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We Met Some Future Game Designers
We had the opportunity this past Monday to present at the Maiden Middle School Video Game Club. It was a ton of fun, and they were a great audience! We started with a really informative presentation,...
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Cat in the Hat: Invention Engine
We released a new game today! It's a little game called Cat in the Hat: Invention Engine. The game is all about building Rube Goldberg-esque machines to help Cat prepare for Fish's birthday party. If...
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Lightning Runners
Todd and I had a blast working on Heartbeat - Lightning Runners; check it out! Developed in collaboration with Digital Eskimo for the University of Western Sydney, this puzzle-platformer is aimed at...
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Dinosaur Train Gets Remodeled!
Here at Gopherwood Studios, we pride ourselves in our wide range of expertise. We're talented at game design. I'm particularly great at pressing keyboard keys. We're decent software developers. I'm...
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Rail Rally Release!
Do you love dinosaurs? Do you enjoy trains? Do you find yourself daydreaming about bezier curves? Do you wish that you could experience all three together!?! If that's you (and I am quite sure it is...
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Cat in the Hat Website Refresh
We recently had the pleasure of working with Penguin Random House and PBS Kids to revamp the PBS Kids Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That website. The primary goal of the revamp was to create a...
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A Subterranean Search for Fossils
We're happy to announce that our latest game, Fossil Finder, has been released on the PBS Kids Dinosaur Train site!Fossil Finder sends kids underground in the Drill Train in search of fossils! To make...
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Mission Earth
We don't usually fancy ourselves as astronauts, but the past few months have changed our trajectory forever. We've been won over by the Propulsions, an alien family of travel writers, and have decided...
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Changes at Gopherwood...
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Entanglement Board Game
The first version of Entanglement started on the back of Settlers of Catan hexagon tiles. It was not called Entanglement then: it was affectionately labelled "that game I scribbled on the back of...
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Board Games Aren't Video Games
At first glance, creating a board game seemed pretty easy: I already have the game and the rules, so all I need to do is make things printable and, presto, a fun board game!Now I'm a few weeks in, and...
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Entanglement on Steam!
Over the past two months I've been experimenting with NW.js, a tool that encapsulates web-based apps as executable applications. Using nw-builder, I had a working "native" app relatively quickly, but I...
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Entanglement Released on Steam
Today's the day! Check out Entanglement on Steam. It includes 12 maps plus a Daily Challenge mode:Classic EntanglementSakura GroveHana BlossomLotus PetalCloverLovelyHoneycombRacewayDesert...
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Entanglement Board Game Crowd Sale!
It's here! Today the Entanglement Board Game is available for purchase over on The Game Crafter. For the next two weeks, it's available as a crowd sale, which basically means that the more folks that...
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Entanglement Leader Boards
Entanglement has been online since the summer of 2010 (fun flashback here). Back then, we did a few things right, but in retrospect we did a lot of things wrong. One of those was the leader boards.We...
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Sand Trap 2.0
One of our first successful HTML5 games was Sand Trap, a casual game Todd and I developed over the course of a month for a competition. Todd created the pixel art and designed levels, I created sandy...
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Make Rovers in Rover Maker
Wish you could design fancy rovers to rove around on other planets like Mars? Or other moons like Europa? Wish no more! Just play our latest game, Rover Maker, and make your friends, kids, and...
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Cooking School and Delicious Martian Smoothies
What's more refreshing than a brand new game? A brand new game where you can mix up an ice-cold, delicious Martian smoothie, that's what! Check out Cooking School and help Mindy figure out how to...
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Ready Jet Go! Space Scouts - The Lab
It's here! A brand new app, Ready Jet Go! Space Scouts, is comprised of 5 games and an open-play lab that connects them all! Compared to previous Gopherwood Studios projects, this one was the biggest...
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Build the Best Bases in Base Builder
Have you ever built a base on Mars, and then were all like, "Boy, I wish I could build a base on Earth too." Look no further; now you can! Base Builder offers the Moon, Mars, and even the Earth as...
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Amazin' Amazon Adventure!
Todd and I have a lot in common with the Kratt Brothers. They're brothers and coworkers. We're coworkers. They love going on world-wide adventures to show animals to kids. I have a dog. Their cartoon...
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Food Farmer Forever!
Do you love to garden? Do you wish you could grow a garden inside? Do you get impatient waiting for your vegetables to grow? Do you wish you could click the clouds so they stop blocking the sun's...
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Control the Mission at Mission Control
Bzzzz .... Come in Mission Control. This is Boop. Satellite parts are falling from the sky. I repeat, important stuff is falling from the sky: please advise. ... zzzzt.Read the above in your best Mars...
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Paco and the Tumbling Seed Box
If you haven't been following Paco on Twitter, you may have missed out on some progress I've made with his tumbling seed box. Why does an imaginary bird have his own Twitter account? I have no idea,...
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Deploying JavaScript Game to Steam, App Store, Google Play, and PWA
As time has allowed over the past few months, I've been experimenting with Paco and the Tumbling Seed Box to take advantage of various open source technologies like Cordova and Electron so that Paco...
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