The Mailowl Scrolls

It’s been almost 2 years to the day since I last posted on my blog but I’m back and with an exciting game development project I’ve been working on for the last couple of months.  The challenge Game.Dev Competition 22 “Genre Benders” was to recreate a game for another genre (find out more on the forum post) and I recreated Valve Software’s Left 4 Dead as a card game.
My entry won 1st place amongst some other amazing entries and so I decided to use it in the next Game.Dev completion, Competition 23 “Get the Word Out!”.  This competition challenges entrants to publicize a game they’ve previously created in the community and get as much feedback, reviews and commentary on their game as possible; ultimately challenges the community members to “step outside the forum” and get recognised as indie game developers.
For my entry, I started by emailing Gabe Newell, Managing Director of Valve Software, to see if he was interested in the game and for permission to use the intellectual property of the game.  So far I haven’t received a response so I’m going to mail some of the other people involved in Left 4 Dead and see if they can pick up on it.
I’ve also now added a new page to my website with all the details of the game including: links, screenshots and reviews.  I want to buy a webcam at the end of the month and record a play through of the game to share.
With a central point for the game (rather than using the Game.Dev forum) I’m going to start posting about my game on the boardgame design website and on the steam forums.  To follow the progress of my entry for Comp 23 read the first post on the Game.Dev forum or go to the L4D Card Game project page.