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
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
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
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
You awake in the cold in the darkness of a cave. You have no idea who you are, or where you are. You see some other people waking up around you, looking similarly confused. There seems to be light coming from outside, and as you get to your feet you move towards the entrance of
Another Friday arrives, and another blog post is added to the growing collection we have here. This week we have been working on a couple of as yet announced features, as well as heavily looking into performance optimisations – it’s been a very productive week, framerate is up and memory footprint is down. So while
On the last day of Christmas my true love gave to me : 12 islands floating 11 machines mining 10 chairs for sitting 9 cases for reading 8 Christmas trees 7 traps a-trappin’ 6 peons building 5 golden voxels 4 ManyEyes 3 Storytellers 2 spirit storages And an Eyebird on a Plyme Tree We would
Though the island the peons call home is floating through the ancient but timeless Void, time still passes. Today we will be taking a look into how time passes on Fringe Planet, and how even an hour can change the outcome of a situation. So read about how we have implemented Seasons, hours, days and
Learning is power. And this week we have empowered the peons to not only read and write, but to learn and research. Technology and knowledge are important parts of Fringe Planet – the peons arrive with no knowledge of the alternative science that they will need in order to survive. To do this, we have
Welcome to this weeks development blog. Today we shall be looking behind the veil at some of the more occult aspects of the game that we have been working on this week. The world of Fringe Planet is steeped in various occult and magical references – it is a place where spirits, demons and many