Brawsome!

That’s right, the awesome people at IQ Publishing have got the Polish version on sale already! This is the first retail version of Jolly Rover to be released and features a ton of bonus art, and a high-quality version of the game music compiled into a soundtrack!

Work on the Italian translation has started and the German translation should begin soon. The Italian and German versions, unlike the Polish version, will be text only. I’m not too fussed about this as I think it’s good for people to hear the original actors.

There’s a Steam indie bundle coming some time at the end of November too, you should be able to pick up Jolly Rover along with some other cool games. Pretty sure I can’t release the names of those games now, but they’re so cool I might just pick up the bundle myself!

I’m pleased to finally be able to announce Brawsome’s deal with adventure game publisher Lace Mamba Global!

This deal is a worldwide exclusive deal with Lace Mamba for retail distribution and localisation into German, Spanish, Italian, Russian Polish and French. Brawsome is currently working with the publisher on the Polish localisation.

The retail version will come with exclusive extras including a high quality soundtrack and bonus concept and hi-res art as well as using uncompressed art assets for the game.

I personally couldn’t be happier with press and awards Jolly Rover has received, considering it’s a 2D point and click adventure; which is a credit to the awesome team that worked on the game. There’s been a lot of excitement around this announcement, and getting a physical copy of the game out there is a dream come true for me. Hopefully this will be allow me to keep doing what I love. Working with Lace Mamba is also really cool, as they really understand adventure games, and are a publisher of one of my favourite titles of last year – Machinarium.

Glenn Hayes, UK Sales Manager of Lace Mamba Global commented: “Jolly Rover is a fun, hilarious classic adventure game with dogs! The reviews have been good, and when we were presented with the opportunity to take this to retail worldwide we thought it would be lot of fun to work on a product of this sort!”

People can look forward to the Jolly Rover boxed version for PC & Mac in February 2011. The game can also be pre-ordered at Amazon and Play.com.

UPDATE: Just wanted to make a special mention of Polish publisher IQ Publishing, which is working me at the moment on FULL voice and text localisation. They’re really going the extra mile to make sure the Polish boxed version is extra special.

Know your Aye’s from your Arrrr’s this Talk Like a Pirate Day with a little help from everyone’s favourite pirate pooch – Jolly Rover.

To celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day, the award winning Jolly Rover will be setting sale for the practically piratical price of $4.99!  Sale starts Sunday the 12th of September and runs until Talk Like a Pirate Day on the 19th.

So be brushin’ up on yer pirate prose this Talk Like a Pirate Day with a copy o’ the award winnin’ Jolly Rover.

Well, it’s about time I posted some more news. The Best Australian Game award news has been up long enough!

The Jolly marketing machine has been slowing lately, but I recently had the pleasure of doing an interview with the Black Panel, which has been presented oh-so-nicely here.

Also a couple of other things I just found out recently. There’s an extended interview with me on Good Game and I made a brief appearance on Channel 10’s The Circle (27th of August, Andrew McLelland). I was also suprised at FreePlay by the folks from Making Stuff is Fun, who popped a mic in front of me and asked me some questions on the floor. Thanks guys!