Slush13 wrap up
Slush 2013 is now officially over and Grand Cru is honoured to have been so involved in making this year’s conference such a big success for everyone. Let’s have a look at the summary of Grand Cru’s...
View ArticleXP gain, Ruth levels up !
For the last two weeks we have had an extra Cru member, Ruth Nousiainen. She has been a great help to the Cru, especially to our Office Manager, Nora, and it was a pleasure having her in the office....
View ArticleGrand Cru gets a taste of a “Grand Cru”
To forget about the dark and cold settling in in Helsinki the office went out for a classy “Grand Cru” tasting experience and fine dinner last Tuesday. (with a name like Grand Cru this had to be done...
View ArticleGraphics Technology in Supernauts
Last November our Lead Graphics Programmer, Harri Hätinen, gave a talk at the annual GDC Next 2013 Game Developers Conference about the Graphics Technology used in Supernauts. Below is a...
View ArticleHappy Crulympic Games
Last Friday Grand Cru HQ hosted its very first edition of the Annual Crulympic Games and it was a big success and the start of a new office tradition! In total, five teams of Crulympians challenged...
View ArticleLycra, Sweat and Tears
This is a tale of nipple tape, glove socks and the most fabulous running crew the Helsinki City Run has ever seen. Maybe. Last Saturday, for no particular reason, the Cru decided to go for a little...
View ArticleSecrets of preparing the Supernauts backend for launch
Back in the day online games were often released country by country, and even soft launch (or beta) user volumes were under tight control. Scaling up backend services was then very different from today...
View ArticleDevelopers meeting players
Already during our beta we saw some amazing stuff being created by our players. So we decided to invite some of them here to our Super Secret HQ! Of course we had to do a little bit of secret...
View ArticleUpcoming iOS Beta!
We’re about to start beta testing our new mobile iOS title. Sign up, it’s awesome!
View ArticleSpringtime for Grand Cru
2015 was a year of reflection for us here at Grand Cru. Our crown jewel Supernauts was permanently shut down and we killed our first real-time PvP title early in soft launch in December. Despite all...
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