The universe of Fringe Planet is dangerous one. The peons have the odds stacked against them, which is why it is your job as a player to keep them alive (or don’t, try and kill them in amusing ways, I won’t judge!). Dangerous creatures will try and kill the peons. Rituals will cause harm and
That old radio we had found months ago was playing music again – a distorted and static-filled version of some classical piece none of us could place. It managed to be both refreshing as well as creepy. We had been living here for over a year now. Stuart, one of the first of the group
We found it in the snow. On it’s side laying there like it had been there a few days. We brought it back home – letting it dry in front of the central fire in our dining area. A radio, in this crazy place! How did such a thing get here? Presumably in the same
Another week has quite literally flown past. Actually shockingly fast for me. The days have been somewhat of a blur as I’ve alternated between coding, drawing doodles and printing my own graph paper to do sums on. Also, a lot of time spent reading documentation as well. I’ve spent most of my time very focused
Greetings! This week has been an exceedingly productive one, the main thrust of development work has been working on a new terrain system for Fringe Planet. Not quite ready to show it off yet, but the progress has been fantastic – and it is going to bring a very interesting change to both the look
An important and very happy day. My Twitter account has hit 7000 followers! Which is a mind blowing number. So many different folks following my game development journey: streamers, gamers, fellow game developers, fans of Fringe Planet and just generally awesome folk. It is incredible to think that so many people are both enjoying my
Eldritch. A word that means otherworldly, weird or strange. A word with a certain atmosphere surrounding it. Atmosphere is something I’m working on very hard with Fringe Planet, and this is why a large chunk of the work this week has been spent playing with shaders, staring at gimp, creating little 32×32 textures and fiddling
Greetings! This week has actually been fairly quiet for me development wise – there are a lot of minor quality of life adjustments and not to shocking bugs to deal with. There has also been a lot of business development going on in the background – some very important things are slowly coming too completion,
Music is incredibly important for any game. It allows you to set the mood, change the pacing and alert the player to things that are happening around them. It is an incredibly important tool for creating an atmosphere in a game. A single bit of music and can change the emotion of a scene, can
Another week draws to a close, and it’s time to reflect on the work this week. It’s been a fairly quiet but very productive one. There has been a big focus for me this week on business development. It’s sometimes hard to balance all the things you need to do as a solo game developer