Kevin Cole

The Exciting World of Nudging - What's Up Wednesday #21

Hey folks,

I made three little additions to Bazooka Panic on a whim yesterday. Let's talk about them!

Jump Nudging

I watch a lot of 2023-09-13 17:03:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Events, Goals, Artifice - What's Up Wednesday #13

Hey everybody,

Here's three things I made for Gig Master that I thought worked out pretty well:

Events

Gig Master is full of Mega Man references, and in order to make those references work, I needed little s...

Fire, Water, Gravity - What's Up Wednesday #5

What's up everybody?

WIZARD LAWS Are Made to Be Broken is out and playable in your browser! It's a puzzle platformer with some Baba Is You and Wario Land 2 vibes.

Though I stuck to the typical SuperTry guns and made a puzzle platformer, I did try some new things in WIZARD LAWS.

2023-05-24 19:15:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Cool Stuff from the SuperTry Grab Bag Jam

Hey everybody,

Here are my favorite submissions from the SuperTry Grab Bag Jam in no particular order:

Spinalization by Axol Studio takes the god game format and removes the tedious micromanagement associated with the genre to focus on the *enjoyable* micromanagement asso...

How I Make a Color Palette for My Video Games

Hey folks,

I've put a little palette together for my game! 

I can't start making assets until I have a palette in place so that's usually my first art task when I start working on a game.

A lot of gamedevs recommend putting art off until you've done some game testing with some generic bloc...

SuperTry Grab Bag Jam Brainstorming

Alright, brainstorming for the SuperTry Grab Bag Jam has been accomplished!

In general I like it when I have clear mechanics in mind instead of just "a game in a genre." Genre games tend to become massive projects ("I have to make a good stealth game!") and mechanics games tend to be more achievable ("I have to explore...

How SuperTry Does Game Physics

Hey everybody,

We’re talking about game physics today! For the purpose of this blog, “physics” just refers to how objects move and smack into each other. This hopefully won’t be too complicated.

One of the things that stumped me when I first started making games was physics. GameMaker 1’s default physics engine in the early 2010s was pretty quirky and I could never get thi...

Heart Canon - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai with Satchell Drakes

Hey everybody,

In this, the season finale of Heart Canon, I talk to my friend Satchell Drakes (Non Prophet) about Ghost Dog, the samura...

Heart Canon - Superman Smashes the Clan with Payton Knobeloch

Hey everybody,

This month I sat down with my friend Payton Knobeloch of PBS's Flyover Culture to talk about Superman Smashes the Clan, a short comic series by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru.

Payton a...

Heart Canon - Pluto with Jeff Pennington

Hey everybody,

This month I read Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, a dark and mysterious reimaging of Astro Boy's "The Greatest Robot on Earth" arc. Joining me is friend, artist, and podcaster Jeff Pennington!

Jeff and I spoil every twist in the first few minutes and talk our way through the more subtl...

Heart Canon - Into the Electric Castle (Disc 2) with Connor MacDonald

Hey everybody,

Here's part two of my two part discussion with Connor MacDonald on Into the Electric Castle!

Connor and I dig deeper into the fiction and metafiction of Ayreon'...

Heart Canon - Into the Electric Castle (Disc 1) with Connor MacDonald

Hey everybody!

This month I sat down with Connor MacDonald (aka SamuraiCorndog) to talk about science fantasy prog-rock collaborative album experience Into the Electric Castle!

Heart Canon - Among Us with Hadley St. Clair

Hey everybody,

I finally got to do a Heart Canon about a video game and with Hadley St. Clair (Pancaketheon, Snack Run Blowout) no less! This month we're talki...

I'm Gonna be on the Yetee Show Stream on the 25th!

Hey folks,

Quick announcement! I'm gonna be on The Yetee Show's stream tomorrow the 25th from 3pm to 5pm Eastern Time.

Glen and I are gonna talk about SuperTry games and maybe play some! It should be a chill time and I hope to see some...

Heart Canon - Solanin with Calamity Carl

[Content Warning: We talk about suicide in this episode.]

Hey errybody,

This month Calamity Carl (YouTube, The Millennium Microphone) joins ...

SuperTry February 2021 Update

Hey everybody,

Just wanted to fill you in on what's going on at SuperTry this month!

Last week I put a bunch of time into Bazooka Panic. My goal for this month is to put together a 2021-02-16 20:40:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Heart Canon - TMBG with Emily Kardamis Part 2

Hey everybody,

Emily Kardamis (Steamed Veggies, Guilty Treasures) joins me again to talk about the second half of 2021-01-16 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Changes to the SuperTry Patreon in 2021

Hey everyone!

First off, thank you for supporting me, Joe, and all the people we’ve collaborated with this year. 2020 was tough in a lot of ways but thanks to you I was able to support the people I love and make the art I wanted to make.

SuperTry’s goal in 2020 was to make a short video game every single month of the year and we actually did! 2020-12-30 22:20:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Heart Canon - They Might Be Giants with Emily Kardamis

Hey everybody!

On this month's episode of Heart Canon Emily Kardamis (Steamed Veggies, Guilty Treasures) is here to talk with me about everyone's favorite rock...

Heart Canon - Third Eye Blind with Joe Kenneally

Hey everybody!

Is it possible to make successful art without being a total asshole? Is it ethical to enjoy an album made by someone who is very clearly a tool? Special guest Joe Kenneally and I dive into these questions and more in the latest episode of 2020-11-21 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Picking Themes - Patron Jam #2

Heart Canon - Punch-Drunk Love with Paul Ritchey

Hey everybody,

Here's episode two of Heart Canon where I talk to Paul Ritchey about his favorite arthouse Adam Sandler movie, Punch-Drunk Love.

There are spoilers for Punch-Drunk Love, but whether or not yo...

Heart Canon Outtake: Deep Rock Galactic

Hey everybody!

Paul is gonna be on another episode of Heart Canon this month and we'll be talking about Punch-Drunk Love.

In the meantime here's us talking about a game we've been playing off and on for a few months that I had to cut from the new episode because it didn't really have anything to do with anything!

Enjoy!

KC

D&D 5e Homebrew - The Beheaded

Hey everybody,

This is a little 5e custom race project that I had been picking at for a while. I'll likely still be picking at it as I get more playtest data but I really wanted to get this out of my head and onto the Internet.

I just think Dullahans are neat!

Thanks to Jeff, 2020-10-07 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Forager is Available to Play

Hey folks,

Phew, we managed to finish this one before September ended!

You can now play Forager in your browser. It's a chill mushroom-hunting game where you have to talk to other mushroom hunters to figure out where the good shrooms are at.

Forager is our submission to AGBIC Jam. We hope you like it!

Enjoy!

Kevin Cole + SuperTry Studios

New Podcast: Heart Canon

Hey everybody,

I started a new podcast where I research the stuff my friends like and then talk to my friends about the stuff. I want to explore how art influences artists and I want to broaden my horizons with more movies, games, books, and more!

The podcast is called Heart Canon and every episode will have a special guest. This week's special guest is Paul Ritchey from Continue? a...

Wrack & Rune is Out

Hello!

Wrack & Rune is SuperTry's submission to the 2020 GMTK Jam!

Joe did the music.

Bryan Shepherd made the amazing cover art.

I haven't slept in over 24 hours!

This game wouldn't be possible without your support. Thank you so much for supporting SuperTry!

I'm gonna take a nap! 2020-07-12 17:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Snack Run Blowout is Out

Hello!

Snack Run Blowout is an interactive fiction game that we made over the course of two months! Joe Kenneally made the music and Hadley St. Clair wrote and directed it.

For once I got to (mostly) just be a programmer. It was super awesome to work with Hadley and I can't wait to do it again.

...

DETH BRIK is Out

Hey everybody!

DETH BRIK is a goofy violent game that Joe and I made in a week. We were shooting for the video game equivalent of one of those Japanese rage rooms where you can smash stuff? I think we got close.

Also heads up, Patreon will be charging y'all a few cents more at the end of the month to comply with new digital tax laws or something. I went to the tiers and set all of t...

A Note From the Desk of Joe Kenneally, Music Director, SuperTry Studios

Good Afternoon Glorious Fans of SuperTry Studios, 

At the outset of May, the SuperTry team concocted a plan to create a pleasantly melancholy game that would chart an emotional reckoning within a group of lifelong friends. The writing would have to be superb. The music spectacular. The ...