There’s still time to get badged up!

Our badge campaign featured in the previous blog post is still open for a week.

Currently we have people lined up from places as diverse and distant as Alaska, Singapore and Siberia but don’t let geography come between us. You might be one of the lucky ones even if you lived around the block from our office.

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Badges ahoy!

We have a giant bowl filled with badges and believe some of them might have your name on them! We’d like to spread these around the world so we decided to have a little competition and send out badges both on random and based on your geographical location (the further from us you live, more likely you’ll get a visit from the mailman).

badges

If you feel like getting a handful, send us an email with your whereabouts (hometown and country will do) to gimmebadges@ookoohko.com and if you’re one of the lucky ones we’ll get back to you for the mailing address. You have until the end of August so shoot!

Badges?

For full disclosure, we will be holding onto your email address and probably using it in the future for sending out information on what we’re up to. However, we will not share your personal information with anybody.

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Unity 3 goodness

Unity 3 beta finally arrived – boy, this thing will be the coolest thing since sliced bread when it’s finished.

proto

General optimizations, Umbra occlusion culling, collision layers, better UI and ES 2.0 support and more makes sure Jack won’t be a dull boy for a long time. ;)

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Get Outta My Galaxy!

We’re entering the final stretch of finishing touches on our App Store debut. Here’s a little taste of what we’ll have in store for you around August.

Music by Tapani Siirtola / Sound Reel.

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Peers and beers

One of the better aspects of being a game developer in Finland is the active local scene. The wonderful volunteer work by the Finnish IGDA chapter has a lot to do with that. Typically a Finnish IGDA event consists of a few presentations followed by an evening of socializing with your peers and beers.

Ookoo + hko = Okay + ish

Yesterday was one of those nights, with “Startup Stories” as the theme. We were there sharing the stage with an inspiring roster of local young companies, namely Relationship Games, Rocket Pack, Ironstar Helsinki, Uplause and Fantastec. Be sure to check them out!

Also Ilari Kuittinen from Housemarque and the legendary Trip Hawkins popped by to share their startup experiences. If you missed the presentations, dontcha worry: they’re available online and well worth a watch!

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Let there be sound

getting in character(s)

To make the upcoming game as engaging an experience as possible, high quality voices for the characters has been an item high on our list. To get the stuff we need we hired a seasoned dubbing pro Antti L.J. Pääkkönen to create the sounds.

In the picture above you can see him getting in character. For a sneak peek of what to expect from the game audio, we applied a small selection of the sounds on the motion capture video released earlier that was conveniently missing a soundtrack.

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