Blendo Games
Company type | Brendon Chung |
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Headquarters | , United States |
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Website | blendogames |
Blendo Games is an American
Background
Chung had done hobbyist programming, such as
Later that same year, Blendo Games released Air Forte, an
A sequel to Gravity Bone, Thirty Flights of Loving, was developed to support a Kickstarter project for the Idle Thumbs podcast, and released in 2012.[15][16][17] Following Thirty Flights of Loving, Chung began what would become over four years of development on Quadrilateral Cowboy, which released in 2016.[1][18][19] Flotilla 2, a virtual reality sequel to Flotilla, was released in August 2018.[20] In October 2018, a new project titled Skin Deep was revealed to be in development at Blendo Games although no release date has yet been announced.[21][22] Blendo Games later announced in April 2021 that Skin Deep would be published through Annapurna Interactive.[23]
Culture
Blendo Games remains a one-man studio, though according to a 2016 feature in
Barista
Barista is a series of four first-person games for Microsoft Windows by Brendon Chung. All of the games involve the player character waking up.[26]
The first game is a
Chung has indicated the second game was an independent study project developed while he was in college.[4] It centers on a nameless spaceship pilot, and features a disjointed story line. There are several characters featured, including a talking skull and an unidentified woman. The skull mentions a person named Hannah, though when an interviewer suggested the unidentified woman was Hannah, Chung said "she's not Hanna. You never meet Hanna."[4][26]
The third game is a modification for Doom 3.[26] Chung has indicated he developed the game so he could learn the constraints of the Id Tech 4 engine before using it on a larger project.[27]
The fourth game is a modification for Half-Life 2.
Games
- Gravity Bone (2008, PC)
- Flotilla (2010, PC and Xbox Live)
- Air Forte (2010, PC and Xbox Live)
- Atom Zombie Smasher (2011, PC)
- Thirty Flights of Loving (2012, PC)
- Quadrilateral Cowboy (2016, PC)
- Flotilla 2 (2018, PC/HTC Vive)[28]
- Skin Deep (TBA, PC)[21]
References
- ^ a b Wawro, Alex (23 February 2017). "Road to the IGF: Blendo Games' Quadrilateral Cowboy". www.gamasutra.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- ^ a b c Alexander, Heather (January 3, 2020). "Blendo Games Has Been At It For 10 Years, And Has Consistently Kicked Ass". Kotaku. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
- ^ "Brendon Chung". insights from the greatest minds in video games. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- ^ a b c d Yang, Robert (15 November 2011). "Level With Me, Brendon Chung". Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "Gimme Indie Game: Gravity Bone - Offworld". Archived from the original on 2009-04-06. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
- ^ "The Making Of: Flotilla | Features | Edge Online". Edge. 2014-03-16. Archived from the original on 2014-03-16. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
- ^ Macgregor, Jody (2018-08-20). "Five new Steam games you probably missed this week (August 19, 2018)". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ "AIR FORTE Official Site". blendogames.com. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ^ "Air Forte on Game and Player". www.gameandplayer.net. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- ^ "Air Forte Review | bit-tech.net". bit-tech.net. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- Gamasutra. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- ^ "2012 Independent Games Festival Announces Main Competition Finalists". Independent Games Festival. 2012-01-10. Archived from the original on 2012-01-13. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
- ^ Schrier, Jason (2011-07-13). "10 Clever Indie Games Ready to Shine at PAX". Wired. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ de Matos, Xav (2011-08-05). "Humble Indie Bundle 3 adds 'Atom Zombie Smasher'". Shacknews. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- Gamasutra. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ Blendo Games. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
- ^ Meer, Alec (February 28, 2012). "Gravity Bone’s Sequel: Thirty Flights Of Loving". Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
- ^ "The curious case of 'Quadrilateral Cowboy'". Engadget. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
- ^ "Become a 1980s hacker in 'Quadrilateral Cowboy' on July 25th". Engadget. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ O'Connor, Alice (2018-08-20). "Flotilla 2 jacks in to blast off". Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
- ^ a b Tarason, Dominic (2018-10-17). "Skin Deep is Die Hard in space from the creator of Quadrilateral Cowboy". Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- ^ "Blendo's sneaky shooter Skin Deep draws from Die Hard and Far Cry 2". Destructoid. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- ^ Van Allen, Eric (April 20, 2021). "Blendo Games partners with Annapurna for its immersive space FPS Skin Deep". Destructoid. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ Parkin, Simon (August 2016). "WorkStation: The spaces where 22 different game-makers build worlds". www.gamasutra.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- ^ "Quadrilateral Cowboy FAQ". blendogames.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- ^ a b c d "BLENDO: Older Projects". Blendogames.com. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
- ^ Alexander, Leigh (23 June 2014). "Quadrilateral Cowboy : Good old-fashioned digital bliss". www.gamasutra.com. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ^ Brown, Fraser (April 26, 2018). "Flotilla 2 will fling you into tactical space battles in VR". PC Gamer. Retrieved April 26, 2018.