Blendo Games is an American independentvideo game development company based in Culver City, California. It was founded by Brendon Chung in 2010 and is primarily a one-person effort. Blendo Games gained more widespread exposure with the short form stand alone title Gravity Bone; the following games Flotilla and Atom Zombie Smasher were met with critical praise. The studio has also released several other games in several genres.
Chung had done hobbyist programming, such as modding for games like Quake 2 and Half-Life, for about a decade before being hired as a designer at Pandemic Studios.[1][2] While there, he worked on The Lord of the Rings: Conquest and Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers, although he continued to work on personal projects including an episodic Citizen Abel series that toyed with traditional mechanics of first-person shooters.[2] Chung considered his first officially released game to be the espionage game Gravity Bone in 2008.[2][3][4][5] In November 2009, Electronic Arts shut down Pandemic Studios and Chung began development on Flotilla, a space combat game that takes cues from an abandoned personal project Chung had worked on previously. Flotilla was released in 2010.[6][7]
Later that same year, Blendo Games released Air Forte, an edutainment game in which the player indicates their knowledge about math, geography, and vocabulary by flying a plane in response to prompts.[8][9][10] In 2011, Chung released real-time strategy game Atom Zombie Smasher, which received critical praise from several outlets and was featured at the 2011 Penny Arcade Expo, as well as being part of the 3rd Humble Indie Bundle charity drive.[11][12][13][14]
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]
Cultureedit
Blendo Games remains a one-man studio, though according to a 2016 feature in Gamasutra, Chung spends some time working in a shared office space called Glitch City.[24] He has also directly collaborated with several individuals on several projects. The musical score of Thirty Flights of Loving was composed by Chris Remo, and the design of Quadrilateral Cowboy was a joint effort between Chung and Tynan Wales. The Mac and Linux ports of Quadrilateral Cowboy were done by Aaron Melcher, and the game's art book was ported to those same platforms by Ethan Lee. Chung has also indicated he gets play testing help from his friends and family.[25]
Baristaedit
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]
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.
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^ abTarason, 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.
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^Brown, Fraser (April 26, 2018). "Flotilla 2 will fling you into tactical space battles in VR". PC Gamer. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
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Blendo Games is an American independent video game development company based in Culver City California It was founded by Brendon Chung in 2010 and is primarily a one person effort Blendo Games gained more widespread exposure with the short form stand alone title Gravity Bone the following games Flotilla and Atom Zombie Smasher were met with critical praise The studio has also released several other games in several genres Blendo GamesTypePrivateIndustryVideo gamesFounded2010 2010 FounderBrendon ChungHeadquartersCulver City California United StatesProductsAir ForteAtom Zombie SmasherFlotilla seriesGravity BoneQuadrilateral CowboyWebsiteblendogames wbr com Contents 1 Background 2 Culture 3 Barista 4 Games 5 References 6 External linksBackground edit nbsp Brendon Chung at the 2017 Game Developers Choice AwardsChung had done hobbyist programming such as modding for games like Quake 2 and Half Life for about a decade before being hired as a designer at Pandemic Studios 1 2 While there he worked on The Lord of the Rings Conquest and Full Spectrum Warrior Ten Hammers although he continued to work on personal projects including an episodic Citizen Abel series that toyed with traditional mechanics of first person shooters 2 Chung considered his first officially released game to be the espionage game Gravity Bone in 2008 2 3 4 5 In November 2009 Electronic Arts shut down Pandemic Studios and Chung began development on Flotilla a space combat game that takes cues from an abandoned personal project Chung had worked on previously Flotilla was released in 2010 6 7 Later that same year Blendo Games released Air Forte an edutainment game in which the player indicates their knowledge about math geography and vocabulary by flying a plane in response to prompts 8 9 10 In 2011 Chung released real time strategy game Atom Zombie Smasher which received critical praise from several outlets and was featured at the 2011 Penny Arcade Expo as well as being part of the 3rd Humble Indie Bundle charity drive 11 12 13 14 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 editBlendo Games remains a one man studio though according to a 2016 feature in Gamasutra Chung spends some time working in a shared office space called Glitch City 24 He has also directly collaborated with several individuals on several projects The musical score of Thirty Flights of Loving was composed by Chris Remo and the design of Quadrilateral Cowboy was a joint effort between Chung and Tynan Wales The Mac and Linux ports of Quadrilateral Cowboy were done by Aaron Melcher and the game s art book was ported to those same platforms by Ethan Lee Chung has also indicated he gets play testing help from his friends and family 25 Barista editBarista 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 modification for Doom II Hell on Earth In an interview Chung stated that his inspirations for the first game included the Doom Bible and Bungie s Marathon 4 26 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 editGravity 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 edit 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 Curtis Tom 2011 12 19 Gamasutra Best Of 2011 Top 5 PC Games 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 Caoili Eric 2012 02 28 Kickstarter drive offers exclusive game from Atom Zombie Smasher dev 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 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blendo Games Official website Interview with Brendon Chung Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Blendo Games amp oldid 1183490153, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
