STEAMING HOT NEWS
Long time no see – and we are truly sorry about that. The positive spin on that is that we got lots of awesome news for you!
Important stuff first: Max & the Magic Marker debuts on Steam RIGHT NOW! So everyone out there waiting for this, go nuts and buy it now 
The Steam version includes the latest update (1.04) to the PC and Mac versions of the game. It is of course also available right here. Enjoy!
On the WiiWare side of things Rakugaki Hero launched in Japan in mid April as part of cool publisher Marvelous’ World Game Parade initiative. Seeing the game out in Japan is a childhood dream come true for us and we are very excited about it. If you are from Japan – go get it in the WiiWare shop right away and become our friend.
What else? Best Nordic Childrens Game 2010! It is true – Max won the award at the Nordic Game Conference in Sweden two weeks ago. Awesome Trials HD went with the “Best Game” award – something they deserved badly for that incredibly addicting game!
In general we had a really great conference. Klaus and Lasse presented the lovely “Bob Came in Pieces” on the “Indie Night” and the Ludosity guys humorously demonstrated how good Max is – for drawing dicks.
Thanks to Copenhagen Game Collective for a great night and Ludosity for great fun! At the very same conference I personally had the pleasure of cutting up the business model for Max in the official Post-Mortem – thanks to everyone listening in on that, feel free to email me questions
Just to make our party better, the Nordic Game Program awarded us 67.000 Euro for our next project, of which I can’t say anything yet – except that it is going to be something with tentacles… Many thanks for that!
That was all for now, hopefully it won’t be long before we post again!
16 comments
July 27th, 2010Halski
Hey,
I have made a review Max and the Magic Marker in polish:
http://www.punktgie.pl/index.php/2010/07/22/magic-marker-pc-mac-nierecenzja/
July 7th, 2010
ole
Hi everyone,
I’m sorry for not replying ealier.
The steam version was updated a while ago. It should be 1.4 now.
/Ole
July 5th, 2010Burekman
I can confirm that the Steam version is in fact 1.02, despite the blog entry stating otherwise.
It is also quite bugged and given the recent sale, you should see an increase of frustrated users coming to the site looking for fixes.
Hopefully though, you fix the issues before too much internet blood gets spilt.
July 5th, 2010Quxxy
Actually, the version on Steam appears to be 1.02, complete with the “game locks up on killing the last boss” bug which I just ran into.
So now I have to manually patch *and* play the game over from scratch if I want to see the ending. Fantastic.
Incidentally, I’m posting here since there doesn’t appear to be any official activity on the Steam forums and your website seemingly doesn’t have any contact details. Poor form.
Oh, and while I’m here: the game has click lag on tablets. Relatively minor compared to “cannot finish the game”, but still annoying given that this game is perfect for that kind of input.
July 3rd, 2010Amazing
Please add steam achvs and cloud if possible, a lot of my friends like the game and the game is perfect for this =)
July 3rd, 2010tayce
Hi,
I really enjoyed Max and the Magic Marker.
You should think about an update to adding steam achievements and steam cloud. That would be awesome.
Just let me know if you need a beta tester =)
June 18th, 2010ryan
GREAT GAME ,and when 1.05 released please email me thxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
June 6th, 2010Cool
Max and the Magic Marker looks like one awesome game. Please think about bringing the game out for the PSP, PS3 & Xbox 360.
June 5th, 2010Press Play awarded 67.000 Euro « Nintendo Okie
[...] to the same blog post, Press Play was awarded 67.ooo Euro by the Nordic Game Program for their next project. While they [...]
May 29th, 2010Simon
Great game but on OSX the game crashes at the very end. When you jump into the portal after killing the end guy it hangs.
May 28th, 2010Tom
Bug on Mind Your Own Biz level. Drew pedestal to stand on. Flipped over on Max. He disappeared. Had to restart.
May 17th, 2010Dan Montenegro
Hey! The game started once and now it won’t start again. I tried reinstalling but that didn’t do anything. Has anyone else had this problem? Sorry this is on the blog but I haven’t heard back from an e-mail and there is no forum on the FAQ page – that would help by the way!
May 17th, 2010(Review) Max and the Magic Marker: onde os desenhos tomam vida | XboxPlus
[...] Max and the Magic Marker é um game para PC espetacular. Um título que mistura plataforma, puzzle e física apurada de uma forma muito interessante. O indie game, desenvolvido pela dinamarquesa Press Play, foi lançado em Março de 2010, sendo vendido somente através do site da própria desenvolvedora até seu lançamento no Steam, no dia 12 de Maio de 2010. [...]
May 15th, 2010CoffeewithGames
Congrats on getting more funding!
May 13th, 2010soad667
Great news! Especially the part about the tentacles.
Can’t wait to hear more………………..
May 12th, 2010Jannik
Troels YOU ROCK!
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