Hey Misfits! (A Virus Named TOM/Chess the Gathering)

Gift #1: Our first of 3 prototypes is ready for you to try out, and man is it nerdy (Chess the Gathering). Go here for your Steam Key and let us know what you think (VERY EARLY PROTOTYPE) : http://ctg.misfitsattic.com/early-access?e= Learn to play with us devs this Wednesday 5-8pm PT!
Gift #2: Our indie dev friends over at Cipher Prime gave us their Splice Epilogue Soundtrack to give to you. Go here to snag yours: http://www.zerglink.com/z/albumAlgorithmsAndAngelology/ They also have a cool email list HERE.
A Virus Named TOM is coming to Mac & Linux! If you have a Mac or Linux machine, please help us test it. Sorry to the for the long wait, eggheads and hipsters, we're small and scattered :)
New Mailing: Now that we've got more going on than just AVNT, we've adapted these mailings to have more cool stuff (read below)
The Last Shadow (prototype #2) is alive! And we just added a VS mode (video here) for no apparent reason!
Scavenger/Duskers (prototype #3) just had it's first lines of code written, but they're awesome lines. I plan on making a video later today showing it's digital birth.
Indie Life #1: I filmed myself performing a ridiculous puppet show and it really blew up. Here's the 2 min video for those that wanna see me vent the frustration of explaining PC game development to friends bent on social & mobile.

The More Longer:

So Chess the Gathering is pretty much what it sounds like: if Chess and Magic the Gathering had a baby... in a dungeon (video tutorial). We paper prototyped it, took it to the PAX East tabletop area and to Kublacon. Amazingly Jess Conditt over at Joystiq covered us in this article, and the rest is all in our CTG video playlist. We have a rough prototype that we'd love feedback on, and a subreddit and steam group where you can give it :) Also jump on this Wednesday between 5-8pm PT to learn/play CTG with the devs!

So we always wanted to get TOM onto Mac & Linux, but we can only work on so many things at once, and our PS Vita port has taken a lot of our time. Luckily we found Ethan (@flibitijibibo) to help us out (you can help us test these versions by signing up here). We're hoping to have this ready in a few months! I'm pretty sure if you have AVNT for PC you'll get it for both when we release them, just have to set that up with Valve/Steam and the Humble Store.

So if you were on any of our mailing lists before, or ordered AVNT off our website, you're a Misfit! (our company name is Misfits Attic). So we'll try to keep the mailings infrequent (though hopefully not half a year apart like this time!) and full of more than just updates: early access to our games, discounts from other indies, and free stuffs! If you want a place to point your friends that may be into it, have them go here: http://games.misfits-attic.com/Sign-Up.html

So I knew the idea for The Last Shadow was a simple one, and probably the most like A Virus Named TOM (action-puzzler, maybe more action-stealth) but I never had time to prototype it. I went to an indie cabin and decided last minute to crank on it over the 2 days I was there and I got a prototype out of it :) Then the other day I added a VS mode (video) that everyone had a blast playing, so I'm really excited about it. I've never had a game so fun at such an early state! I hope to make it a unique experience by adding something a little unexpected in there, so stay tuned and we'll see if it works ;)

So we paper prototyped Scavenger (videos), then debated changing it's prototype name to either 'Dusker 318' or 'Duskers' (lemme know what you think in the comments, or on Facebook/Twitter). It's basically a mash-up of a dungeon crawler & tower defense game. You pilot drones into derelict spaceships to essentially loot them, while using the drones as turrets to prevent anything lurking in there from getting back to your ship. I just started the digital version (pictured above) at TIGjam, and will make a video this week.