Category: General

  • Fast Fiber!

    Since moving to our new offices back in September Spicy Horse has been limping along on a REALLY SLOW Internet connection. It’s felt sorta like a tin can connected to a guy in Mongolia who’s using smoke signals to relay packets to a shoddy Russian satellite. That’s on the days that it worked. But those…

  • Grimm on GameSpot UK

    Emma Boyes over at GameSpot UK has put together a nice interview piece where we talk about Grimm, digital distribution, and life in Shanghai. From the article: In 2006, McGee moved lock, stock, and barrel to Hong Kong and then on to Shanghai, where he set up his development studio Spicy Horse. From there, he…

  • One Year On…

    My head spins to think about everything that’s happened in the last year. On this date 1 year ago I left Lamma Island, Hong Kong and moved to Shanghai. The intent was to help my buddy Xin start his outsourcing company Vykarian, and to launch a new game studio of my own called Spicy Horse.…

  • Alice Halloween

    Spicy Horse artist Tyler Lockett did this Alice image in celebration of Halloween. Cool, huh?

  • Happy Halloween!

    Dear Insane Children,  Woooo! Halloween! Our favorite night of the year! Alex brings you a TREAT  – a further evolution of the Alice poster he’s working on. He says of this… Happy Halloween guys! I just wanted to get this one into you tonight, another WIP, and you can see this poster has turned into…

  • UE3 Level Designer Incubation

    My entrance into the game industry was a bit of pure luck. In 1993, John Carmack plucked me from an illustrious job as auto mechanic and dropped me into the role of tech support/tester at id Software. I was a high school drop-out with few prospects, a passion for games, and a strong desire to…