Announcement Blog - European Video Game Funding
Good news, everyone! Last week we received a surprising email from Brussels. Christian’s game concept for a new title called “Mississippi Blues” has been chosen for funding from the …
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Murmel The Drunk Chef
So there are these awesome people from the School of Arts and Design in Kassel, who have a comedy film project where people have to compete in a cooking duel while being more or less wasted. Our very …
Leschek's Flug Awarded "Best Independent Comic 2014"
Awesome news on the comic front! It is an honor to report that the Black Pants Adventure Comic Lescheks Flug won “Best Independent Comic 2014” at the International Comic Salon Erlangen. In …
Murmel's Blog - DCP 2014
It's me again, and this time it is only a short update. The Stage Last week our Symmetrain friends Daniel and Philipp plus Christian and I (for Black Pants) went to Munich for the "Deutscher …
Murmel goes A Maze.
Hey folks, It’s been too long! Two hours ago I boarded a bus (with god-awful internet connection) to Berlin to visit the A Maze. Indie Game Festival. I have been waiting for this day since …
Tiny & Big goes to school
In addition to receiving a Silver Pädi last year, for being valuable for kids, Tiny & Big now even gets mentioned in a German school book. Book cover The article is from the DCP website and is the …
Besuch
In a cooperation with not only our local university, Universität Kassel, but also the bib International College we were joined by a group of future game designers, developers and artists on monday. As …
3D-Tiny
Hey folks! We recently had access to a 3D-Printer and made a little 3D-Tiny. Here are photos from the first try: Printer Printing... 3D-Tiny
Tiny Steam Machine For Tiny & Big
Christian and Jones went to the Steam Developer Days last month and they brought home a special gift. Here are some photos of our awesome Steam Machine: Steam Machine box Steam Machine box open Steam …
Stamm artwork for ARTE
Stamm was asked by ARTE to draw a wallpaper for their online magazine ARTE Creative. They also wrote a feature on him (in German). You can go over there and download the wallpaper or get it directly …
Murmel's Blog Goes Berlin - Call Of BOLU Edition
It’s time for El Blogerino again! After having worked with the Black Pants for a few months now and getting to know my fields of work in Kassel (which still get more complex and exciting) the …
Stamm is everywhere
This son of a gun did it again! Mr. Stamm got some love and praise for his work. Leschek’s Flug (Leschek’s Flight soon to be released as English E-Book version!) got mentioned in this …
Dude! Sweet!
Hey there chocolate lovers of the world! Look what a nice promotional gift reached the Black Pants HQ this week: BP Chocolate BP Chocolate close-up I bet it won't stay in the nice packing for very …
Tiny & Big Modkit
Hello folks, this is Murmel, live from the Pantalones Negros HQ, Some famous person once said: everything is better with laser…or was it bacon? Never mind! The point is: we have a cool tool out …
Black Pants at Spielsalon Kassel
As you can read in my blog, all of the Pants were at the Spielsalon Kassel last week. But not all of them were just there to have fun. Some had to work and here is what they did: Christian was part of …
Murmel's Blog - Spielsalon Edition
Hello my dear readers, Disclaimer: This might be a long one, it was an awesome time! I am back with a blog and it has a theme: Spielsalon Kassel 2013. The Spielsalon is an expo/festival/party for …
Murmel's Blog #4
My dear readers, MARKETING - what a terrible word, isn’t it? One of my duties here at Black Pants is to find ways to make more people aware of our games, so our artists and programmers can live …
Pädi Awards 2013
We are proud to tell you that Black Pants as only Studio won two Pädi Awards this year. The Pädi Awards have been around since 1997 and we stand in a long line of winners. Pädi awards games that are …
Murmel's Blog #3
Hello my dear readers, Sorry for not writing sooner. It’s Monday morning and I am sitting in the Black Pants office all by myself, so I thought: Let’s write a little. First off there will …
Talk and Play Berlin
The Talk and Play event in Berlin was a cool experience for Tobi and Stamm, they sent me some pictures to upload, so here we go! Cheers, Murmel First row The screen There are people! Fixin' the …
Tobi at OpenTechSchool Berlin
Tobi will talk about making games tonight at the OpenTechSchool event in Berlin. If you are interested in games and how they are made you can see him at Adalbertstr. 7-8, Berlin-Kreuzberg. The Event …
Murmel's Blog 2
Heyo, friends of the pants! It’s Murmel again, live from the Black Pants HQ. I recently visited Rotopolpress. They are a publishing house based in Kassel and they are the ones who publish …
Murmel's Blog
Hello world, My name is Florian, but my friends have called me “Murmel” for as long as I can think. Murmel is the German word for marble and that’s all I can really tell you. I can’t remember, why …
Gamescom 2013!
Attention everyone, a little brigade from Black Pants Studio will be at the Gamescom in Cologne, Germany from 21.-25.08.2013. After working sedulously on his first personal game project Symmetrain, …
Humble-bundled!
Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers is included in the Humble Indie Bundle 8 for the next 7 days! We are honored (humbled, even! sorry.) to be included amongst this awesome selection, I mean, …
Tiny & Big: Grandpa's Leftovers released upon the world!
Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers is now available for download after being purchased using strings of bits that represent cash. You can support us directly via the Humble Store Widget …
Tiny & Big: Grandpa's Leftovers is coming to Steam!
We have a pretty big announcement: Tiny & Big’s first episode (since episode 0) will be released June 19th on Steam, for both PC & Mac! Tiny & Big on Steam The retail release will be …
Crimson Cow and Black Pants!
Ladies and Gents! YAYHAR! We’ve found a great partner in Crimson Cow, a little, niftey publisher from Hamburg. They are going to cover retail distribution of Tiny and Big: Grandpa’s …
Thanks for the feedback and the Testing and everything else!
Hello Everybody, since our last release of Tiny & Big: Up that Mountain! (VERSION 0.6), we received lots of fine, helpful feedback. We just want to bow our heads and say thanks to every human who …
The guys behind Tiny and Big: Sebastian Stamm (comic artist)
Cheers fellow indie friends, we've prepared a series of articles "The guys behind Tiny and Big" to introduce you the core team of Black Pants that is working on Tiny and Big. Todays focus is on our …
Tiny & Big - Grandpa's Leftovers Introduction
Cheers fellow indie friends, this article is for all you guys and gals out there who didn’t stumble upon our game Tiny and Big - Grandpa’s Leftovers, yet. We would be glad to give you a short …
Screens of progress and the news!
Dearest friends of Tiny & Big, behold! It’s been a good while since our last update, but things are going swell. Over the past 3 months, the levels have been assuming more and more of a …
What we'll bring to Gamescom Part I
Hello everybody, to celebrate the upcoming GAMESCOM event in our good ol’ home country Germany, we want to give you an overview of what we’ll bring to the exhibition. Currently we’re close to finish …
The incredible festival march!
We started flirting with the IGF more than one year ago, when we just missed the submission deadline for its 12th installment by approximately two months. Back then we wanted to submit our prototype …
And the Winner is...
…not us! Yet we are! It’s crazy! The Best Student Game award went to FRACT, and it’s completely deserving, no question about that! So congratulations Richard, keep it up! GDC is now …
Grandpa's Leftovers at the IGF San Francisco!
Hey everyone! We've landed the Pantsjet and arrived safely at the GDC in San Francisco. After wrestling the monster of crunch for the last few weeks, we're proud to showcase the first couple of …
Going to San Francisco
Having stomached the initial (pleasant) shock that was our nomination for the IGF Student Showcase, it’s up to me to write some words about it. It feels awesome, and we really appreciate the, …
Back Front Side View Of His Laserness Himself!
To go along with our redesign post, here's a final character sheet of Tiny in bloom and with equipment loaded. The little mugger has a size of 5.24 real human feet and a shoe size of 11(as a …
Final Tiny Ready To Be Served In Full Color!
Since our first release of the beta of Tiny and Big: Up that Mountain, we always wanted to advance Tiny's character design for the final game episode Grandpa's Leftovers. It's been about time to …
Yep, You Can...
Thanks to you, Tiny and Big is now one of the top 100 nominated games for the Indie of the Year Awards! And once again, we are asking for your kind support by voting in the final round to push Tiny …
Thanks everyone!!!
We were pretty much overwhelmed by the tons of spiffy feedback we received regarding our new trailer. The responses have been a huge motivational boost to make a unique game which helps us through …
The Quoness Of The Status
Time for a summary of what's going on right now, right here at The Pantsagon! Let's start a couple of months back, just after we released the demo of Tiny & Big. We sat together joyfully, as we …
Got Funding
After a long lasting battle and almost endless weeks and months between hope and fear, finally a happy end. We ensured funding for the next twelve months, as the Federal Ministry of Economics and …
London Calling!
Greetings, everyone out there! Our little delegacy of three is back from London. Our heads are still swirling from all the input we got, but nevertheless, it felt good to take some days off from the …
Indie Games Arcade Coming Up Next Week
A quick reminder: Tiny&Big - Up that Mountain! is featured in the Fantastic Arcade Showcase this weekend). While this is a really awesome thing for us, there is something which makes us feel even …
Tiny & Big Hits The Festival Circuit
While we are spending our nights and days on the brand new Tiny and Big episode, the beta-demo is featured at its first game festival. So if you are near Texas between the 23rd and 30th of September, …
Tiny And Big Theater
Welcome to the Tiny and Big cinema! A good story based game needs cutscenes. That's the reason why we are developing a scriptable scenario feature for Tiny and Big. Our goal is to provide an easy to …
Back In The Game
We had to take some time off after releasing the second beta of Tiny & Big - Up that Mountain, and didn't find time to update the site since then. The reason why we're so busy was mainly our quest …
Tiny Telegraph Newsletter No.1
 Greetings everyone! It`s been about time to throw a big THANKS on your screens, thanks for all the great feedback and mails you send us. This`ll all help us to make an awesome game! …