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ilomilo nominated for Gamecity prize 2011!

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Gamecity prize

“The GameCity Prize seeks to celebrate, explore and include video games as an important part of the mainstream cultural conversation. It seems like everybody’s playing, it’s time to get everybody talking.”

Looks like ilomilo has been nominated for the Gamecity prize award organized by the organizers behind “Gamecity festival”. Among other nominated games are titles such as “Portal 2″, “Minecraft”, and “Limbo”, which are all fantastic titles, making this really exciting for us. :)

Here’s a list of articles mentioning the prize.

Gamasutra

The guardian

Nintendolife

Wired

Digitalspy

ilomilo nominated by European Game Awards!

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

European game awards

As if it wasn’t great enough the sun is shining outside, it seems ilomilo has been nominated by “European games awards” in four, yes, FOUR categories! Oh gee jolly miss Molly!

“The European Games Award is the first award exclusively for European video and computer game developers, which lets professionals and gamers from all over Europe participate in the voting for the best games.”

The categories we are nominated in are *drumroll*:

“Best Gamedesign”
“Best Game world”
“Best Sound”
“Best Indie Game”

If you want to give us a hand, why don’t you head over to their site and vote for us?

Southend gets new site!

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Here at Southend we think of the future. We can all make a better tomorrow by recycling our trash, buying ecological food and switching to more environment friendly power sources.
So when us at Southend discovered that our old homepage was actually coal driven, polluted the air with black smoke and leaked oil everywhere, we decided to do something about it!

I present to you *drumroll* the new and improved Southend site! It’s driven on wind power and fairy dust and it’s soooo much better in every way imaginable! Holy smokes!

So what are you waiting for? Step right in! Don’t be shy! Please, tell us what you think!

ilomilo site

ilomilo soundtrack available on CDbaby!

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

ilomilo cover

Hey, guess what? The ilomilo soundtrack is now available for purchase at CDbaby! Rock on CDBaby!

And if you are willing to wait for just a little bit longer, here’s a list of platforms that will soon feature the fantastic ilomilo soundtrack! We don’t know exactly when it’s going to appear on the different services, but it’s supposed to happen any day now.

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Spotify
iTunes
Amazon MP3
iMusic
Rhapsody
Napster
Myspacemusic
Liquiddigital
Verizon V-AST
Shockhound
Nokia
LastFM
Zune
MediaNet
Tradebit
GreatIndieMusic
Thumbplay
Bandcamp

“Hot chocolate bug” fixed!

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Good news everyone! The bug that caused the DLC level “hot chocolate” to crash has been fixed! Just start up the game, download the patch and BAM! There it is! No more stupid game crashing bug! Poof! Gone! Yay!

autumn tale

ilomilo wins Nordic game award!

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Hello everyone! ilomilo was nominated in the category “Best children’s game” at Nordic game this year… and we WON! Horray! The team was on the scene to claim the prize and we got a neat plaque and some champagne to go with it. Oh, glorious day!

plaque
The artifact of glory

Southend int.
Jensen and the producers

Southend int.
Me (and Björn in the background)

Southend int.
First person view

50% off on ilomilo! Insane Spring Fling deal!

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

If you haven’t already bought ilomilo…well, then you’re probably a bad person who simply doesn’t like cute munchers with big wet puppy eyes. Shame on you!

Alright, I’m sure you have your reasons for not buying it before, BUT, now we’ve got an offer you simply can’t refuse, if you happen to be a gold member on Xbox Live arcade that is! Yes, if you are gold, you will get 50% OFF when buying ilomilo this week! How about THAT!? Not bad huh?

Holy heck, What are you waiting for? Catch it like a cage-creature before it runs away! :O

cage-dude

Autumn Tale – It is live

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Autumn Tale is released!

If you choose to part with the small amount of 240 Microsoft points, it could be residing in your Xbox 360 right now.

Actually it’s been out there since last week, but since Martin is out globetrotting, it’s not been blogged yet :)

So, to all of you who were afraid it was cancelled, now is the time to celebrate!

Now go solve all those new levels! 

ilomilo wins 3 pocket gamer awards!

Friday, March 4th, 2011

pga

ilomilo WP7 won three pocket gamer awards this year! One for “Best Casual/Puzzle Game”, one for “Most Innovative Game” and also the “Windows Phone 7 Game of the Year” award!

Oh, glorious day!

On a different note, I’m going on vacation for 3 weeks now, so the blog updates won’t be so frequent during that time. My colleague Daniel take over the blog-writing while I take some time in the sun.

See you around people! :)

Autumn tale – DLC (March 9th)

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Like an autumn leaf it comes soaring with the wind and momentarily lands in your hair before laying to rest on the ground. You pick it up and you look at it with a smile, and you say:

- “Whoa! You’re one fabulastic looking leaf! I’m gonna take you home and love you and call you Cuddles. You and me, we’re gonna have so much fun together!”

Ah yes, and the leaf is actually the first official DLC for ilomilo, but I thought the metaphor was quite fitting. Gather around and let me tell you what goodness you can look forward to when it’s being released by the 9th of March:

- New and improved setting! Autumn tale!
- The story of ilo and milo continues through two new gorgeous chapters.
- 19 new levels of cubistic puzzles + 6 new challenging bonus levels!
- 3 new achivements

And here’s a trailer for you to behold and revel in: