We’ve just finished localising Coconut Dodge for release in Japan!

It looks like it was always meant to be…

We need help
None of us can read, write or speak Japanese, and so we are looking for someone to help us promote the game in Japan and share a percentage of the sales revenue!

The PSP is still doing serious business in Japan (even outselling Nintendo’s shiny new 3DS!), so there is potential for the game to do really well, but it has no chance without someone making a big song and dance about it.

Specifically, we’re looking for people to do the following:

1) Post up videos and articles about the game and the PlayStation Home items on Japanese gaming websites.

2) Submit game promo codes to Japanese games press.

3) Hang around on games forums answering questions about the game, including the Official PlayStation Forums.

4) Help us think up and execute wacky ideas to help give the game the attention it deserves. As an example, we did a ton of interviews and articles, and shot this video which helped a lot!

Can you help?
We’re not looking for professional marketing specialists necessarily, but someone who can write well in both English and Japanese, someone who likes the game, and someone who can act as FuturLab’s ambassador for the game in the SCEJ territory!

Can anyone help?

If you’re interested, please get in touch directly with me: james@futurlab.co.uk

Thanks for reading!

Why not visit PlayStation Home next Thursday and secure yourself an Invincibility Viking Helmet!

Or a Classy Coconut Hat?

Perhaps some ‘well-bling-mate’ Giant Ruby earrings!?

Or even a bonkers crab head with sparkle pants?

Hi folks,

Here’s an update on our Coconut Dodge PlayStation Home items!

Coming to a PS3 near you soon…

Some screenshots from Shaun’s progress on the Coconut Dodge items for PlayStation Home.

Coconut Hat!

Crown Hat!

Rubies for Jewelery!

Comments welcome folks!

Hello, I’m Shaun. I’ve just finished a games design course at City College Brighton, and I have decided to take a year away from education and gain some experience in the games industry as a 3D artist. FuturLab have kindly let me work on their Coconut Dodge items for PlayStation Home. I am aiming to post my progress up each week

The first thing I worked on was the Golden Viking Helmet, which gives a player invincibility in Coconut Dodge. Over the past few days I have been learning the process for putting the models into Home. Each model needs three LODs (Levels of Detail), which you can see below.

As you can see, each LOD model needs to have less and less detail, which makes them look a bit blocky… The further away you are from the helmet the lower in detail it gets, so you should never have to see the blocky models.

The tricky part of this project is trying to get the same cartoony style as in the game. I would also like to mention that these probably aren’t final until you see them in Home