Trish took top honors at Destructoid’s diorama contest. Congrats to all who participated. Your work was fantastic!

See her work here:

Go vote for your favorite entry in Destructoid’s Mushroom Men Diorama Contest!

Snagging some new fans for Mushroom Men at We The People, a day-long music festival in Los Angeles.

Mushroom Men at We the People

I’m amazed at how quickly little kids pick up this game. People came into Gamecock’s tent and let their children play the game. It’s encouraging that the game is accessible enough for a 5-year-old to pick up while remaining engrossing enough for their parents to play through.

Mushroom Men at We The People

The big projector beside Les Claypool’s stage displayed our logo during his set.

Destructoid is giving away this sweet Mushroom Men-themed bass guitar, signed by Les Claypool. All you have to do is create a Mushroom Men diorama. Arts and crafts time!

1Up says this about Mushroom Men:

The other big hit of the night was Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars, which releases in November. The game’s biggest fan was likely Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s son Michael, who could not put the game down — and he’s only four years old!

At the Austin Game Developer’s Conference.

New contest at Destructoid

September 5, 2008

Destructoid is offering up a kick-ass bass guitar signed by Les Claypool himself and other great Mushroom Men prizes to the best Mushroom Men diorama. See details at their site.

GoNintendo picked up the story, too. I like the comments on their site. Glad someone realized that we’re really interested in sparking creativity.

PAX 08 Coverage

August 30, 2008

CEO Dan Borth, Producer Chad Barron and Art Director Kris Taylor are at PAX 08 this week.
Red Fly Studio at PAX

Gamecock had old-fashioned stand-up-style cabinets constructed to show off the games. Pretty sweet!

Pretty cool cabinet

The first posts from reviewers and bloggers are already online.

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Brad Gallaway speaks well of Mushroom Men in his Drinking Coffeecola blog.

GameZone got their hands on the game at PAX, too. Sounds like they had a good time.

Several sites picked up the news about the results of the Mushroom Men fanfic contest at Space Squid.

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Visit Space Squid’s original contest page.

Red Fly at Leipzig

August 20, 2008

Red Fly at Leipzig, originally uploaded by Red Fly Studio.

Art Director Kris Taylor will be the cameraman this week as Producer Chad Barron (left) and Studio CEO Dan Borth (in the Keep Austin Weird shirt) attend this year’s Leipzig Game Convention.

Dan catches his breath in CDV's booth

Dan catches his breath in CDV’s booth.

Pretty cool rig to demo the DS game

Producer Chad Barron demonstrates Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi at the Leipzig conference.