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Summer updates

Here at the office, we’ve noticed the summer. It is great. We all love the summer.
It’s been varying here in Hamar between super hot, sunburn hot, to lots of rain to cool us all down.
Summer also means that some of us get to go on vacation for a while. Albeit short, due to us being [...]

#spillanmanm

This blog post will mostly be in Norwegian, a summary in English is provided at the end. It’s about a discussion that’s been going on among Norwegian gamers/game reviewers/etc. in regards to game reviews.
John Erik Riley starter det hele
Det startet med at Riley kritiserte Norges spillanmeldere på at de bedrev for mye forbrukerveiledning og for [...]

Don’t push Tim, cause he’s close to the EDGE

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This is havchr writing, not the company! opinions, you know them to be mine!
Tim’s trying not to lose himself.
There has been a bit of talk going on about the excellent iPhone game EDGE, that was pulled from the app store, because some guy complained about EDGE being his trademark. The developers of the iPhone game [...]

Norwegian Public Libraries gets their game on!

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Havchr is a developer and co-founder at Tumbleweed Interactive.
Personal opinions are personal, not company policy!
The Norwegian government has issued a new manifest to the public libraries. In this receipe for operations, video games is now mentioned. Every public library in Norway is obliged to have on-location access to video games. This will probably [...]

Boy it’s been long

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It’s been less than frequent, these blog-updates.
That has to change.
So, as most of those who follow us know, we’ve developed a game for iPhone.
Skybound recently won an award at Nordic Game, the best new talent award.
**WOWOAOAAAAHA, HURRAY , YEAH YEAH, CHEERS, PARTY PARTY, WOOOOOYEAHAAHEAEAH*
that was all of us here at tumbleweed celebrating.
We’re of course working [...]

Last couple of weeks

Let me give you an update, maybe you’ll find it interesting.
There has of course been a lot of work done on the projects we have in production, Umami and the Android port of Skybound. But also in the last couple of weeks there has been a lot of stuff going on in the Norwegian game [...]

GDC Interview with us on gamereactor

Havchr and Kris Jet went to GDC this March. We had a great time and went to see lots of interesting talks and had a week filled with inspiration and new knowledge.
While we were there we ran in to the team from gamereactor, the biggest nordic game magazine, and they did an interview with us [...]

New domain and web-site!

We just got a new and improved domain name (http://twinteract.com), and to celebrate, we have launch a new web-site!
Be sure to check it out, at http://twinteract.com!
You can also get the latest TWI news and updates from Twitter, at http://twitter.com/twinteract.

Press release – Tumbleweed announces new pricing for cult-hit Skybound

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1st of April 2009 – In light of Tumbleweed Interactive’s nomination in the Nordic Game Awards as best new talent, the founders have decided that their first game, Skybound, was not priced aggressively enough.
«Skybound has consistently gotten great review scores and even two nominations in different game award shows, and still we’re giving it away!» [...]

GDC preperations, Skybound cardboard version!

Our marketing budget for GDC:

two carboard boxes from the local grocery
scissors
paper
printer
glue

We’re going to write some  Skybound gift-codes on these , so if you’re at GDC you should try to see if you can grab a hold of a hand made cardboard scrapbookish flyer with a free copy of Skybound !