Peace Corps Kids Challenge
Wahoo! After a month's worth of back and forth with the Peace Corps, the game is finally live! Is it a Lassie game? No... this is built with the PEA38 engine that I designed specifically for this project; although PEA38's editor tools bear some striking resemblances to Lassie tools. Also, some of the new and upcoming logic and parsing systems in Lassie will follow in the footsteps of PEA38, so you could definitely consider this engine to be a baby brother of Lassie (...Lassie is much, much bigger than PEA38). The project has been going on in some capacity for well over a year. There was ample concepting and planning time before art was ever started, and I know art was in production last summer which is when the project first appeared on my radar... probably five months before I ever started working on it. Art was finished and handed off for primary development phase in late December, and I started full-force development in January 2008. Build lasted a month and a half, wrapping up in late February in preparation of a March release. The game has since been subject to client revision and review. So, needless to say I'm thrilled to have it finally go live here in early April. So, enjoy! This is a product of the Peace Corps Kids team here at Threespot Media (http://www.threespot.com) in Washington, D.C., USA.
http://www.peacecorps.gov/kids
(I don't know why the forums direct straight past the intro screen)
Primary production credits include:
Becky Crouse, Tony Kopetchny: Project managers.
Kate Barrett: Writer.
Phil Gosier (formerly of Marvel Comics): Illustration and Design.
Greg MacWilliam: Systems design, engine/game programming.
Chris Davis: Soccer and Fishing mini-game programming.
Erik Anderson: content creation assistant.
Wahoo! After a month's worth of back and forth with the Peace Corps, the game is finally live! Is it a Lassie game? No... this is built with the PEA38 engine that I designed specifically for this project; although PEA38's editor tools bear some striking resemblances to Lassie tools. Also, some of the new and upcoming logic and parsing systems in Lassie will follow in the footsteps of PEA38, so you could definitely consider this engine to be a baby brother of Lassie (...Lassie is much, much bigger than PEA38). The project has been going on in some capacity for well over a year. There was ample concepting and planning time before art was ever started, and I know art was in production last summer which is when the project first appeared on my radar... probably five months before I ever started working on it. Art was finished and handed off for primary development phase in late December, and I started full-force development in January 2008. Build lasted a month and a half, wrapping up in late February in preparation of a March release. The game has since been subject to client revision and review. So, needless to say I'm thrilled to have it finally go live here in early April. So, enjoy! This is a product of the Peace Corps Kids team here at Threespot Media (