Kiss me, I'm Virish

In the spirit of St. Patrick's Day we're gonna give away some free copys of A Virus Named TOM. How do you get one you ask?



On St. Patty's day Tweet/FB post us a funny saying or pic including "I wanna wake up with a virus"... and you may!

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We'll post the winners on this blog. Here are some photos of us and our friends on St. Patrick's Days past :)

Holly and Tim

April and Jim

The soundtrack to a virus

EDIT: I've removed the old tracks, please see the new tracks post HERE 

The following are 6 tracks created by the masterful Ian Hicks. Three will go with faster paced (dexterity) levels, and three will go with slower paced (puzzle) levels. Vote for your favorites below!

What are your favorite tracks?

Spoiler: Viruses cause mayhem

I can't believe we're actually nearing the finish line... I can't even remember life before TOM! Here's a sneak peek at an initial image Trav did for the closing sequence. Spoiler alert... shiz gets fukt!

Beta Update #1

I'm hoping to update the Beta regularly for everyone that's pre-ordered. Rather than boring you with bullet lists I thought I'd make a video of the updates and throw in everything from rotary phones to David Hasselhoff. Enjoy, let me know what you think, and spread the word!

Why I make indie games

So I put 'A Virus Named TOM' up for pre-order (beta version) and I got an email from a customer that they were having trouble getting the game to run on their computer. After explaining the problem, they ended with:

"If there no solution exept by a new computer, forget and keep the money for creation."

Now I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is (basically we were planning on making the build more friendly to older machines but didn't get around to it), but how awesome is it that they still wanted to help us fund the game, even if we couldn't get it working for them.

This is why I make indie games. For the people out there like Fabrice. There's an awesome community out there that supports us, and I want to make kick ass games that they love to play. Thanks for making my day Fabrice, we'll get you up and infecting soon!

David Rosen is sneaky

While trying to replicate a bug, David Rosen (pink) snuck around and got an "Infection Domination" on myself, Alex Austin (blue), and Ken Fox (orange). If you watch, you'll see that he's also persistent. I didn't have the audio recording, so I went ahead and added an appropriate soundtrack.

White picket fence anyone?

Need a splash screen about using controllers in your game? Follow these proven steps:

1) Make ugly programmer art version of splash screen

2) Proudly send to talented graphic designer wife, explaining that everyone will see this before any of her pretty artwork in the game.

3) Wait...

4) Result: though I still think mine was more in the "indie spirit"