the testing side now until the 23rd when I make it downloadable to the public.
