If you're an iPhone or iPad owner and yet to get hold of Kahoots, it is FREE for the weekend of 8th & 9th of Jan from the appstore!
That's not all! If you're a subscriber to Playstation Plus in Europe, Kahoots is FREE to download for the month of January!
Hurrah!
Yay! Kahoots is out on iPhone and iPad this week! Why not throw a party to celebrate in our FREE Kahoots launch party game? For more information check out www.honeyslug.com or follow the link to our Free Stuff page at the top!
To celebrate the launch of Kahoots on iPhone and iPad we’re giving everyone the chance to go behind the scenes at Honeyslug in our FREE Kahoots Room Escape game!! For more information check out www.honeyslug.com.
Kahoots is due to hit the Appstore on November 30th, and we're giving away 10 download codes (for either iPhone or iPad version), in the form of a Competition!
What we want to know is:
How Many Kahoots Are There in Pegbeast's Save the Kahoots Music Video?
The video has a number of different scenes – for example right at the start the Kahoots are having a picnic, with the camera is cutting between them. This scene returns toward the end. Now we don't want you to count each time you see the same Kahoot in the same scene! And to give you some idea, the answer is more than 20 but fewer than 100.
We'll put all the correct answers into a hat and have Pegbeast peck out 10 randomly once the game is released. Winners can choose which version they get a code for, but they'll need a US appstore account (which is easy to set up) cos that's just the way it works with appstore codes, m'kay?
Email your answers to us at this address, which we set up specially like:
I just made this by accident. Bigger version after the jump!
After a work induced hiatus on the blog front, it’s good to be back with some news about us being featured in the latest edition of Edge Magazine not just once, but TWICE!
Edge have done a feature on Minis with Sony which also features an interview with Ricky around our becoming involved in the Minis programme and also working with Sony.
In a double whammy the magazine has also named, Poto and Cabenga as “Internet Game of the Month”, pretty cool, eh?
Edge issue 216 is out now and available from any competently stocked newsagent. Check out a preview of the issue here.
Coming Soon – Hopefully we’ll have some exciting news on some new games and our plans for Kahoots on iPad and iPhone, AND we’ve got our talk at Develop Conference in mid-July to tell you about, AND we’ll have some more updates to the look of the website. Also, some new pictures to celebrate our second birthday in July! Hooray!
Yes, a curious start to the week, with the momentum building rapidly on our current project, Kahoots still continues be doing the business off its own back. Today we found out it’s been shortlisted for a Pocket Gamer award at GDC!
That’s pretty handy since Ricky is out at the show for reasons which will become clear soon enough, but any road, Kahoots is nominated for the Best Casual/Puzzle Game for Handheld, how cool is that! It has some stiff competition, but that we’re in with a shout against the likes of Little Big Planet PSP and Lego Rock Band DS shows you how well received the game has been. We’re chuffed to bits, thanks Pocket Gamer! Full list of all the awards and nominations can be found here.
Here’s our category, though. How bonkers is this, look at who we’re up against!
Best Casual/Puzzle Game finalists
Art Style: CODE [DS] (Nintendo)
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure [DS] (Electronic Arts)
Kahoots [PSP] (Honeyslug)
Lego Rock Band [DS] (Warner Bros)
LittleBigPlanet [PSP] (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Bit of an update on some Kahoots related activity. We recently scored a marvellous 8/10 for Kahoots from ace site The Gamers Hub. We were also very pleased to be asked to do an interview with them for their site, in which we give full and frank answers to their questions including our thoughts on influences to Kahoots, game pricing, and the announcement of an impending version of Kahoots for iPhone and iPod touch. Follow the links for the full transcripts of the review and interview.
In other Kahoots related news, there is now a Kahoots theme available on PS3 and PSP to be downloaded from the PlayStation store. There was a free giveaway of 5000 of them on the Playstation Europe Blog and there may be a last few still available there if you hurry. Stop Press – Obviously, at this time we urge you to follow the advice of Sony on current PS3 network issues before you attempt to download the theme.
Finally, and rather disappointingly, the BBC has confirmed its intention to close the excellent 6Music radio station. If you haven’t already, you can read our thoughts on it here and there is still time to stop this from happening, if you’re already a fan of the station, you can find details on how to register your opinon. If you are yet to listen to this genuinely innovative music station we urge you now, before it’s too late, to give it a try to understand why we feel so passionate about this. 6Music.
A full man’s year ago, I risked life, limb and mockery on the coldest weekend of the year to take photographs of a small plasticine model, all in the name of “user experience”.
It’s been proper Baltic over the last month in the UK, but the weekend of 2009 Chinese New Year was not a weekend to decide to take time out to grab some snaps of the Kahoot on the wander around London. Given Nat and Ricky were hard at work on the game code that weekend, I felt I should contribute *something* to the development process. Being as the last thing I coded in anger was in Z80, I was best to stay away from them and instead wander the streets of the capital carrying a small brown box containing an increasingly battered looking clay figure and a brief to get pictures “which are dead touristy”.
Obviously a number of the pics didn’t make it into the final cut, so I thought you might like to see them here, now. With your eyes. Enjoy!
We did an interview with toppermost industry mag Develop a short while back. It was part of a focus on development within the urban sprawl that is London. It was a pretty useful exercise for us and certainly generated a bunch more interest in our company, and we also got to create our first advert promoting the company!
The interview is credited to me, which is something of a misnomer as it was a collaborative effort where anything considered and well written was by Ricky, and the bits that look like an ape has punched a keyboard are by yours truly.
You can read the online article here, if words and pictures is your thing, try this on for size. Check out pages 28-29 (Nat – 30Under30), 34-35 (interview) and 38-39 (advert).
Tomorrow, following on from Ricky’s ace post about how Kahoots might have looked, we have a picture special looking back at some more of the things we did on behalf of the development of Kahoots. It’ll be ace! Like one of those nostalgia programmes except without the likes of Stuart Maconie, Chris Moyles and Jane Moore pretending not to be able to remember things.