Archive for the ‘People’ Category

Simogo releases “Bumpy road”!

Friday, May 20th, 2011

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You know, our buddies at Simogo recently released this incredible and quirky game called “Bumpy road” for ipod, iphone, ipad and probably a lot of other devices that starts with an “i”.

But, that’s not all folks! You know what else is really incredible? Huh? Do you? Well, lookie here, the amazing Sebastian is making a cameo in this very game! *GASP*

What!? You don’t belive me?

Then… how about THIS! :O

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That’s right!! So what are you waiting for!? Buy this fabulatic, incredible game right now and get a touch of Sebastian while you’re playing it! How neat isn’t that!?

How to crochet your own ilo and Milo!

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Hello, good folks! Crocheting is a wonderful hobby, especially when you’ve got motives like these. “Spelinnea” shows off her amigurumi skills and gives some neat tips on how to crochet your own ilomilos! The instructions are in swedish, but here’s a rough english google translate translation.

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Hello!

Monday, April 18th, 2011

Hello people! I just wanted to tell you that a patch for the ilomilo DLC is on the way. Hold on!

Also, there has been no upgrade here for a while due to me being busy with all kinds of stuff, so here’s some fan-art. Hope that makes it up to you! :)

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Fantastic ilomilo cross stitch tapestry by Tooru Unezaki from japan

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A delicious ilomilo birthsday cake sent to us by Meabh

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And some nifty ilomilo ear rings made by Mary

ilomilo release party!

Friday, February 25th, 2011

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Hiya all! Southend had a splendid ilomilo release party last friday where the ilomilo team and the rest of the Southenders celebrated the releases of ilomilo XBLA and ilomilo WP7.

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Since ilomilo is much based on hats (There’s an ancient golden rule stating that everything gets remarkably better with hats) it was quite fitting to make the evening hat-themed!

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The party started in the kitchen with some sparkling wine and some accordion live music by newcomer Erik Strandh.

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After a few words by Fredrik, our producer it was time to gather around the table for some culinary specialties ordered directly from the famous 5 star restaurant “ilo & milos knife and fork”.

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As gamers we all know the importance of competition, so of course there were some fun games to play while enjoying the food, including Quiz, Bingo, Poker… and a “best hat competition”.

Quiz, poker and Bingo are all good, but thanks to super power multi hacker programmer Björn Persson it was also presented in quite some style.

Check these in game screenshots out:

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Friday fanart!

Friday, January 28th, 2011

It’s friday people! That means it’s time for some awesome fanart, this time by 5 year old Calen Nowroozi! Have a nice weekend everyone!

Calen Nowroozi fanart!
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Hand made Safka

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

This Safka was made by Heather from New York. Now that is some really impressive craftmanship right there, and look! It’s even got a cute little hat!

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More ilomilo fan art!

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

We love fanart, so here’s some more, this time from Kitty Cheese! She really wanted to have ilo and milo on her computer desk, so she made these super adorable figurines!

Here, check out those neat pictures!

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ilomilo: it’s so rebel!

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Now it’s official, Cool people likes ilomilo!

Ha! In your face people who thinks ilomilo looks kiddie! Guess you didn’t see that one coming!

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Onsdagsfika!

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

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Humour at Southend

The programmers of Southend have a special event every Wednesday they call an “Onsdagsfika”. On this joyful celebration the programmers gather around to eat cake, drink coffee and play Frank Sinatras “The coffee song” really loud so other people in the surroundings won’t miss that something is going on.

This little ritual is of course really fascinating for us non-programmers, so sometimes we hide in the bushes and trees beside the programmer room to quietly observe them and their ancient rites until they feel sorry for us and invite us in.

Ah yes, it’s truly a fantastic experience. For a taste of what it’s like, try this.
Fill a mug with coffee, bake some kind of pastry (or buy it if you are lazy), get an old gramophone and a record containing Frank Sinatras “Coffee song” (or use Youtube or Spotify like we do, it’s a lot easier!).

Put on the music, close your eyes, have a sip of the coffee, eat cake and enjoy your “Onsdagsfika”!

Here’s a link to the coffee song on Youtube.

And one for Spotify

Awesome ilomilo shirt! :o

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Atsuko Tanaka, program manager on Microsoft made this too-awesome-for-words ilomilo T-shirt! Since words can’t describe it, here are some pictures for you to be mesmerized by. Behold!

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