Zeebarf!

January 4, 2008

Happy New Year everyone! I thought I'd post something since there's been a severe lack of updates lately. Too many Christmas parties!

Right now I'm putting the final touches on my animated shorts for Playboy, amazingly enough they've already sent me a cheque. A rarity in the world of freelance for sure. It felt pretty cool to get a cheque with bunny ears on it signed by Christie Hefner. The shorts should appear on Playboy.com sometime in the near future.

Starting Monday I'll be going into heavy writing mode. I have a bunch of game ideas and I really want to do my best to get them all out there. I'm lucky enough to have two talented programmers that are going to help me realize my visions. This will free up my time to devote more energy into game design and art, which is really exciting!

One of my big 2009 goals is to create a commercial length downloadable game. Something that the hardcore fans can sink their teeth into. My plan is to slowly develop it over the year, and hopefully by next Fall It'll be ready for consumption.

In the meantime, I'm hoping to have my ghost game ready for February and Reemus:Chapter 3 by March.

Thanks for all the support and feedback, it really helps!

Lets set the new year on fire!

December 13 , 2008

Reemus Chapter 2 hit 900,000 plays today. Pretty cool!

I'm just finishing up the game "2008: A Joe Six-Pack Odyssey" for Comedy Central. It should be live next week sometime, I'll keep you posted.

I've also begun writing Chapter 3 of Reemus as well as another unrelated game involving ghosts. Expect to see both of them early next year!

December 4 , 2008

Wow, what a response! Seems Chapter 2 has struck a chord with people. It's already at 350,000 views since Monday and getting great reviews.

I'm so happy that the extra effort paid off! I have big plans for Reemus Chapter 3, so big in fact I'm bringing a programmer on board to help me out. I'm not going to give a release date this time since we all know how well I manage to hit those. I will tell you this, you won't see Reemus again until 2009.

That doesn't mean you won't see another game from me. I'm currently working on a game for Comedy Central that will hopefully be out this month. For those that haven't seen it, I recently did a goofy environmental game for them called "An Inconvenient Webgame". You can view it on their official website, comedycentral.com or for those of you in Canada, comedynetwork.ca. This new game will feature similiar gameplay and is equally as goofy.

In other news, I will also be creating three twisted animated shorts for Playboy. You'll be able to check those in January on their website.

For those in Canada, check out the Cream of Comedy Show on Comedy Network in February. I did the animated opening to the show. For more details check out timsims.com.

Whew, I've been a busy boy, now you know why Chapter 2 took me so long :)

December 1 , 2008

Well it took me two months longer than expected but I did it! Reemus Chapter 2 is finally finished. Enjoy!!

CLICK HERE TO PLAY CHAPTER 2!

Check the GAMES page to enjoy other Zeebarf game titles.

November 27, 2008

The end is near! The new Reemus game is free of bugs (at least the ones I can find) and I'm just finishing up sound design. If all goes well it should be ready by Monday or sooner! Wooot!

November 16, 2008

Aaargh! I think I'll just hire real programmers from here on out. I'd much rather spend my time drawing and designing than doing the glorified math homework that they call programming. I'm still finding game killing bugs as I slowly try to put Chapter 2 to bed. I see a light at the end of the tunnel, pray for me!

Thanks for your patience as I try to tame this beast!

November 9, 2008

Whoa, where did October go? Well as you can tell I missed my self imposed deadline of October for the release of Chapter 2. I'm on the verge of finishing it and I'm crossing my fingers I'll have it ready to go this week.

Why the delay? Well I painted myself into a corner by raising the bar on both the puzzle design and the animation level, so I've been scrambling trying to make everything work and keep the animation quality up. Needless to say it's been really hard.

I'm hoping the effort pays off and people agree the extra time was well spent!

September 25, 2008

Due to popular request, I've finally posted official walkthroughs for both Reemus games and The Visitor in the GAMES section.

CHECK IT OUT...

September 20, 2008

Reemus Chapter 1 has officially hit 1,000,000 plays and zeebarf.com's ranking has broken the top 100,000 websites! Woohoo! Thanks for all the support!

Chapter 2 is well underway, I've raised the bar on animation for this next installment. I got some flak for not having the characters interact with the puzzle objects, so for this next one expect Reemus and Liam to do all the heavy lifting themselves. It's taking me longer to finish the level designs because of all the extra animation but so far it's worth it. All the levels are plotted out, now it's just a whirlwind of coding and animation. I'm crossing my fingers for an early October release! I'll keep you posted...

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September 11, 2008

Reemus Chapter 1 is burning up the charts, it should reach 500,000 plays by the end of the week. I'd just like to thank everyone for the support, I even had some email asking how they can donate to the next game. Who am I to refuse a request like that! So I've added a donation button for those that want to support to the cause and help improve the quality of my games. Thanks again!

September 9, 2008

Well Chapter 1 has been out for a few days now, it was officially launched today on Newgrounds and Armor Games. I'm hoping to have it live on Kongregate by tomorrow.

According to my stats it's been played over 40,000 times already, which is crazy. My web traffic spiked up, I went from ranking 1.8 million to breaking the 400,000 top websites within a couple days. Wow!

Each game I release is really an experiment for me, I'm slowly teaching myself how to code. I break off a little more each time.

I'd love to know your feedback at what I've done so far and what you'd like to see improved in future installments. Drop me a line and let me know your thoughts... admin@zeebarf.com

September 6, 2008

Welcome to the new Zeebarf.com!

The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 1 is complete!

Another chapter in the ongoing saga of Reemus & Liam. Picking up where the prologue left off, Reemus & Liam journey to meet the King, but things don't go as smoothly as planned...

More point and click puzzle action for those that enjoyed the first one. Two possible endings!

I'm hoping to release a new chapter each month. Enjoy!

CLICK HERE TO PLAY CHAPTER 1!

Check the GAMES page to enjoy other Zeebarf game titles.

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