Kevin Cole

The Exciting World of Nudging - What's Up Wednesday #21

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I made three little additions to Bazooka Panic on a whim yesterday. Let's talk about them!

2023-09-13 17:03:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Events, Goals, Artifice - What's Up Wednesday #13

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Here's three things I made for Gig Master that I thought worked out pretty well:

2023-07-19 18:05:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Fire, Water, Gravity - What's Up Wednesday #5

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WIZARD LAWS Are Made to Be Broken is out and playable in your browser! It's a puzzle platformer with some Baba Is You and Wario Land 2 vibes. 2023-05-24 19:15:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Cool Stuff from the SuperTry Grab Bag Jam

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Here are my favorite submissions from the SuperTry Grab Bag Jam in no particular order:

Spinalization by Ax...

How I Make a Color Palette for My Video Games

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I've put a little palette together for my game! 

I can't start making assets until I have a palette in place so that's usually my first...

SuperTry Grab Bag Jam Brainstorming

Alright, brainstorming for the SuperTry Grab Bag Jam has been accomplished!

In general I like it when I have clear mechanics in mind instead of just "a game in a genre." ...

How SuperTry Does Game Physics

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We’re talking about game physics today! For the purpose of this blog, “physics” just refers to how objects move and smack into each other. This hopefully won’t be too complicated.

One of the things that stumped m...

Heart Canon - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai with Satchell Drakes

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In this, the season finale of Heart Canon, I talk to my friend Satchell Drakes (...

Heart Canon - Superman Smashes the Clan with Payton Knobeloch

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This month I sat down with my friend Payton Knobeloch of PBS's 2021-07-26 17:53:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Heart Canon - Pluto with Jeff Pennington

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This month I read Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, a dark and mysterious reimaging of Astro Boy's "The Greatest Robot on Earth" arc. Joining me is friend, artist, and podcaster 2021-06-30 17:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Heart Canon - Into the Electric Castle (Disc 2) with Connor MacDonald

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Here's part two of my two part discussion with Connor MacDonald on 2021-05-11 20:35:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Heart Canon - Into the Electric Castle (Disc 1) with Connor MacDonald

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This month I sat down with Connor MacDonald (aka SamuraiCorndog) to talk about science fantasy prog-rock collaborative album experience 2021-04-27 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Heart Canon - Among Us with Hadley St. Clair

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I finally got to do a Heart Canon about a video game and with Hadley St. Clair (P...

I'm Gonna be on the Yetee Show Stream on the 25th!

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Quick announcement! I'm gonna be on The Yetee Show's stream tomorrow the 25th from 3pm to 5pm Eastern Time.

2021-02-24 21:48:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Heart Canon - Solanin with Calamity Carl

[Content Warning: We talk about suicide in this episode.]

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This month Calamity Carl (2021-02-20 18:33:39 +0000 UTC View Post

SuperTry February 2021 Update

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Just wanted to fill you in on what's going on at SuperTry this month!

Last week I put a bunch of time into Bazooka ...

Heart Canon - TMBG with Emily Kardamis Part 2

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Emily Kardamis (Steamed Veggies, 2021-01-16 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Changes to the SuperTry Patreon in 2021

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First off, thank you for supporting me, Joe, and all the people we’ve collaborated with this year. 2020 was tough in a lot of ways but thanks to you I was able to support the people I love and make the art I wanted to make. 2020-12-30 22:20:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Heart Canon - They Might Be Giants with Emily Kardamis

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On this month's episode of Heart Canon Emily Kardamis (Steamed Veggies 2020-12-26 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Heart Canon - Third Eye Blind with Joe Kenneally

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Is it possible to make successful art without being a total asshole? Is it ethical to enjoy an album made by someone who is very clearly a tool? Special guest 2020-11-21 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Picking Themes - Patron Jam #2

Heart Canon - Punch-Drunk Love with Paul Ritchey

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Here's episode two of Heart Canon where I talk to Paul Ritchey a...

Heart Canon Outtake: Deep Rock Galactic

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Paul is gonna be on another episode of Heart Canon this month and we'll be talking about Punch-Drunk Love.

In the meantime here's us talking about a game we've been playing off and on for a few months that I had to cut f...

D&D 5e Homebrew - The Beheaded

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This is a little 5e custom race project that I had been picking at for a while. I'll likely still be picking at it as I get more playtest data but I really wanted to get this out of my head and onto the Internet.

I just ...

Forager is Available to Play

Hey folks,

Phew, we managed to finish this one before September ended!

You can now play Forager in your browser. It's a chill mushroom-hunting game where you have to talk to other mushroom hunters to figure out where the good shrooms a...

New Podcast: Heart Canon

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I started a new podcast where I research the stuff my friends like and then talk to my friends about the stuff. I want to explore how art influences artists and I want to broaden my horizons with more movies, games, books, and...

Wrack & Rune is Out

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Wrack & Rune is SuperTry's submission to the 2020 GMTK Jam!

Joe did the music.

Bryan Shepherd made the amazing cover art.

I haven't slept...

Snack Run Blowout is Out

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Snack Run Blowout is an interactive fiction game that we made over the course of two months! Joe Kenneally made the music and Hadley St. Clair wrote an...

DETH BRIK is Out

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DETH BRIK is a goofy violent game that Joe and I made in a week. We were shooting for the video game equivalent of one of those Japanese rage rooms where you can smash stuff? I think we got close.

Also heads up, Patreon ...

A Note From the Desk of Joe Kenneally, Music Director, SuperTry Studios

Good Afternoon Glorious Fans of SuperTry Studios, 

At the outset of May, the SuperTry team concocted a plan to create a pleasantly melancholy ...