How does our game know a stick is a bow, a boomerang, or a slingshot? 🪵
We turn its shape into a fingerprint, then use a trained model to figure out what weapon it should become.
What shape should we teach it next? 👀
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As kids, if it was on the forest floor, it was ammunition.
Now you can throw it at your friends in Stick A Round. 🌲
Acorns. Pinecones. Fish.
What else should we weaponize? 👀
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There are bugs hiding in bushes all over our map. 🐜🪲
We've added an 🐜 Ant 🪰 Dragonfly🐞 Ladybug 🌵 Thornbug
What bug should we add next?
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We turned a randomly generated stick into a gun.
It works.it shoots.
And now we have absolutely no idea how to balance it against a bow. 💀
How would you balance it?
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We kept getting character ideas…
So we put them all on a list and picked two at random. 🐊🐱
Meet the crocodile and the cat.
Got an idea for the next one? 👀
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Tutorials suck. Unfortunately, we still need one.
We tried a whole tutorial level. Too confusing.
We tried popup hints. Everyone ignored them.
Now we're trying both.
Three attempts just to teach people how to hit each other with sticks.. 🪵
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Random sticks. 15+ minigames. Up to 10 players. 🪵
That's what we brought to Gamescom.
We met so many people, watched them play, and got a ton of feedback.
Now we're recovering from convention flu and getting to work. ❤️
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