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
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 full of magical energy – it is a place covered with ley lines, haunted by spirits and overseen by eldritch entities. Magic is power, and the peons can harness this magic by capturing spirits – draining them of their occult power and using it to power various machines that will keep a
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
We’ve spoken a lot about the supernatural side of Fringe Planet – but there is another, more tangible, side of the game as well. Everything in Fringe Planet is created from a set of components and all these components need to be created from raw resources. A chair may take a few units of refined
There are many things in Fringe Planet – everything from eldritch creatures that will terrify peons, to complex machinery that produce items from raw material – today we will talk about something more mundane – the furniture that the peons can build and interact with. Currently in the game are three categories of furniture –
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 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