Some of you may have heard the news that AGON is shutting down operations at the end of June. If you haven’t, well… AGON is shutting down operations at the end of June. Adam has selected this inspirational video to help ease the transition.

To make sure Tilt to Live doesn’t run into any problems, we’re disabling AGON online connectivity from our game and using Game Center exclusively for global leaderboards and achievements. What does this mean for those that are living under a rock and don’t have internet connectivity on their devices? It shouldn’t mean much since  they can’t update anyway, or read this post for that matter. Your offline highscores will still be stored locally and you’ll be able to see your highest scores on the gametype select screen. When you tap on ‘Awards’ you will also still be able to see which awards you’ve unlocked and which ones are left to pursue.

If you’re worried about losing highscores or achievements, I’d recommend setting up a Game Center account (if you haven’t already) and making sure that Game Center is enabled in Tilt to Live’s options menu. This allows the game to save awards and highscores to Apple’s Game Center servers, so you’ll be able to restore them easily even between re-installs, or across devices.

We’re working on pushing an update out for Tilt to Live first, followed by Tilt to Live HD, and then a Lite update. Should be submitted sometime next week.

Anybody that’s ever done creative work will tell you, revisions can be painful. Especially when you’ve got a LOT of other work to get to, and the thing in question is “good enough”. But let’s face it, the old design was overly repetitive, and I just wasn’t crazy about it thematically. I’m fairly new to level design, so the work was bound to need redoing.

Here’s my second pass, one that I think is getting much more attractive. If the Adorables level is going to be the cutest thing I can think of, the Feedback should hit the other extreme.

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Our jaws dropped when we were linked to this Youtube video last week. A fan by the name of MRcheese911 (and that’s not an alias; it’s his real, given name) had both the skill and the patience to recreate Tilt to Live with the level editor in Little Big Planet 2. If you happen to have a copy of LBP2, you can play it for yourself by searching either “Tilt to Live” or ” MRcheese911″. We don’t know whether to hug him or sue him. Just kidding. We’re hugging him. Suing people is really expensive.

Your Artwork Here

For his time and effort, MRcheese911 is getting the item of his choice from our Tilt to Live store. If you have some Tilt to Live fanart, send it over to contests[at]onemanleft.com. If we like your stuff, we’ll post it and send you a free item from our shop.

We actually received two fanart submissions from codename: diggitfireball. One’s a video montage, with some editing magic performed on practically every piece of Tilt to Live footage on the internet.

His second piece is hand drawn and entitled: Tilt-amous. It’s apparently a fantasy crossover of Tilt to Live and the PS3 game Infamous. That’s the strangest idea that has ever been had by anyone, so of course I’m posting it.

Your Artwork Here

For his time and effort, diggitfireball is getting the item of his choice from our Tilt to Live store. If you have some Tilt to Live fanart, send it over to contests[at]onemanleft.com. If we like your stuff, we’ll post it and send you a free item from our shop.

Some of you may be curious about the mouse creature we’ve been showcasing in our Outwitters banner. He’s the soldier for the Adorables, and these are his brothers in war.

The Adorables is a team we designed for two kinds of people. The first are people who enjoy rainbows, birthday cakes, and narwhals. It’s the team I plan to use to get my sister to play. The second kind of person is slightly more sinister. They’ll be the most brilliant opponents you’ve ever encountered, but they’ll lack the common decency to simply walk all over you. No. They will skip all over you, with stuffed elephants and what looks like a Care Bear… but is legally distinct from a Care Bear.

Om Nom Nom

The Adorables’ special unit is called a “Mobi”, as in Moby Dick and as in Mobi-lity. Here’s how he works at the moment: Surround Mobi with up to six comrades, and tell him to inhale. All six will hop into his gullet, and all will move for the price of one character. If Mobi dies, everyone in his belly dies with him. So the Adorables’ advantage is the ability to quickly taxi your slower characters up the field. But it’s a risky maneuver, since Mobi himself is not very durable. The more units he carries, the more costly his loss.

The Adorables’ homeworld map is still under construction, but I can tell you that I watched Strawberry Shortcake, My Little Pony, and the Care Bears this morning while brainstorming.

Now through Sunday. I had a nice post written about this with some very clever jokes, but it was mysteriously erased. I swear to god, this sale is cursed.

New Outwitters team post will be ready Wednesday.

Update: Tilt to Live HD’s IAP appears to be working again as of last night. Still no word on whether Apple will fix my mug.

As anyone who recently tried to buy TtL HD’s full version already knows, that In-App Purchase is still broken. We’re working with Apple to get it sorted out, and hope to have it back in order soon. Unfortunately, it’s out of our hands.

[1:50:21 PM] Alex Okafor: that ham looks so juicy
[1:50:32 PM] Adam Stewart: i stole that pic off some site
[1:50:35 PM] Adam Stewart: should i buy stock art?
[1:50:49 PM] Adam Stewart: we’re using it in an ad, so technically yes
[1:52:34 PM] Alex Okafor: one sec
[1:52:37 PM] Alex Okafor: i might have some licensed stock photos
[1:52:49 PM] Adam Stewart: …of ham?
[1:52:59 PM] Alex Okafor: what can i say?
[1:53:27 PM] Alex Okafor: ya i do

NOTE: We’ve run into issues with changing the price of our HD full version. Some people have reported they aren’t able to upgrade at the moment due to an error coming up saying the item “is currently being modified”. This little technical problem has kinda lasted through the entire sale. Hopefully we can rectify the situation soon, and reschedule this sale for next weekend.

YOU GUYS. It only just occurred to us, but we really love May. We love May so much that we’re dropping the price on Tilt to Live HD‘s Full Version all weekend!

It’s the WEEKEND MAY-HAM sale

In honor of May, the fifth and most excellent month of the Gregorian calendar, Tilt to Live HD’s Full Version is dropping from $4.99 to just 99¢ for a limited time! That’s every gametype we’ve ever conceived, including Viva la Turret & Viva la Coop, for only two 9’s and a cents! But act fast, because after Sunday I feel like we’ll be less excited about May.

What better month is there to enjoy a ham? If you said “Christmas”, that’s not a month.

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So for each race in Outwitters, I’m designing a “home turf” map theme to compliment the character designs. What you see here is a wide view of the Feedback’s homeworld, as it stands now. This is also kind of our first screenshot! Neat.

The colorful spaces with the team logos are spawn points, which are the spaces you tap to create new units. The space with the flag on it is a capture space, which I can explain for you guys another day. Suffice it to say, those help you gain the upper hand. And the number floating beside each unit displays its health.

The Feedback’s world uses a lot of dull grays and browns to give it a doom-and-gloom, industrial vibe. They are our robot overlords, after all. The other maps I’m working on will be more vibrant, colorful places like a beach scene and a forest village. Still not really sure if this is the design we’ll stick with. There are some other ideas in my sketchbook I’d like to try out, if we have time.

That’s all for this week. It’s starting to look like a real game now! Check back soon for more Outwitters team reveals and artwork.