Attention Jumpers! It’s been a month since our last report, and we’ve got more Hive Jump goodness to share with you! In this month’s update: Production Schedule: status update! Planetary Campaign W.I.P. Screenshots and details! Swarm AI improved and optimized for multiplayer! Community Forums arriving this summer! FAQ: Physical Rewards, when will we get them? [...]
ANNOUNCING THE HIGHLY COVETED SUMMER INTERNSHIPS AT GRAPHITE LAB! Graphite Lab is reviewing candidates for summer 2015 internships! The program runs from May 11 – August 14th. General hours on site are from 10AM – 4PM Monday through Friday, but will be negotiated around school or other work schedules for the right candidates. We’re offering [...]
Attention Jumpers! More info from the war effort incoming! It’s been TOO long jumpers. Usually we don’t let more than a month go by without getting in touch with you all, but we’ve been up to our eyeballs in bug-guts and goo! Here’s what we’ll be sharing in this update! […]
Greetings from the Hive Jump Team! Now that we’ve successfully Kickstarted Hive Jump, fans and fellow Kickstarters alike want to know how we overcame the failure of our first campaign to clutch success with our reboot. Below are a few questions we seem to get asked most often. So, we thought we would fire up [...]
ANNOUNCING THE HIGHLY COVETED SUMMER INTERNSHIPS AT GRAPHITE LAB! Graphite Lab is reviewing candidates for summer 2014 internships! The program runs from May 12 – August 15th. General hours on site are from 10AM – 4PM Monday through Friday, but will be negotiated around school schedules. We’re offering 2 ART spots, 1 PROGRAMMING, 1 GAME [...]
Starting with Unity 3D When we started work on the My Little Pony storybook we’d first considered using Unity 3D as the game engine. We were in concurrent development on another Hasbro app at the time (Play-Doh Create ABCs) and believed working on both projects in the same engine would increase the speed of our [...]
A Partnership with PlayDate Digital We first began talks with the partners of PlayDate Digital at GDC in 2012. As a younger studio, they wanted to match our experience in developing apps for kids with their experience in promoting products to the same market. With Hasbro Publishing as the first licensing partner in our collaboration, [...]
Bringing My Little Pony and Hasbro publishing to the App Store Get ready for an adventure with Pinkie Pie and her friends in MY LITTLE PONY Party of One app, an intriguing new interactive tale about the magic of friendship from Graphite Lab and PlayDate Digital! Who throws better parties or more parties than Pinkie [...]
Crafting the Characters The different objects in the app really bring life to the experience and were an important part in making the connection between letters kids are writing and the objects they represent. Our team had a lot of fun working with many of the existing sculpts that Hasbro provided, but also had the [...]
The Engine Under the Hood Early on we developed a proof of concept to evaluate the animation potential of Play-Doh sculpts using Flash and the Starling framework. The demo came together just a few short weeks and we had the basics of a drag and drop stickerbook to share with the client. However, when it [...]