Slow but, you know, methodical

I first mentioned an idea for game where you fed bits of color to small cubes five years ago. I’ve even mentioned working on it from time to time and while that work hasn’t resulted in the actualization of any code, it’s certainly refined the design.

As some point over the last year I met Charles Berube at a PAGDIG meeting. At the time he identified himself as a web developer who was looking to move into games. He launched The Wasabi Project with the goal of releasing a Flash game a week. I found one of those games in particular, QuestLine, to be very interesting and hold it up to anything produced by Gregory Weir. Charles and I met outside a PAGDIG meeting last fall to talk about QuestLine and I’ve been paying more and more attention to his career as he explores how (and if) an individual Flash game developer can make money producing Flash games of his own design.

Today, Charles and I are announcing a collaboration between The Wasabi Project and Zakelro Story Studio. The project, if you hadn’t guessed, is Addicube, a virtual-pet sim that challenges you to maintain balanced diets for an ever increasing family of tiny cubes in a petri dish. If their diets become to unbalanced, they begin to act out emotionally and as you progress you’ll unlock tools that help you keep control over their intake.

We’re launching this project on Kickstarter, which means we need you to help us fund Addicube or it’s not going to happen. We have 90 days to reach our target and we’re offering some fun rewards, so please click the following link now and…

Back Addicube.

As we raise money, I’ll be posting updates about the design, our our preproduction phase and business/legal hurdles. I’ll also be posting update to show off the rewards we’re offering. And when we hit the goal, we’ll begin in earnest–sharing every detail of the project and how we’re going about it.