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Something tells me that you’d like to win a $100 Best Buy gift card from your friends at Psychic Bunny.

But, how!?

During the month of June, spread the word about the Psychic Bunny Newsletter! When your friends and associates sign up here, make sure they put your name in the referral field.  The person with the most referrals wins.

Why would my friends want to subscribe to the Psychic Bunny Newsletter?

Our newsletter is unconventional and fun.  AND one randomly drawn new June subscriber will WIN a $50 Best Buy gift card!  Aw, isn’t love grand?

Drawing by Andrew Chittenden

More details:

New subscribers must survive one email newsletter without unsubscribing.  You wouldn’t want to make Rick sad, would you?  You may sign up your friends, but not without their consent.  The minimum number of referrals required to be eligible to win is 10.  We will contact both winners and post their names on this very blog.  The contest ends at midnight Pacific Standard Time on June 30, 2010.

Hey wait, what if I’m not a subscriber…can I win both prizes?

Goodness, someone likes prizes.  Yes, you sure can!  The drawing for the $50 Best Buy gift card is random, so it is indeed possible.

Can I re-post this?

Yes please!

Do you like having imaginary conversations with yourself?

Ok, I think that I’ve answered quite enough questions for now.  If there are further questions you can email me at jazz [at] psychicbunny.com.

I don’t think we ever actually mentioned this on the blog, but even if we did, it’s worth posting again. In early 2008 we decided the best way to promote our business was to create a fake company that makes magic vials that give your pets super powers, and create an exposé called The Truth about how they infringed on our rights by telling the world that they gave Psychic Bunny its magical powers.

We also created a whole Magic Vials website, a postcard mailer, a Truth DVD, a 1-800 number for Magic Vials, and a YouTube videos of pets with superpowers.

You should really check out the website. The FAQ page is hilarious. Sorry for being so self-congratulatory, but I forgot we did most of this stuff.

THE MAGIC VIALS PHONE NUMBER STILL WORKS!! Holy smokes, that’s amazing.  713-568-6426!

During the past week or so I’ve been in Production on a new short film called Rainbow.  It’s about a very sad woman having a very horrible day, who gets stalked by a Rainbow with a nefarious scheme.  You’ll probably love it!  We had an incredibly talented crew and cast, and the whole thing has come together quite well.  The effects are going to take quite a while, but I’ll keep everyone updated, and for now you can enjoy the teaser image above.

Here it is, printed in all its glory!

I feel like a proud papa this week. Some of you may recall a while ago when I first mentioned an in-progress game I was helping design called Pathfinder. The game, which is designed to inspire and prepare high school students to make their college dreams a reality, has gone through several exciting evolutions since it was first conceived of as a computer-based RPG (which I always sort of hoped meant I got to make Earthbound Goes To College). — In fact, in the end the first finished product from the ongoing Pathfinder Project is a totally delightful physical card game.

Squee!

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Last night down at the PB offices we made yet another world.  The title of this piece, thanks to Aaron’s choosing and cutting skills, is “Man-made Evolution.”  Unlike previous worlds, it isn’t so much a landscape as a sort of place on a great cosmic desk.  Check it out!

Man-made Evolution, featuring the Hawktopotamoose! (click for larger)

Psychic Bunny does a ton of work with the Institute for Creative Technologies and the US Army, everything from Interactive Design to Film Production.  A project we did with them last year has been getting a ton of traction, and was recently featured in The Atlantic.   We did world-building and scenario writing for the interactive experience, as well as a large educational motion graphics component.

Read all about it!

I am pretending that today is the two year anniversary of the infamous Loituma Day, a day of such intense productivity and industriousness that scholars have long written of its glory.

How does one celebrate Loituma Day?  Well, watch (and LISTEN) to this:

I’ma let you finish…

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As noted previously, everyone at Psychic Bunny remains a tremendous friend and supporter of the IndieCade Festival, which showcases some of the very best things happening in indie games today. This year, IndieCade’s moved to its new home in Culver City. I in fact just came from downtown Culver and bumped into a half-dozen game journalists and creators for whom my respect has only grown the more I become familiar with their work.

Go. For the love of god, go. Play stuff. Talk to these people. Love them.  And if you want to hear what we’re planning in conjunction with IndieCade, come to the closing party on Sunday. Rush Street. 4pm.

We are a hurricane of doing things over here at Psychic Bunny. As you can see below, we just completely finished a horror feature, and have now also completely finished our first web series, “Coma, Period.” It’s an existential comedy starring Rob Delaney, who we don’t know if you’ve noticed, has been blowing up all over the internet, starring in “Warner Bros Responds to Christian Bale” and this Mad Men parody from Funny or Die.

We have just completed 10 episodes comprising the first season, and are distributing them through Strike TV. They’ve been getting great writeups from Tubefilter, Markee Magazine, and NewTeeVee. Jill Weinberger, the reviewer at NewTeeVee Station, actually said that the result of all our work “fueled by Delaney’s pitch-perfect and exuberant performance, is a satisfying blend of dark humor and goofy whimsy - a fusion often attempted in web video that’s rarely done as well as it is here.”

Please watch a few of the episodes over at www.comaperiod.com! We’re very proud

Much thanks to Lawrence Everson (Sound Designer), Jeff Waldron (Cinematographer), Ringleader Stages, The Maybe Happening, and everybody else (and there are tons) who made this production possible. I think you’ll be hearing a lot more about Coma, Period. in the future, so stay tuned!

Slasher Films for Slasher Budgets: Making Microbudget Horror

How does the horror genre differ from any other in terms of what you should cut (slice, hack, chop) from your indie budget? Leaders in the indie horror realm spill their guts (and those of their victims) while discussing how to produce successful horror films on limited means. Audiences beware…