Between a few trips to the movie theatre this week, The NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, The NBA Finals, and now with the start of the World Cup we’ve been keeping ourselves quite busy.

We’ve been working on the Hard-Circle Arcade RumbleBelly.com; it has crashed a couple times due to our provider making some changes without informing us (Expect a new reliable provider in the near future.) With RumbleBelly underway we took the time to open our old classic games to add the RumbleBelly splash, logo, and links on our non sponsored titles (Star Raider, Day Of Valor, Valkryie.) Also since we are opening the classics we decided to add the mocha High Scores API to our games that keep a score which I hope we have that wrapped up by next week.

So where are the new games? Let me tell you.

RoboCity – It is being launched on a brand new online arcade by hallpass games. I am just waiting for them to approve the update I sent to them and hopefully I’ll have some sort of official day when the game will be live for everyone to play.

Swim Mr.Fish – Sold, just waiting for the splash, logos, api. Then the approval time, hopefully we can have this game live before the end of June.

Busker Panic – Sold, just waiting on splash, logos, api. Then the approval time, wait a minute I just said this… but it is true. Lots of waiting, I hope this game will be live by the end of June… but for some reason Busker likes to stay in limbo.

Game 9- Its coming along, the hero is walking around. We have some environment tiles done. We also have a working prototype that I was hoping to put in this post today, but I am waiting for a secure version of the prototype before I add it. Maybe I will have that tomorrow in my hands and I can post it up tomorrow for everyone to fool around with.

~Fin!

What you see here is our Hero. He has no name yet, I call him Krillin (DBZ bitchez) if you have a good name brewing I am all ears just post it, and maybe if I get enough dope names we will do a poll and all that fun stuff, winner’s name can will be used….. Only if we get a good amount of participation.

So what else is going on? We are working pretty hard on Hard-Circles very own online portal called RumbleBelly. You can visit Rumblebelly.com anytime but bare with us it is a constant work in progress as I am a perfectionist, don’t forget to bookmark it too.

This Monday is a holiday in Canada which results in the traditional May 24 weekend where we all go up North for some R&R and Booze. The regular weekly roundup will be back next week in full force… after I celebrate my buddies 30th birthday too. Till then everyone put your feet up, play some Hard-Circle games, grab a nice cold beer or liquor of your choice and join in on the celebrations of a great Canadian long weekend… long live the 24 Weekend!

Peace!

Yesterday was one of those days. Went and saw Robin Hood with Mike and Jeff, a nice afternoon show to get the creativity flow, it is enjoyable and it is what you would expect from a Robin Hood movie. But I still like my Robin Hood as a Fox (Showing my age a little here)

I was hoping to have a little prototype of the new game today for everyone to fool around with, and hopefully get some feedback from our fans. But Robin Hood got in the way of that, and you can only do some much over time until your magic burns out… which mine did… I had a huge case of the “boredom’s” and it killed all creativity. Again I should have just gone outside for a walk amongst nature to recharge the creative juices but alas I did not and wallowed around in the evening.

However we do have some updates:

Busker Panic has sold… FINALLY! If everything works out you all should be able to play it on hardcircle.com come June.

Swim Mr.Fish has been approved for the bidding war to begin. I really hope the Publishers love the game. It is a small fun little time killer, perfect for office breaks or when you just feel like avoiding work all together.

RoboCity was also approved for the bidding war to begin, and it has started off strong. Hopefully it continues that way over the next week.

Game 9, it has not title right now and I’ve been working on the design doc for a couple days. It should be pretty fun to play, and my art pad is full of scribbles that make no sense, I will keep you posted, and I think I like posting Roundups on Saturday more than a Friday… gives me a nice afternoon to chill and think about all the wonderful things that are going on.

You are probably wondering why there is a delay on the Roundup and to be honest I have only one answer…. Iron Man 2. The Hard-Circle team went to an early showing but the excitement, wild rants and ravings about the movie and the bloating of pop and popcorn left me a little bewildered to write anything tangible for the roundup. However a day has passed and Iron Man 2 was an entertaining flick even if the end fight was a little short in my books.

We’ve finished tweaking RoboCity and it will be on the market Monday/Tuesday.

I had a last minute request for Swim Mr.Fish (which is finished) and that should be on the market for Tuesday.

Busker Panic had some requests also, and hopefully you will all be playing it at the end of the month… fingers crossed.

As for our new game, we had a great brainstorming session. Concept art is being created and a Prototype is in the works. Maybe I will have a little show and tell next week when we are further along on the project.

Till Then Keep on Gaming

We’ve been quite busy around the office this week. Those of you who regularly follow us on Twitter already know “Trickochet” received a review by the JayIsGames.com crew if you missed it you can read to here: Trickochet Review. Also “Trickochet” was placed on the front page of Newgrounds.com a rare feet to accomplish.

Our Brand New project entitled RoboCity is currently in the BETA phase. We are currently play testing, bug hunting and balancing the game before it hits the market. For those of you who deal with Flash Game License, you can BETA test Robocity and help us vanquish the BUGS! Or leave us some helpful comments.

Busker Panic…. Limbo! That is all I have to say for that project.

Swim Mr.Fish is artistically finished. The only thing left is music & sound effects. Hopefully it goes on the market sometime next week.

We are also in the very early concept stages of our next project. I cannot tell you any more than that…  There are a lot of sweet ideas brewing… Maybe next Friday I can comment on the next project.

If you have any speculations or ideas as to what we at Hard-Circle are going to make leave a comment below.

Till then keep on gaming.

What is going on with “Busker Panic”? Limbo… word on the street is “Busker Panic” is going to be used as a test subject on FGL. What is going to happen is “Busker Panic will be reviewed to hype the game. The outcome should be more attention and more money from serious sponsors.” We will see about that won’t we? I figure you all will be able to play “Busker Panic” in June. Fingers crossed!

Earlier this week Mike finished the remaining art assets for our recent art contract now entitled “Swim Mr.Fish” (screen shot above) I also finished the environmental scenes and I am currently creating a very retro main menu based off classic NES box art. I am hoping to be finished everything today so I can focus on polishing our own project entitled “Robocity” (Which looks amazing!)

Till then keep on gaming!

Early in the year we were contracted by Inflash Studios to create all the art assets for his newest project entitled “Trickochet”. As of Monday April 12th, 2010 “Trickochet” launched exclusively to SPIL’s network (gamesgames.com, agame.com and a bunch of others). There is no set date for “Trickochet” to launch on hardcircle.com but I am confident it will be available sometime next week for everyone to enjoy.

Now a while back I posted a little “Sneak Peek” about a project called Busker Panic. I know there has been no update since then and you all may have forgotten about that game but Busker Panic is finished. Right now it is up for sale at Flash Game License (FGL), till I get word from the client when they sell it and to whom, I have no clue when we will ever see The Buska rocking it out on hardcircle.com.

Right now, the whole team is busy putting together the first official Hard-Circle release of 2010, and those of you who follow us on twitter can see a sneak peek screen shot of the hero. Also, Mike and I are busy working on another art contract for an up-and-coming developer. We are far from solid sneak peek screen shot for that project but if everything goes according to plan we might have a little something to show on the next Round Up.