A brand new year has arrived – an exciting year with a lot of very awesome things planned. I’m still on holiday at the moment (lots of time being spent with family and friends catching up) – but development on Fringe Planet will re-start full time again next Tuesday. It’s been awesome getting such a
On the last day of Christmas my true love gave to me … 12 mining machines 11 fires burning 10 various voxels 9 bookcases for reading 8 chests of storage 7 attributes growing 6 EyeBirds flapping 5 gooooooold voxels 4 stills a’ fermenting 3 stress responses 2 Tentacled Devourers And a peon impaled on a
Part 1 – A beginning My name is Elisabeth Crane. I doubt human eyes will ever read these writings, but it is in my nature to make them – for there is a chance that one day they may be recovered and I truly fear the situation that will involve their discovery. I have taken
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
The Void has been getting a texture upgrade this week. I’ve spent a lot of time in GIMP and going cross-eyed while trying to work out the fine art of pixel work. It’s gone well, and I’m pretty happy with the results I’ve been producing. Something that has been mentioned by a few people was
What an incredibly eventful week for me. This week has been very much focused on the business side of things, lots of paper work, talking to solicitors and all the other delightful admin type stuff that goes on behind the scenes when running a company. Even if the company is just me! But signatures have
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
Kristine crunched her way through the freshly settling snow. It had been flurrying all evening, small flakes floating down lazily from the sky. This inevitably lead to her train from London being delayed. It was almost dark now but the sky was strangely bright from the reflection of the snow and due to the orange