Yay! Poto & Cabenga was Internet Game of the Month in Edge Magazine last month! Now that the new Edge is out, here’s a scan… Hopefully that’s okay with the Edge dudes – if not let us know etc.

Edge have done a feature on Minis with Sony which also features an interview with Ricky around our becoming involved in the Minis programme and also working with Sony.

In a double whammy the magazine has also named, Poto and Cabenga as “Internet Game of the Month”, pretty cool, eh?

Edge issue 216 is out now and available from any competently stocked newsagent. Check out a preview of the issue here.

Coming Soon – Hopefully we’ll have some exciting news on some new games and our plans for Kahoots on iPad and iPhone, AND we’ve got our talk at Develop Conference in mid-July to tell you about, AND we’ll have some more updates to the look of the website. Also, some new pictures to celebrate our second birthday in July! Hooray!

We we’re really excited about the election, voting is generally seen as “a good thing” here at Honeyslug and this all segues nicely into telling you about another vote you can take part in, it’s the C+VG Golden Joystick Awards, and you can help us make the shortlist in a number of categories!

Simply go to http://www.goldenjoystick.com/, and you can vote for us and our games in the following categories:

Downloadable Game of the Year: Kahoots
Online Game of the Year: Poto and Cabenga
Portable Game of the Year: Kahoots
UK Dev of the Year: Honeyslug (yay!)
Ultimate Game of the Year: Both games

Voting on the longlist closes on the 27th May, so if you love our stuff and love us, please give us your support and we may make the shortlist!

Sounds incredibly tricky, yet it’s really not that difficult [to grasp] at all. – Indiegames.com

Poto & Cabenga sort of feels like what would happen if Eric Carle decided to start making flash games. – Jay Is Games

Hell, worth playing just to have the title screen bobble along with its neat parallax. – Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

Play Two Games With One Button in GAMMA Finalist Poto & Cabenga – Bytejacker

Poto & Cabenga only needs one button to make your Monday a loss for the company and a net gain for your dignity. – Two Fedoras

One man, one horse, two screens, two eyeballs, one button? – Flytrap Games

Cute browser game that gives quite a different game experience. – Hawaii Kawaii

If you still haven’t found out what all the fuss is about, try Poto & Cabenga out here.

Personally, we’re keen for people to experience it P&C fresh, but if you need a little info about the game (and it has been a while since our last posting), there’s a lovely feature on it from the Destructoid website.

Poto & Cabenga was a very much collaborative effort on the creation side, with artist Richard Hogg working on the design closely with Ricky, and excellent work on the Animation and Music sides from Kwok Fung Lam and DNR respectively. There are links from the Poto & Cabenga site to their work, and we urge you to check them out once you’re done playing the game.

We hope you enjoy it!

So I’m just back from GDC, where our game Poto & Cabenga was part of the Gamma IV event, with an amazing party on the Wednesday night where all six games were projected on huge screens, a bunch of DJs played electro sets and there was much drinking, dancing and shouted conversations with new friends…   then the following morning saw a complete change of scene, as we set up our stand on the Expo floor to allow people to play all the games.. this was also very cool, but in a very different way – fantastic to see people enjoying Poto & Cabenga up close, and chat to them about it, but we definitely had expo-fever by the end – having spent hours in an unnaturally lit aircraft hanger full mostly of depressing stands only tangentially related to games (we were right across from some company selling customer support software). Mind you, we weren’t complaining when these stands started giving out free beer toward the end of every day! And we ended up making a couple of significant changes to our game as a direct result of watching people play it.

Big props to the Kokoromi Crew – Heather, Cindy, Damien and Phil – who did a great job of making us very welcome,
and ensuring everything ran smoothly. Thanks guys!

Overall, GDC was an awesome experience. Was great to hang out a load of other indies and talk games, play theirs, andwatch them play ours..  My favourite two talks were Jon Blow’s ‘The implementation of rewind in Braid”, which reminded me why I make games, and “Changing the time between shots for the sniper rifle from 0.5 to 0.7 seconds for Halo 3″ by some dude from Bungie, which reminded me why I don’t make games for large developers! I also managed to play most of the IGF entrants – including Monaco and Tuning, both of which were worthy winners!

I’ve updated our flickr with a GDC photoset, which you can see here. And there’s an article about all the Gamma IV games on the IndieGames blog here.

We intend to make Poto & Cabenga available to play on the internet really soon – watch this space!

That’s pretty handy since Ricky is out at the show for reasons which will become clear soon enough, but any road, Kahoots is nominated for the Best Casual/Puzzle Game for Handheld, how cool is that! It has some stiff competition, but that we’re in with a shout against the likes of Little Big Planet PSP and Lego Rock Band DS shows you how well received the game has been. We’re chuffed to bits, thanks Pocket Gamer! Full list of all the awards and nominations can be found here.

Here’s our category, though. How bonkers is this, look at who we’re up against!

Best Casual/Puzzle Game finalists

Art Style: CODE [DS] (Nintendo)
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure [DS] (Electronic Arts)
Kahoots [PSP] (Honeyslug)
Lego Rock Band [DS] (Warner Bros)
LittleBigPlanet [PSP] (Sony Computer Entertainment)

In other Kahoots related news, there is now a Kahoots theme available on PS3 and PSP to be downloaded from the PlayStation store. There was a free giveaway of 5000 of them on the Playstation Europe Blog and there may be a last few still available there if you hurry. Stop Press – Obviously, at this time we urge you to follow the advice of Sony on current PS3 network issues before you attempt to download the theme.

Finally, and rather disappointingly, the BBC has confirmed its intention to close the excellent 6Music radio station. If you haven’t already, you can read our thoughts on it here and there is still time to stop this from happening, if you’re already a fan of the station, you can find details on how to register your opinon. If you are yet to listen to this genuinely innovative music station we urge you now, before it’s too late, to give it a try to understand why we feel so passionate about this. 6Music.