Simogo releases “Bumpy road”!

Posted by Martin (admin), 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!?

ilomilo wins Nordic game award!

Posted by Martin (admin), 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!

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The artifact of glory

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Jensen and the producers

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Me (and Björn in the background)

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First person view

How to crochet your own ilo and Milo!

Posted by Martin (admin), 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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50% off on ilomilo! Insane Spring Fling deal!

Posted by Martin (admin), 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

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Hello!

Posted by Martin (admin), 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 split screen fix!

Posted by Martin (admin), April 1st, 2011

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ilo, milo, Rilo and Silo

Many of you have thought, “ilomilo is such an awesome game, but wouldn’t it be even better if, in multiplayer, two players could play at the same time and solve puzzles together in real time instead of having to wait for each other?”

Well, good news everyone! We have heard your plea and have decided to release a free game update that allows up to four players to solve puzzles in split screen or up to eight players online, in real time! That’s right! No more waiting! Just real time puzzle fun for you and your friends!

ilo and milo is now accompanied by their four cousins, “Filo”, “Silo”, “Rilo” and “Stan”. They play just like ilo and Milo, and they will also take part in the ilomilo shuffle mode so that now, instead of just controlling ilo and milo, the player also controls their four cousins.

Controlling six characters at the same time might sound challenging, and it is! Trice the challenge, trice the fun as we say!

Of course we had to rebuild all the levels in order to fit with the new six player mode, and we’re gonna have to reset all the leaderboards, but we think you understand.

We don’t have a release date for the title update yet, but more info is on the way!

Autumn Tale – It is live

Posted by Bjorn, 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! 

The talking members of the ilomilo orchestra

Posted by Daniel, March 11th, 2011

If you played ilomilo you might have noticed the orchestra talking in the song “music school”. That was initially an attempt to give voices to ilo and milo, as one of the an ideas was to have them sound like Winnie and Piglet from the russian version of Winnie the Pooh.

ilo and milo voice experiment

That did turn out a bit too extreme for little ilo and milo, in the end we even felt like they should be all silent. But I really liked how the voices came out so I decided to add them in that song as the musicians talking to each other after messing up the groove.

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I also made a pipe smoking, coughing, tea drinking reader for the story parts. He used the same fake russian language made to sound similar to the narrator of Winnie Pooh. But that was cut out in the end. Sad face.

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In a way I guess that’s okay because it makes Sebastian even more special as he is the only actively talking character in the game. Except for curious, angry and singing cubes.

ilomilo wins 3 pocket gamer awards!

Posted by Martin (admin), March 4th, 2011

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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)

Posted by Martin (admin), 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: