Anime, cosplay and jewelry

Been a busy couple of months here at Skyride Studios.  Some exciting new announcements:

First off, Anime.  Not sure how many of you watch or are interested in anime, but today we have locked down the final letter of intent for casting our video game.  Although we don't want to announce quite yet who we have until contracts are signed, we do have some of the biggest names in american anime voice acting.  (10 to be exact) and we can't wait to let everyone know who they are.

Secondly, cosplay.  Since our voice actors are from the anime world, we want to add some things to our video game that other companies have yet to do.  Cosplay.  We hired a fashion designer (the incredible Lisa Bryne) to put together a outfit based on our Lielah character:

And this is the result of a month of crafting, sewing and fittings:

We are proud of the efforts of everyone involved in making this concept art a reality.

And last but not least is jewelry.  If you notice in that last photo, the necklace being worn isn't just any run of the mill necklace.  It was custom made by Jenny Ming Tu.  It's a locket that opens up with a USB drive inside pre-loaded with a copy of the game.  Best part of all for people who aren't fond of necklaces?  It also has the ability to turn into a bracelet and will be available as a special boxset once the game is released.

Why are we doing all this you may ask?  We are testing out some of our marketing strategies before hand, so if you like what we are doing or have questions, feel free to email us at: will@skyridestudios.com and we'd love to hear your feedback.

Other than that, keep an eye out later this month for details about our cast members.  See you later, screen slavers.

E3, X-update and other stuff.

Helloooo.

Sorry for the long time silence.  It's been pretty crazy.

Mostly we were swept up in the E3 trailers this year while we continued work on our own game.

Here's a small list of games we saw that we are excited for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SNPdiny3A0
We've been waiting a good few years for this to come out and can't wait to play it.  Someday we hope our games look as good if not better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWO3KL9uybg
Tomb Raider always knocks it out of the park and this new game looks nothing short of amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TjUPXAn2Rg
In an attempt to make a video game look and feel like a old style cartoon, Cuphead just looks plain fun.




and last but not least;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6qhcxQbgwg
Got to love the idea behind this game and the crazy possibilities it can hold.



But that's enough talk over other games, let's get back to the most important.....ours. haha.

Lately we've been working on coding and trying to get some sort of gameplay started while we work on modeling our characters.  Soon, we'll show you what those look like and see them in the game but for now you'll just have to wait.

In our attempts to make this the greatest game we can while also letting as many people play it as possible, we are excited to announce we have not only applied for, but got into the Microsoft program:

(Independent developer at Xbox)

This means a few things:

1.  We get access to their middle-ware to develop with and implement
2.  We get up to 2 Xbox one developer kits
and C.  We to release our game on the Xbox marketplace with means anyone with a Xbox will be able to play our game, not limiting us to only PC anymore!

*Confetti*


We are super excited and this lights many new fires in our hearts to get you the best content we can as quickly as we can.  This has been a long time dream and we are glad it is now a reality.

Well, now back to the game.  Wishing you all a fun and safe 4th of july!