Awwwwwwwwww SNAP, a blog post!!  

Earlier this week I made a promise in the comments that I’d give you guys an update before the weekend, and I’m here to make good on that (long overdue) promise.

Alright, onto the good stuff…

Announcing Hero Interactive’s next title! –> BASHING GROUNDS!

Bashing Grounds is a tower offense game which pits you against enemy forces in intense battle, continuing until only a single victor remains! Place and control ally structures to produce waves of various unit types to battle oncoming enemy armies, ultimately destroying all enemy presence on the map!

Level up your structures to produce stronger, more efficient units, all while building your overall experience. Obtain usable items with experience, allowing for further ways to assist you in vanquishing your enemy, including napalm attacks, factory turrets, and more!

There is no specific release date for the game as of yet, but it is rapidly nearing completion, so we’ll keep you posted

Here’s some screenshots of the game’s progress thus far to hold you over!

More to come, very soon!

Cheers,

- Eric

It was just brought to my attention that BTTD 2 (review) has been nominated for Best Defense Strategy browser game of 2012 over at our good friends JayIsGames.com!

If you’d like to vote on this category you can do so here!

Here’s how it works:

“From now until January 23rd, you can vote once each day in each category on what game you think should stand above its peers, as well as once daily on the game you truly felt was the creme de la creme and deserves to be crowned the single best game of 2012! For Game of the Year 2012 voting, and just like last year, simply check the box at the top of the page above all nominations before voting in that category.”

To see the full line-up of all games across all categories for both browser and mobile games, head here.

Hey guys, just wanted to give you a quick heads up that BTTD 2 now has badges on Kongregate. Play hard!

Hey guys and gals! I hope everyone had a great holiday! I wanted to get a post up today, though it unfortunately is going to be mostly a “keep being patient” list.

A lot has been going on, most of which wouldn’t be all too interesting to you guys, but remember that game we still haven’t officially announced yet? Well that is still being worked on and WILL be announced soon. KC (Remember that gal?) and I are working on a complete re-vamp of all of the art of the game this next week or so, which also requires a lot of changes to the game itself. This is delaying my willingness to give too much away about it yet, as I don’t want to hype things that may or may not be changed completely. Sooo hooray fairly last-minute changes… And, thanks in advance for your understanding.

Also, I touched on this extremely briefly in a previous post, but we’re planning a completely new Hero Interactive website which will likely begin development somewhere around the same time as this next game release. I’m excited. You should be too. Once things are a little bit more out of the “planning stages” I will release a lot more information about this, as we’ll likely be looking for a lot of feedback as well.

I’ve also been backing-up & updating the blog in a number of ways recently, as it has been majorly out of date for far too long. I apologize if random changes have been throwing anyone off here and there if you’ve somehow managed to catch them AS they were being worked on. If so, they should be mostly small things, with the exception of me accidentally breaking the blog for two hours yesterday afternoon… WHOOPS!

Anyway, I’ve got more to tell you guys, but this is already getting long and I’ve got lots to do, so I’ll wait until later in the week. Thanks for being awesome!

Four hours ago the Hero family gained a new member! Everyone say hello to Jared and Steph’s second son, Liam!

Left to right: Steph, Liam & Owen

I just watched a really good documentary that I thought you guys might be interested in. It’s called Indie Game: The Movie and can be found in a number of different locations, including Netflix (Watch Instantly).

I should also mention that it is Not-Rated (contains adult language), so watch at your own discretion. Hero Interactive is in no way involved with the film other than the fact that we also make games, though I have met a few people in it.

Anyway, just thought I’d pass along the love. Cheers

Hey all!

Wanted to let you know quick that BTTD 2 is live on Kong now, just in case you hadn’t already noticed! A lot of people have been bugging me about this for a while so sorry for the delay!

Enjoy!

Anyone notice the new .ICO image I made for the site?? No? I figured not. I get excited about dumb stuff.

Hey guys, Eric here, back from the dead!!

Kidding. Apparently I need to stop even jokingly talking like that though, as the blog has turned into one big Debbie-downer fest as of late. You guys need to cheer up. Go make a blanket-fort or throw a Nerf football at your brother or something! Smile

Hero’s still alive and kicking, so don’t jump ship on us yet! BTTD 2 was a huge task to complete after the downsize simply due to the fact that it was designed and planned out under the assumption that there’d be a staff of five or more people working on it full-time. This instead turned out to be just yours truly, barely part-time. (Whoops!)

In short Hero had to push past BTTD 2 in order to survive. We did. It was rough, and a tad choppy. Now we’re picking up the pieces and attempting to get rolling again as best we can. I can’t promise you things will roll quickly yet. I’m no wizard. Alright I’m a wizard, but I’m still not promising you squat. How about this: We’re doing our best. Hang in there with us, cool?

Guess what else? We’re still making games! Yeah. Crazy, right?? In fact, here’s the Main Menu background art of the game we’re working on right now:

See?

Really, besides the general lack of free time we have these days, the only real reason I haven’t made a post announcing the game yet is due to the fact that I refuse to do so until I can commit to a title for it. Want a hint? Tower. Offense.

Guess what else! Plans are in motion for a brand new Hero Interactive website to go live in 2013!

So honestly all that needs to happen is for me to simply update and inform you guys more often about what’s going on. And, if I run out of things to tell you, maybe just post anyway. Otherwise everyone seems to immediately assume we’ve been executed So far this has not been the case.

Alright, that’s enough for now. Play hard, keep being awesome, and I’ll have more for you soon!

Hey gang! Super quick update here as I’m jumping around between a million different things…

I finally got around to getting another patch over to Dan at Armor Games and he has just informed me that the file is live. Check for version number 1.2.0 on the Main Menu screen to make sure you’re playing the most recent build (See previous blog post for further details). Feel free to check the changelog page to see what issues have been addressed.

In addition, thank you once again for your patience. As I mentioned earlier, I’m but one mortal man jumping between many tasks (One of which is our next game!! SHHHH! More to come on that soon..), so I appreciate your patience and awesomeness!

Now go be awesome!! Oh wait, you already are.

Hey guys!

So, as is painfully apparent pretty much anywhere that allows users to comment about the game (including my overflowing email inbox), the game had some major bugs & balance issues upon release on Armor Games.

I wanted to inform you guys quick that a patch of the game just went live a few minutes ago on Armor Games which addresses a great deal of these issues. Further patches will be released periodically over the next few weeks to get this game as solid as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this has all caused you and hope these patches help make up for said inconveniences. Hopefully the death threats in my inbox will begin to dwindle now…

So head over to Armor Games and get playing! Just make sure you’re playing the most current build of the game by making sure your game version is v1.1.0, such as this:

If it doesn’t match this version, make sure to F5, ctrl-F5, etc. until all is right in the universe.

If you’d like to keep up with where we’re at with bug fixes, balancing adjustments, etc, I’ve set up a changelog page so that you can do so. Keep in mind that I will be updating you guys here with each released build, so don’t feel like it’ll be some huge secretive process Thanks for being awesome!

Cheers!

Oh. My. Gosh. You guys… It happened.

The game has just been released on Armor Games!! Go forth and play, my children…
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