There are a number of unspoken assumptions in the burgeoning sphere of Christian gaming and most of them are both harmful (to the effort) and inaccurate. One of them is that the only way games and Christ could be in the same room would be in didactic and preachy games, a kind of specialized edutainment…
I’ve always imagined Soma Games as a transmedia company. In fact I have a version of our logo that says Soma Media. While we’ve spent the majority of our time making games we’ve also dabbled in comics, fiction and video all along the way. For example have you seen the G inspired music video and…
Recently we sat down as a team to look back on our experiences at GDC 2016. Our immersive G Prime booth was a big hit at the conference, though being non-immersive, our booth stood in stark contrast to the almost inescapable promotion of VR (make sure to check out our micro-documentary, “People Wearing Headsets“!) For us…
This week on Flurry Friday… We asked and you answered – here are the results of the Redwall Gameplay Poll! Also are you on Snapchat? So are we! Come see what’s “snap”-pening daily at the Soma office with John B! (see what we did there? That was funny because we used the word “snap” like…
I was tasked with making an Android build of a project I worked on. During the ‘Repackaging Resources’ step, a dialog box appeared with an error message: “CommandInvokationFailure: Failed to re-package resources. See the Console for details.” In the console were two errors, which were identical except one had a Unity error prefix at the…
This week on Flurry Friday… What did we see at The Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2016? VR headsets, tons of foot traffic, VR headsets, overwhelmingly positive feedback on our immersive G Prime booth, and headsets for VR! We also added in a dash of our micro-documentary: “People Wearing Headsets”. 0:20 – Set up 1:30 –…