So, the Tuna people are off for a short holiday, possibly in the traditional Christmas snow. Meanwhile, here in New Zealand, the start of the Christmas season brings the first of the really nice weather as summer finally starts to kick in properly. I’m going to try to resist the temptation to get a beer, sit on the porch, and work on getting my legs brown, and instead try to do some more prep work for the explosion of Cletus-related activity that the new year will be bringing me. It’s time to decide on some of those details that I have so far managed to avoid making a decision about.

Oh well, enjoy the holiday, everybody. 2010 could be a big year…

Have a look at the graphics for one of the minigames… running on a clay arcade cabinet! Well, sort of - this is just a mock-up for now. Because the hands are seen in greater detail than they are in the rest of the game I had to experiment to find the best way of animating them.

Because you are all so special, we have some pre Christmas treats for you all. We have uploaded two new Cletus Clay videos to YouTube and are releasing some shiny new screenshots.

The first is a ‘Making of’ video featuring Anthony Flack talking through the process of getting our clay models into a level of Cletus Clay. Anthony describes how he goes from initial concept sketches to clay model making and all the way through to making the models appear in the level. The footage also includes a stop motion animation of Anthony building one of the models for the game.

The second features some early gameplay footage with Sarah manning the joypad.

The screen shots are taken from footage shown at the Eurogamer Expo this year and show Cletus and Emmet kicking some Alien booty.

Ho ho ho!