Author Archives: jamul@hamumu.com (Mike Hommel)

Hey folks! Look, I’m a-bloggin! I just made some kinda subtle, kinda major, changes to the Hamumu site just now.
I’ve removed the Mac versions of Loonyland, Kid Mystic, and Pumpkin Pop, since few people even own the Macs that could run them anymore (… Continue reading →

I entered Ludum Dare for the first time in a long while this weekend! I made a whole game which is lots of “fun”, because it’s a Towlr! It’s called TOWLDR, and you can play it on Kongregate right now: Kongregate link
You can also vote on it if you’r… Continue reading →

I’m heading to GDC for the first time ever on Sunday! I’m a-scared! But I’m ready with my supplies:

Biz cards and “app icon stickers”, which apparently you’re supposed to trade with other developers. I don’t know who started that, but it’s a thing … Continue reading →

We have new items every week in Growtopia, but this time I made a quick little video, mainly because the special effect on the headphones isn’t in-game yet (we’re waiting on Apple to approve our latest update), and I wanted to share it. We also have t… Continue reading →

Well, indeed Growtopia is keeping me busier than I’ve been in years. Especially with major crises this past week. So I didn’t even have time to make my knight-squishing-blobs game go anywhere. But I could leave February gameless, could I? I would never forfeit a chance to keep a combo going! So without further ado, here are the rules for FebROLLary, an original dice game you can play with your friends:

You’ll just need (a lot of) dice and some poker chips (or money, I suppose! Or peanut M&Ms, my favorite choice) to bet with. Play Febrollary today! It even got beta tested by my sister’s family and received the coveted Thumb’s Up award from them. Continue reading →

This is a work-in-progress clip from my February 1GAM. It’s not really called Knighto, that’s just what I named the folder I put it in. It has no name as yet, or point. I’m still busy all the time with Growtopia but I thought I’d do something just … Continue reading →

It’s been a rough couple weeks! My wife came home with the flu, so I took care of her for three or four days, and you know where that’s going… I ended up laying around exhausted and coughing for the next four or five days. Even once I thought I was… Continue reading →

All those little flags are players!
So it’s been a crazy week. Only a week? Maybe it’s been two crazy weeks. It’s been crazy! Growtopia set a new record yesterday of 1,000 users online at the same time (it went beyond that, but 1000 sounds nice, an… Continue reading →

Go get Growtopia!
It’s really fun. I am on right now, along with 166 other people! It is one majorly busy world. Well, many many majorly busy worlds. Continue reading →

Growtopia is coming out in two more days (on iOS that is – it’s already out on Android). Check out our second teaser video:

That tagline is pretty Hamumuey to me! And I had nothing to do with it. The game has really taken off already, just on And… Continue reading →

So the game market is a terrible mess. What do I intend to do about it in the coming year? I’m not sure. For the most part, it’s a catch-22: I don’t have the resources to spend time on a large game and take the chance that it might be a hit (a slim … Continue reading →

Well, this is the last day! I had to throw out my Page-A-Day calendar, and I’m very sad about it. It was all logic puzzles.
Here’s all the stuff Hamumu released in 2012: 11 games ported to the Blackberry Playbook and OS10 (a couple are actually ridic… Continue reading →

The Growtopia teaser is here! We also finally have a fully functional (well, good enough) website at growtopiagame.com. The game is still in beta and is set to be officially released on January 11th on Android, iOS, and webOS. But you can play it r… Continue reading →

Which means Advent Of Indies has opened day 17 on its calendar. Why don’t you take a peek and see what lurks inside! Continue reading →

Boy, I’m gonna be doing a “End of the year” post sometime soon, and talk all about where Hamumu is and where it’s (hopefully?) going. But for now, let me just quickly dash out some info on quick fun things going on right about now:
This Friday begins … Continue reading →