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Super Meat Boy has a lot of gaming references throughout. Are there any super obscure ones that not as many people are recognizing? McMillen: The whole reason for the references is me and Tommy said “Okay what do we want to make? “ And we talked about being 10-13 years old and being on the schoolyard and being huge fanboys about some game. Jan 09, 2019 Super Meat Boy is free for all. Today is your last day to get a free copy of Super Meat Boy from the Epic Game Store just for signing into your account. And if you don't have an account, signing. My first look at Super Meat Boy Forever was its trailer, beneath which commenters lament that it's an auto-runner—a sidescrolling platformer in which the character is always moving left or right.
Refenes at the 2012 Game Developers Conference | |
Born | June 14, 1981 (age 38) |
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Occupation | Video game designer, programmer Co-CEO of Team Meat |
Known for | Super Meat Boy |
Tommy Refenes is an American video game designer and programmer, best known for his work on the game Super Meat Boy, a platformer he co-created with designer Edmund McMillen.
Early life[edit]
Refenes began programming at the age of eleven, and has been doing so professionally since the age of 18,[1] initially contracting for a website whose owner had threatened to sue him over a parody Flash game he had made.[2] He dropped out of North Carolina State University; he later told gaming blog Brutal Gamer 'if you want to be a programmer, do not go to college.'[3]
Retrieved July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2017. From the original on July 13, 2017. Super meat boy vs binding of isaac. O'Connor, Alice (June 8, 2017).
Career[edit]
Refenes started at Seventy - Two DPI in August 2001 where he managed their website and servers. In August 2003 he was hired by Learning Station, where he developed server software and applications in Flash, C++, PHP, and ASP. In July 2005 he decided to shift to the computer game field and went to work for the now defunct Streamline Studios, where he assisted in optimizing and porting the Unreal 2.x engine from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360,[4] as well as assisting on the WiiWare title HoopWorld.[5] In May 2006, Refenes and Aubrey Hesselgren, a game designer, founded the company Pillowfort. Their first effort was a game they dubbed Goo!. In 2008 Goo! won the grand prize for Best Threaded Game in the 2008 Intel Game Demo Contest, and took third place for Best Game on Intel Graphics.[6] The game was canceled and Refenes left the studio in January 2009.
In 2009 he co-founded the company Team Meat with game and graphics designer Edmund McMillen, with Refenes acting as programmer and Co-CEO.[7]Super Meat Boy is the only game they have published together, and they are not expected to work on more projects together. Though Team Meat does continue work on Super Meat Boy: Forever,[8] McMillen has resigned from the team and is not expected to make a contribution to the project.[9]
Well, I was getting quite sick of this because it caused me to have to keep a folder window open, or have to manually open it and delete the file. So, instead, I went ahead and created a little program that is small, but gets the job done.What this program does is simply scan your computer for the savegame.dat file and delete it without the need of confirmation, or having to open a folder. Super meat boy unblocked. In addition, there is another button that will Launch your Super Meat Boy without having to navigate through the taskbar Steam Menu and selecting Super Meat Boy.Now, I want to stress that only myself and a few others have tested this program, and I believe to have worked out all the kinks.
Apple App Store controversy[edit]
In March 2010 at the Game Developers Conference 2010, Refenes criticized Apple's App Store, calling it 'awful' and 'horrible' and likened its games to the crude Tiger Electronics games that were popular in the 1980s and '90s.[10] Seven days after this speech was given, Apple pulled the game Zits & Giggles from the market.[10] Refenes had developed the game and sold it through the App Store in order to satirize what he considered to be the nonsensical nature of the App Store. In response to its removal he and McMillen launched the Super Meat Boy Handheld on the App Store. The game adopted the art style and gameplay of the Tiger handheld series of games. As Refenes described it, 'Super Meat Boy Handheld is all the branding of Super Meat Boy, without the actual gameplay or art from Super Meat Boy..and all for ONLY A DOLLAR.'[11]
Ludography[edit]
Title | Platform(s) | Release year | Notes |
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nail jesus to the cross!! | Flash | 2000[12] | |
Bitch Hunt | Flash | 2000[12] | |
Owl Country[13] | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows | 2008 | Voice Work, voices the owl |
Grey Matter | Flash | 2008[12] | |
Beat! Music Memory Match | iOS | 2009[14] | |
Free Money* Scratch n'Win[12] | iOS | 2009 | |
Zits & Giggles | iOS | 2009[10] | |
Goo[1] | N/A | 2009 | Cancelled |
HoopWorld[5] | Wii | 2010 | |
Super Meat Boy | Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox Live Arcade | 2010 | |
Mew-Genics[15] | Steam, iOS, Android | TBA | Development halted[16] |
Super Meat Boy Forever[15] | Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 | 2020 | In Development |
References[edit]
Super Meat Boy Newgrounds
- ^ abtimw (2008-04-21). 'The Weblog - Interview: Tommy Refenes (Goo!)'. indiegames.com. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
- ^'Anonymous asked: What was the first programming job/contract you had? I've read you started professionally at 18'. Yzc2NjQ1MzQyNDU2MjMyMz. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ^'Grillin' Super Meat Boy « Brutal Gamer'. brutalgamer.com. 2010-10-31. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
- ^'Tommy Refenes'. LinkedIn. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
- ^ ab'HoopWorld : BasketBrawl! - Credits'. Streamline Studios. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
- ^'Spotlight on the 2008 Intel Game Demo Contest Winners - Intel Software Network'. Intel Corporation. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
- ^'What is Team Meat?'. Team Meat. 2010-11-30. Archived from the original on 2010-12-23. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
- ^Devore, Jordan (2017-08-30). 'Super Meat Boy Forever is a 'true sequel' due out in 2018'. Destructoid. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^Phillips, Tom (26 September 2017). 'Super Meat Boy Forever and the return of Team Meat'. Eurogamer. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ abcTolito, Stephen (2010-03-19). 'Apple Bans Game, Days After Developer Publicly Trashes App Store'. Kotaku. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
- ^Rose, Mike (2010-04-04). 'Developer plays a joke on Apple with Super Meat Boy Handheld Super Meat Boy Handheld news'. Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
- ^ abcd'Tommy Refenes on Newgrounds'.
- ^'TIGSource: Owl Country'.
- ^'Gamespot - Beat! Music Memory Match'.
- ^ ab'Development of 'Super Meat Boy' on iOS Officially Halted, 'Mew-Genics' Release Now Priority'.
- ^'Anonymous asked: Is Mew-genics still a thing? I mean, a game about cats! Can't lose, right?'. Yzc2NjQ1MzQyNDU2MjMyMz. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
External links[edit]
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- Tommy's user page at Newgrounds