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
So this week we launched our first official teaser trailer, before we get into the blog post – check it out! So we had a lot of questions about the trailer, and how we went around making it. So we decided that this blog post would be about how we put the teaser trailer
We talk a lot about the misery suffered by the peons while they spend time on Fringe Planet. They can freeze to death, they can get violently sick from eating food, they can go insane seeing the eldritch sights that are all around them. But how can you keep your peons (reasonably) happy? This blog
So a different kind of blog post for today. I thought I’d take some time to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about me – and how a lot of decisions and experiences have lead to the creation of Fringe Planet. So, hello there! My name is Nic Rutherford and I’m a solo