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Silences in The Void – Dev Blog 61

By beebug_nic 30 Aug, 2019 Leave a comment

The Void can be a place full of noise – the screams of the peons, chanting of eldritch ceremonies, shrieks of unknown creatures, howling of winds and the crunching of bones. But sometimes it can be incredible silent as well. Like the entire universe is waiting for something to happen… … and the universe is

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Wish you were here – Dev Blog 60

By beebug_nic 23 Aug, 2019 Leave a comment

So the Kickstarter has been live for a week and a half now, and is my all consuming focus at the moment. I’ve been reaching out to folks, I’ve been guest blogging, I’ve even experimented with buying adverts. All in the name of driving more traffic to the Kickstarter page, as well increasing the number

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The Fringe Planet Kickstarter is Live!

By beebug_nic 14 Aug, 2019 Leave a comment

I am very happy (and incredibly proud) that the Fringe Planet Kickstarter is now live. After weeks of hard work you can now pledge to support Fringe Planet on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1759783741/fringe-planet/ The campaign has been live for less than 24 hours, but already the interest it has gained has been massive! The out pouring of

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The time is almost here! – Dev Blog 58

By beebug_nic 9 Aug, 2019 Leave a comment

So this is weird, next Friday I’ll be in the process of running a Kickstarter for Fringe Planet. The past few weeks I’ve dedicated a lot of time to it – putting together text, planning graphics, recording footage. I’ve also been receiving huge amounts of feedback on it (and thank you to everyone who has

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The oncoming storm – Dev Blog 57

By beebug_nic 2 Aug, 2019 Leave a comment

Well before I talk about the work that has been done this week, let me announce that Fringe Planet is now official on the Steam store! Go check it out, wishlist it and make my day! I’ll wait for a bit while you do that and then I’ll carry on with the blog post. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128950/Fringe_Planet/

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Kickstarter and Steam fun – Dev Blog 56

By beebug_nic 26 Jul, 2019 Leave a comment

This week has been an incredibly busy week. As well as an incredibly hot one – the UK (and most of Europe) had a massive heatwave which made things fairly unpleasant alas. But still, the game development must carry on. The focus of this week has been two fold, preparation for the Kickstarter, as well

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The calm before the storm – Dev Blog 53

By beebug_nic 5 Jul, 2019 Leave a comment

So a very busy week indeed. I’ve been working on a lot of Kickstarter related things behind the scenes, which I am super excited to share with you over the coming weeks as August 13th approaches. There has also been a bunch of gamedev done as well – peons now remember what they eat, and

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A year of Fringe Planet ! – Dev Blog 52

By beebug_nic 28 Jun, 2019 Leave a comment

A year of development blog posts! The game has come such a long way since my first blog post a year ago. I’ve come a long way since that first post as well. This year has been incredibly hard work but also incredibly rewarding at the same time. I’ve really grown as both a developer

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Kickstarter details! – Dev Blog 51

By beebug_nic 21 Jun, 2019 4 Comments

So today is an exciting day – it is the day that I announce the date for the start of the Fringe Planet Kickstarter. There have been a lot of things going on behind the scenes business wise with the game. Moving towards a Kickstarter has been one of these things. I’ve been receiving a

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Re-visiting some old models – Dev Blog 49

By beebug_nic 7 Jun, 2019 Leave a comment

This week I’ve mostly been focused on re-visiting some of the first models I made for Fringe Planet. When I started Fringe Planet (over a year ago now) – I put together some very simple placeholder models. I started with a snow covered tree, then created a cherry bush as well as a chest for

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Fringe Planet is a survivor simulator inspired by Dwarf Fortress and RimWorld, set in a Lovecraft influenced universe where both magic and science co-exist. The project is currently on hiatus and will be returning as a passion project at some point in the future.

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