Dark Future Shortlisted for TIGA Award!
Really happy to say that our title, Dark Future: Blood Red States, a reboot of the cult Games Workshop game, Dark Future, has been nominated for a TIGA award!
The TIGA awards, run by The Independent Game Developers’ Association, are designed to recognise the achievements of studios, businesses, and universities across the games sector.
We’ve been shortlisted for The Heritage Award which recognises a game that reflects British creativity, subject matter, and heritage. … Its narrative framing and visual design has inspirations within it from everything from the bleakly humourous British sci-fi comics of the ‘80s, to the BBC’s now defunct Ceefax service. You can find out more about this in our podcast with several episodes about the development and creation of Dark Future.
But! We need your help! If can head on over here to vote (listed alphabetically under ‘Auroch Digital: Dark Future…) but make sure you do it before midnight on 18th October! It would mean a lot to us to get your vote as Dark Future has been a labour of love for everyone here at Auroch Digital. Once you’ve voted, please do share this and as other Sanctioned Ops to share too! Together the future’s not bright, it’s dark.
Judge Dredd: The Thread
On the Day of Dredd, I posted a thread on Twitter about that iconic character. It’s here if you want to take a look!
Megaquarium Launches 18th Oct – on PlayStation Blog!
It’s always a buzz when a thing you are a part of gets taken up. Amazing to see the blog posts go up for Megaquarium on the US and EU Sony blogs!
You can sign up to the newsletter for this game here.
Latest Podcast is on Our Trip to ESA
Yes indeed, we were lucky enough to meet the good people of the European Space Agency and we recorded some of that trip and the conversations had and you can listen in here:
Going to be talking at Game Industry Conference, in October (Note – Sadly not able to attend)
(Updated – Sadly not able to make it now!)
Talking about Mars Horizon, so really looking forward to the event and the talk!
If you can’t wait and want some info now, do check out the podcast we do…
Myself and Matt (our community & marketing person) went on a trip to meet the good people of the European Space Agency and I had the nerdy, but obvious idea to record our new Mars Horizon: Blast Off! boardgame alongside one of the Rosalind Franklin aka ExoMars Rovers, which my colleague Kathryn kindly put to music…
It was exciting to demo the game to actual people working on Mars missions and everyone there was so kind. If you missed out, you can join in here. The Kickstarter update is here.
The Development of Chainsaw Warrior
Following an odd conversation at work, I dug out a flow chart that I’d made as part of the development of the classic Chainsaw Warrior. To set the scene, the game is a 1989 boardgame by Stephen Hard and published by Games Workshop where a lone cybernetic warrior has to enter a demon-infested New York to save the city. Here’s the trailer:
So the boardgame looks quite simple in terms of components;
Chainsaw Warrior Original Board Game
But it has an excellent gameplay system that is quite complex to convert;
(If you click that link, you get the PDF) If that sounds of interest, do check out the podcast on it here (scroll down to the ‘deep dive’ into Chainsaw Warrior). Also you can grab the game and sequel on Steam.
Oh and there are t-shirts too! Selling fast…..
