Ex-Bizarre Staff Form Hogrocket
Three former employees – including Geometry Wars creator Stephen Cakebread – set up new studio. Former members of staff at Bizarre Creations have formed a new studio, Hogrocket.The developer, based...
View ArticleHogrocket’s Ward On Bizarre Closure
“We lost that ability to say what we want, do what we want, and most importantly make what we want.” Ben Ward, the former Bizarre Creations community manager, has given his perspective on the closure...
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Geometry Wars creator infects iOS with a cheerful puzzler. Humans see faces everywhere – two dots on paper, a man in the moon, or Jesus in a bagel. This is known as pareidolia, and an interesting part...
View ArticleOpinion: Rocket from the ashes
In the first of a new series, Hogrocket's Ben Ward tells the story of how he and two friends built a studio out of Bizarre Creations' ruins. I can't believe it's been nine months already. Everybody...
View ArticleThe story of Hogrocket: Making pigs fly
Pete Collier on the unfortunate names, wasted time and Darwinian experiments that have gone into forming his Liverpool-based micro studio. It feels strange writing about the past for Hogrocket when...
View ArticleThe story of Hogrocket: The aliens have landed
Ben Ward on how alien invasion of the president's immune system laid the plans for the release of his micro-studio's first game. Read previous parts in our account of Hogrocket's rise here.So there we...
View ArticleThe story of Hogrocket: Launching Tiny Invaders
Pete Collier on what it took to finish the game: community support to dealing with Apple. Read previous parts in our account of Hogrocket's rise here.read more
View ArticleThe story of Hogrocket: Going free
Hogrocket's Ben Ward on how Tiny Invaders being featured in Apple's iPhone 4S keynote prompted a move to go free. If you've been following our recent blog posts you'll hopefully know that our tiny...
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