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FrozenFire
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Matt @FrozenFire

Age 32, Male

Graphic Designer

Texas A&M University

Houston, TX

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Felicia Day (The Guild) plugs Relive Your Life! :D

Posted by FrozenFire - July 30th, 2012


CUTE REDHEAD TALK

So I got a message today that Relive Your Life was plugged along with the Indie Game Movie on Felicia Day's Flog show.
Gave me an insta-chub.

She links to the Armorgames version though :(
(Kongregate and Newgrounds have a save feature)

INTERVIEW GET
In other news, I was interviewed about the game as well from a different party. It hasn't been published online yet but I'll post a tidbit now. Might as well.

1)How long have you been making your own games?

I participated in a "Power of Three" game tournament on Newgrounds.com in Summer 2009, the project finally got released in February 2010 under the name "Primary"
I would provide art for games ever so often before then, but this was the first time I was truly involved in the process of making a game. I learned a lot from my partner, Dave Fulton, who was extremely critical of anything I did. I'm pretty sure everything seen in that game was redone at least 3 times because he wanted it to be perfect. Lots of gripes but I'd always listen to him and pull through. In the end, I thanked him for being honest because it really helped the final product.

2)How long did it take to make Relive Your Life?

FUN FACT: The game was actually made two times. My studio course gave me a month for each project we did. The second project was an interactive narrative, and I partnered up with a great funny dude from my class. We made a prototype of the game, Relive Your Life, which only had 16 endings. My partner, John Moody, was the narrator for this version. Instead of animating the narrator, I had video of him talking in a recording booth. This ended up taking a huge chunk of data and corrupted the whole project.

The final project for the studio was to take any of the prototypes made earlier and make it better. So I chose Relive Your Life, started coding and animating everything from scratch. Rewrote a large part of the script and added a huge amount of additional content. Once Arin said he was on board, I was so pumped I didn't leave my dorm for a good 2 weeks to animate everything on time. In the end, I animated and coded everything for this version in 24 days and turned it in on time. (And I received an A in the class w00t!)

The game was 90% done when I actually flew up to Philadelphia to celebrate Pico Day. My previous game, Symphonic Tower Defense, was nominated for game of the year. I met Arin, as well as Tom Fulp the creator of Newgrounds. The plane rides up and back were a good time to sync audio and video. (I actually worked on the plane/bomb/morgan freeman part on the plane and the girls next to me probably thought I was nuts)

WHAT IM DOING NOW
Currently two projects in the works.
- A Walking Dead parody - Mick Lauer and I just riff raffed about Walking Dead and he did impressions and I'm animating it. No rush on it, I don't have fans to disappoint or anything. It's kinda funny, but I'm focusing on quality because it's probably the only parody I'm ever going to do.

- An iOS game with Jon Sandness - Team Symphonic is back together and we started working on a new project with electricity and color. Going to be beautifully vibrant from what I've done so far.


Comments

It's great to hear that you're doing well, and nice new display picture btw.

Thanks mate!

That's great!

w00t!

Felicia Day kind of helped ruin Dragon Age for me so I couldn't really care less. It's great to see your game is getting more exposure though.

Geeky women just get me going is all.

Oh Power of Three was your first game, I didn't notice that.

Yep any time I tried before then it usually fell through :(

Someone likes to brag... ;) Good for you!

I couldn't focus on anything else all day omggg

I think that part where it seemed like she started acting very much like that figure was real. And then she's like "Oh, this is tiresome, I think I'm going to let him die" :-P