A busy week – which has shot past. Time seems to be going faster and faster as I approach the Kickstarter date (I may have mentioned it before, August 13th – less than a month!). As regular readers will know, I take feedback about Fringe Planet very seriously. One of the bits of feedback I’ve
This week I’ve been on holiday – so not too much to say about development. However, I did put together this mini animated lore teaser – it was a lot of fun to write and record!
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
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
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
I’ve extended the deadline until the 4th July – so the 5th July will be a dedicated blog post all about this – get your entries in when you can! Next week – on the 28th June, I’ll be posting the 52nd dev blog. Representing an entire year of development blogs for Fringe Planet. The
So this week I’ve been very busy – I’ve been working on various behind the scenes aspects of the game, and more visibly, I’ve been doing a lot more modelling work. A lot of re-texturing and re-building of the older models. Almost every single model in the game now has been updated. Very happy with
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