Fierce Fun at DIT State of Play 2017

Fierce Fun showcased an early demo version of Mindframe Arena at the DIT State of Play games exhibition. State of Play 2017 was held in the Dublin Institute of Technology Aungier Street campus. SOP brings together some of commercial and academic players in the Irish games industry. In addition to the games exhibition, there was a series of talks from game development professionals, both Irish and international.

Fierce Fun used the exhibition to get some feedback on the Mindframe Arena gameplay mechanics and concepts. Mindframe Arena is what we call a ‘card board’ game, mixing elements of card trading games and classic board games. Generally, we received a positive reception to the game. Obviously, it was a very early version that we were showing but it proved a very useful overall exercise.

SOP is a great event to showcase Irish indie and student gaming talent – long may it continue!

DIT State of Play
http://www.stateofplay.ie/

Fierce Fun at UCC Digitopia

Digitopia is the annual digital humanities institute held by Digital Humanities department in University College Cork. The conference was organised by the MA class in Digital Arts and Humanities and took place in April 2017. The conference themes included a variety of topics such as digital history, archiving and gaming.

Fierce Fun’s Peter Lynch was invited as a guest speaker to discuss digital gaming. His talk focused on independent (indie) games development and rise of self-publishing. A link to his talk is available here:
https://www.slideshare.net/plynchire/indie-games-and-the-role-of-self-publishing

University College Cork Digitopia
http://www.digitopia-institute.com/

Fierce Fun at Dublin Comic Con 2016

Dublin Comic Con

What an event!

Colour, costumes, characters……..great fun all-round. Thanks to Pulse College for inviting us to participate in the GameDev Zone in Comic Con. It was my first time at a Comic Con and all I can say is ….wow! It is a real day out for scifi/fantasy fans and everyone else – highly recommended.

We got great feedback on our upcoming games – always good to get feedback when a game is in development. Vanessa took some amazing pictures on the day – enjoy! We did…

Full Comic Con photo album here

 

 

Dublin Comic Con

Advergaming, Branded Games and Marketing Games

Games Irish Digital Marketing

Advergaming, branded games, marketing games as part of the marketing mix are increasingly making their presence known world wide. This kind of marketing connects with the consumer in a fun but casual way, on all types of devices, but primarily on mobile devices. It seeks to provide positive experiences for the players or players, this in turn reflects on the specific brand or product connected to the game. Consumers are introduced to the brand or product in a positive and exciting way using this medium. They will learn about the brand and have a pleasant recollection of the experience via the games.

The usual array of internet marketing options like banners, pop ups, have their place; however they can be easily blocked by savvy consumers. Advergaming provides an effective and more interactive method way to engage with consumers. People increasingly use the mobile phone as their primary touch point with the internet. We feel its inevitable that marketing through these devices will become crucial to the successful placement of products or brands. Gaming has expanded its reach to beyond the traditional male audience. It is now a popular entertainment activity with the general public, with games now played equally by male and female players. Increasingly your customers as casual users can connect to play games on their mobile devices or phones.

Advergaming is not considered intrusive and can lead to positive social and viral marketing of your product. One great innovation in the online gaming area is the use of web gaming and HTML5. This allows cross platform game activity, working on all devices. You can play anywhere and even use devices interchangeably. Imagine starting the game on the train to work and finishing it on your PC in work (at lunchtime of course).

At Fierce Fun we provide full advergaming, branded and marketing gaming solutions. We can create a complete branded games solution for your business. Because the process includes building a storyboard visual,  you are fully involved in designing your own game. Also our developers and animators create a digital emulation using critical data on potential user flow. This will ensure you get a highly effective marketing solution, in addition to a great game. This approach can transform your brand and move your products to a new audience. So if you want to take advantage of the marketing potential of online gaming in the Irish, UK or European markets, please contact us.

ADVERGAMING

http://www.warc.com/News/Default.aspx?ID=34948

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_in_video_games

 

 

 

 

 

Unity Game Engine

Fierce Fun is moving some of our client code over to the Unity game engine. We have been working with it for a while now and are impressed by its game dev specific feature list. It’s component approach to programming takes a bit of getting used to and we miss running the main game loop ourselves. However our main reason for using Unity is its scene Editor. It really allows for  fast level editing and tweaking - crucial for balanced gameplay.

unitygameengine

https://unity3d.com/

Unity Game Engine
The Unity engine grants the user the ability to create a wide variety of games, ranging from the most basic puzzle solver to highly complex and immersive action adventures. Unity allows for the development of games in both 2D and 3D. The particle system in Unity is highly customizable, easy to use and to provides stunning visual effects. Unity’s ability to provide the user with efficient control over in-game physics is one of the primary reasons it's chosen by indie developers today. Another key reason to develop in Unity is the access to Unity's online community and its asset store. The asset store provides free and paid assets. These assets can be extremely useful and have the potential to save valuable time at the beginning, and even during, development.

Fierce Fun Unity Game Engine

 

Interactive Banner Ad Game

The online sales team at Independent News & Media required an interactive game that would fit their banner ad format. The game needed to work seamlessly on both desktop and mobile devices. Using our HTML5 game software, Fierce Fun created the banner ad game in a very short period as it was needed as part of an overall digital marketing campaign.

For Irish brands, INM provide a comprehensive range of digital advertising solutions – highly recommended.
Independent News & Media

 

Banner Ad Game

Banner Ad Game

Banner Ad Game

Banner Ad Game

Game Development Services

Game Development Services

Fierce Fun offers comprehensive Web and mobile games development service for digital publisher and advertisers. In our games library, we have 4 different games types:
 - Rebranding Complete Games
 - Prototype Games
 - Custom Games
 - Premium Mobile Games

Rebranding: Complete Games
A complete game is a finished game, normally in a Web format.
Standard Rebranding:
•    Name change
•    Logo change
•    Links change
•    Text change
•    Game license (non-exclusive)

Prototype Games
A prototype game is a concept game that has been designed, with initial graphics and basic interactivity. As such, they can be customised within the existing design.
Custom Prototype Game:
•    Game branding
•    Level completion
•    Game license
•    HTML5 (in most cases)

Custom Games
•    Game concept (in consultation with the client)
•    Game design and documentation
•    Interactive prototype
•    Content assets (graphics, animations, audio, text)
•    Level design and production
•    QA and user testing
•    Delivery and deployment
•    HTML5, mobile Web optimised

Premium Mobile Games
•    Game concept
•    Game design and documentation
•    Interactive prototype
•    Content assets (graphics, animations, audio, text)
•    Level design and production
•    QA and user testing
•    Delivery and deployment
•    Designed for the Google and Apple top 20 app charts
•    50 to 80+ levels
•    Multiple characters, backgrounds and game worlds
•    High quality, detailed UI, animations and characters animations
•    Fully developed storyline and game scripts
•    Significant original IP development
•    4 to 6+ hours of game play
•    Cross Platform (IOS, Android, Web, Windows, Steam, Yahoo)
•    Integrated social media features
•    Cross promotional ad service
•    Highscore and player registration systems

 

 

Fierce Fun at CoderDojo Coolest Project Dublin 2016

CoderDojo Coolest Projects 2016 was so special! Our games Terminus and QuizTimeTrivia were a big success with the little Ninjas CoderDojos!

They were playing and giving us their feedback all the time!

We are working on Terminus game so keep up with us for more news and the free preview version!

But the most popular with the adults was Quiz Time Trivia, it is a generational thing. Check it out freeplayhttps://fiercefun.com/quiz-time-trivia/

Here are a few more snaps of the CoderDojo Coolest Projects in Dublin: see the full album here

CoderDojo Fierce Fun