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The H.A.M - Hangry Animals Magazine

May 4

Games for Change day at London Games Festival
This month, we headed to London for something that felt very us: Games for Change day at the London Games Festival. Originally we were planning to attend the main event in New York last year, but timing (and budgets) had other ideas. So when we saw it land in the UK for the first time, we didn’t hesitate to grab some tickets. For context, Games for Change is a global non-profit focused on using games for social good. It brings together developers, educators, researchers, policymakers, and org...
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Mar 2

Empathy in Action
Greetings folks! it's been a minute but what a month! This update isn’t about a new mechanic, nor a grant update, or some leader board tweak or a physics overhaul. It’s about people. Specifically students, and more specifically students with Additional Learning Needs (ALN). Over the past month, I’ve had the privilege of running game development workshops in secondary schools and colleges with students of mix levels and abilities.
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Aug 1

Gaming in Small Doses
By Ceri – R&D project lead at Hangry Animals If you're new here: I’m one-half of Hangry Animals, and we’re on a mission to make games that help real animals. But before we build them, we’re doing our homework. We’re deep in R&D, asking big questions like: How can games teach kindness? What makes kids want to help others while they play? Can 30 minutes of gaming a day actually be good for young people? Turns out – yes. In fact, the benefits of short, age-appropriate play sessions are more interesting than we thought!
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Jun 25

Shaping the (Hangry) Soul of a Character
Hi everyone, Ceri here - your friendly COO, Creative Strategist, and part-time animal-whisperer for the Hangryverse. In this month’s guest spot, I wanted to share one of the quieter, but surprisingly powerful, tools we used to shape our characters and storylines: personality profiling. Now, I’ve run profiling workshops for real people (teams, students, clients) more times than I can count. But doing it for fictional, animal-human hybrid characters? That was a first. And it turns out… it works...
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May 13

Development Update: Choctagons for the win
Hey Hangry Fam, We’re back with another behind-the-scenes dev drop after a week of R&R, and this one’s got chocolate flying everywhere.👀 First Person Mode? You Bet. We’ve been experimenting with interior delivery challenges, and something’s clicked. Literally. Certain moments in NomNom Express now flip into a first-person perspective, letting you hurl your non-essential food items (looking at you, Choctagons) straight into the faces of unsuspecting (and often claw laden) enemies. We’re toying...
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May 6

Purpose Meets Play - How Small Studios Can Build Games That Matter
Hey Hangry Fam, Lately we’ve been deep in development mode, testing, breaking and banging many heads against soft walls! (Games are Hard to get right) — but also keeping one ear to the ground on where games, impact, and purpose are starting to intersect in exciting ways. Last week, I attended a few standout webinars around sustainable game development and socially impactful design — and it left me inspired (and honestly, reassured) that the direction we’re taking with Hangry Animals is exactly...
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Apr 23

Smarter Enemies & Smoother Controls🎮
GM GM’ers & Hangry Fam’ers, Quick update this week, as we press on with core game loop… we’ve been deep in development over here: Enemy reward drops (based on varying factors of Player status) Spawn pacing (Respawning more enemies after deliveries) Animation triggers (Player reacting to enemy states and behaviours) As this develops into our playable loop, I’ll be sharing new gameplay videos to showcase the latest control updates and our new enemy behaviours.
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Apr 15

Development Update: NomNom Express
Hey Hangry Herd 👋 I’ve got that giddy, can’t-sit-still energy again, and for good reason. We’re in the thick of pushing a major milestone for NomNom Express and I’m buzzing to share what’s coming to life with the test level. This isn’t just another delivery run… this is chaos on wheels, wrapped in spicy snacks, alien ambushes, and glorious mini-game mechanics designed to thrill (and slightly terrify) in all the right ways. Let’s dive into what’s cookin’:🛞 The Demo Area: Built for Mayhem This...
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Sep 23

Hangry Animals Development Update: Wrapping Up an Incredible Sprint!
Hey Hangry Fam! 🐾 It’s been a short but impactful week as we wrapped up our 4-week sprint with the Thirdweb Cohort. We’ve been hard at work refining game mechanics, integrating blockchain features, and collaborating with some amazing teams. This week, we focused on putting the finishing touches on key aspects of the game, ensuring that our on-chain interactions are smooth and player experiences are seamless. What we’ve been up to: - Finalising game mechanics and polishing up the last few feat...
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May 12

An Interview with NFT Otis: The Rap Artist Hippo/Human Hybrid
Who's Hangry? Welcome to our exclusive interview with a very special guest - Otis the hippo/human hybrid, who's not just an eye-catching 6'5 beast...
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