ArcShock Game Studio

Goodbye, Steve Jobs...

(moonyeom) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:54:12 +0900

Steve Jobs went back to his planet
It's the end of an era
Peace and rest to you
Good bye, hero

The source of the image : www.apple.com

[Making Diary] Started making [Sand Castle] commercial version.

(mrkwang) — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:40:51 +0900

* Written by moonyeom, translated by mrkwang. Original Korean post is here.*

It's already July, and now the time to make Commercial version of [Sand Castle].

I got good lessons from making freeware version, and will make better game at now.

For 1 month of July, I'd decide basic game system - design concept.

I will start Programming from August.

For programming, I'll develop main engine / tool first.

After finish making of engine / tool, will produce game data, and... Client is almost Free to make. (^-^);

[Sand Castle - Prelude] is featured in Pixel Prospector!

(mrkwang) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:52:16 +0900

Thanks to Pixel Prospector, [Sand Castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories] is featured on that site! It even has FULL VIDEO WALKTHROUGH until last 15 stage, and sent us good feedback via e-mail!

Thanks again!

Link :
Pixel Prospector [Sand Castle] page.

[Sand Castle - Prelude] is made by Delphi.

(mrkwang) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:57:55 +0900

Hi. This is mrkwang of Pig-Min Agency, who supports Korean Indie Game to go abroad.

I'd like to announce 1 important thing.
[Sand Castle - Prelude] is made by Delphi.

Yup. That's the important thing.
...
Sorry, that's too short? :)

I'm not programmer, so don't know many things about programming. However as I know, many people uses C or similar to that, and Delphi is somewhat unusual for game programming. ([Act of War] was made by Delphi, and... ?)

In fact, moonyeom(CEO of Arcshock) is very good at Delphi, and famous for that in Korea. He was even co-founder of Korean Delphi community 'Delmadang' over 10 years ago, still working. He could do several kind of programming language, but main is Delphi, so used it to make [Sand Castle - Prelude].

So... If you're looking for some game made by Delphi, here it is.

P.S. : You could ask moonyeom about that more, through reply of this article or e-mail to Pig-Min Agency.

What does ArcShock(moonyeom) do these days?

(mrkwang) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:23:09 +0900

Hi. This is mrkwang of Pig-Min Agency, who supports Korean Indie Game to go abroad. I'd like to write recent news about ArcShock(moonyeom).

He's busy.

Well. Seems to be some kind of joke, but it's real. I'd like to introduce how he lives.

- Main Job : Paid
- Part-time job 1 : Paid
- Part-time job 2 : Paid
- Sand Castle project : Still-not-paid, and not-sure-when-paid

To my sad, even if [Sand Castle] is a good game, it doesn't earn any money until now for all of us. He has a family & baby to feed(See Indiecade photo for his 1-year-old baby!), so must do something to earn fortune first. And in fact, he's kinda genius & lucky guy (even if we don't count Game making & Guitar instrumental), and could get another paid Part-time job.

We assume his busy work could end within June, and could stick to make newer version of [Sand Castle] once again.

Anyway if you liked [Sand Castle - Prelude], I have a tiny request.
Please share information about this game, with your friends / community / twitter / blog / ... etc.

Even if we can't earn a lot of fortune from this game fast, we'd like to get Feedback / Review / Contact / Friendly letter (or mention or reply). We need them to make next version of this game much better!

Thanks for reading.
And if possible, please keep on supporting Indie!

[Sand castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories] at E3 via Indiecade Showcase!

(mrkwang) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:02:46 +0900

As we posted press release, [Sand Castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories] was chosen for Indiecade Showcase at E3. We really wanted to go there, but can't go. However Inven writer Roman got those pictures for all of us!

Press Coverage : [Sand castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories]

(mrkwang) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:59:23 +0900

Pixel Prospector : DB for [Sand Castle - Prelude]
(2010/06/30)
- "An overall nice and relaxing game with fine acoustic music."
- With that DB, more gamers will enjoy [Sand Castle - Prelude]. Thanks Pixel Prospector!

DIYGamer : IndieCade Showcase: ‘Sand Castle’ [E3]
(2010/06/17)
- "The game gets an immediate indie gold star for being both simple and fun..."
- Full of high praises! Thanks DIYGamer!

Wolfire Games blog : Reporting from E3
(2010/06/17)
- "There were quite a few awesome games on display but the ones I really sunk my teeth into and enjoyed were Miegakure, Hazard: Journey of Life, Sand Castle - Prelude and Puzzle Bots. Maybe in a future post I can talk about them more."
- Even if it's just mentioned little, many people visited us through that! Thanks Wolfire!

fcenter (Russia) ; <Their article, which we can't read>
(2010/06/03)
- Our game [Sand Castle - Prelude] is featured on that time table. Go little bit below & you can find it. Thanks fcenter!

Gamestar (Hungary) : <Their article, which we can't read>
(2010/05/31)
- Even if we can't read Hungary language, we could see many gamers from Hungary are interested in our game! Thanks Gamestar!

Inven (Korean) : Sand Castle Review by Korean local writer
(2010/04/30)
- Our friend Vito at Inven did Nice review for us. Thanks Vito!

Sand Castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories

(moonyeom) — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:55:37 +0900

Sand Castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories
(OS : Windows only)

Game Download (FilePlanet)
Game Download (FileFront)
Music Download (Last.fm)
Music Down load (FileFront)
* When you mention this game, please link to this Notice, not direct link to file! *

This is Physics Puzzle game,
with Hundreds of sands dropping.

This is prelude / preview of future release,
which will sold at reasonable price.
This is Freeware.

And if you want to link us, please use these banners. :)

[Sand Castle] is mentioned at press / blogs!

Readme.txt (Click to open)

YouTube version of trailer

Vimeo version of trailer

Game Download (FilePlanet)
Game Download (FileFront)
Music Download (Last.fm)
Music Down load (FileFront)
* When you mention this game, please link to this Notice, not direct link to file! *

Banner for [Sand Castle - Prelude].

(mrkwang) — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:42:50 +0900

We made some [Sand Castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories] Banners for several reasons. If you want to use them to link to us, please do that. :)

125 * 125 (square)

460 * 60 Banner

160 * 600 Skyscraper

Press release : Free to download, great unique Indie Game music MP3s!

(mrkwang) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:49:40 +0900

Free to download, great unique Indie Game music MP3s!
Physics Puzzle Freeware [Sand Castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories] released Soundtrack to download for free.

Seoul, South Korea - June 3rd. 2010 - Good chance to download 6 great guitar instrumental songs for Indie Game. Those songs were released through Last.fm(http://www.last.fm/music/moonyeom/SandCastle:Prelude) first, and later zipped & uploaded to Filefront(http://www.filefront.com/16457819/SandCastle_OST.zip/).

[Sand Castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories] is Physics Puzzle game, with Hundreds of Sands dropping. Could remind of [Auditorium] from this game, but very different style. (Ray vs Sands) 15 stages - 6 great guitar songs featured, all free to download.

mrkwang(admin of Pig-Min Agency) recollects about these music. "I was surprised that moonyeom(Husband of Arcshock) is not only a good programmer, but also a good guitar based musician. Late of 2009, I heard his song for the first time when he showed me prototype of [Sand Castle]. It was intro of the game, when music appeared & disappeared. I got shocked, doubted if I listened wrong, and asked him to play that game intro once again. I wasn't wrong. His music was so good! After that, he even made 4 more short part for trailer only, and made them full length songs within 1 day!"

mrkwang adds. "I had been selling Korean Indie Music CDs abroad around 10 years, kinda professional about them. His music is great, and reminds me of '500won project(http://www.last.fm/music/500won+Project/Um+Han)'. It was another Internet hit classic, which I published demo 8 years ago, still people listens! Both shares something, truly indie / very lo-fi / roommade / guitar based instrumental. Just the different parts are, '500won project' was early 21st. century music & moonyeom released music for his own game. Anyway I decided to release MP3s through last.fm, because music fans also have right to enjoy these great tunes!"

It's made by Korean Indie Game team Arcshock, which are Husband & Wife team, truly Homemade.

This is Prelude / Preview of future release, which will be sold at reasonable price. And we'd appreciated any kind of feedback, including Review / Preview / Mention. We need data as many as possible to improve our future work.

More information (Screenshot / Youtube / Game download) : http://arcshock.com/en/entry/Sand-Castle-The-Faded-Memories-Prelude-2

PR contact : mrkwang@pig-min.com (Pig-Min Agency)

About Arcshock :
Husband(moonyeom) & Wife(komagi) team in Korea, with over combined 20 years of Korean game development experience. Always wanted to make game, but Korean gaming scene is too online-based, so had hard time to make what then wanted. With Indie project Arcshock, their dream come true. Released 1st. game [Sand Castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories] at Apr 2010, around 2,000 downloads happened around 1 month.

About Pig-Min Agency :
Pig-Min was 4-years-old Indie Game blog webzine for Korean, and decided to support Korean Indie Games to go abroad from 1 year ago, under the name of Pig-Min Agency. [Sand castle - Prelude : The Faded Memories] is 2nd. work by them, and 1st. work was [Cut & Paste] by Turtle Cream.