GameInformer Grimm Preview, Q&A

Screenshot from Red Riding Hood

Jeff Cork over at GameInformer has a nice preview of Grimm along with a quick Q&A session where myself and Ken Wong answer a few questions. A preview of the preview article:
Playing as a horrible little dwarf named Grimm, players run around a fairy-tale land and ruin everything in [...]

1up has 1st Grimm Preview

Grimm on the 1up frontpage

Friday the 13th is an appropriate day for the 1st-ever preview of “Grimm” to be released. Head over to 1up.com to read the preview, check out new screenshots, and best of all - see game play videos! The preview takes a look at an episode based on “The Boy Who [...]

Destructiod: Grimm has “delightful” Intro Song

Destructoid says: “I might not be the biggest American McGee fan, but I can never pass up a good videogame intro song. Needless to say, the opening number for American McGee’s Grimm does not fail on that front.” Check out the article, and the song HERE.

Exclusive Grimm Trailer/Intro at IGN

The Meat Box!

IGN is hosting a bunch of cool new Grimm content: videos, images, and screenshots!
In the videos you can see the latest Grimm trailer and the intro cinematic that starts each new episode. The intro cinematic has a great little song to go along with it, sung by Grimm himself. And the [...]

Grimm Up(chucks) on Console

Grimm “on” the PS3

Grimm’s making #3 on the PS3! It’s a sign of affection, trust me. You really don’t want to know how he displays his love towards the 360. Regardless of how he’s expressing his feelings towards either platform, we’re excited to announce that he is in fact playable on both.
I make [...]

Countdown to Episode 1

I placed a countdown clock on the site to track the number of days until the release of “Grimm” Episode 1. July 31 2008 EST is the official time set by Gametap. Be sure to check the Gametap Grimm Site for updates in the coming weeks.

The Beginning of the End

Matthew Razak over at That Video Game Blog revealed in a post today that the new episodic game Penny Arcade Adventures has set a record for being the highest grossing debut of an Xbox Live Arcade game. The article says:
It must be good to be the PA guys. Not only are they basically nerd [...]

Three Interviews And A Lion

Interviews galore this morning! First there’s one over at NextGen where I talk about Grimm, episodic gaming, and the future of Spicy Horse:
“My hope is that we can maintain a diverse development plan and ability–creating more episodic content, traditional console titles, and games specific to the Asian market,” said McGee. “Episodic content, or whatever [...]

Grimm Key Image

I’ve posted a clean version of the image that inspired the Grimm billboard on my flickr account.

Grimm Revealed

Static_Eddie once again sends us images of Grimm in the wild. This time the billboard reveals Grimm’s appearance.
Now that I think about it… I don’t think anyone’s ever seen what Grimm actually looks like. Could it be a clever marketing strategy that kept his identity a secret? Perhaps. But now… a secret NO MORE. [...]

Grimm Outdoors

Flickr friend Static Eddie kindly sent along this photo of a Grimm outdoor billboard. This was spotted in Atlanta, near the Gametap offices. Nice to see Grimm getting some spotlight in the “real world”.

Bone Boy

The general rule for showing Grimm concept artwork to the world is to show images only when there’s a light/dark version side-by-side. But with this image I’m willing to make an exception:

This is “Bone Boy”. He appears in a number of Grimm episodes, usually as the darkened state for child NPCs. He’s one of my [...]

Polish McGee Interview

If you’ve ever wanted to read an interview with me in Polish, here’s your chance:
American McGee’s Grimm – wywiad

Poprawne politycznie bajki muszą odejść! American McGee w ekskluzywnym wywiadzie przedstawia nam Grimm, nadchodzącą grę epizodyczną studia Spicy Horse. Znany projektant zamierza zachęcić graczy do przekształcania podczas zabawy łagodnych opowieści w przerażające koszmary.
Andrzej “Klecha” Klimczuk (Gry.o2.pl): Na [...]

You’re A Brat

And that’s all I have to say about that.

Chinese Gaming Boom

China is a fun place to be a gamer. If you aren’t buying 360 games on the street for 10RMB, you’re downloading them from P2P and sharing them with your buddies at work. We had to put a stop to that latter practice at the Spicy Horse offices - we found some of our guys [...]

Teddy Bugs = Hugs

Still cranking away on Grimm production here. The Chinese Government forced everyone to take a 3-day holiday at the end of last week. Actually, just a 1 day holiday on Thursday, then a “fake” day off on Friday - and here the whole country is back at work on Sunday to make up for that. [...]

Exciting Times

All kinds of new things are happening at the virtual Spicy Horse. Some of you already noticed that the new site has options to eventually purchase Grimm - and you wouldn’t know that if you hadn’t clicked through every. single. page. And that is awesome.
As a neat little reward, I’d like to show [...]

New Spicy Horse Website

Spicy Horse has a new website! You can check it out here: www.spicyhorse.com

The site was built by a company in Shanghai called Mediaman. It took us almost a year to search through local web development houses before finding their team. During that time several companies built proposals and test sites - the results were always [...]

Evil Mushroom

Been insanely busy around here. Trying to get some episodes of Grimm to “final” in the coming weeks. No real time to update the blog, or make additions to the concept art feed. But here’s an evil mushroom to keep you occupied:
Check out my flickr account for more stuff. I often put new images there [...]

Midget = Good

Every good game, movie, or entertainment product should have a high percentage of midgets. Just because. Obviously, Grimm is himself a “man of small stature” - more a dwarf than a midget, but in the same ballpark. “Little” characters like dwarves, midgets, trolls, and gnomes are found throughout fairy tale stories. This “Spear Midget” is [...]