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
Fringe Planet is a cold and harsh world, and in order to succeed, you will need to provide warmth and safety for your peons. Today we are doing a different type of blog post. Rather than development news, we are going to take you through the first 30 minutes (or so) of gameplay. This will
Fringe Planet is a cold place and the peons first defense against the cold is the clothes that they wake up wearing. Clothes have an important effect on not only the survival of a peon during the freezing weather they encounter, but also has an important effect on a peons morale. All clothes have a
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
Hello and welcome to Friday’s weekly development blog. We’ve spoken about the insides of the peons, how their bones and organs work. This week we will be looking into another important aspect of peons – how they think. Do peons dream of electronic sheep? No, but they do dream. The peon AI consists of three
Every week, we get new suggestions from Twitter over the names we should use for the peons. We’ve had almost a 150 peon names suggested over the past six months, and three of those names every week are used in our development builds. You can see them immortalised in the screenshots we post on both
Greetings! We have been very busy this week focusing in quality of life improvements in the UI – as well as making the UI itself more interactive. But window management would make for a rather bland development blog post – so instead let’s focus on something more interesting : The Anatomy of a Peon. A
It’s Friday once again, which means it is time for a new development blog. Today we will be looking at arguably the most important part of Fringe Planet: the peons. The peons are humans that have awoken in the frozen landscape of Fringe Planet with no memory of who they were or how they got
Welcome to the second of the weekly blog posts detailing the work that has been done on Fringe Planet this week. Fringe Planet is a harsh and cold environment, and our peons find themselves stranded there, in just the clothes that were on their back. Unfortunately for them, the environment is so harsh, the clothes
Greetings and welcome to the first of a weekly development blog post. I’m going to post these every Friday and use them to provide a retrospective of the development work I’ve been doing on Fringe Planet over the week. I got some incredible feedback on Tuesday from some extremely talented people about Fringe Planet –