Category: Developer’s Blog

SXSW 2016

GoatPunks was Nominated for Best Multiplayer for the Gamers Voice Awards at SXSW 2016 and was invited to showcase at the Game Expo. Arrived in Austin Texas on Wednesday, it was raining, cold and dead quiet. Did I get the place right? Judging by the weather reports before I left I thought it was suppose to…

PAX Australia 2015

Only a month after coming back from Tokyo Game Show I’m now setting up and getting ready for PAX Australia. The week prior to PAX was a host of events under the label Melbourne International Gaming Week. The first of which was Unite, featuring all kinds of talks associated with developing in Unity. Lots of great…

Tokyo Game Show 2015

Tokyo Game Show was pretty epic. It had been a couple of year since my last trip to Japan. I had come to do an art exhibition in Harajuku that time. I had made a conscious decision to only come to Japan if there were a pretty good reason and not just for the sake…

GDC San Francisco 2015

Without a moments rest straight from Amsterdam now San Francisco. First day saw the Golden Gate Bridge, check. Saw the view of the San Francisco from Twin Peaks, check. Saw some art in parks, check. Saw some crabs at fisherman’s wharf and some sea lions, check. Saw Yoda, Check. Sight seeing done. Now onto the GDC.. they…

Casual Connect Amsterdam 2015

I had know idea what I was getting into when I was invited to attend the Casual Connect in Amsterdam. The flight to get there was 24 hours, the last 3 hours got pretty intense. I ended up getting a fever as soon as I touched down in Amsterdam. Mann.. it was cold. coming from Australia’s…

Happy Chinese New Year

Its the Year of the Goat and we are celebrating with new artwork for the New Year. Stay tuned for more updates and new features.

Toy models

Its hard to believe that you can create 3D printed toys in your own home these days. Were living in the future! Its taken me a couple of days to print and paint these GoatPunk toys, but in retrospect thats still a lot faster than getting them sent off to Shapeways for printing and discovering…

GoatPunks Cardboard Horns for Headphones

I had this idea to create horns for headphones. Initially I was going to use plastic to create the horns but I though I might try and keep the design simple enough to produce cheaply and easily. These would be nice as promotional giveaways and I guess once they have outlived their purpose you can always…

Creating GoatPunks

GoatPunks is solo indie project by Alberto Santiago GoatPunks started as a hobby project driven by the curiosity to see if I could make a quick and simple game. A year and a half later It ended up becoming enormously huge relative to what I was originally intending. This project was a spin-off from an idea I had…