Head on a Stick

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Well, Dan and I were going to go get some exercise, but Kelly let us know that the 300,000th person was about to post to the leaderboards, so we figured it would be better to knock out a quick update instead.

The title update is going well- we spent the weekend testing and testing and testing to see if the fixes work and it is looking pretty good. With any luck tomorrow we will be doing a big multiplayer test with everyone in Redmond. If everything goes well we’ll be moving from the “fixing it” stage to the “verifying” stage. After everything is fixed and verified by everyone and their mother, we’ll roll into the certification stage. If we pass that then we wait for the TU (title update) to be released. With all these moving parts, we are unable to tell you all with precision when the TU will be out, but we are working on it every day.

In the meantime, since I’m not a programmer, I get to do all the other stuff, like unloading the PAX delivery van and putting the trophies back on schedule (yes, AH HD trophy update tomorrow I PROMISE DAN!!!) Here’s a shot of some cool things we took to PAX but never made it out of my suitcase. I had cast 18 bronze helmet keychains before we left, (both Knight and Barbarian), and we’ve been trying to figure out what to do with them. They are very cool and very heavy. The far left is the head of the original figurine, the next is the wax casting, then the first bronze pour. The next one is the first polish and the final one on the right is the final polish.

We are going to keep an eye out for some of the coolest Castle Crasher videos on YouTube and on Friday we are going to give away the first of these keychains. I’m sure we’ll figure out rules and such tomorrow, so check back and in the meantime, post your videos…I mean, can anyone beat these?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fzmTqLToZk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhQM3Xwvt6A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy2fa8kp5tM

Best

john

PS, for those of you who were lucky enough to place an order on our webstore before we sold out, were waiting for our custom boxes to be fabricated before we ship them out. If everything goes as planned, we’ll be shipping this week. Check back later in the week for an update.

so many beautiful creations

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hello my friends and welcome to the behemoth devblog of wonder.  today i will be sharing some things that i have personally thought were pretty darn cool.  i always like it when people create things with different sorts of mediums so i am going to show you all some recent artwork that we haven’t quite gotten into our fanart gallery just yet:

These things pictured above would be cookies that we received at PAX!!   This girl obviously put a lot into this so we just could not bring ourselves to eat them.  You know, eating art is just too difficult for us, i guess.  Thanks for this one MoriChax!!

These little clay guys come from from a fellow we know as Lunchbox820 on our forums.  Here we have a few animal orbs from Castle Crashers fighting over a quarter that has presented itself to them.  Thank you Lunchbox820 for sharing!!

An amazing feat, papercraft, done by Lesqua.  Even cutting it out appears to be hard work, something that Lesqua seems to embrace!  These figures are wonderful.  Perhaps we shall follow up with a link to the papers so you may print them out for yourselves!!!

An amazing pair of shoes from Jonas featuring the blue knight,  the king, animal orbs and barbarian boss.  Wonderfully bold work protecting wonderfully creative feet!!!!

Added another picture to the list and we have word that the sign artist goes by “Gino Hasler” So thanks Gino you chalkmaster,  you are a master of chalk.  Your efforts are appreciated!!!!

Have you played Spore?  None of us have gotten a chance to play just yet, but Andre Nguyen has.  He has brought it upon himself to dominate the galaxy with Alien Hominids.  Very awesome, thank you Andre!!!

Look for a post from John sometime later this week, because I think he’s got something special.  (pretty sure the guys don’t like when i put pressure on their posts like that, lol)

Sidenotes; oh yes, the title update is making great progress!

Thanks to everyone for playing so much!!!!

-dan

*edit* – Hi, Emil here i wanted to add this image as well as it was being worked on by some of our forum users. Thanks.