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
Hello and welcome to the ninth weekly development blog – this weeks focus is procedural generation, and what sort of things to expect as you explore the harsh frozen world of Fringe Planet! One of the things we spent some time refining and optimising this week are the visiting islands. These are small islands that
Hello and welcome to Friday’s regular development blog. This week we have been very busy adding life to the fauna of Fringe Planet. Up until now, only two types of entities have been living in The Void – the peons and something very evil we haven’t spoken about yet. So this week we have added
Another week has hurtled past as we have been busy working on Fringe Planet. Before we get into the awesome game development news, let us talk about the exciting new newsletter we have made. This week we have added a newsletter sign up page to the site. This is an incredibly interesting development and will
This week has been a very busy week here. We visited the Develop Conference in Brighton this week and met all sorts of interesting people as well as speaking a lot about Fringe Planet. In addition to that we have been continuing work on the new plants and their integration into the game. Plants currently
Greetings and welcome to the third of the weekly blog posts about the development of Fringe Planet. This week the focus has been of the fauna that the peons will discover while exploring the frozen landscape they find themselves trapped in. This actually touched on several of the different subsystems the game uses and is
