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Media coverage roundup
Posted by Data in Cortex Command - April 29th, 2009
CC Tribute by Jordan Brown (aka Dr. Melon)
CC Tribute by Jordan Brown (aka Dr. Melon)

There’s been lots of press and media coverage of Cortex Command since IGF, here’s a selection:

CO-OP (former 1UP crew) IGF video segment, at 9:30 mins in:

Wall Street Journal article on the different emerging indie buisness models:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124094416078864595.html

Another interview/gameplay video by GameReactor (I was REALLY tired and hoarse during this one):
http://www.gamereactor.dk/grtv/?id=4460

Super long, rambly podcast interview with Data, by IGameRadio:
http://www.igameradio.com/2009/04/13/igame-radio-gaming-the-igf-2009-part-2-posted/

For more related links and other cool stuff, here’s Data’s twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/Data01

If you find any more coverage or useful mentions, then post it in the comments and I’ll put them here in the post!

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55 Responses to “Media coverage roundup”

  1. Dibuk - # April 29th, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    Yaaayy!!

  2. OverlordBadman - # April 29th, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    Cool, this will give CC a lot more publicity.

    Also first post FTW.

  3. Akuryo - # April 29th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    THIRD OR OT?!

  4. Akuryo - # April 29th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    NOT* yeah, third, i can read the article noaw =)

  5. 5th!! (fossil98) - # April 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    OMGZORz %TH

  6. shadow717 - # April 29th, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    I posted the game reactor one in the forum. The new grasslands in the vid looks awesome though.

  7. Warman - # April 29th, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Pretty cool.
    any info on B23?

  8. Kallemort - # April 29th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    So, a Twitter eh?
    Nice.

  9. p3lb0x - # April 29th, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    Hey Data, is game reactor gonna post a article in their magazine? I could pick one up and post pics if they are :D

  10. Tomaster - # April 29th, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    Kickass

  11. mike - # April 29th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    Yeah, thats great, Now release the next build beotch.

  12. whitty - # April 29th, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    there should be a button to undo/delete things in bunker building mode in skirmish just like there is in the scene editor. just saying.

  13. Warman - # April 30th, 2009 at 5:52 am

    Whitty, best idea ever.

  14. gismo - # April 30th, 2009 at 6:36 am

    whoah good whitty i wonder enyone havent thought of that before

  15. gismo - # April 30th, 2009 at 7:14 am

    even i could make a robot like that lol

  16. Rawr - # April 30th, 2009 at 7:42 am

    Do not mean to be harsh or anything but I don’t care that much about this. A devlog post about the release of B23 could warm my heart though. ;)

  17. Warman - # April 30th, 2009 at 8:15 am

    yeah the drawing’s pretty shit :v

  18. > - # April 30th, 2009 at 8:21 am

    B23

  19. dummyfaction - # April 30th, 2009 at 9:29 am

    artistic drawing :v

  20. Tea - # April 30th, 2009 at 9:43 am

    What? I thought everyone wanted to do that for ages.

  21. Warman - # April 30th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    Sometimes I got abit frustrated when I misplaced a module, yeah.

  22. Blarg - # April 30th, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    :( WHEN I GOT THE EMAIL I WAS LIKE “zomg build 23″!!! when i opend it i slamed my head on the key borad. Curse u data.

  23. p3lb0x - # April 30th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    Am I the only one that likes the drawing? :\

  24. Kallemort - # April 30th, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    p3lb0x, no.

    I wish I could draw even that.

  25. Warman - # April 30th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    Huh? I’ve seen better drawings on the forums.
    And Blarg, I always get my emails 2 days later, I check the devlog each day.. so..
    yeah.
    When I check the devlog I read the title first, I was like ‘GAAASSSP- not B23.. aw’

  26. apnea - # April 30th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    B23?

  27. Raw Toast - # April 30th, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    OMFG A DEV LOG POST.

  28. p3lb0x - # May 1st, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    Warman, this is awesome because it’s stylized not because it’s full of detail

  29. Woose1 - # May 1st, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    Hm. Publicity?

    When did indie developers ever need that?

  30. calle - # May 2nd, 2009 at 2:38 am

    Painting reminds me of “another world”. It’s nice.

  31. guiguito - # May 2nd, 2009 at 2:49 am

    I want b23,slacker.

  32. DrMelon - # May 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 am

    Aww, thanks you guys. :3 Made my day.

  33. shadow717 - # May 2nd, 2009 at 9:35 am

    @25: shut the hell up. Data just got corrective eye surgery, let him rest. Build 23 will come out soon enough.

  34. Mooseral - # May 2nd, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    I didn’t hear about the eye surgery. Hopefully it was correcting his lack of EYEBEAMS?

    On the subject of art; it doesn’t particularly matter whether that robot appears to be “easy” to draw, as it done in a novel method of execution (as far as CC fan art has gone so far), it is aesthetically pleasing, and ultimately amusing. If they were looking for a masterpiece robot OF DOOM, they could have used Prom’s work.

    Also, the whole tribute art thing. More people should draw pictures of robots, particularly CC robots. Perhaps the “I could draw better” discussion may spawn additional fan art, yes?

  35. Azukki - # May 3rd, 2009 at 12:31 am

    READ: REASONABLE SUGGESTION
    Data, you should fix the infinite ammo/tracer function incompatibility issue on magazines.

    Right now, when you have a magazine with tracers rounds and regular rounds, and the RoundCount is -1, (infinite) the tracer rounds aren’t used.

    I’m certain the problem stems from how you went about determining the way tracer rounds are distributed throughout the magazine.

    It’s not a big deal, but it’s probably fairly easily fixed, and it might as well be done sooner than later.

  36. Mooseral - # May 3rd, 2009 at 3:01 am

    ALSO AWESOME SUGGESTION:

    A thought as far as movement goes, too:

    The burst on the jetpack, of course, gives additional thrust at the first activation of the input. However, for a keyboard vs. gamepad game, the keyboard player has the thrust advantage as he can simply mash the jet button.

    So, rather than removing the boost, or adding a timer on it (which feels unnatural) would it be possible to add an additional cost in jet fuel (or whatever the variable is) for the initial particle burst, so that a single “tank” of fuel results in the same end result? Then, more thrust would result in less overall efficiency or whatever, but the capability for a boost would be still there.

    Would be a nice fix; at the moment, abusing a Coalition Heavy to carry over 9000 miniguns using the thruster mash technique is a bit wearing after a while. And yeah, stuff.

    Blargh, I’m still curious about what other changes besides Lua are being made for B23. We’ll have to wait a bit longer to see though, eh wot?

  37. Spacepope - # May 3rd, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    Awesome : this post has nothing about B23.

    We want newz

  38. ARme - # May 6th, 2009 at 1:25 am

    Hi Data
    I’m wondering something.
    You working on CC since 8 years more or less.
    Did you have another job on side or did you run your own business as Indie ?
    Could you explain me a bit your route and your ideas for the future ?

    Thks

  39. Spacepope - # May 6th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    He just won 5000$.

    Nuff said.

  40. Octyl - # May 8th, 2009 at 10:26 am

    I believe he had a job, and then quit it to work on CC full time.

  41. Sally - # May 8th, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    WTF beotch. When the F you gonna release the next build? I didnt pay you to sit on your arse and jerk off all day. Lazy bastage!

  42. Alex - # May 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    Yo yo yooo!
    Yo yo isn’t it about time somebody dropped a dev log up in here? Just a friendly recommendation, try not to hold it in to long!

  43. Spacepope - # May 9th, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    I WANT B23 !!!

  44. Mooseral - # May 10th, 2009 at 12:22 am

    Of course, I think that it is hard for everyone else to not concur with Alex’s statement due to it’s inherent truthfulness as a good idea in the mindset of many posters.

    And stuff.

  45. Spacepope - # May 10th, 2009 at 4:15 am

    JUST FUCKIN RELEASE B22bis

  46. Wutangfan1990 - # May 10th, 2009 at 8:44 am

    Yo Data, let us grip some of that build 23 action real quick; I’m fiending for my fix man (scratch scratch).

  47. Woose1 - # May 10th, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    Ahh, literacy.

    I hate it.

    AND LACK OF UPDATES.

  48. Alex - # May 10th, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    Yea man. Right on dude. By the way I enjoy playing Cortex Command especially exploding some heads.

  49. Ethan M. (TMDP-27) - # May 12th, 2009 at 1:06 am

    can’t wait 4 b23, sumthing tells me itll be here very soon

  50. Warman - # May 12th, 2009 at 2:04 am

    I dreamt that he posted a new log saying it would come out the next day. :c

  51. Reed1000 - # May 12th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    Don’t we all have that dream, don’t we all…

  52. Will - # May 12th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    I had a dream. It was not related to Cortex Command.

    It was about muffins.

  53. Malrauko - # May 29th, 2009 at 8:44 am

    You know you guys also got a mention in PcGamer right??? They even had the demo version on their mnonthly disc. I know i’ve reccomended this game to people who read it so…

  54. Metalray - # August 12th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Hi Data

    Actually I was wondering if you living from Cortex Command, from your Game Studio or if you have a day job ?

    Would be great if you could tell us a bit.
    I know it’s maybe not the right place for that but when you see other comment I think it’s more related to CC than many others.

    Thanks

  55. Luke - # November 4th, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    I found cortex command from G4, you know.. the tv channel??
    Talk about publicity xD

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