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STELLAR JOCKEYS JUNE NEWSLETTER
Welcome to the Stellar Jockeys newsletter for June. We're going on breakin July, but not before you get your monthly missive from us.
Benjamin, Stellar Jockeys

Blood Anniversary Desktop Wallpapers

Many thanks to everyone for their feedback on the recent Blood
Anniversary update for Brigador: Up-Armored Edition. Following repeatedrequests, you can download wallpapers in 2560x1440 for the Mongoose
vs Zed Prime and Mother's Love (click to open imgur links in a new tab).

Understanding The Brigador Journey: Toby
Last month we wrote about how three of the original members of Stellar
Jockeys - Hugh, Dale and Harry - came to meet back in 2009. Roughly twoyears later a fourth gure comes into the story: Zach Reizner.
In the fall of 2011, Zach was a freshman at the University of Illinois
studying Computer Science and also attended ACM GameBuilders. At thesame time, Dale was graduating and, following another pitch by Hugh in2011 for something called That Thing You're Searching For (or TTYSF),
Zach was also signed on to work with Stellar Jockeys.
TTYSF was originally concepted as a Castle Crashers clone, an image of
which we already shown, but here's another for good measure.

However, we're getting slightly ahead of ourselves and away from thetopic at hand: who - or what - is Toby? Toby, or rather The Toby Gamewas one of therst things Stellar Jockeys produced. It was an internal

gamejam project that took place in the rst three months of 2012 createdlargely with the intention of Hugh having something to show for their rst
ever Game Developers Conference later in March that year. Pictured
below is Zach in the o ce space Stellar Jockeys used in 2012, grinning withboth the nished Toby and their rst paycheck (image provided courtesyof Zach).

Unfortunately, despite Stellar Jockeys shipping Toby in time for GDC 2012,
due to a variety of factors, Hugh ending up going to the Game DevelopersConference unable to display The Toby Game. This is because Hugh's
entire portfolio website was unexpectedly brought down prior toattending the event - so the game never ended up getting shown toanyone there.
Yet it was not all bad. At Hugh's

rst GDC, they would end up meetingseveral other developers who would later go on to either directly join
Stellar Jockeys proper, or have a signi cant impact on Brigador's eventual
development.
Of course, we wouldn't close othis installment without giving you theopportunity to play The Toby Game. It's a short and simple pixel art
experience, controlled by pressing WASD on your keyboard.
Play The Toby Game

Community Spotlight
Juntti starts June's round up with a take on the Rust Cohle Smoking
meme, but with Modesto Pires instead.

...@conceitedguy1 on Twitter ordered some of the 3D prints from ourstore and has done an astounding job painting both the Auditor andModesto...

...joe.cucan on Steam did their own homage to Johnny 5 Aces...

...and server newcomer keysonvannuys was inspired by the recent
addition of Mother's Love to create this.

As ever, this is just a sample. A frightening number of additional entries
can be seen in the #becks_best channel over on our Discord server.
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Next Month
July we hope will be quieter as we take some time oRemember to stay hydrated until the next newsletter.

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