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
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
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 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
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
For thousands of years, man has been making and consuming alcohol. Every civilisation has had it’s own tipple. Alcohol calms nerves and relaxes people, but it does have it’s problems as well. This week we’ve been working on bringing alcohol into Fringe Planet. Through research, the peons can now discover how to make a still.
We covered the memories and traits systems that control the stats of the peons a while ago in this blog post. After some questions on twitter, we thought we would explain the system in slightly greater detail. Memories Every peon is given three memories when they are spawned – these memories will determine the stats
Death comes to us all, in one way or another. Death comes more frequently to peons – Fringe Planet is a harsh environment specifically designed to kill them after all. This week we have spent a lot of time refining some of the internal simulations, which unfortunately has had the side effect of drastically reducing
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