{"id":563,"date":"2018-01-17T02:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T02:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2018-10-01T21:11:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:11:39","slug":"boom-fighters-2018-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/2018\/01\/17\/boom-fighters-2018-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom Fighters &#8211; 2018 and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a long time since I wrote the first entry of the blog, but a lot of great things have happened since then. In the first post, I wrote about bringing a demo of <em>Boom Fighters<\/em>\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.game-connection.com\/\">Game Connection<\/a> to be played\u00a0with an electronic drum kit. The\u00a0timing wasn&#8217;t enough for our team to complete that\u00a0goal for\u00a0this event. Nevertheless, we had a great Game Connection event\u00a0where we\u00a0we showed our previous games as sample of the game mechanics, and the concept art images of <em>Boom Fighters. <\/em>This is a picture of our booth:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GameConnection2017Booth.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-574\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GameConnection2017Booth.jpg\" alt=\"GameConnection2017Booth\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GameConnection2017Booth.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GameConnection2017Booth-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GameConnection2017Booth-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GameConnection2017Booth-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GameConnection2017Booth-1500x1125.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GameConnection2017Booth-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GameConnection2017Booth-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this event, we met with a representative from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltopround.com\/\">Global Top Round<\/a>, an accelerator from South Korea and San Francisco.\u00a0He liked the <em>Boom Fighters<\/em> concept as well as our portfolio and we\u00a0also liked their vision of boosting indie game studios. During the following weeks we exchanged\u00a0few emails to find out more about the program and finally we decided to apply in mid 2017, when they opened their web platform to applications.<\/p>\n<p>During the following months after Game Connection we were able to put together what we wanted:\u00a0A demo that could be played with an electronic drum kit:<\/p>\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rOSlI9mtEhs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After submitting the game and following the evaluation process we were finally notified by the end of September that Cocodrilo Dog was a finalist.\u00a0The final took place\u00a0in Melbourne, Australia and\u00a0the top 17 studios out of 100+ studios around the world needed to\u00a0show and pitch their games in order to make it to the top 10. Fortunately we made it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this, you can visit these articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Press release Gamasutra: <a href=\"http:\/\/ubm.io\/2zuVMtE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/ubm.io\/2zuVMtE<\/a><\/li>\n<li>GTR &#8211; Cocodrilo Dog in Japan: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2iJx92f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2iJx92f<\/a><\/li>\n<li>GTR &#8211; Cocodrilo Dog in Corea: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2jdx5vy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2jdx5vy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>GTR &#8211; Cocodrilo Dog in Australia: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2zoOFn5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2zoOFn5<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We carried the drum kit\u00a0to the other side of\u00a0the world and demo&#8217;ed the game with a great reception from the players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GTR_BFPlayer.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-582\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GTR_BFPlayer.png\" alt=\"GTR_BFPlayer\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GTR_BFPlayer.png 1338w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GTR_BFPlayer-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GTR_BFPlayer-768x488.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GTR_BFPlayer-1030x654.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GTR_BFPlayer-705x448.png 705w, https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GTR_BFPlayer-450x286.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1338px) 100vw, 1338px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now Cocodrilo Dog and <em>Boom Fighters<\/em> will be part of the acceleration program during 2018 and we are very excited to learn as much as we can from the GTR team and our fellow developers.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll work hard on this game and we plan to release the game during this year in PC, XB1 and PS4. There are many exciting features that <em>Boom Fighters<\/em> will have, but I&#8217;ll write about them in future posts. For the time being, I&#8217;ll just let you know that they are related to user created content, MIDI instruments, designer toys, education, musicians and more. d(-.-)b<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a long time since I wrote the first entry of the blog, but a lot of great things have happened since then. In the first post, I wrote about bringing a demo of Boom Fighters\u00a0to Game Connection to be played\u00a0with an electronic drum kit. The\u00a0timing wasn&#8217;t enough for our team to complete that\u00a0goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,10,11,18,17,7,16,9,5,8,15,14,12,4,13],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dev-blog","tag-designer-toys","tag-dev-blog","tag-game-development","tag-indie-game","tag-indie-studio","tag-interactive-music","tag-mac","tag-midi","tag-music","tag-music-education","tag-pc","tag-playstation","tag-unity","tag-video-games","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocodrilodog.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}