Santa Clara Games

feb 13, 2015

dic 01, 2014

HassleHeart Best Basque Videogame at hóPLAY'14!

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Yes, HassleHeart won the BEST BASQUE VIDEOGAME AWARD at the fifth International Festival of Independent Games hóPLAY !!

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Zuluaga @ipuntom and @gravstar trying to make a congrats speach... Photo by: Eva Zubero Zuluaga[/caption]

The Festival started very well, as nominated, we had the oportunity to showcase HassleHeart and have a panel to talk about the game and our studio.

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were unveiled
;) @gravstar during the panel. First HassleHeart sketches were unveiled ;)[/caption]

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We had a great time talking with other studios, media and people who came to the hóPLAY Festival to try and play games (HassleHeart included!).

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our @PulsarConcept
friends @gravstar trying the Fronton Occulus Rift version from our @PulsarConcept friends[/caption]

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playin (and enjoying!!)
HassleHeart People playin (and enjoying!!) HassleHeart[/caption]

As hóPLAY finalist developer, Santa Clara Games had the chance to explain HassleHeart in the Big Indie Pitch to Steel Media journalists. What an intense and very funny experience!

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came to play so, get ready to
pitch! We came to play so, get ready to pitch![/caption]

We were so happy and so surprised words couldn't get out of our mouths! It's been a wonderful moment! It gives us so much energy and fuel to keep making games that we are looking forward to December 23^rd^ to launch HassleHeart's Final Version and start working in our next games! Yes, games in plural ;) Stay tunned for more news to come!

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est Alea jacta est[/caption]

We want to thank you all, without your support this wouldn't have come true, THANK YOU SO MUCH!! \<3 \<3 \<3

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by: Eva Zubero
Zuluaga All hóPLAY'14 winners. Photo by: Eva Zubero Zuluaga[/caption]

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by: Eva Zubero
Zuluaga Photo by: Eva Zubero Zuluaga[/caption]

jul 18, 2014

#RoadToBeta2

It's summer, time to relax, to go to the beach, sunbathes... Nope! Here at Santa Clara Games we are on fire improving and developing HassleHeart's Beta2!

Thanks to all the feedback we received from you after Beta1 release, we have powered up our batteries and are working hard to bring you the next release this september.

We have to thank you all our players (and fans!) for their comments and support. Thank you again guys, you are awesome!

Stay tunned for more news to come!

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mar 19, 2014

GGJDonostia Party 2014

On March 14 Santa Clara Games co-hosted the award ceremony of the Global Game Jam 2014 in Donostia with Pintxo Developer. Our games were nominated in two categories: Best Adventure Game for Alone in the Forest and Best Puzzle Game for Simple Portal.

We were very happy to win both nominations! :)

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Pintxos + beer + videogames = great success!!

The party was a huge success. In addition to the teams that participated on the Global Game Jam, many people came and crowded the place. Between the assistants, we had professionals from studios in the area, indie developers, amateurs, students, players and people who came when they saw the party going on and encouraged to come and witness the show.

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@gravstar and @ipuntom during the HassleHeart Trailer World Premiere

We took the oportunity to make a World Premiere and revealHassleHeart's trailer (it will be soon available for everybody, a bit of patience) and showed an alpha version of the game. People had the opportunity to play and shared with us their feelings. Firsts impressions of those gameplays were very positive and gave us even more energy to have our beta release ready before summer.

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One of our firsts players \<3

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We already are looking forward for the #GGJ15 

We really had a good time and enjoyed a lot the mix between pros, amateurs, students and family talking about videogames. Soon we will have more announcements about Santa Clara Games, Pintxo Developer and HassleHeart. More events have to come :)

Stay tuned!

feb 14, 2014

dic 17, 2013

HassleHeart Wallpapers 2013

dic 16, 2013

Santa Clara Games at PintxoDeveloper

Last November 16th, we were invited to present the alpha version of our video game "HassleHeart" at a PintxoDeveloper event. As you know, "HassleHeart" is our HTML5 video game premiere, which will be available for pre-order before summer of 2014.

In case you haven't heard, PintxoDeveloper is a group of enthusiasts, both gamers and developers, who meet up each month to talk about games here in Donostia, the heart of the Basque Country.

During our meetings, we discuss game development, our favorite indie games and our crazy ideas for new games we'd like to make. It's quite similar to Juegos Rancheros in Austin in Texas, but with a touch of Basque spice.

It was an amazing opportunity to showcase our video game in progress. After our keynote, we spent over 2 hours discussing how we bootstrap our Santa Clara Games studio, the challenges we are facing in our developments, and how others could go about starting to make their own games.

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After the keynote, some of us went out to dinner and took time to discuss how to help and encourage other developers to create their own indie games.

Our next meeting will be on December 20th at the Donostia's Old Firehouse. If you have fun playing or developing video games, you should definitely come to our next PintxoDeveloper meeting!

And don't forget to follow @PintxoDeveloper on Twitter :)

dic 09, 2013

Hassleheart theme song: Love Hearts

Em             C        Em

Love hearts. Long life. Don’t ask me why.

I will die, like you, unless I do

G                               B7

Some awfully nasty things: presents I will bring,

Em      Am7          D7

When you stop to feed, I’ll oil my machine.

G            F     C     G

Love hearts. Ooooo, love hearts.

I’m made, like you, except it’s true

I’ve got a battery that won’t last me.

I’ll never burp or fart.

I’m made of metal parts.

But all of that could change, if I had a heart.

Love hearts. Ooooo, love hearts.

Em                        B7   Em

Some folks feed on hamburgers,

B7   Em             B7   Em

on cigarettes, on crystal meth.

A7

Most can’t help themselves, I guess

D7

So they keep helping me.

There’s not much you can do.

Accept that this is true:

If you’ve got a heart,

I’ll steal it from you.

Love hearts. Ooooo, love hearts.

I’m bad, I know, but even so,

I’ll die, like man, unless I can

Keep killing every day, be it who it may,

You’ll be heartless soon,

When you take my bait.

Love hearts. Ooooo, love hearts.

It's a parody on the song "Love Hearts", by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, also performed by the Everly Brothers, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, Roy Orbison, Nazareth, Joan Jett, Cher, The Who, Keith Richards and Norah Jones, Rod Stewart, and of course, me.

  • Mike

Love Hearts: Lyrics and Chords (download)

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