Neat! I always wanted to do a disappearing tiles game but there’s no way mine would be as good as this! 
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Grooh is a featured game in New & Noteworthy this week! Congrats! Downloading now! [import]uid: 8444 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 85880[/import]
Grooh is a featured game in New & Noteworthy in over 70+ countries (I stopped counting!!).
Thanks joe and all for the nice words…
Tomorrow, we will upload our official, AWESOME Grooh trailer… if people dont like grooh, i dont know!! [import]uid: 90610 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 85886[/import]
Looks great! Wish you brand new Ferrari similar to that Joe would buy soon! [import]uid: 12704 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 85887[/import]
@ Peach
“Choco from ChocoRun - got sent one at launch”
Haha awesome
(Nice iMac too in the background)
@ WauloK
“I always wanted to do a disappearing tiles game but there’s no way mine would be as good as this!”
Thank you for your nice words!
Well, maybe if we are successful enough (meaning a lot of people liking it), you’ll have an even bigger opportunity to create one? Don’t give up, because you never know before you try. I always like to think that *LUCK* can change everything, and that a lot of things rely on it.
@ firemaplegames
“Grooh is a featured game in New & Noteworthy this week! Congrats! Downloading now!”
Yes, my boss (“dingo”) just told me about it. That’s awesome! Thank you for your support 
@ gtatarkin
“Wish you brand new Ferrari”
Haha! Personally I wouldn’t know what to do with a Ferrari.
BUT, if I’m getting rich (that’ll never happen, but anyway), I guess that I would work on a more ambitious 2D game. Or, I don’t know… buy a house? Take holidays? Spend more time with my wife and daughter?
@ dingo
“Tomorrow, we will upload our official, AWESOME Grooh trailer”
!!! Yes Boss!! Ok Boss!! It looks like I’ll spend a crazy night working on it…! Argh!
BUT, it looks very good so far. Damn, almost midnight already… [import]uid: 124938 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 85891[/import]
C’mon! Every successful game developer must have Ferrari! It’s a tradition in game industry!
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/shots/developerId,682/developerShotId,180/ [import]uid: 12704 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 85894[/import]
Dingo&Alex > Congratulations for the release, it looks amazing.
Alex > Great job on the anims, I don’t even try to count the hours you’ve spent on it. [import]uid: 95346 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 85906[/import]
thanks all for the nice words!
@MrMells: it has been a crazy time. I’ve been developping 3.5 months, Alex was doing art all the time. and after 4 weeks, we changed the whole game, and alex almost restarted. i am sure he can tell you how many sprites he did. amazing work, and i thought it was an easy game to start with…
oh, and what i forgot… alex also did sound, art for the website etc. working only 80%. I guess i screwed him. making games is all about passion!! [import]uid: 90610 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 85908[/import]
@Alex - thanks The iMac is a blessing when you work as much as I do. (I tend to kill laptops much faster than I should.)
And hey, if you don’t want a Ferrari for yourself I’m sure you could donate one to, you know, a deserving member of the community
Seriously though - grats on N&N to you both, truly awesome stuff!
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thanks Peach!
and here is the official trailer for Grooh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlZJPMC3NhQ
enjoy! [import]uid: 90610 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 86148[/import]
@dingo @Alex R. Great job on the game. The art and animations look fantastic. Has anyone mentioned Grooh looks like Totoro? [import]uid: 27183 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 86167[/import]
That’s an adorable trailer! [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 86272[/import]
@ gtatarkin
“C’mon! Every successful game developer must have Ferrari! It’s a tradition in game industry!”
Also, every successful game developer should wear shorts with sockets and cheap t-shirts, I guess? 
@ MrMells
“Great job on the anims, I don’t even try to count the hours you’ve spent on it.”
I guess that I spent quite some time, hehe
The main character has around 280 frames, and overall it looks like there are more than 800 bitmaps of sprites, tiles & GUI stuff.
Thank you for your nice words btw
@ Peach
I’m an iMac user too (27"), and I love it.
“That’s an adorable trailer!”
Thank you! As I thought, I spent the entire night + half a day on it. But my Boss is happy, so I’m happy too And I like what I did, so it’s win-win!
@ don
“Great job on the game. The art and animations look fantastic. Has anyone mentioned Grooh looks like Totoro?”
Thank you…!
“Totoro”? I never heard about it
(I’m kidding, a lot of people say bad things about it… so I’ll try to come up with something more original next time!) [import]uid: 124938 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 86322[/import]
The problem with the 27" is that I know next time I need to get a new desktop I wont be able to settle for anything smaller, which is kind of funny because when I first used this machine I actually got motion sickness. (I hadn’t used a desktop in ages and being so close to a huge screen felt whacked out to me.)
I think a night + half a day is very impressive considering how awesome the trailer is. I could try for months and not make anything half as good - you should be very proud [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 86418[/import]
@dingo, can you send me a email? danny [at] anscamobile.com
Thanks [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 86461[/import]
i did @danny.
@peach: yes, trailer is awesome, especially the part where Grooh gets locked into the castle… it gives me that “oh no, poor Grooh” feeling [import]uid: 90610 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 86571[/import]
Grooh just has been featured in the most read swiss print paper!
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What’s the name of the newspaper?
Is there a URL link to it?
C. [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 87336[/import]
its 20min.ch, most read newspaper in switzerland (700’000 daily, reach of almost 2Mio people).
they screwed up the online article, I guess i have to wait till its back. I just can give you the link to the picture above.
…and soon, Grooh is in another big swiss newspaper…stay tuned! [import]uid: 90610 topic_id: 21445 reply_id: 87341[/import]