Well that was easy! Face Slapper passed review and ended up on the marketplace in a week. No ridiculous arguments with Xbox Live Indie Game (XBLIG) peer reviewers about how your game doesn’t conform to some stereotypical genre that “the community” approves of. Prison rape is to Xbox Indie Game peer review as a gentle massage is to Windows Phone review. Of course the downside is it might not make any money because it’s on Windows Phone. Hope springs eternal though. [Cringes at terrible expression].

Update: The spring has run dry.

Check out Face Slapper

For those of you who were expecting a bitchfest, don’t go yet! I had to cut background music for the initial version due to a deadline I needed to meet, which saddens me deeply. If Microsoft had done their job certifying that audio capabilities of all phones were to spec as they promised consumers and developers they would be, then I wouldn’t have needed to rewrite my audio code (which worked perfectly fine on Xbox and Windows). But that’s for another blog post.  Fortunately, I’m about to submit an update that adds music as well as some gameplay enhancements, and makes Face Slapper all it was meant to be.

[Update: Game now has music and high scores, and is all it was meant to be!]

The most difficult decision on this product was whether the main box cover feature should be an avatar planking on my ugly, ugly foot, or on the back of a cute mule.  My friends voted for the mule, but the foot really ties the art together!   I’m trying to see the box cover through the eyes of someone who doesn’t look at my feet every day.  Oh who am I kidding, I never pay attention to my feet, that’s why they’re so ugly.  But enough about me.

Here is the logo that we will use until the greatness is fully-gestated.

Where did I go to art school, you ask?  But enough about me.

This is a momentus day, because not only have I stayed up through the night to finish this site (and bring you an inaugural rhyme), but you can now subscribe via the little RSS feed icon above and get updates on the latest goodness Highbrow Games is working on!  I can promise you it will be ridiculous, crazy, awesome, suck balls, and/or some combination of the above.

We’ll also post updates about existing products – every few months when a random person crawls out from under a rock and gets offended by Barf and Beer, we’ll bring you the latest angry blog post from society.

Until the next post, peace and love!

[Update – we have a new logo now!]