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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 Leftovers in German speaking countries. So much for the updates, Greetings, Stamm

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 comic artist Sebastian Stamm. Sebastian is an illustrator and animator, born in the deep dark forests of Frankonia. At Black Pants Studio, he … Read More

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 introduction. The game is about a nerdy guy called Tiny, who’s only heirloom of his dear grandpa (a nice pair of white, fine … Read More

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 level-ish shape and kept growing rapidly. Furthermore, Black Pants Studio has absorbed another human being. From now on, full-time level designer and officialese member, … Read More

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 3 of the 6 planned levels. We also recently finished a nice „secret“ tutorial for you to learn how to use the following tools, which can … Read More

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 demo “Up That Mountain“. Perhaps it was some kind of weird destiny to fail that deadline, because who knows whether that old demo would have brought … Read More

…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 over, and it’s been a blast! We met so many nice people, and the IGF atmosphere was exhilarating. If you are an indie developer, you should definitely consider … Read More

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 levels from Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers exclusively at our booth at the IGF pavilion. It’s located at HALL B / Expo Hall (Moscone South), be … Read More

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, well, appreciation of the IGF jury. That nomination hit us like a big comet of love, right in the metaphorical balls! I remember waking up to a … Read More

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 nitty-gritty character, he prefers Velcro® fastener on his footwear). Unless stolen, he normally wears one specific pair of underwear and likes his … Read More