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Black Powder Red Earth

About Me

Black Powder Red Earth is First Person Shooter under development by Echelon Software (Queens, NY). Echelon Software are: Jon Chang, Altay Murat, & Phil Smith. Smells Like: CounterStrike meets Ghost in the Shell.

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Gamespot is currently running a show called Indievelopment, a behind the scenes look at the development of a video game. Take an inside peek at Echelon Software as they create Black Powder Red Earth, a real group of guys building a real game RIGHT NOW. Click these links to catch up on recent episodes. New episodes coming out every Wednesday :Indievelopmenthttp://www.gamespot.com/shows/indievelopment/ index.html

My Blog

Teaser sites

http://www.cold-harbor.comhttp://expat2019.blogspot.comThere 's a lot more coming...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:35:00 GMT

2009 - first alpha test!

We've been busy. Very busy. Sorry we haven't been posting here...or anywhere really ^_^; We've had a lot on our plate...as usual, a lot of it we still can't talk too much about. One thing I can conf...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:26:00 GMT

Where’s the game play footage?

We get asked this question a lot. There's a very simple reason why we haven't shown any game play yet. We don't have any original animation in the game yet.For our testing purposes and tuning the loco...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Level, Game and Industrial Design

About 2 months ago we completed what is being called "Presentation". Presentation was a map that showed off the look and feel of the BPRE world, with graphics as sophisticated as we could make them an...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:57:00 GMT

Team updates...

We are sad to be losing Byungju from the team. He is leaving, hopefully temporarily, to return to Korea and pursue other educational opportunities.We also welcome Ed Chow, our new concept artist, to t...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:14:00 GMT

Prequel to GDC

GDC is this week and we’ll be there. Well at least I will be ^_^;I wanted to share a little of how the game has changed since you folks last saw it. One of the biggest changes is the multiplayer...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:13:00 GMT

2007 epilogue - 2008 prologue

Hola Amigoes.Last night Echelon celebrated being alive for a little more than a year. It's been a hell of a ride. The studio space is still open and we're actually paying our own rents. This in itself...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:16:00 GMT

2007 epilogue - 2008 prologue

Hola Amigoes.Last night Echelon celebrated being alive for a little more than a year. It's been a hell of a ride. The studio space is still open and we're actually paying our own rents. This in itself...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:16:00 GMT

New Echelon Software website.

We have a mailing list now :)j
Posted by on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:35:00 GMT

Been a while...

And we've been keeping very very busy.Unfortunately we're not at a point where he have a lot to share because we're still engaging in a process of discovery on many new game design elements.I will tel...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:27:00 GMT