Welcome to the official website of Milkstone Studios. We are a small team of passionate game developers located on the north of Spain whose main goal is to bring back the joy of playing games. Remember when games had more fun and less bloom? We use advanced technology as an addition to the gameplay, but never as a replacement.
Motor Heat Work in progress video
Our current project, finally named “Motor Heat”, is almost finished. We’ve uploaded a new video which shows the gameplay and some extra graphics details. Available soon on the Indie Games Channel!
You can post any comments on the Youtube page or here, we’ll appreciate any suggestion.
Win a copy of Wool by participating on SFX-360 Game Night
The folks at SFX-360 are hosting tomorrow their first Game Night of 2010, featuring the game Left 4 Dead 2.
Just by participating, you can win some prizes, one of theem being a copy of our game Wool!
More details can be found on the official post: http://sfx-360.com/index.php?idGameNight=1
Work in progress Video
Here is a video of our current project, no name decided yet. Hope you like it.
Some things won’t change much, but others are in an early stage (specially background, cars and sound).
Wool has been updated, contest soon
An update for Wool has been made available. The two main features of this update:
- P2P High scores (They will be only available if you have a Gold profile and the full version of Wool).
- Now you don’t have to go back to the stage select screen after completing a level
Due to the P2P high scores feature, your previous high scores will be deleted (but not your progress).
Thanks to the P2P High scores, we can now hold a contest and give prizes. We’ll do it soon, meanwhile you can start training and pushing your scores, as they will be valid once the contest begins.
Remember that P2P scores can only be updated if you play the game at the same time that other people, so don’t worry if you can’t see other people scores yet, we’ll setup a server once the contest begins.
Wool appears in Co-Optimus
Wool has been mentioned in Co-Optimus as a coop Indie game worth checking out. You can check it out at the original article
Little Racers has been updated
An update for Little Racers has been made available. It features the following changes:
* Removed songs with potentially offensive lyrics, and added some new songs.
* Fixed the lobby UI when an online game has 7 or more players at the same time.
With this update, the game should be available again in the UK Marketplace.
Wool has been updated
An update for Wool has been made available. It features the following changes:
* Improved a lot UI performance, specially on the level select and high scores section, and when a level is finished
* Some other minor issues fixed
We have other update that will become available later which adds a new feature: Online high scores.
Wool reviewed on Resolution Magazine
Resolution Magazine has reviewed Wool. You can check it out at the original article
Wool sales numbers: An underwhelming response. Please help!
It’s been almost two weeks since Wool came out, and we’d like to share our sales numbers with you:
* Trials: 6972
* Purchases: 620
* Purchase/Trial Ratio: 8.89 %
Maybe as a first impression they could look good if you’re not into sales numbers for XBLIG, but trust us, they aren’t. Remember Wool is sold at the price of one dollar, so the revenue that we get per copy is very low. We published the game at that price in order to get more people to try the game.
Now that Wool is out of any of the lists on the Xbox dashboard, sales have dropped significantly, being only 12 last day. To tell the truth, Little Racers has sold more units yesterday than Wool, despite it’s been more than 6 months since its appearance.
We’ve tried everything that’s in our hand (and keep trying) to promote the game, with little success. We truly think the game is worth well more than a single dollar.
The game is rated 3.25 stars, a very low value for the quality and fun level we think the game offers for just one dollar. We don’t know the reasons behind this awfully bad results, and that’s why we’re asking you, our fellow users.
Our intention from the beginning was to bring high quality gameplay and fun to the Xbox Live Indie games channel, but it seems we’ve done something terribly wrong. We’re always trying to improve, but we can’t learn from our mistakes if we don’t know what was the mistake.
We’d like everybody that read this and have rated low the game (3 stars or less) to put a comment and tell us why. We need complete sincerity so please be as harsh as you want.
Wool reviewed on SFX 360
SFX360 has reviewed Wool, with a “7.4″ result. You can check it out at the original article
Projects
- Retro Game of the Week: Power Stone for Arcade and DreamCast (CAPCOM):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOWRIjKEzc2010/02/08 22:18 - Just to clarify (again): Motor Heat is NOT based on the Racing Starter Kit. We're not that kind of guys.2010/02/08 22:21
- Wool update is available now on #xblig. Remember, the main change is better suport for SDTV displays.2010/02/06 10:48
- RT @mooveon Review: Little Racers (XLIG). See video on
http://mooveon.net/article_41251295631852010/02/06 00:43 - Retro Game of the Week: Tekwar for PC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vho7k1qON_w2010/02/05 11:24 - I uploaded a YouTube video -- Motor Heat Work In Progress - 3
http://youtu.be/5_6ngJ53fok?a2010/02/05 00:02 - Wool Update Review progress is at 75%, almost there!2010/02/04 23:32
- Uploading a new Motor Heat WIP video2010/02/04 23:25
- A Wool update is on it's way. There's not much though, just more compatibility with SDTVs (no letterboxing) #xblig2010/02/03 18:10
- Remember, Motor Heat currently on playtest on XNA CC. Give it a ride and tell us your impressions #xblig2010/02/01 18:58