This weekend I travelled from Oslo to my home town Tromsø, a two hour flight. I went to my brothers wedding and my nieces christening (a combined event). It was good coming back to Northern Norway, especially when going into a place called Lyngen, which is sourrounded by tall mountains. A really nice and different [...]

Hello and welcome to another installment of the Tumbleweed blog.
We’re taking a break from the team member introductions this week, as I’ve been unsuccessful in procuring a picture of Tor Jonas, the next one up. I’m hesitant to talk about our office situation, as “we’ve got hobos in our office” is not something I would [...]

Last week, it was officially announced that TWI will receive 300.000 NOK in public funding for Umami. The money was given out by the Norwegian Film fund, who in addition to supporting Norwegian movies also support interactive productions.
Full press report here (unfortunately it’s in Norwegian only, but you can always try to make sense of [...]

Hi.
I usually code stuff, but sometimes I have to write up presentations as well. So I created a presentation in openoffice impress and all looked nice and smooth. Set background picture for all slides, yeah, no problem. Saved it in “ODF presentation” format and felt I was done.
Later when I reopened it, only the first [...]

Due to enormous quantities of spam in the comment system, we have been forced to disable it until we figure out how to handle it…

The concept of shooting and cross-country skiing has been entertaining our tv screens for decades, now they combine forces in the most advanced frag fest of the century. In this exciting game, being fast and accurate is not enough, you also have to be ruthless and blood thirsty.

The most advanced ski physics ever

Shoot someones skis [...]

Ehm, yeah.. What?
Buffy has apparently had some lesbian sex experiment in the Buffy spin-off cartoon. Naturally that makes a news-story somewhere, because, you know, lesbian-controversy etc. etc.
But the author of «Comic Book Century: The History of American Comic Books» , Stephen Krensky, made a comment to ABC News that “Comic books are competing now [...]

Recently Masaya Matsuura, the creator of the playstation classics Vib Ribbon and parappa the rappa, held a talk about the future of music games. In his talk, he commented on the heavy use of licensed music in todays music games, saying that “The recent success of music games in the West is often based on [...]

Hello everyone, we at Tumbleweed Interactive are just about to start up again after Christmas and new years eve.
During the holidays we’ve been working with our Christmas food eating, gift giving and fireworks skills.
Now with the new year starting, we’ll get right back to games development.
We here at TI , wishes you all the best [...]

The thing which you always hope never happens when you start a new project, sometimes happens.  Something unforeseen happens. When I tripped backwards into a soccer goal, and fell over a bench (yes it looked as stupid as it sounds), I broke my wrist whilst catching my fall.
Four weeks in wrapping. Not what we wanted [...]