Back in the early days of 2 Player Productions (circa 2007), our bread and butter was producing videos from live chip music performances. We probably made about a hundred of them, with a good portion collected on the Blip Festival 2006 and 2007 dvd releases. We don't have the time to work with the chip scene like we use to since we moved away from the east coast and took on other projects, but we're still trying to keep the spirit alive by hosting our own bi-monthly chip shows here in Portland.
This month we're featuring two pillars of the Philly chip scene, Animal Style and Cheap Dinosaurs, who will be supported by Oregon native Dakota Clark. Just In case you missed our previous show, we now have some videos up for Bud Melvin and Covox.
PC Gamer contacted us not long ago interested in some footage to feature in the latest edition of their digital magazine. We put together a little teaser along with a sequence of Notch coding at his work station. We think it's facinating to watch Notch work, we hope you enjoy this little bit of insight into the creative process!
During our time filming at Mojang for the Minecraft documentary, we had the chance to cover the development of another game that was taking place alongside of Minecraft. This game, which would eventually come to be named "Scrolls", would be the main focus of Jakob Porser, long time friend of Markus "Notch" Persson and co-founder of the company.
Concieved by Jakob and Markus durning their time working together at King.com, the idea for Scrolls became a reality when Minecraft's success led to the founding of Mojang. While Markus continued to work on Minecraft, Jakob would lead the development of Scrolls. He would soon be joined by Markus 'Junkboy' Toivonen, Daniel Frisk, Mattis Grahm, and Henrik Pettersson. The tactical card game would feature detailed art and 2D animation, a drastic change from the blocky open world of Minecraft.
The Scrolls documentary will be a multi-part series chronicling the stages of the games developement, as well as the hardships faced by Mojang along the way.
We have two new shirts available in the 2 Player merch store, both are designs born from the DVD release of "Reformat the Planet" and our talented friends at Fangamer.
"RTPdj" is blue art on a black shirt in the style of the LSDj logo found on the quenisential gameboy music making cartridge. In a classy homage to the other premier gameboy music software Nanoloop, we have the "Formatloop" shirt with pink graphics on grey. Both are quality American apparel shirts with front and back printing.
These are the first shirts we've had to support a project, and since it's something of an experiment they are super limited. Like really, really limited! Maybe if we sell out of them today we'll see about doing another run, or maybe we'll try a different design. Would anyone be interested in getting a 2PP logo t-shirt? Let us know!
Over the past few months since the success of the Kickstarter campaign, our work on the Minecraft documentary has taken us all around the US and abroad. We've talked to a host of amazing people and witnessed incredible sights, all the while capturing the continued growth and evolution of Mojang. We wanted to share some stills of the progress so far to bring everyone up to speed.
We'll be appearing at the Geek Film Fest in Miami Florida to screen a bunch of our material. The Penny-Arcade series, Reformat the Planet, the Minecraft short, and some previosly unseen Uncharted stuff. We'll be around for the whole show running July 1-4. If you have plans to go, come say hi. Personally, we're looking forward to seeing the excellent "Star Wars Begins" doc in a theater setting. And Carey Elwes will be there too! Well, maybe not at the Star Wars screening, but you know what i mean.
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