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
The Void is a strange place. An eldritch dimension older than time itself. Stealing parts from other dimensions only to leave them drifting through It’s vast emptiness. It is also full of magical energy, which gives rise to many strange and dangerous interactions. There are great evils and perils in The Void. One of these
So I may have mentioned occasionally that Fringe Planet is heavily inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. In fact, it’s not just his works which inspire Fringe Planet – but other weird fiction authors as well – Poe, Wells, Bloch, Stoker and many more. It’s a genre I love and it’s very easy to
So this week, once again I have been spreading the word of Fringe Planet. This time at a business panel at the University of Groningen. I’ve presented several times here in the past year as part of the VentureLab program. Introducing Fringe Planet, myself and the company to various industry and business experts. Every time,
Tess looked over her notes, each page crammed with words, diagrams and sigils. The shelter was warm today, the fires fully stocked, but everyone was hungry. So hungry. Today they had to try something different. They had been foraging for days now, grabbing every scrap of food they could find. They had tried hunting, but
This week has been a flurry of work dedicated to turning UI mock-ups into a fully implemented UI. The UI has been something which has been repeatedly commented upon during development. Which means it needs some serious improvement – and this has been my focus for this week. Firstly, let’s look at the latest mock-up
I’m currently writing this blog post from the train, as I zoom back towards home. This week I’ve been in the beautiful city of Groningen, working from the Indietopia offices and attending a press event where I got to talk about Fringe Planet to some very interesting people. The event was the first one where
This week has shot passed. There has been a lot of work on the new UI re-design going on behind the scenes. I’ve created a bunch of new UI behaviours in the game to mimic the mock ups and now I’m waiting on some pretty looking assets to populate them with. I’m very excited to
This week has had a very UI orientated taste to it. I’ve been busy building mini-prototypes of UI elements, as well as spending a lot of time mocking up interface ideas and testing them. One of the bits of feedback I often get about the game is about the lack of quality to the UI
This week has been an incredibly busy week for me, and I have lots to talk about in this weeks blog post. I’m actually fairly impressed that there are now 40 blog posts here, one for every Friday since I started the blog – that is a lot of information about Fringe Planet! I may