Blog Posts

  • Roger Jackson – The Voice of Grimm

    At the start of the Grimm project I had the idea that we’d manage to record 99% of our voice over work in-studio. Our office has a dedicated sound guy, a beautiful sound recording room, and everything else necessary for the task – except one thing: voice talent. The team tried a few times to…


  • Rocking Horses

    It’s official. We love Rock Band. Despite it not being available in Shanghai, EA’s insistence on region locking their games, and other obstacles – we managed to get our hands on a setup. To say we’re happy would be an understatement. We just *really* hope the drums don’t break too fast. Here you see (left…


  • Fast Fiber!

    Since moving to our new offices back in September Spicy Horse has been limping along on a REALLY SLOW Internet connection. It’s felt sorta like a tin can connected to a guy in Mongolia who’s using smoke signals to relay packets to a shoddy Russian satellite. That’s on the days that it worked. But those…


  • GameTap Hits 1000

    GameTap just hit a major milestone: 1000 games on offer. News from Kotaku: We knew it was coming, and now it is finally here. GameTap has reached the 1,000 game milestone, with none other than Sid Meier’s Civilization IV taking the honors as the landmark title. For those keeping track, that’s an average of 500…


  • Grimm on GameSpot UK

    Emma Boyes over at GameSpot UK has put together a nice interview piece where we talk about Grimm, digital distribution, and life in Shanghai. From the article: In 2006, McGee moved lock, stock, and barrel to Hong Kong and then on to Shanghai, where he set up his development studio Spicy Horse. From there, he…


  • One Year On…

    My head spins to think about everything that’s happened in the last year. On this date 1 year ago I left Lamma Island, Hong Kong and moved to Shanghai. The intent was to help my buddy Xin start his outsourcing company Vykarian, and to launch a new game studio of my own called Spicy Horse.…


  • Alice Halloween

    Spicy Horse artist Tyler Lockett did this Alice image in celebration of Halloween. Cool, huh?


  • Grimmy Halloween!

    Happy Halloween from GameTap! To mark this dark day, they’ve launched the official placeholder for the official “Grimm” site. Check it out here. And they’ve prepared a spooky Halloween card for everyone:


  • Happy Halloween!

    Dear Insane Children,  Woooo! Halloween! Our favorite night of the year! Alex brings you a TREAT  – a further evolution of the Alice poster he’s working on. He says of this… Happy Halloween guys! I just wanted to get this one into you tonight, another WIP, and you can see this poster has turned into…


  • UE3 Level Designer Incubation

    My entrance into the game industry was a bit of pure luck. In 1993, John Carmack plucked me from an illustrious job as auto mechanic and dropped me into the role of tech support/tester at id Software. I was a high school drop-out with few prospects, a passion for games, and a strong desire to…


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