Max Scott-Slade, Author at GLITCHERS

Development May 20, 2020

Drive Buy comes to Steam and Switch this Summer!

Welcome, all BuyCorp employees!

We come to you today with an exciting announcement, Drive Buy is coming to Steam and Switch in July!

We’re extremely excited to announce this, we’ve been working hard in the background and making sure everything is all ready for release!

You, faithful BuyCorp Employee, can help us in this time! We’d absolutely love it if you could spread the word to all your friends, Wishlist Drive Buy or even come and have a chat with us on any of our social platforms. We’d love to hear your thoughts!

Alongside Steam, we’ll be posting a lot of updates on Twitter and on Discord so make sure to keep an eye out on those places too!

That’s all for now!

TEAM GLITCHERS

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Development October 29, 2019

EGX 2019 Round Up

Thanks to everyone that came by our stand at EGX, it was a blast and 4 days of pure eye-opening hands-on delivery driving. We loved every minute of it!

The last week has been a chance to sit down and take feedback on what you all said and how we could turn that into reality. Critical feedback was sparse, mostly people just wanted to get back into the driving seat with their mates and play again and again.

A good sign surely?

Player Feedback

But this is what we noticed from watching you all play Drive Buy at EGX:

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News October 25, 2019

Plunderland, Chippy & KANO return to the App Store

Ushering in a new era of the app store seems like a weekly occurrence. With the iPhone 11 launch we saw the introduction of Apple Arcade: a collection of new games that run across all Apple platforms.

But what about the old gems of the app store? What’s happening to them?

Welcome TO Game Club!

GameClub is a place where anyone can enjoy app store classics with a single monthly subscription. As a result you no longer need worry about in-app purchases or money grabbing game play features. This is an all-in-one service covered by a single monthly fee. There will be fresh games every week and the back catalogue willkeep you entertained.

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Design October 25, 2019

A Nostalgic Q&A with Rachid Lotf

We sat down with Rachid Lotf, an Photoshop illustrator synonymous with a hyperreal nostalgic style that never ends to bring a smile to his followers (Instagram @rachidlotf) – Since Rachid is based in Agedia, Morocco – we didn’t physically sit down, instead we conversed through the warm glow of an CRT monitor, a highly customised AOL messenger window and a new technology called ‘the internet’.

RAchid, Why do you think your followers resonate so strongly with your artwork?

I think the theme I’m working on is the main reason for this. Being a player who grew up in the 80s and 90s, we all played almost the same video games and we have the same memories, so I just have to say how I struggled to pass the first level of “Ecco the dolphin” on Sega Megadrive and many people will understand me because everyone who played this game knows how difficult it was.

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Design October 23, 2019

For the LOVE of Stickers

Anyone who knows Glitchers, or me specifically, will tell you – I LOVE STICKERS.

The fascination goes way back, but ever since I’ve made games, I’ve had stickers to push into peoples hands. It’s a joke amongst friends that whichever bar they end up in London, on the hand dryer, there’s always a GLITCHERS sticker staring back at them.

Not sure if that’s a testament to sticker culture, my drinking habits or the sheer fact that stickers are just super fun – but I’m writing this blog post, a brief break from our usual programming, to tell you about a company that has furnished my overstuffed pockets with stickers for the last 10 years – Sticker Robot.

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Design May 16, 2019

Designing Game World Graffiti For Drive Buy

In Drive Buy, everyone works for Buy Corp. Buy Corp are a massive corporation who control retail, advertising and a load of other stuff. Most importantly to the game, Buy Corp control the brainwashing advertisement screens that “persuade” customers to buy their products. As a driver, you have to race in your delivery vehicle to get the stuff to customers as quickly as possible.

The game world has the job of telling the story of customer retaliation against Buy Corp, in this case, graffiti that plasters the walls of buildings. The message is clear: customers don’t want to be hypnotised or spend money on stuff they don’t need, but Buy Corp is highly persuasive. It’s David (the customers) vs Goliath (Buy Corp) and you fit in somewhere in the middle.

Inspiration

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Development May 7, 2019

Payload get their hands on Drive Buy ?

The Drive Buy roadshow made it’s 3rd stop at The Tentacle Zone. The Tentacle Zone is Payload Studios’ cohabiting workspace, centrally located near to Farringdon. This stop offered us an opportunity to share Drive Buy with Payload Studios and Spilt Milk Studios all in one super awesome space.

We’re big fans of TerraTech, so it was was amazing to have the team that created it playing Drive Buy. Because of some similarities between the games, the feedback felt extra relevant.

Things People SHouted

“What do I do now?!”

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Community April 17, 2019

Community Update 02

Community Rhythm

In the last few weeks we’ve been watching the community feedback to the The Cold As Ice Update that hit Steam last week.

Now the rhythm on these fortnightly community blog posts is picking up, we’re seeing the value in catching our breath from development. Taking a look around to see what you’ve been up to is just as important as making Drive Buy.

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Roadshow March 8, 2019

Drive Buy: Second Stop… Ustwo Games

Our second stop for the Drive Buy Roadshow was with our friends at Ustwo, known most recently for their beautiful Monument Valley game series.

Staying true to our word of bring something for the developers we visit, we created 2 custom emotes for the event, the Dizzy Totem and Laughing Crow.

It’s always great fun playing with other development studios, the feedback is essential, but most of all, UsTwo Games enjoyed playing Drive Buy!Next stop is Payload Studios, creators of TerraTech.

If you want to take part in the closed beta, you can get yourself a key at DriveBuyGame.com

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Roadshow March 1, 2019

Drive Buy: First Stop… Chucklefish

This post features the Drive Buy roadshow, an event where we go to friendly game studios and bring a custom build of Drive Buy that features stuff about that studio. It’s kind of like high fiving, but with a video game.

Our first stop was with our friends at Chucklefish, known for loads of cool indie games such as Starbound, Wargroove and Stardew Valley (amongst others).

We featured what has become our very favourite emote – the Chucklefish! We also plastered the Kingsland map with advertisements for Wargroove which looked really cool.

Playing Drive Buy with some of the Chucklefish crew!

You can ask for the Chucklefish emote it in our Discord #lounge with your Steam name.

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