SANTA RAGIONE DEV BLOG

Attention folks! FOTONICA 1$+ [80% off] 6 days SALE! at...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:00:00 +0200

Attention folks! FOTONICA 1$+ [80% off] 6 days SALE! at http://fotonica-game.com via HumbleStore!

And don’t forget, if you want to see FOTONICA on Steam along with new exclusive content, help us with the GreenLight campaign and vote for the game here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=109260745

Nicolò and Pietro

lagamespace: Santa Ragione just sent us another peek at their...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:35:35 +0200

lagamespace:

Santa Ragione just sent us another peek at their contribution to the LA/GS Game Pack!

It’s the 57th anniversary of commercial videotape...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:38:14 +0200

It’s the 57th anniversary of commercial videotape recording, and you bet we’re making a short game about it for our friends over at LA Game Space!

Stay tuned, it’s about to be ready soon!

VHS, thou will be remembered.

venuspatrol: Two unbelievably gorgeous posters for MirrorMoon,...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:50:25 +0100

venuspatrol:

Two unbelievably gorgeous posters for MirrorMoon, by Santa Ragione and Paolo Tajé, illustrated by Gabriele Brombin, creator of the equally fantastic book The Sand Sea and the Plateaux of Mirrors.

If you’re around GDC, stop by the MirrorMoon IGF booth for actual print versions of both of these!
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Pipnis win "Pop Your Eyes Out" Award for CREATE GameJam

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:32:00 +0100

We are humbled and proud to announce that our game, PIPNIS, created for the CREATE Ouya Game Jam, organized by Kill Screen, won the “Pop Your Eyes Out” Award this very day!

We want to thank you all of course, and expand our thanks to all the developer that participated at CREATE Game Jam. And a special congratulation goes to all the Winners of the jam:

Strange Happenings on Murder Island
FreeLives

Television
Laboratory Games LLC

Bombball
E McNeill

Whispering Willows
Night Light Interactive

2D Cube Zombie Platformer
Molinware

Stikbold
Team Stikbold

THANK YOU! <3

Finora siete stati appesi ai sondaggi, ai dibattiti tv, ai...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:01:27 +0100

Finora siete stati appesi ai sondaggi, ai dibattiti tv, ai telegiornali per capire qualcosa, per tifare, per scongiurare. Da oggi il futuro d’Italia passa nelle vostre mani responsabili e capaci:

http://www.finalcandidation.it

Sarete voi a ispirare da dietro le quinte le mosse dei candidati, Bersani, Berlusconi, Vendola, Giannino, Ingroia, Maroni, Casini, Monti, Grillo, Storace, Renzi e Alfano, dodici tra i contendenti più in vista.

E mi raccomando, ricordatevi di condividere le prime pagine dei più autorevoli giornali Italiani sulla vostra campagna elettorale!

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So here we are again, but this time it’s a satirical game on the Italian elections due next week. Take the role of a candidate running for the elections and fight for every vote!

Unfortunately if you can’t read italian, there’s not much you can do, unless you like “google translating” languages you don’t know of course…in that case, good luck!

If you are brave enough: http://www.finalcandidation.com

It is not new, we know, but we never forgot this amazing review...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:08:46 +0100

It is not new, we know, but we never forgot this amazing review of EFTAIOS by Shut Up and Sit Down. What we did forget, was to share it!!

So here you go: http://www.shutupshow.com/post/12325502497/review-escape-from-the-aliens-in-outer-space

It’s incredibly rewarding when you see people you never met, understanding your work so deeply, almost if they had been there, designing it with you.

[tearsOfJoy] Thanks [/tearsOfJoy]

In these past few days we made a small game for the CREATE jam...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:20:17 +0100

In these past few days we made a small game for the CREATE jam organized by Kill Screen and Ouya console. Check out the video of the submission: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu6-tvEC0i4

“Pipnis is a game about being together and working as a team, for one or two players, sharing the same joystick. The little moving pipnis will guide you through the level as you try to survive.”

FAQ

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:25:00 +0100

We finally answer to some fundamental questions about FOTONICA Steam Greenlight campaign, like:

24. Are you porting Fotonica to Vectrex console?

“We’d love to! From now we are officially hiring Vectrex programmer!”

And many more, maybe more fundamental. Anyhow: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/updates/

If you want to know more, ask some more on Steam and don’t forget to support the game, we still need your help!

IGF 2013 FINALISTS! MirrorMoon is one of this year finalists at...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:13:22 +0100

IGF 2013 FINALISTS!

MirrorMoon is one of this year finalists at IGF for the “Nuovo Award” prize!!! Developed back in Jan 2012 with Paolo Tajè.

We are humbled and proud that our little game had the capacity to go that far and earn a place within so many great games in such an important festival. We’d have never imagined this.

Make sure to check out all finalists of IGF 2013: http://igf.com/2013/01/2013_independent_games_festiva_2.html

Congrats to all the finalists, see you in San Francisco folks!

”[…] Could it be? Yes it could Something’s...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:23:00 +0100

”[…]

Could it be?

Yes it could

Something’s coming

Something good, if I can wait

Something’s coming

I don’t know what it is

But it is gonna be great

[…] “

Yes - Something’s Coming (1969)

75% and counting, help Fotonica get GreenLit!

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:11:53 +0100

We are honored that so many people showed renewed interest in Fotonica in such a small amount of time, but the road is still long to get GreenLit!. We need your help to get the game in the first 100 bunch to be eligible for selection.

» http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=109260745 «

So if you haven’t yet, or if you think you have friends interested in the game, give us a hand! Reblog, tweet, scream outside your house or office window, write it on your city walls; we wont judge you.

THANK YOU! <3

"When everyone has access to the same tools then having a tool isn’t much of an advantage. The..."

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:51:42 +0100

“

When everyone has access to the same tools then having a tool isn’t much of an advantage. The industrial age, the age of scarcity, depended in part on the advantages that came with owning tools others didn’t own.

Time for a new advantage. It might be your network, the connections that trust you. And it might be your expertise. But most of all, I’m betting it’s your attitude.

”

- Seth Godin (via syntheticpubes)

lagamespace: Many of you have been asking if it is possible to...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:17:03 +0100

lagamespace:

Many of you have been asking if it is possible to donate more to receive extra Game Packs. Yes, it is! You can get as many game packs as you like, and gift them to friends by donating an extra $15 for each.

When the campaign ends, you’ll tell us who to send them to in our backer survey. Then we will email them a beautiful, illustrated gift certificate letting them know that the gift is from you!(And you’ll even get to choose if it’s holiday-themed or not!)

Make LA Game Space possible by giving the BEST GIFT EVER!

«Thanks to our good friend Maré Odomo for creating the comic with us! You are incredible, Maré!»

Our Next Game is one of the games in the bundle :O

STEAM GREENLIGHT: VOTE FOR FOTONICA!

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:00:08 +0100

Want FOTONICA on Steam? Wanna help us sustain our crazy studio? Then gently move your ass to STEAM GREENLIGHT and vote for FOTONICA!! What else can I say?…mmmh, let me see…PLEASE, PLEASE!!

Down here in more detail and with less whining:

We are launching our Steam GreenLight campaign, so if you think FOTONICA has the guts to be part of the Steam lineup, please, help us spread the word and get on Steam platform.

Steam GreenLight: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=109260745

FOTONICA has been out in its current form for 1 year now, but we want to bring it to you on Steam! If we can manage to get Fotonica to steam we will add the current content to the game:

+ 2 Completely New Levels! with new awesome electornic music and new scenery!
+ 2 New Endless levels with different aesthetics and music and play styles
+ 2 Difficulty settings to let you play an even faster version of Fotonica
+ 4 new 2-player levels
+ 10 New Achievements!
+ New options to customize your soundtrack, the position of the camera and more.

Each and every FOTONICA owner will receive a Steam Key for the game, no matter where you bought it!

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Nicolò and Pietro

(.gif courtesy of LA Gamespace: SUPPORT!)

Fotonica SALE and LINUX version!!

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:33:00 +0100

Yupppiiiiii FOTONICA will be on SALE at IndieGameStand.com from Nov 29th to Dec 3rd so get it till it’s cheap!! And last but not least: LINUX version! (we know it took some time…sorry!!)

http://www.indiegamestand.com

Also, 10% of the total revenue of the sale will go to Medecins Sans Frontieres http://www.msf.org/

So long people!!

Pictures of Playing The Game mini exhibition we had in Milan, in...

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:38:00 +0100

Pictures of Playing The Game mini exhibition we had in Milan, in memory of Lunarcade Sydney 2012.

Games on show: Thirty Flights of Loving by Brendon Chung - Zobeide by Robert Yang - Memory of a Broken Dimension by XRA.

Rest of the album on flikr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54040954@N02/sets/72157632073475489/

Video mini trailer:

http://vimeo.com/53314834

lagamespace: What’s intriguing is how there is no linear way...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:03:28 +0100

lagamespace:

What’s intriguing is how there is no linear way “to tell” something in gaming, since meaning is not imposed. Rather, it emerges from a mediation process with each and every player. It takes a lot of effort and trust to abandon total control when you are trying to tell a story, and rely heavily on players, but that’s one of the most unique characteristics of games. —Pietro Righi Riva + Nicolò Tedeschi

Pietro Righi Riva and Nicolò Tedeschi are the two-person team that make up Santa Ragione.

In motion above is their one-button game, Fotonica. It does everything it needs to and nothing more. It has no need for rewards or checklists, because the simple act of playing the game is exhilarating and enjoyable. It is refreshing to play a game whose developers understand the value of what they created, and felt no need to muddy the waters with unnecessary content.

Santa Ragione are making their next game available exclusively as part of the LA/GS Game Pack. Donate $15 to LA Game Space to receive Santa Ragione’s next game along with 30 other video games that you can’t get anywhere else!

what’s cooking? just a cropped dithered placeholder,...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:50:45 +0200

what’s cooking? just a cropped dithered placeholder, you’ll see…

Care to take a look? - GDC Vault -

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:51:00 +0200

Directly from GDC Europe 2012, you can now watch, in all it’s glory, Pietro’s lecture, also known as: “How I Stopped Worrying and Let Design Happen”.

GDC or Gamasutra