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What's Next? Showcase and theory of levels 8, 9 & 10
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A lot of people have been asking us, when will there be more levels? Well, instead of just saying, how about we show you what went into the next three levels, t...
August Update : Video devlog
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Twitter - Facebook - Steam Wishlist We’re well into August already and it seems like the summer is flying by! This month had a wide variety of activities...
Musings on Auto Fire visuals
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I still have a ways to go to hit the look I want out of Auto Fire. All my visual assets so far are bought from the Unity Asset Store, or made by me (and I am no...
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The Player´s Home - Creating Concept Art
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Hey everyone, Paul already told you something about our future plans last time, I would love to share something I have worked on the past week! With the start...
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Some more WIP!
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Hi everyone! A quick little update on the progress of the full version of Sizeable! I've been working on a new level this weekend, a space level! Here is a gif...
How we Mined Facebook and Google to Make our Games Relevant
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Headliner: NoviNews puts the player in the shoes of a national news editor, deciding which articles get published every day, and watching as the world around re...
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Some new level videos!
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Hi everyone, Just wanted to post some videos of new levels for the full version of Sizeable. I know not everyone follows me on twitter, so here you go!...
Effective Aim Assist in 2D Shooters
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Fast-action twin-stick shooters can be made much more enjoyable with aim assist. Aim assist is used to detect a target in a narrow search area, and then adjust...
Skyrocketing Administrative Load
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As I mentioned last week, I'm currently on a weeklong vacation trip. Though I knew there would be quite a bit of time during the trip where I would have nothing...
VivaMortis source code released
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This is the mx2 source code for VivaMortis. MX2 is a fork of the monkey2 programming language. There are a number of support file not included (sound and graph...
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Shadows of Doubt DevBlog #19: Designing a Detective Toolkit
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Hi all, I’ve recorded a new video update! This one talks about the interface changes I’ve been working on recently, and how they are effectively a detective...
May-June 2022 devlog! Ruining the Ruins 😎
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Hey all! This is a little late thanks to being sick in May, but as usual, I've got this in two halves - a video part first, and a text/images part below. Video...
A post-devlog
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There was a brief time in the 80s when 3 game consoles coexisted on the market, the Atari 2600, the Odyssey and the Intellivision II.The later, when I first met...
The bubbles!
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We're neck-deep in updating the chatting interface for the new We should talk , and we're really excited to share it with you! Check these smooth bubbles out: W...
Blackout Devlog - Flashback Puzzles
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Hello! This week I've spent some time working on a crucial part of the game: Flashbacks! The flashbacks hold some very important story moments, and they have a...
Milestone 1 | Chapter 1 Playable!
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Back again with a bunch of Comet development updates. @drew has put in a bunch of work since we last checked in. A big focus this month was making the critical...
Dystopicon's references: Stanley Kubrik
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To create the Dystopicon room we wanted to use the door as a vanishing point. It is the place that the player looks at and the central axis of the composition...
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Weekly Update #48 - Trinity
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Tri Shot - doublecasts when Trinity is charged. Added a new mechanic to the game called Trinity . After 3 stacks of it are charged (by casting spells) a spec...
time limit in a roguelite's run (reactor feature)
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I do really like roguelikes and roguelites. It actually doesn’t matter if it is a classic turn-based rougelike, a 2D platformer, a top-down dungeon crawler, a...
More World immersion
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Hi folks! I am striving to find a good, additional game mechanic to deepen the gameplay in battles, e.g. adding more "live" or "awareness" for the player to enj...
Progress Update 04/07/2020
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Finally, we are ready to publish the results of our work at the moment: The script of the common route is almost written, it remains to complete one important...
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Dev Diary #55: The Write Stuff
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We talk about how we design and write for our game Luckless Seven and give a short update on what's new! More Gifs below! Hi there! Tyler here. Hope your week i...
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Haxor Devlog 2: A Matter of Pixels
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We've experienced that the size of sprites in the game is of great importance to the project. Graphics based on the size of the field 8x8 pixels and graphics ba...
Hero Express powerups
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Have you tried Hero Express yet? If so you probably know the game power-ups, but let's introduce them anyway. The Jumper , a powerup that allows the player to...
Extending the Closed Alpha
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This weekend was spent trying to fix all of the issues with saving and loading worlds and I think I fixed most of them. At this moment it is possible to save a...
Dev Diary #11 - Campfire Chilltimes
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Hello Sea-lovers, Happy post Mother's Day to our mommas & all the Supermoms out there, in here & everywhere :D --- This week from SAMUDRA; Who says that campfir...
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Devlog #42 - Status Update & Music Planning
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Hi there! After taking a break last week for the Defaction announcement, we're back with a regular devlog. But before we get to the "dev" part, there are a fe...
Crimson Spires Dev Log - Ch. 27
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We were so excited to share the Crimson Spires demo with the public this week! At this point in our development, the game is approximately half complete. A lo...
Release Trailer + Post-release thoughts
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Hi everyone! I've just completed the Demon's Hymn 2 release trailer, and I thought I'd share that along with some of my thoughts about the game's development. P...
The First Playtest
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Last week, on June 11th, the new & improved version of Fireside made first contact with its players. This was an exciting moment for us as developers since it w...
Devlog #35 - Narrative Structure & Dynamic Personality
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Hello! It's time for another devlog, this time about Brassica 's narrative structure and the way you can influence the protagonist's, Saffron 's, personality...
Building a versatile dialogue and interaction system
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The most important thing in a good graphic adventure is, of course, the dialogues and story. When designing Duck in Town interaction system, we had clear what f...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog #17: Ventilation Shafts
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I’ve been working on quite an exciting new feature for Shadows this month: Procedurally generated ventilation shafts! If you don’t play many games then that...
Medieval level screenshot saturday!
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I recently posted a video on my twitter of the new Medieval themed level for the full release of Sizeable! I thought I would share some screenshots on here aswe...
Weekly Update #45 - Spell Enhancements
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- Spell enhancements prototype I've played lots of games with randomly generated loot with "modifiers", where different a Sword might drop as a Sword of Burning...
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Designing Scarlet Hollow's hidden dynamic relationship system
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Hey folks! We've just posted our second devlog, this time looking at how Scarlet Hollow's hidden relationship system works, as well as the design process behind...
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EYSIR - Monthly Log 02
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Progress has gone fairly well during the month of March! Most of the work done was more in the behind-the-scenes part of the engine, so I haven't been updating...
Dev Diary #27 - Good Friyay!
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Happy Good Friday folks! This week we reworked the opening interaction during the Prologue :) This scene had always been designed with this final sequence in mi...
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VERGER: throwing shaders
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Now that I've introduced VERGER, my hope for this devlog is to do a series of semi-technical design and development posts. I am very much self-taught in this w...
UI, Communication And Usability
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Hello everyone! I have been working on the main user interface (UI) for Crumbling World . UI is an essential part of any game, as it is one of the main tools t...
New Year Dev Thoughts & Plan
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Hey guys! It's been a heck of a long time since I've posted here. The game's not dead or anything, and I've mostly posted occasional progress updates on my Twi...
Mountain WIP 01
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Just throwing a few low-poly rocks together and walking around! I figured after about a year of tech discussion, my followers would want to see some ARTWORK fin...
Small steps for a better game: How I'm trying to create good gunplay and AI?
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Actually I'm almost done with the first weapon in the NeonCode sequel. Now I'm making smaller steps as I done with the first episode. So, thats why I'm working...
Inspiration of Netherguild
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The inspiration behind Netherguild After launching an early alpha demo , I wanted to write an article about different games and media that inspired my developm...
Dev Diary #3 - Themes
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Heya Dreamers! This week I'd like to share a little bit of our Concept Artwork for some of the levels that will be featured in the final game :) (From top to bo...
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Devlog #44 - Soundtrack Development: Themes Pt. 1
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Hi! After the post about the functional planning of the music in //TODO: today two weeks ago, today's devlog will go into more detail on how all the tracks ar...
DD 10 Improving processes
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A new crew member reports for duty! Hi, I'm Ksawery and I've joined the team as a producer. Time for a quick rundown on the project! DEVELOPMENT We are finishin...
Game Design & Postmortem
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This post was originally written in Chinese Summary Stop Eating is an action puzzle game inspired by Invisible, Inc. and its designer’s GDC talk . In the gam...
The Four Prototypes
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Hello everyone! The game has been in development for some time, almost two years now. During that time we developed four prototypes, which you can see below. It...
Let’s work, comrades!
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Working on the game we have to overcome many difficulties and work out the most comfortable schedule. Not everything is smooth, something is done reluctantly (l...
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