One year ago on GTalk…

Sempaï
What will you get for Christel’s birthday?

Grungi
No idea…
You ?

Sempaï
select idea from Cadeau where cad_to = ‘Christel’ and cad_from = ‘Thomas’
0 rows selected

Grungi
XD

Sempaï
A game made in 48h?
topic : a game for Ephy
a tower defense angels vs demons

Grungi
…
I’m trying to shut off my brain not to even think about your suggestion.

Sempaï
You mean that you’d have the occasion of creating something original for Ephy…
Something that would test the possibility of a future project, and you would let it pass?

Grungi
The real question : WHEN ?

Sempaï
Dunno… after your holidays?

Grungi
Yeah but her birthday is the day after tomorrow…

Sempaï
One more “coupon for…” will not kill you

Grungi
Ok. Then let’s make a deal… We’ll do a “tri-coupon”.
(‘tri’, because Meririm doesn’t have any present idea as well, and I’m sure that we can convince her)

Sempaï
deal

Grungi
ok, I’ll check with her
haha
settled!
I hated you 5 minutes ago
Not anymore

Sempaï
^^ I’m a genius…

A bit later…

Grungi
(I was saying to Meririm, there’s something excellent)
(we already have our logo… and a team name)
(GSM productions…)
(Sounds good, doesn’t it?)

Sempaï
It makes us all closer

Grungi
XD

Sempaï
ok, let’s keep it

Grungi
XD hey that was a joke…
Anyway it’s a detail

Sempaï
not for me
it’s brilliant for a team name

Grungi
…Well ok then. By the way, it’s easy to pronounce.

So this is how everything started.

Well, this is not the first time we said that it was a birthday present that turned into a great adventure.
But it’s been a year since we pulled GSM Productions together, a year that the first lines of code were written, a year since the first graphics were created…

We’ve come a long way … even if you could not notice everything.

• We made an alpha release for Alun Hevel.
• Two prototypes resulting from LD20 were created and are still on their way.
• Bastien (Grungi) represented us at the Indie Dev Day and told us It knocked some sense into him.
• We have a website with a domain name (yes, yes, here you are!)
• …

And this is just to quote a few things…

The thing I’m most proud of is to have been able to create a viable project with some friends… and keeping the same friendship, or even make it stronger.

All this to say that we made a lot of progress, I think we can be proud of what we accomplished so far… even if the road ahead if still long… and so much the better!

And for that matter … with a little advance … Happy Birthday Ephy!