The Making of Gesundheit!

By: Brandon McCartin (BMcC)

On: September 17th, 2008

Matt Hammill, funky, fearless creator of IGF Student Showcase nominated Gesundheit!, has been a busy, busy man. After IGF (which was fun, man — sucks I got sick!), he finished school, joined an animation studio, and even released a children’s book. Which is all thoroughly rad (congrats, Matt!), for sure, but, let’s be honest, what we here at TIGS want is more of that super cute, hand-drawn, homemade gaming goodness. Thankfully, he’s been “pluggin’ away” at that too!

Just recently he did a little making-of feature on Gesundheit! for Game Developer Magazine’s fall Game Career Guide, which you can find right here. It’s got design sketches, fun mock-up artwork, and useful reflections on the game development process, specifically working with AGS. Groovy.

Update: He’s also got a collection of misc. game art he’s done up on his personal site. Bonus grooviness.

Posted in Developers, IGF / GDC, Interviews | Tags: MattHammill

undertech

It was a great read. Very insightful. Also, the fact that he used a recorder for his music is a win in my book.
Tanner

Now finish it, damn it.
Only kidding.

Kind of.
Quetz

Quite awesome. I regret that I hadn’t checked this game out until it was posted in a small list of freeware games on indiegames.com a couple weeks ago. Also, seconding Tanner.
Quetz

Oh and you spelled Matt Hammill wrong for the tag!
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

**@Quetz:** And everywhere, yikes! I was being rushed out the door as I was writing this post… Thanks! :)
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

(Fix’d.)
cswat

that’s so awesome. its like reading a story about myself when competing for the make something unreal competition in 2004. line for line. organized assets and a good month of scripting tutorials would’ve helped immensely. i still haven’t figured out a great core way to organize. anyway, the sense of accomplishment you feel after taking on such a huge project like that, alone, is immense. not even considering that it paid my rent for the following year :D
xerus

This post is rad.
Gainsworth

This is AWESOME news. I thought maybe Gesundheit had stopped. No news was bad news. And now this! Rad news indeed.

Joy.
http://lumberingdream.com/ !CE-9

loving the pixel Beatles.

and all.