Blog Posts

  • The Grimm End is Near

    The Grimm End is Near Well folks, after 2 amazing years of innovative and exciting development, Grimm production is wrapping up. To celebrate, we’ll be hosting a Grimm “wrap party” at Spicy Horse, this Friday the 13th of March (appropriate, no?). If you happen to be in the neighborhood, stop by to enjoy pizza, drinks,…

  • Spicy Leads the Way

    This article on Microsoft.com mentions Spicy Horse as a studio “leading the way” in Episodic Games. Cool! Read it here.

  • Name of the Game

    Interesting article over on WSJ Online, discussing designer names associated with video game titles. I was able to throw in a few thoughts on the matter: Read is here.

  • Official AP Story/Interview

    If you want a little more info about the Alice sequel, read the AP story by Derrik Lang over on Yahoo! News.

  • The Return of Alice

    Waking up in Shanghai this morning I’m greeted with a flood of emails, facebook messages, and phone calls. The world now knows what we here at Spicy Horse have known for some time: We’re making a sequel to “American McGee’s Alice” with Electronic Arts (EAP to be exact).

  • Grimm Episode 17: Frog Prince

    Grimm’s Back! And this time he’s brought along a bucket-full of slimy friends. Episode 17 visits “The Frog Prince”, and kicks off the final season of 8. We’re heading towards the finish line… hard to believe we’ve made it this far.

  • Trilogy & Ultizen in Shanghai

    More Western developer movement in Shanghai today: Sherman Oaks, CA-based Trilogy Studios, a developer of virtual worlds, casual MMOs and console games, today announced a partnership with Shanghai-based UltiZen Games in an effort to further expand its online development capabilities. UltiZen is both a developer and development outsourcer for North American, European and Asian companies.…

  • Song of the Mermaid

    Song of the Mermaid – Production Still Friend and sometimes collaborator Troy Morgan has been working on a cool movie project for some time now: Song of the Mermaid. You can check out some production stills and video from the project on his site. I’ve worked with Troy in the past – and hope I…

  • Grimm Graphic Novel Preview

    Grimm Graphic Novel Preview Art Dwight MacPherson has announced on his blog that the first episode of the Grimm graphic novels is now available for pre-order: Rejoice, children! American McGee’s Grimm #1 is now available for pre-order! American McGee’s Grimm #1 Written by Dwight L. MacPherson Illustrated by Grant Bond Covers by Ben Templesmith and…

  • Grimm Postmortem

    Gamasutra is featuring a lengthy postmortem of “Grimm”. The article was primarily written by Grimm’s producer Wim Coveliers with contributions by all of the Spicy Horse team. It does a good job in detailing the high-level things that went right and wrong during the production of Grimm.