Erica Gorochow

Really Beautiful design. Beams with a lot of love and attention to detail. The controller to play with your AppleTV is super cool!

I love mixed parts!

I should also mention @sal used playgrounds in swift to speed along the prototyping -- especially when it came to complexity regarding how colors would be dynamically generated. He solved a lot of complex problems that hopefully feel really simple when you play

@AJ - for one. We prototyped so much! We actually had two other color-centric games before we got to the petri dish / organic blob paradigm. We got so much wrong before we figured out what felt right. As an animator I would make simulations in after effects. We had this board: http://gorociao.github.io/projects/specimen.html where I would post iterations and updates to the game and visual...

1) What were some of the struggles you went through when deciding on how to price the game / monetization? Our priority was having as many people play Specimen as possible. We aimed to make something super casual. I am not a really even much of a gamer but casual games on my subway ride really appeal to me. Early on I saw a graph that showed the difference between charging 99 cents and 0 and...

2) Any thoughts on how to best stand out in the crowded mobile space? There’s so many different kinds of derivative work. Some of it “ugh” and some of it is really super creative. More like an awesome remix. I think digging deep and trying to find a genuinely original spin on anything, helps. We’re not the only color game out there (and we won’t be the last), but hopefully Specimen doesn’t...

3) What are your future plans for the game? We’ve got a lot of small tweaks and bug fixes to do. I want to make leaderboards more prominent. I think sharing a score that reflects something about the people around you, is deeply interesting. By the way, I hate when games spam, so while we are using facebook connect, we will never post on your behalf. In a 2.0 we want to give you back data about...

Hi! Erica here! Let's get to answering. I'll start with Russ' questions moving last to first. Charlie and Sal, the other two on Team Specimen are also here!

By the way - Facebook leaderboards are brand new. Good chance there's glory in connecting and playing if you wanna be on the global board. Oh and we promise we'll never spam or post on your behalf. :)

Hi! My name is Erica. I'm the designer on Team Specimen. We wanted to make something quick to pick up and beautiful. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you for playing!